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Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

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Jan 01, 2013 08:52AM

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

by Lisa See (Goodreads Author)

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Spiritedcrone said: " Just finished this book on audio. I give it a 10 - really! It was a brilliant journey through Lily's life in 19th century China. Bound feet and the pain of that symbolised much more; a culture bound up in rites and rituals that controlled all aspects ...more "

Jun 04, 2012 11:39AM · see review

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“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."

[From the Preface]”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

tags: administration, big-business, bureaucracy, corporations, corporatocracy, dictatorship, efficiency, evil, hell, management, police-state

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“There is within us a fundamental dis-ease, an unquenchable fire that renders us incapable, in this life, of ever coming to full peace. This desire lies at the center of our lives, in the marrow of our bones, and in the deep recesses of the soul. At the heart of all great literature, poetry, art, philosophy, psychology, and religion lies the naming and analyzing of this desire. Spirituality is, ultimately, about what we do with that desire. What we do with our longings, both in terms of handling the pain and the hope they bring us, that is our spirituality . . . Augustine says: ‘You have made us for yourself, Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.’ Spirituality is about what we do with our unrest.”
― Ronald Rolheiser

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