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“One of the most objectionable errors of political militants, especially those of the messianically authoritarian kind, has always been a total ignorance of grassroots comprehension of the world. Seeing themselves as bearers of the “truth” that no one can refuse, they regard their sublime task as one not of proposing some truth for consideration but of imposing it without question.”
― Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
― Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
“The body tells the truth regardless of if we speak its language or not. ... Often my practice has focused on trying to meet my body where it is, instead of constantly trying to get it to meet me where I am.”
― Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger
― Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger
“The true opposite of wisdom, after all, is not ignorance but arrogance. Ignorance is a perfectly respectable state of being. Ignorance is the state of all eventual knowledge. Arrogance is where the danger lies.”
― Buddha's Office: The Ancient Art of Waking Up While Working Well
― Buddha's Office: The Ancient Art of Waking Up While Working Well
“When the power comes from within us and we claim it as our own, then we no longer have to affirm ourselves by dominating others. The irony is that we are actually afraid of our own power.”
― Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness
― Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness
“Many spiritual disciplines, especially those oriented toward ascendance, advise us to give up the self, to surrender all to a master, guru, or a particular concept of God. While it is important to give up attachments to the lower egos, what is really called for is to become one with the divine. There is no we without an I. To become one with the divine is not to abandon the Self (as archetype of wholeness) but to realize that divine consciousness of who that Self really is.”
― Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self
― Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self
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