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If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, you are probably creating suffering for others too.
Eckhart Tolle
If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, you are probably creating suffering for others too.
Eckhart Tolle
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There is no free will. The mind is determined to any volition by a cause, which is then determined by another, ad infinitum.
Spinoza
There is no free will. The mind is determined to any volition by a cause, which is then determined by another, ad infinitum.
Spinoza
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha
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Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Buddha
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Buddha
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You are in the here and now, while your mind is in the future. This creates an anxiety gap. And if you are identified with your mind and have lost touch with the power and simplicity of the 'Now', that anxiety gap will be your constant companion. (Eckhart Tolle)
You are in the here and now, while your mind is in the future. This creates an anxiety gap. And if you are identified with your mind and have lost touch with the power and simplicity of the 'Now', that anxiety gap will be your constant companion. (Eckhart Tolle)
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Any notion of life after necrotic brain death provides the greatest placebo comfort blanket to alleviate the inherent fear of non-existence. But the attachment to the placebo keeps you trapped in the cycle of pleasure and pain so the mind can never be at peace with itself, others and the world around it. Then there is a dilemma in front of you: Do you choose to live without unhelpful worries in the only life you can be certain of, or do you choose to worry throughout that life just in case there might be some kind of opportunity after it?!
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Any notion of life after necrotic brain death provides the greatest placebo comfort blanket to alleviate the inherent fear of non-existence. But the attachment to the placebo keeps you trapped in the cycle of pleasure and pain so the mind can never be at peace with itself, others and the world around it. Then there is a dilemma in front of you: Do you choose to live without unhelpful worries in the only life you can be certain of, or do you choose to worry throughout that life just in case there might be some kind of opportunity after it?!
@philosophy5
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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
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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There are people who make us suffer. It is because they are suffering themselves and spill their pains over at anybody facing. They are their first victims. Instead of punishment they should be cured.
@philosophy5
There are people who make us suffer. It is because they are suffering themselves and spill their pains over at anybody facing. They are their first victims. Instead of punishment they should be cured.
@philosophy5
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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
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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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
David Hume
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
David Hume
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Montesquieu
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Montesquieu
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In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
Carter G. Woodson
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
Carter G. Woodson
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
Paul Ricoeur
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
Paul Ricoeur