The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks.
A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity, and cultiva… - Stephen Batchelor
A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity, and cultiva…
- Stephen Batchelor
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. - Stephen Batchelor
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.
In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all. - Stephen Batchelor
In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.
Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the pr… - Stephen Batchelor
Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the pr…
We cannot choose whether to engage with the world, only how to. - Stephen Batchelor
We cannot choose whether to engage with the world, only how to.
In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it. - Stephen Batchelor
In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.
How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer a routine inhalat… - Stephen Batchelor
How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer a routine inhalat…
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bo… - Stephen Batchelor
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bo…
The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of… - Stephen Batchelor
The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of…
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