There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo, and breaking of social taboos especially, is a form of renunci...
Zeena Schreck
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animism, autonomy, bhakti, dissident, ecstasy, female, freedom, independence, initiation, inspiration
Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still wider diversities of long cultivated races from an original...
Asa Gray
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animals, biology, domestication, homo sapiens, man, plants, races, science, species, variation
One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eye...
Criss Jami
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adversity, affliction, anxiety, apologetics, broken, broken heart, caring, christ, compassion, crushed