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“We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.”

Should Trying Past Achieve Birth Glory Connections Former Rely Arbitrary

Author:Shirley Franklin

“Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.”

Children Differences Birth Slave Endure Profit Noble Believer Scripture Former Latter Repentance Corrections Unbelievers Perversity

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather, living as it is, is no more than dying, and at the same time there is no living separate from dying. This means that life itself is death and death itself is life. That is, we do not shift sequentially from birth to death, but undergo living-dying in each and every moment.”

Mean Moments Dying Birth Relation Former Latter Birth And Death

Book:A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion

Source: A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion

“When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.”

Giving Two Mother Born Existence Baby Birth Former Womb

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Reasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be excluded from philosophy; what is incorruptible must also be ingenerable. The soul, therefore, if immortal, existed before our birth: And if the former existence noways concerned us, neither will the latter.”

Ifs Soul Philosophy Courses Causes Common Existence Ought Birth Concerned Supreme Former Immortality Reasoning Latter Immortal Excluded Supposing

Book:The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... Containing Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Essays on the Immortality of the Soul, Suicide ... &c. A New Edition

Source: The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... Containing Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Essays on the Immortality of the Soul, Suicide ... &c. A New Edition

“The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.”

Thinking Way Persons States Age Reading Half Conditions Ignorance Willing Birth Enlightenment Increase Extraordinary Former Facility Resignation Diffusion

Book:The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

“Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.”

Children Parent Learning Teacher Birth Deserve Mere Former Latter Honour Good Life Educate Life Learning Deserve More

Author:Aristotle

“"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."”

Spiritual Lying Spirituality Accepting Taught Masters Birth Former Birth And Death

Author:Anthony de Mello