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There's a lot of good wisdom to be taken from the Tao as a personal philosophy of simplicity, compassion and frugality. However I find its insistence to keep the people unlearned so that they may be more easily governed somewhat objectionable, even i
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“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
― Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
― Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
“If you make enough noise, no matter your instrument, you can keep the old gods alive forever.”
― Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
― Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Alice in Wonderland
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Alice in Wonderland
“Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“Moorcock believes, like Arthur Brown, that when art takes on the function of myth, it can actually transform consciousness: “I believe that the artist is a shaman, in that you provide your public (tribe) with images, resonances, stories which symbolise their relationship with the physical world and its questions.”
― Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
― Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
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