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That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.

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To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

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Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

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Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.

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If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

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It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

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The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

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Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

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The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Teaching Quotes , Intuition Quotes

Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.

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There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

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It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

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To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

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But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

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I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

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What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

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Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

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