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“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
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“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
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“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.”
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“The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.”
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“For every individual is a unique
manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching
of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a
sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and
differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole
body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that
differentiation is not separation.”
― The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching
of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a
sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and
differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole
body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that
differentiation is not separation.”
― The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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