Common sense isn't.
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| It is possible to indicate one's particular spiritual way of life through external means, such as wearing certain clothes, having a shrine or altar in one's house, doing recitations and chanting. However, these practices are secondary to one's religious or spiritual way of life because all of these activities can be performed by a person who harbors a very negative state of mind. On the other hand, all the virtues of mind, the mental qualities, are genuine spiritual qualities because all of these interal mental qualities cannot exist in a single moment simultaneously with ill feelings or negative states of mind. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, August 23, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last. |
| ~ George Berkeley, On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America. ~ |
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| Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. |
| ~ John Milton, Comus. Line 256. ~ |
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| I wish also, in revising the constitution, we may throw into that section, which interdicts the abuse of certain powers in the state legislatures, some other provisions of equal if not greater importance than those already made. The words, "No state shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, &c." were wise and proper restrictions in the constitution. I think there is more danger of those powers being abused by the state governments than by the government of the United States. The same may be said of other powers which they possess, if not controuled by the general principle, that laws are unconstitutional which infringe the rights of the community. I should therefore wish to extend this interdiction, and add, as I have stated in the 5th resolution, that no state shall violate the equal right of conscience, freedom of the press, or trial by jury in criminal cases; because it is proper that every government should be disarmed of powers which trench upon those particular rights. I know in some of the state constitutions the power of the government is controuled by such a declaration, but others are not. I cannot see any reason against obtaining even a double security on those points; and nothing can give a more sincere proof of the attachment of those who opposed this constitution to these great and important rights, than to see them join in obtaining the security I have now proposed; because it must be admitted, on all hands, that the state governments are as liable to attack these invaluable privileges as the general government is, and therefore ought to be as cautiously guarded against. |
| ~ (James Madison) Proposing Bill of Rights to House, June 8, 1789 ~ |
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| The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,- And oh, that eye was in itself a soul! |
| ~ Lord Byron, The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Stanza 6. ~ |
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| Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Scorn not the Sonnet. ~ |
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| Just as rain leaks into a house with a poorly-made roof, desire and attachment will seep into a house unprotected by meditative awareness. |
| ~Twin Verses ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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