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Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and the spiritual, the thinglike and its transcendence in thought. A culture that is merely sensuous and that denies the activity of the mind within sensuous materials risks becoming pornographic.

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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

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The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.

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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

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If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though they were as important as ourselves, I doubt that we'll have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.

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