According to their measure, they have fulfilled Keats’ aspiration, they do live a life in which the emphasis lies on sensation rather than on thought: for the state which he then struggled to describe was that ideal state of pure
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“caitiff,”
― Robert the Bruce, King of Scots
― Robert the Bruce, King of Scots
“suggestion of some cognitive scientists that there is no unified self at the core of each individual; the self is just a byproduct of the interaction of a host of cognitive functions.”
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
“that “henceforth the heat of having shall never scorch him more.”
― Practical Mysticism
― Practical Mysticism
“If you think you are advancing toward unity with God or the absolute,” he said, “and are not growing in love and charity toward your fellow person, you’re just deluding yourself.”
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
“Buddha suggested as much when he told his monks, “‘Actions exist, and also their consequences, but the person that acts does not.”
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
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