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“I always like to quote this line from. Of Scottish writer Andrew Fletcher. “If I can write the songs of a nation, I don't care who writes their laws.” We need to pay more attention to the songs we're singing.”
― Revenge of the Tipping Point
― Revenge of the Tipping Point
“becoming who you want to be is just like anything else. It takes practice. It requires belief that one day, you’ll wake up and be a natural at it.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“They had to figure out a way to characterize me in some special way because I was with them—and I was not meant to be with them.”
― Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
― Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries. —Nikola Tesla”
― The Secret of Secrets
― The Secret of Secrets
“The most important point in the research, however, shows that those who do not fear death, for whatever reason, tend to exhibit behavior that is more benevolent, accepting of others, cooperative, and caring about the environment. Essentially, this means that if we could all free our minds of the burden, of the terror we feel about death…” “Then we would find ourselves in a dramatically improved world.” “Precisely,” Katherine said. “To quote the great Czech psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, ‘The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual’s way of being in the world.’ Grof believes that a radical inner transformation of consciousness might be our only hope of surviving the global crisis brought on by the Western mechanistic paradigm.”
― The Secret of Secrets
― The Secret of Secrets
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