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The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.

Frederick Lenz

Philosophy, Teaching, Three

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His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.

Frederick Lenz

Philosophy, Teaching, Years

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As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

Frederick Lenz

Light, Profound, Desire

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In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory, but rather the internal power and intelligence that you have amassed in other lifetimes.

Frederick Lenz

Memories, Mean, Enlightenment

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This is the fourth age, the Kali Yuga, and it's a time of great darkness. At the end of this age, there's supposed to be a cosmic dissolution and then life begins anew. It's a wonderful cycle of rebirth.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Darkness, Age

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It's very important for the coming times to have a sound economic base and to be as mobile as possible. The energy lines will be shifting strongly as we enter into the end phase of the earth's cycle.

Frederick Lenz

Success, Buddhism, Careers

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A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.

Frederick Lenz

Powerful, Buddhism, Race

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In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.

Henry A. Kissinger

Trying, Succeed, Sides

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God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.

Rudy Giuliani

Country, Helping, Election

Source: www.foxnews.com

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In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Artist, Civilization, Clown

Malcolm Muggeridge (1980). “The End of Christendom”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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...our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development.
These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges.
Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice.
And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life.

Caroline Myss

Letting Go, Spiritual, Moving

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Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

Jean de la Bruyere

Success, Men, Deeds

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From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

Ayya Khema

Feelings, Birth, Reactions

Geshe Tashi Tsering, Ayya Khema (2010). “Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought:”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men.

Iris Murdoch

Men, Race, Feelings

Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.209, Penguin

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Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.

Barbara Ehrenreich

War, Warrior, Endless

Barbara Ehrenreich (2011). “Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War”, p.154, Granta Books

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I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.

Kathleen Hanna

Thinking, Feminism, Interest

"Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and then here comes another one. When does that end? What I'm trying to do is get it to end right now, by recognizing that that cycle is writing. That is: trying to understand the frustrations and setbacks (and agony) as part of a bigger chess game you are playing with art itself.

George Saunders

Art, Writing, Frustration

Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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What was funny, going to the gym, you see all these guys who are just massive. There's no way a person can naturally get that way. In the gym, you meet these guys and you talk to them, and everybody's really willing and open to explain to you what cycle they're on and to help you get on it.

Anthony Mackie

Guy, Way, Helping

"How Anthony Mackie Got Big For 'Pain & Gain'". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. April 27, 2013.

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There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.

Steve Case

People, Perception, Genius

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The process of creativity and life is one of death and rebirth, that's constantly happening over and over again. Whether it's an actual death or just a shift in perspective, that cycle is forever continuing. As an actor and person, that's just something you have to accept.

Seth Gabel

Creativity, Perspective, Forever

Source: www.etonline.com

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For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.

Michael Fassbender

Addiction, Behaviour, Patterns

"Shame - Michael Fassbender interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

Yehudi Menuhin

Pulse, Gestures, Applause

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We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.

Maureen Duffy

Morning, Knowledge, Humility

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Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.

Helen Gurley Brown

Blow, Energy, Tasks

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Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine and human; and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Men, Civilization, Generations

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