"Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything,……" — Stephen Batchelor
"Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope."
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40 Quotes by Stephen Batchelor
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...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in…
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The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to…
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Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to…
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This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.
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This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or…
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Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive…
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The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself…
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It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and…
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The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of…
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Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed…
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Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really…
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So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation,…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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