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| cca56c9 | The conceptual problem at the center of contemporary healthcare is the confusion between disease processes and disease origins. Instead of asking why an illness occurs and trying to remove the conditions that led to it, medical researchers try to understand the mechanisms through which the disease operates, so that they can then interfere with them. These mechanisms, rather than the true origins, are seen as the causes of disease in current.. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 9231fcc | The parallels to modern physics [with mysticism] appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching, or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments of Heraclitus, in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, or in the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 8f09c10 | Intersections of lines, for example, remain intersections, and the hole in a torus (doughnut) cannot be transformed away. Thus a doughnut may be transformed topologically into a coffee cup (the hole turning into a handle) but never into a pancake. Topology, then, is really a mathematics of relationships, of unchangeable, or "invariant," patterns." | Fritjof Capra | ||
| e82d714 | Since human needs are finite, but human greed is not, economic growth can usually be maintained through artificial creation of needs by means of advertising. The goods that are produced and sold in this way are often unneeded, and thus are essentially waste. The pollution and depletion of natural resources generated by this enormous waste of unnecessary goods is exacerbated by the waste of energy and materials in inefficient production proc.. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 4c3b69c | A great anatomist used to close his opening lecture to beginning medical students with words that apply equally to our own undertaking. "In this course," he would say, "we shall be dealing with flesh and bones and cells and sinews, and there are going to be times when it's all going to seem terribly cold-blooded. But never forget. It's alive!" II." | Huston Smith | ||
| a3455b4 | it is again: that Hindu belief that all of life is maya, illusion. Once we see life as a game, no more consequential than a game of chess, then the world seems a lot lighter, a lot happier. Personal failure becomes "as small a cause for concern as playing the role of loser in a summer theater performance," writes Huston Smith in his book The World's Religions. If it's all theater, it doesn't matter which role you play, as long as you realiz.. | Eric Weiner | ||
| 9c45593 | If my opinion that substance requires a true unity were founded only on a definition I had formulated in opposition to common usage, *then the dispute would be only one of words*. But besides the fact that most philosophers have taken the term in almost the same fashion, distinguishing between a unity in itself and an accidental unity, between substantial and accidental form, and between perfect and imperfect, natural and artificial mixture.. | Huston Smith | ||
| 22dbc4c | Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulates me more from God. Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine. The | Huston Smith | ||
| 93a9859 | Heaven and earth are my inner and outer coffins. The sun, moon, and stars are my drapery, and the whole creation my funeral procession. What more do I want? | Huston Smith | ||
| c77146d | Emerson argued that "the whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible, and they are. They want awakening, [and for that purpose they need teachers] to get the soul out of bed, out of her deep habitual sleep." That" | Huston Smith | ||
| 1c293d3 | Today we do not live under a sacred canopy; it is marketing that forms the backdrop of our culture. The message that advertising dins into our conscious and unconscious minds is that fulfillment derives from the things we possess. | Huston Smith | ||
| 7f5ea1c | Symbolism is the science of understanding the relations between the multiple levels of reality. | Huston Smith | ||
| e5ebcae | Such power as I possess for working in the political field has derived from my experiments in the spiritual field. | Huston Smith | ||
| 0ed1d37 | There is within us--in even the blithest, most lighthearted among us--a fundamental dis-ease. It acts like an unquenchable fire that renders the vast majority of us incapable in this life of ever coming to full peace. This desire lies in the marrow of our bones and the deep regions of our souls. All great literature, poetry, art, philosophy, psychology, and religion tries to name and analyze this longing. We are seldom in direct touch with .. | Huston Smith | ||
| f56bd37 | The obvious veneration felt by almost all who knew him is contagious, and the reader is soon caught up with his disciples in the sense of being in the presence of something close to wisdom incarnate. Perhaps the most striking thing about him was his combination of a cool head and a warm heart, a blend that shielded him from sentimentality, on the one hand, and indifference, on the other. He was undoubtedly one of the greatest rationalists o.. | Huston Smith | ||
| bc3d86f | Our life in historical or chronological time, measuring and minding, cautious and comparing, forms the horizontal arm of the cross. Our experience of the unqualified, of inner, immeasurable time (or timelessness), is the cross's vertical pole. We live in two kinds of time or perspective simultaneously. The horizontal and the vertical are at once quite distinct and entirely overlapping, and to experience their incongruity and confluence is w.. | Huston Smith | ||
| 4573778 | The point of the story is that the universe is one gigantic Wishing Tree, with branches that reach into every heart. The cosmic process decrees that sometime or other, in this life or another, each of these wishes will be granted--together, of course, with consequences. | Huston Smith | ||
| 203621e | In Buddhism monks recite daily the Five Remembrances, which are: I will lose my youth, my health, my dear ones and everything I hold dear, and finally lose life itself, by the very nature of my being human. These are bitter reminders that the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action. The fact that all the things we hold dear and love are transient does not mean that we should love them less but--as I do Karen and Serena--.. | Huston Smith | ||
| 12f147b | Suffering led the Buddha to enlightenment, and it may cause us, against our will, to grow in compassion, awareness, and possibly eventually peace. | Huston Smith | ||
| 637d2a6 | Some friends accused me of whoring after the Infinite. Well, what better whoredom is there? | Huston Smith | ||
| 7ddc81d | What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future. | Huston Smith | ||
| d405383 | terms. A nation can assume that the phrase "under God" | Huston Smith | ||
| 3ba39f5 | The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart and spirit." - Dallas Willard" | Jim Powell | ||
| 9ea1582 | It would be tragic if, in a future recession or depression, policymakers repeated the same mistakes of the New Deal because they knew only the political histories of the time. | Jim Powell | ||
| f1d5b7f | Don't stride so, Russell!" Holmes whispered fiercely. "Throw your boots out in front of you as you walk and let your elbows stick out a bit. It would help if you let your mouth hang open stupidly, and for God's sake take off your glasses, at least until we get out of town. I won't allow you to walk into anything. Do you think you could persuade your nose to drip a bit, just for the effect?" | Laurie R. King | ||
| c0f3b95 | THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY I came up to in 1917 was a shadow of her normal, self-assured self, its population a tenth of that in 1914 before the war, a number lower even than in the years following the Black Death. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 37e0e61 | Moments of pure relaxation were rare for me. There was always the nagging of books unread, work undone, time a-wasting. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 79a1297 | When the choice came down to tears, strong drink, or potatoes, one chooses potatoes. She | Laurie R. King | ||
| bc484ef | You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible. | relationships sarcasm | Laurie R. King | |
| 61c35d2 | You envy me my educated tastes. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 76e5a5c | You translate it, please. I have worked hard to forget what Greek I once knew. | Laurie R. King | ||
| e2f983d | Youth does not inspire confidence, in life or in stories, | Laurie R. King | ||
| 928dc06 | Would you rather have it outside? Now the heat's broken, coffee in the sun isn't a repulsive idea." "What a romantic offer: something not actively repulsive." | Laurie R. King | ||
| f1c904b | I think not. I find short hair too much fuss, always needing combing and cutting. Long hair is much easier, oddly enough." There" | Laurie R. King | ||
| a325a0f | To continue with the analogy, my perspective, my brush technique, my use of colour and shade, are all entirely different from his. The subject is essentially the same; it is the eyes and the hands of the artist that change. | Laurie R. King | ||
| cfeb81b | First and foremost a pragmatist, he had no time for the interference of unnecessary standards. | Laurie R. King | ||
| c6048ab | When there is an emotional element in a belief, argument rarely has much effect. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 39b7757 | Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century. | humor weakness women | Laurie R. King | |
| 2650241 | I had given Holmes this wedding as a gift-only to have him turn around and hand it back to me tenfold. And now his two oldest friends in all the world had conspired against our plans, casually rendering our feeble attempts at a gift into solid gold. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 4eddd46 | When ambitious men overcome a dynasty and seize power, they inevitably adopt most of the ways of their predecessors. --THE Muqaddimah OF IBN KHALDUN | Laurie R. King | ||
| 388d4ce | Oddly enough, the very considerations that had made marriage impossible for him were mirrored in my own being: a rabidly independent nature, an impatience with lesser minds, total unconventionality, and the horror of being saddled with someone who would need cosseting and protection--the | Laurie R. King | ||
| 1731fd2 | XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense. | detective holmes mary-russell mystery pastiche puzzles roman-numerals villans | Laurie R. King | |
| 4d4e731 | Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being. | Laurie R. King | ||
| f136d43 | A quick mind is worthless unless you can control the emotions with it as well. | mind-quotes | Laurie R. King |