People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.
H. L. Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.
I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.
It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.
Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.
Feminism is lesbian in the sense that lesbians have always hated the female role and coveted the male role. It is based on Marxist notions of "equality" and class conflict that have no relevance to mystical and biological phenomenon such as love.
A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.
The archenemy is the arch stupid!
Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.
Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning, transformation, and growth-or rage, fear, shame, entrapment, and resistance. The choice is not up to our opponents, but to us, and our willingness to face and work through them.
To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.
When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.
On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it.
I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.
The 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.