Choose Quote by Stephen Batchelor Download Open image “We cannot choose whether to engage with the world, only how to.” — Stephen Batchelor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Choose Choose Engage Engage Engage World World
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
We want to change the world, but we aren't willing to change ourselves. — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We cannot stay enveloped in our own reality and turn a blind eye to the plight of others. — Saqib Saleem Copy Share Image
“Gotama did for the self what Copernicus did for the earth: he put it in its rightful place, despite its continuing to appear just… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“We perceive the world in a particular way and confidently expect it to conform to its appearance. But we fail to recognize that certain… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, alienation, loneliness, emptiness, and meaninglessness are the fruits of living as an isolated subject admist a multitude of lifeless objects. Although our scope… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“... We have to constantly confront our deepest anxieties, our emptiness, our despair, our doubts; and there is nowhere for us to escape and… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“There is nothing one can have that one cannot fear to lose. Instead of living life in order to have more abundantly, live life… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity. — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“The inner aim of thought is never fully realized until it ripens into vocal utterances through which others can have access- albeit indirect- to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Our religion, with its beliefs, rituals, and dogmas becomes another segment among all the other segments that constitute our linear and fragmented existence. It… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If somebody asks me to choose a biopic, it would be Narain Karthikeyan because I love racing. — Naga Chaitanya Copy Share Image
I'm aware of who I am and I'm comfortable with who I choose to date. — Shibani Dandekar Copy Share Image
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
If you choose to work at a larger company over a smaller company, you are more likely to be higher paid. — Julie Sweet Copy Share Image
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime...so you gotta choose who is good for you! Be wise, be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not opposed - we manufacture a lot of socks in North Carolina - I just choose not to wear them. It's a Southern… — Richard Burr Copy Share Image