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“It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.”

People Giving Hands Culture Sides Quality Absolutes Seeking Suits Frustrating Temperament Ambidextrous

Book:The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds

Source: The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds

“Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of.”

Thinking Want Humans States Spiritual Courses Causes Human Beings Knowing Security Absolutes Safety Distance Misery Seeking Confusion Fuel Insecurity Not Knowing

Author:Adyashanti

“As soon as the theoretician attempts to take account of so-called 'utility' and 'reality' instead of absolute truth, his work will cease to be a polar star of seeking humanity and instead will become a prescription for everyday life.”

Reality Humanity Stars Accounts Absolutes Everyday Seeking Cease Everyday Life Utility Prescriptions Absolute Truth

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.”

Broken Absolutes Aim Seeking Broken Heart Portions Absolute Truth Unattainable Broken Promises

Book:Aequanimitas

Source: Aequanimitas

“…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.”

Thinking Knows Long Would Be Conversation Training Absolutes Seeking Criticize Polite Preoccupation Absolute Truth Polite Conversation

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.”

Source: Preacher and Prayer