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“A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.”

World Art Ideas Conflict Tradition Invention Establishment New Ideas Everlasting Allegiance New Inventions

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.”

“Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have a great responsibility to provide peace of mind and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among humanity.”

Feels Mind Different Sometimes Humanity Religious Responsibility Situation Source Conflict Tradition Peace Of Mind Division Brotherhood Sisterhood Religious Traditions Great Responsibility

Author:Dalai Lama

“The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and are trying to see the world through the eyes of their predecessors and to deal with the problems and difficulties of the existing world by virtue of the values of the ancients... many others...seek to go forth in step with world developments and not lag behind the caravan of civilization, development and progress.”

“Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.”

Dying Conflict Tradition Continuity

Book:After Virtue

Source: After Virtue

“Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote or write in the popular press, like Saramago, Vargas Llosa, and Eco. This strikes me as one way of avoiding opinionated fiction, and allowing your imagination a broader latitude. Similarly, fiction writers from places like India and Pakistan are commonly expected to provide primers to their country's histories and present-day conflicts. But we haven't had that tradition in Anglo-America.”

“It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.”

Ideas Religion Religious Subjects Conflict Tradition Statements Fixed Science And Religion Domain Symbolic Religious Traditions

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on... man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines.”

“The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.”

Spiritual Goal Conflict Tradition Transformation Unity Separation

Book:Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old

Source: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old

“From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.”