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“For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.”

Men Mind Attention Opinion Impossible Ordinary Reflection Prejudice Crossings Ordinary Man Checkerboard

Book:The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

Source: The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

“We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess. ... You will agree to this in general, for in spite of the Gospel, in spite of Quakerism, in spite of Tolstoi, you believe in fighting fire with fire, in shooting down usurpers, locking up thieves, and freezing out vagabonds and swindlers.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.”

Ifs Persons Light Grows Differences Simple Emotional Judgment Capable Ordinary Evidence Prejudice Resistance Contradiction Exposed Bias Threatened Misconception New Knowledge Rectify

Author:Gordon Allport

“For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus centered not in reality itself but in his ideas of it. By focusing the mind wholly on each objects and every action, zazen strips it of extraneous thoughts and allows us to enter into a full rapport with life.”

Men Mind Ideas Reality Action Life Is Attention Opinion Impossible Objects Ordinary Reflection Prejudice Ordinary Man Rapport Checkerboard

Book:The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

Source: The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

“Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.”

Men May Reader Ordinary Prejudice Forgiving Paradox

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”

Mind Process Focus Habit Ordinary Prejudice Thought Process Old Habits

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Is it not possible to look beyond the canes, the wheelchairs, the braces, and the crutches into the hearts of the people who have need of these aids? They are human beings and want only to be treated as ordinary people. They may appear different, move awkwardly, and speak haltingly, but they have the same feelings. ... They want to be loved for what they are inside, without any prejudice for their impairment. Can there not be more tolerance for differences-differences in capacity, differences in body and in mind?”

“The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.”

People Years Mind Body Growth Change Thousand Ten Ordinary Prejudice Transformation Tired Unity Simplicity Realms Frightened Thousand Years Toil Sage Ordinary People Starting Anew

Author:Guo Xiang

“But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.”

Political Religious Sleep Ordinary Prejudice Domination Alas Sermons Dose Sleepy Religious Prejudice

Author:Adam Weishaupt

“The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.”

World Mind Children Made Ideas Views Opinion Particular Ready Ought Ordinary Prejudice Method Mediums Observation Strict

Book:Studies in Pessimism

Source: Studies in Pessimism

“Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.”

People Left Language Common Ordinary Tradition Prejudice Ordinary People Converses Common Language

Author:Christopher Lasch