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Stephen Batchelor quotes: Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation.

Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation.

Stephen Batchelor quotes: Learning and education have frequently degenerated into the systematic accumulation of facts and information.

Learning and education have frequently degenerated into the systematic accumulation of facts and information.

Stephen Batchelor quotes: In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

Stephen Batchelor quotes: In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.

In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.

Stephen Batchelor quotes: You only set out to prove what you have already decided to believe.

You only set out to prove what you have already decided to believe.

Stephen Batchelor quotes: Of the monastic institutions on which it depended. Since celibate monks tended to

Of the monastic institutions on which it depended. Since celibate monks tended to

Stephen Batchelor quotes: This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

Stephen Batchelor quotes: A lack of being remains unaffected by a plenitude of having.

A lack of being remains unaffected by a plenitude of having.

Stephen Batchelor quotes: 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.

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 quotes: one who loves himself should not harm others.

one who loves himself should not harm others.

Stephen Batchelor quotes: What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

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 quotes: Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.

Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.

Stephen Batchelor quotes: In pride we consciously elevate our own standing and concerns and look down upon others as essentially inferior.

In pride we consciously elevate our own standing and concerns and look down upon others as essentially inferior.

Stephen Batchelor quotes: Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.

Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.

Stephen Batchelor quotes: Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes.

Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes.

Stephen Batchelor quotes: Buddhism, it seemed, was a rational religion, whose truth-claims could withstand the test of reason.

Buddhism, it seemed, was a rational religion, whose truth-claims could withstand the test of reason.