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Where would I possibly find enough leather
With which to cover the surface of the earth?
But (just) leather on the soles of my shoes
Is equivalent to covering the earth with it

Likewise it is not possible for me
To restrain the external course of things
But should I restrain this mind of mine
What would be the need to restrain all else?

Shantideva : Gaia Child
Shantideva
Source: A Pema Chodron book
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Consider the lilies of the field,
How they grow;
They toil not, neither do they spin;
And yet I say unto you,
That even Solomon in all his glory
Was not arrayed like one of these

Yesua of Nazareth
Source: Matthew 6:26-29 King James Version
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

Proverb
Source: Proverb
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When I scan this view, I don't do it line by line, I see the whole thing at once

Alan Watts : English mystic & writer
Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
Source: Alan Watts: A Conversation With Myself
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Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
Source: Google Talks: Towards the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences
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One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard Feynman
Source: Google Talks: Towards the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences
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We are persons whose bodies can be objectively studied according to the impersonal laws of physics but whose minds are subjectively experienced in ways science has not yet been able to fathom. In short, by radically seperating science from religion, we are not merely segregating two human institutions; we are fragmenting ourselves as individuals and as a society in ways that lead to deep, unresolved conflicts in terms of our view of the world, our values, and our way of life.

B. Alan Wallace
Source: The Taboo of Subjectivity
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