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Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation.
— Stephen Batchelor
Learning and education have frequently degenerated into the systematic accumulation of facts and information.
— Stephen Batchelor
In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.
— Stephen Batchelor
In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.
— Stephen Batchelor
No apologies needed. "Do you".
— Shannon Tanner
In pride we consciously elevate our own standing and concerns and look down upon others as essentially inferior.
— Stephen Batchelor
Sam again demonstrated her affection for me by not clubbing my brains out. We were having a friendship fest here at the Thinking Cup.
— Rick Riordan
My love. My life. My husband. It's been my great honor to love you and I only hope I was worthy of it.
— T.A. Webb
Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.
— Stephen Batchelor
humankind's presence on Earth is nothing but a cancer
— John N. Gray
Patriotism is the highest form of love
— Thabiso Monkoe
Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes.
— Stephen Batchelor
Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
False ideas about yourself destroy you. For
— Ryan Holiday
Buddhism, it seemed, was a rational religion, whose truth-claims could withstand the test of reason.
— Stephen Batchelor
Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.
— Stephen Batchelor
What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)
— Stephen Batchelor
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
one who loves himself should not harm others.
— Stephen Batchelor
Ironically, the more we crave to possess and dominate the world and others, the deeper and more unbearable becomes the chasm of our own emptiness.
— Stephen Batchelor
A lack of being remains unaffected by a plenitude of having.
— Stephen Batchelor
This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.
— Stephen Batchelor
I like an otter. I like a sea lion. I like a walrus. That's my favorite version of a sea creature.
— Nick Kroll
Of the monastic institutions on which it depended. Since celibate monks tended to
— Stephen Batchelor
You only set out to prove what you have already decided to believe.
— Stephen Batchelor
