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‘I’ve thought that perhaps that’s why women are so often sad, once the child’s born,’ she said meditatively, as though thinking aloud. ‘Ye think of them while ye talk, and you have a knowledge of them as they are inside ye, the way you
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“I asked whether, nonetheless, they sometimes seem like active things, not passive things. “In other words,” I said, “they’re actors in your consciousness that you’ve got to deal with, and you’re in the habit of going along with them, but that’s not necessary.”
― Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
― Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
“Socrates thought that no one could possibly be happy if they acted against their better judgment. And he who knows how to achieve happiness will do so. Therefore, he who knows what is right will do right. Because why would anybody choose to be unhappy?”
― Sophie's World
― Sophie's World
“It bloody takes one to know one,”
― Voyager
― Voyager
“Man can only achieve happiness by using all his abilities and capabilities.”
― Sophie's World
― Sophie's World
“Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to ‘give birth’ to the correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. It cannot be imparted by someone else. And only the understanding that comes from within can lead to true insight. Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic.”
― Sophie's World
― Sophie's World
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