"Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the assumption of the existence of an elite whose explicit commitment grants them implicit extraordinariness."

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Source : Stephen Batchelor (1998). “Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening”, p.42, Penguin

Stephen Batchelor

#Commitment Quotes #Names Quotes #Office Quotes

“Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.”
“I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.”
“I try to only worry about things I have control over.”
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
“It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression”
“Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.”

Source : Song: Love To Be Loved, Album: Us, 1992
“We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.”
“I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.”

Source : "Obsessed: China" by Abigail Washburn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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