"This body is fragile. It is just flesh.……" — Stephen Batchelor

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat.… - Stephen Batchelor

"This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle."

— Stephen Batchelor

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40 Quotes by Stephen Batchelor

Stephen Batchelor has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in…
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to…
Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to…
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or…
Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive…
The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself…
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and…
The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of…
Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed…
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really…
So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation,…
I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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