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buddhist mean views
From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil. E. F. Schumacher
buddhist nonsense notes
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible. Alan Watts
buddhist fun positivity
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. Alan Watts
buddhist memories real
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. Alan Watts
buddhist morning reflection
Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image. Alan Watts
buddhist belief
I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.' Alan Ball
buddhist believe i-believe
I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist. Alan Ball
buddhist enlightenment sooner-or-later
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. Chogyam Trungpa
buddhist warrior renounce
What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others. Chogyam Trungpa
ignorance creativity years
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson
ignorance hands support
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales. Bertrand Russell
ignorance mystery delightful
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance. Bertrand Russell
ignorance ignorant depth
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance. Bertrand Russell
ignorance self poverty
The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance. Robert Kiyosaki
ignorance character sea
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. Petrarch
ignorance knowing sake
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake. B. F. Skinner
ignorance laziness point starting whether
Whether it's out of laziness or ignorance, consumers' starting point is very much search. Ken Cassar
ignorance names mad
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad. William Shakespeare
thinking if-there-is-a-god race
I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race...If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible... Cecil Rhodes
thinking talking ideas
Next caller. Betty, you're on the air. What's your question ?" "Hi, Kitty. I just wanted to know, are you going out with that Cormac guy from last month?" My jaw dropped. "What?" "Are you going out with that Cormac guy?" "We are talking about the same Cormac who tried to kill me on the air, yes? the guy who hunts werewolves for a living ?" "Uh-huh." "And you want to know if I'm dating him ? Why on earth do you think that's a good idea? Carrie Vaughn
thinking goes-on acrimony
I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface. Carrie Brownstein
thinking brain comedy
I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from. Carrie Brownstein
thinking play landscape
I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape. Carrie Brownstein
thinking sometimes intention
With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy. Carrie Brownstein
thinking knowing half
I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis. Carrie Brownstein
thinking truth-is
I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress. Carrie Fisher
thinking clothes mind
I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything. Carrie Fisher