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“Those who sit furthest from the center of power, see it the clearest.”
― No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
― No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
“You have to be able to access the profoundly spiritual understanding that people’s actions, even their very identity, are not the whole truth of who they are.”
― No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
― No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
“In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed. And why? Because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce”
― The Communist Manifesto
― The Communist Manifesto
“poetry is a way of seeing and that a poet is not so much a person skilled with words as a person who recognizes the poetry that exists all the time all around us.”
― No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
― No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
“In ancient times, the temple of Delphi proclaimed „Know Thyself“ and the Greek philosophers made it their central theme, because in the knowing of one‘s true Self, we discover not a name or a lineage, but a whole new dimension of what it means to be human. In our very mortality is embedded something of the eternal. Encased within the bones and sinews that are destined to disintegrate is Spirit that comes from beyond and returns home when we are „born into Heaven“ as the Orthodox say, or when we cross that threshold. These ideas cannot be reduced to mere belief systems and dogmas. They have been vividly part of the human experience from the beginning. (p. 8-9)”
― Doorway to Spiritual Awakening: Becoming Partakers of the Divine
― Doorway to Spiritual Awakening: Becoming Partakers of the Divine
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