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  • I have washed and purifed my affections, so that there is nothing in me that is not wholly devoted to my Well-beloved, how shall I again defile them by commerce with the creature?

    Song of Songs of Solomon / Explanations and Reflections having Reference to the Interior Life 1879

  • By this time the philosophy of the eighteenth century had purifed English Whiggism from that deep taint of intolerance which had been contracted during a long and close alliance with the

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • As Buddha-nature factors, the two networks are enlightenment-builders in all three stages: in the basis stage, when they are unpurified and function directly as samsara-builders of the rebirth states that are more conducive for working toward enlightenment, in the pathway stage, when they are partially unpurified and partially purifed – partially serving directly as samsara-builders or liberation-builders and partially serving directly as enlightenment-builders, in the resultant stage, when they are fully purifed and are functioning as the form bodies (Skt. rupakaya) and enlightening mind (Skt. dharmakaya) of a Buddha.

    The Two Enlightenment-Building Networks (The Two Collections) 2004

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