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“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'.”
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“Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness.”
― The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
― The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”
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“How does one live amongst one’s fellow countrymen and countrywomen when you don’t know which of them is numbered amongst the sixty-million-plus who brought the horror to power, when you can’t tell who should be counted among the ninety-million-plus who shrugged and stayed home, or when your fellow Americans tell you that knowing things is elitist and they hate elites, and all you have ever had is your mind and you were brought up to believe in the loveliness of knowledge, not that knowledge-is-power nonsense, but knowledge is beauty, and then all of that, education, art, music, film, becomes a reason for being loathed…”
― The Golden House
― The Golden House
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