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Quality is not an act, it is a habit. (Aristotle)
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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. (Stephen Hawking)
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself. (Pythagoras)
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. (Baruch Spinoza)
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As believers we automatically dismiss anything that challenges our believes. What we call a miracle is just an event that happens due to causes and conditions.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. (Voltaire)
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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. (Voltaire)
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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. (Voltaire)
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Karma According to Buddha
As I understand it, karma was not actually a teaching of the Buddha, but he used the pre-existent Hinduistic concept of karma as a way of teaching others to break free from the cycle which kept them trapped. So his version of Karma is very different. I believe, by applying karma Buddha has pointed to the actuality that the quality of our mental state is dependent on what we think, say and do and is not about our materialistic lives.
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Trying to establish a first cause of any human experience will result in unhelpful worrying. The on-going causal experience provides the opportunity to live at peace.
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The most helpful way to avoid deception is to see 'things' as they are and not how you have been told they are. Within this developmental approach, it is helpful to approach all things as being a transitory, current understanding based on the plausibility, credibility, and verifiability of the available evidence. In this approach, the mind remains open to the on-going and ever-changing learning opportunity that life presents without the conflict.
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The wisdom of nature is causality. What we refer to as nature is simply the process of causality happening in this moment. Causality is the operating system in which all things happen in the known universe. This nonsentient process is nondiscriminative and so is an expression of equanimity in action. Therefore wisdom and nature are the same process. Human nature is born of causality and begins its life as the wisdom of equanimity. But, causality will also give rise to the confused and conditioned ego-centered mind that discriminates on the basis of pleasure and pain, like and dislike, want and not want. Then from this, the worrying mind begins. The internal journey is to help move the mind back to its origins within the wisdom of nature.
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How did it get so late so soon?
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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. (Sigmund Freud)
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One dimension of human existence is a subjective experience. It is consciousness.The topic of consciousness gets caught up in the idea of specialness and magical thinking so it always gets over-complicated. To simplify it, in order to understand it experientially, as opposed to intellectually, all living things are consciousness. They do not have consciousness. They are consciousness happenings. Human consciousness is not separate from human aliveness happening in a causality of this very moment. Human aliveness evolved to be an ability to be aware of being human and make cognitive and perceptive sense of the neuro-electro-chemical activity in the human brain that interacts with sensory data input. Human consciousness is therefore dependent on a living human brain and cannot exist independent of one. Utilising this understanding, it becomes clear that human consciousness combined with causal conditioning, creates the subjective experience of its own reality.
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. (Hawking)
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The sooner you realize that your outer purpose cannot give you lasting fulfillment, the better. When you have seen the limitations of your outer purpose, you give up your unrealistic expectation that it should make you happy, and you make it subservient to your inner purpose. (Eckhart Tolle)
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When we can't change the direction of the wind, we can adjust our sails.
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We create stories about who we are and what we believe is true. These types of thoughts will only get in the way of us to realize actuality in nowness.
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. (Voltaire)
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire)
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Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.
Gautama Buddha
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For the modern day philosopher, who has learned his craft from the masters of philosophical history, there is no such thing as a silly question, and no topic that can’t be explored philosophically.
For the modern day philosopher, there is only a transitory, rational and logical conclusion to arrive at, which is not based on personal beliefs or preferences, but by demonstrable evidence utilising a competent method of inquiry.
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The best answer to anger is silence. (Marcus Aurelius)
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It is helpful we don't travel in past or future and accept the true now. It is a lively experience of conditioned continuity which is in the state of cause and effect.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. (Baruch Spinoza)
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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. (Buddha)
