Sangharakshita 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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“Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.”
Source : A.J. Hartley, David Hewson (2014). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel”, p.52
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“Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.”
Source : A.J. Cronin (1941). “The Keys of the Kingdom”
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“Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.”
Source : Voltaire, Aaron Hill (1797). “Merope: A Tragedy”, p.50
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“Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?”
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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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“I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only….Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,”
Source : "Adam Sandler Signs Exclusive Four Movie Deal With Netflix" By Jordan Sirani, www.ign.com. October 2, 2014.
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