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buddhist chamber commission discovered material music piece teachings
So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do. Joseph Jarman
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I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story. Valerie June
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Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be. Alison Gopnik
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point. Abel Ferrara
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From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil. E. F. Schumacher
buddhists
The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive. Luke Rhinehart
buddhist nonsense notes
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible. Alan Watts
buddhist fun positivity
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
buddhist memories real
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Monday-morning quarterbacking that you see at a political convention. Todd Harris
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In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. Dennis Prager
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To get rich is glorious. Deng Xiaoping
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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world. Eldridge Cleaver
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...without equality there can be no democracy. Eleanor Roosevelt
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If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
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I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver. Elizabeth Emken
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Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed. Elizabeth Edwards
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The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. Eliot Spitzer
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Man has proved to be a model sponsor and in particular has respected the independence and integrity of the prize. J. Taylor
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negatively influence the sovereignty and independence of Lebanon. Mahmoud Abbas
independence
We won't get independence this time, but we are on our way.
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The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel. Milos Zeman
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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? Abraham Lincoln
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For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest. Monica Seles
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The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession. Henry Cabot Lodge
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Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear
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We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. Robert M. Pirsig