"This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle."

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Source : Stephen Batchelor (1998). “Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening”, p.27, Penguin

Stephen Batchelor

#Heart Quotes #Body Quotes #Flesh Quotes

“A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.”
“Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.”
“There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.”
“Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.”
“You can be fearful or fearless...I chose the latter”
“My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.”
“The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.”
“Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.”

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