“There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress.”
― Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
― Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
“If people were employed at creating heaven on earth, everybody would be happy; instead each one is creating his own heaven by creating hell for others.”
― The Great Pearl of Wisdom
― The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.”
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“We human beings constitute and reconstitute ourselves through cultural traditions, which we experience as our own development in a historical time that spans the generations. To investigate the life-world as horizon and ground of all experience therefore requires investigating none other than generativity - the processes of becoming, of making and remaking, that occur over the generations and within which any individual genesis is always already situated. ... Individual subjectivity is intersubjectively and culturally embodied, embedded, and emergent.”
― Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
― Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
“People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.”
― Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
― Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
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