“This is the ultimate heresy, then, and a possible outcome of a history of ascent, of system-breaks and paradigm-shifts that are exciting on one level, tedious on another: life characterized by so much somatic security, so much incarnation, that the need for “truth” is far less important than the need for love; and finally, not really in conflict with it. Incarnation means living in life, not transcending it. The last paradigm-shift has to be a shift to a world in which paradigm-shifts become unnecessary, if not actually banal.”
― Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West
― Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West
“In each epoch memory reconstructs an image of the past that is in accord with the predominant thoughts of the society.”
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“One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word "impossible." He knows all the rules which will NOT work. He knows all the things which CANNOT be done.”
― Think and Grow Rich
― Think and Grow Rich
“Aggression is not necessarily destructive at all. It springs from an innate tendency to grow and master life which seems to be characteristic of all living matter. Only when this life force is obstructed in its development do ingredients of anger, rage, or hate become connected with it.”
― Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
― Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
“Love denied, and the somatic experience of that denial, is─as de Rougemont recognized─the hidden, and gnostic/heretical, thread of Western History.”
― Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West
― Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West
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