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"...free themselves from suffering by realizing the impermanence & interdependence of everything upon w/c their suffering depended, including & especially themselves. The Buddha called this the realization of shunyata, the view that because nothing exists independently of other things, it has no nature of its own, & everything is therefore empty & this emptiness is the true nature of reality." — Nov 06, 2018 10:22AM
"...free themselves from suffering by realizing the impermanence & interdependence of everything upon w/c their suffering depended, including & especially themselves. The Buddha called this the realization of shunyata, the view that because nothing exists independently of other things, it has no nature of its own, & everything is therefore empty & this emptiness is the true nature of reality." — Nov 06, 2018 10:22AM
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"“Never before in history, and never with such insidiousness, had genes been so effortlessly conflated with identity, identity with defectiveness, and defectiveness with extermination”" — Feb 15, 2017 09:15AM
"“Never before in history, and never with such insidiousness, had genes been so effortlessly conflated with identity, identity with defectiveness, and defectiveness with extermination”" — Feb 15, 2017 09:15AM
“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”
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“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”
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“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.”
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