The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
Like the ocean is your god-self;
It remains for ever undefiled.
And like the ether it lifts but the winged.
Even like the sun is your god-self;
It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent.
But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being.
Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man,
But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.
Ideas often have results that are the opposite of those their authors anticipated as consequences are rarely those expected or hoped for by the original thinkers. . . . Yet the cure of bad or misapplied ideas is not the refutation of ideas and thinkers but better and corrected ideas.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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A liberal education... frees a person from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family, and even his nation.
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There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.
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The essence of education is not to stuff you full of facts, but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then show you how to give it away.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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Essays on Education
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Three real teachers in a lifetime is the very best of luck. I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three had these things in common. They all loved what they were doing. They did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and precious.
A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.
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In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its exploration of the limits and meanings of 'human nature.
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin - more even than death... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes
they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
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Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.
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Being Peace
by Arnold Kotler
Page 58
Published by Parallax Press
Published in Berkeley, CA, USA
Published in 1996
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Reading without thinking will confuse you.
Thinking without reading will place you in danger.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.
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I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're moving into adolescence now. When we grow up - man, we're going to be something!
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.
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There is no spiritual peace for the ignorant, because they desire and seek it in the external world.
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If
you want to grow, you must be willing to stretch.
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We are slaves of what we don't know;
of what we know we are masters.
Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discover
and understand its cause and workings,
we overcome it by the very knowing.
The primary purpose of meditation is to become more conscious
and familiar with our inner life.
The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life.
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If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.
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The Gift of Change
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Focus
not on the rudeness of others,
not on what they've done or left undone,
but on what you have done and have not done
yourself.
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Heart of a Buddha
by Amita Society
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Published in 2003
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.
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The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.
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If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth.
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We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Change means movement, movement means friction, friction means heat, and heat means controversy.
Come, Whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving, Come. Ours is not a caravan of despair. It doesn’t matter if you’ve broken your vow a thousand times, Still come. And yet again, come!
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.
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It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified.
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Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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To
exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating
oneself endlessly.
Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".
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We all have the potential to be better than we are.
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... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.
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You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in.
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We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
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Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
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I am always willing to learn, however I do not always like to be taught.
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