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… age-old philosophical attitudes which arise from false factual premises, with vast theoretical superstructures framed to fit those premises
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Painful feeling is suffering in itself; pleasant feeling brings suffering through its transiency and its unsatisfying and unsatisfactory nature.
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A look into long-neglected quarters of the mind will come as a wholesome shock to the observer. It will convince him of the urgent need for methodical mental culture.
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Attempts at eliminating the mind's main defilements—greed, hate and delusion—must fail as long as these defilements find refuge and support in the uncontrolled dim regions of the mind.
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The relatively small sector of the mind that stands in the intense light of purposeful will and thought is not a reliable standard of the inner strength and lucidity of consciousness in its totality.
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In the Buddhist scriptures one of the qualities attributed to Right Mindfulness is called 'non-superficiality, and this is, of course, just a negative way of expressing our positive term thoroughness.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
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July 21, 1901
Died:
October 19, 1994
(aged 93)
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