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“one gradually equilibrizes the whole of one’s mental structure and obtains a simple view of the incalculably vast complexity of the universe. For it is written: “Equilibrium is the basis of the work.” Serious students will need to make a careful study of the attributions detailed in this work and commit them to memory. When, by persistent application to his own mental apparatus, the numerical system with its correspondences is partly understood—as opposed to being merely memorized—the student will be amazed to find fresh light breaking in on him at every turn as he continues to refer every item in experience and consciousness to this standard.”
― Israel Regardie, A Garden of Pomegranates: Skrying on the Tree of Life

“The “Intelligence of Will” denotes that this is the path where each individual “created being” is “prepared” for the spiritual quest by being made aware of the higher and divine “will” of the creator. By spiritual preparation (prayer, meditation, visualization, and aspiration), the student becomes aware of the higher will and ultimately attains oneness with the Divine Self—fully immersed in the knowledge of “the existence of the Primordial Wisdom.”
― Israel Regardie, A Garden of Pomegranates: Skrying on the Tree of Life

“...you can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution.

You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country.

You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting.

And if you do, you’ll come up with answers that don’t answer,
explanations that don’t explain,
you’ll come up with conclusions that don’t conclude

And you’ll come up with people that you thought should be acting like pigs that’s acting like people and instead moving on pigs.”
― Fred Hampton

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, Name-Dropping

“The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“I was born upon the prairie where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures and where everything drew a free breath. I want to die there, not within walls.”
― Ten Bears Comanche Nation

“I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free, and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures, and where everything drew a free breath.. I lived like my fathers before me, and like them, I lived happily.

-Ten Bears, Yamparika Comanche Chief”
― Ten Bears Comanche Nation

“Boys need healthy self-esteem. They need love. And a wise and loving feminist politics can provide the only foundation to save the lives of male children. Patriarchy will not heal them. If that were so they would all be well.”
― Bell Hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression. I liked this definition because it does not imply that men were the enemy.”
― bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving... There can be no love without justice.”
― bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“Overall women in our society are forgetting the value and power of sisterhood. Renewed feminist movement must once again raise the banner high to proclaim anew "Sistehood is powerful.”
― bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“Most people have no understanding of the myriad ways feminism has positively changed all our lives. Sharing feminist thought and practice sustains feminist movement. Feminist knowledge is for everybody.”
― Bell Hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...”
― e.e cummings

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit”
― E.E. Cummings

“I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.”
― e.e. Cummings, Selected Poems

“I love you much
most beautiful darling
more than anyone on the earth
and I like you better
than everything in the sky.”
― E.E. Cummings

“i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”
― e.e. cummings

“since the thing perhaps is
to eat flowers and not to be afraid”
― E.E. Cummings, E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962

“Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise”
― E.E. Cummings, AnOther E.E. Cummings

“love is a deeper season
than reason;
my sweet one”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems

“Seeker Of Truth

seeker of truth

follow no path
all paths lead where

truth is here”
― e.e cummings

“I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air.”
― e.e. cummings

“Miracles are to come.
With you I leave a remembrance
of miracles: they are by
somebody who can love
and who shall be continually reborn,
a human being.”
― e.e. cummings

“I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart. I am never without it. Anywhere I go, you go, my dear. And whatever is done by only me...is your doing. I fear no fate...for you are my fate, I want no world cause you are my world. Here is the deepest secret no one knows. Here is the root of root and bud of bud & the sky of the sky of the tree of life. Which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. It's the wonder that keeps the stars apart.”
― E.E. Cummings

“feeling is first,”
― e.e. cummings

“...A good Book, has no Ending...”
― E.E. Cummings

“a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being”
― E. E. Cummings