Sangharakshita famous quotes
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Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.
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Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.
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Receptivity is the first requisite of the disciple, and of anyone who wants to learn anything. We can be anything else we like: we can be wicked, we can be stupid, we can be full of faults, we can backslide. In a sense, it doesn’t matter. But we must be spiritually receptive; we have to be willing and ready to learn. When we know that we do not know, everything is possible.
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To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.
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Sex according to Sangarakshita is rooted in the Lower Evolution and does not, in his experience, enhance communication between individuals. And sexual relationships, encouraging as they do neurotic dependence on one's partner, need to be kept at the periphery of one's life.
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A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts.
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I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.
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Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.
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Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...
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The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.
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When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
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I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only….Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,
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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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