Joseph Bianco

“even the most artful guardians of the present system cannot prevent the awakening of proletarian thought.”
― V.I. Lenin, What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats

“Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way. The fact that a place is special to some because of its great peace and beauty may, by that very fact, make it for another a resource to exploit, in such a way that its peace and beauty are destroyed. Attention has consequences.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

“Unless we do conscious work on it, the shadow is almost always projected; that is, it is neatly laid on someone or something else so we do not have to take responsibility for it. This is the way things were done five hundred years ago, and most of us are still stuck in this medieval consciousness. The medieval world was based on mutual shadow projection; it thrived on a fortress mentality, armor, walled cities, possession by force, ownership of anything feminine by male prerogative, royal patronage, and city-states in perpetual siege at each other’s gates. Medieval society was almost entirely ruled by patriarchal values that are famous for their one-sidedness. Even the Church took part in shadow politics. Saints like Benedictine monasteries and some of the esoteric societies avoided the projecting game.”
― Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche

“There is no death: there are only two worlds, or rather one, yet for the time being it remains, for us, divided.”
― Sergius Bulgakov, Spiritual Diary