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  • Absoluteness thus indicates a norm very much like peace, the cardinal civil norm; so to say that one regime form is more absolute than another is tantamount to declaring its superiority.

    Spinoza's Political Philosophy Steinberg, Justin 2008

  • Although I can't necessarily logically convince you to tinker with the relationship between a privileged set and a marginalized set in some way, I still have to share the earth and its resrouces with you while we're still alive, and experientially the Voidness/Absoluteness/Impermanence of experience indicates to me the necessity and efficacy of reducing suffering.

    Postmodernism in the blogosphere... Mumon 2005

  • Absoluteness, or the illusion of it -- the universal quest.

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • This is the Eightfold Path of Yoga {FN24-6} which leads one to the final goal of KAIVALYA (Absoluteness), a term which might be more comprehensibly put as “realization of the Truth beyond all intellectual apprehension.”

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • (Absoluteness), a term which might be more comprehensibly put as

    Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

  • [Sidenote: Absoluteness and immortality transferred to the gods.]

    The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

  • -- Absoluteness and immortality transferred to the gods.

    The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

  • Being, HE is the Absoluteness, HE the Beauty, HE the Glory, HE the

    The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail

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