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In fact, ours is increasingly a culture of acquiescence and obedience. This is pretty obvious in the political part of our culture, where not only is debate squelched within parties, but it’s been almost eliminated between the parties.
Many years after this book was written, these words are truer. No discourse is truly allowed. One cannot, ever, debate what is deemed offensive or unjust, without being labeled as such.
This leads to tyranny of ideas and thought crimes.
“Emotions remain the same, qualitatively, throughout life; the stimuli to which they respond are subject to quantitative variations, but the feelings are stock in trade. This why the theater survives: it is cross-cultural; it contains the North Pole and the South Pole of the human condition; the emotions fall like iron filings within its field.”
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“Fathers and teachers,” wrote Dostoyevsky, “I ponder the question, ‘What is Hell?’ I maintain it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― A General Theory of Love
― A General Theory of Love
“The trees in the storm don’t try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go,” continued the voice. “Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break. Now is not the time for you to be strong, Julia, or you, too, will break. Learn the power of the trees. Let it flow. Let it go. That is the way you are going to make it through this storm. And that is the way to make it through the storms of life.”
― legacy of luna the story of a tree a woman and the struggle to save the redwoods
― legacy of luna the story of a tree a woman and the struggle to save the redwoods
“Similarly, only once we let go of all we know, including all our self-centered concerns, and break free of the cocoons we spin around ourselves to shut out the world can we become the truly beautiful beings we are meant to be.”
― legacy of luna the story of a tree a woman and the struggle to save the redwoods
― legacy of luna the story of a tree a woman and the struggle to save the redwoods
“a mood is a state of enhanced readiness to experience a certain emotion. Where an emotion is a single note, clearly struck, hanging for a moment in the still air, a mood is the extended, nearly inaudible echo that follows. Consciousness registers a fading level of activation in the emotion circuits faintly or not at all. And so the provocative events of the day may leave us with emotional responsiveness waiting beneath our notice. If a man spills coffee on himself, his annoyance is relatively short-lived—on the order of minutes. After the conscious feeling is gone, residual activity in the anger circuits lingers. He will pass into an irritable mood—a quickness to anger, the only reflection of the waning activity in those circuits.”
― A General Theory of Love
― A General Theory of Love
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