“The Buddhist ideal of awakening implies that we can sever our links with our evolutionary past. We can raise ourselves from the sleep in which other animals pass their lives. Our illusions dissolved, we need no longer suffer. This is only another doctrine of salvation, subtler than that of the Christians, but no different from Christianity in its goal of leaving our animal inheritance behind. But the idea that we can rid ourselves of animal illusion is the greatest illusion of all. meditation may give us a fresher view of things but cannot uncover them as they are in themselves.”
“The Buddhist ideal of awakening implies that we can sever our links with our evolutionary past. We can raise ourselves from the sleep in which other animals pass their lives. Our illusions dissolved, we need no longer suffer. This is only another doctrine of salvation, subtler than that of the Christians, but no different from Christianity in its goal of leaving our animal inheritance behind. But the idea that we can rid ourselves of animal illusion is the greatest illusion of all. meditation may give us a fresher view of things but cannot uncover them as they are in themselves.”
John Gray
“Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.”
John Gray“A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.”
John Gray“All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.”
John Gray“When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.”
John Gray“Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.”
John Gray“Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.”
John Gray“I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away.”
John Gray“The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.”
John Gray“If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.”
John Gray, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus“The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.”
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