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Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)

by Mary Douglas

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Apr 24, 2020 03:25AM

“Your environment wasn't supportive, wasn't loving, did not respond to you ... The fundamental thing that happened, and the greatest calamity, is not that there was no love or support. The greater calamity, which is caused by the first calamity is that you lost the connection to your essence. That is much more important than whether your mother or father loved you or not.”
― A.H. Almaas

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“For beauty to work, there must be a surface capable of receiving the wound.”
― Timothy Morton, Realist Magic

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“When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.”
― A.H. Almaas, The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence

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“Beauty is a nonviolent experience of near death, a warning that one is fragile, like everything else in the universe.”
― Timothy Morton, Realist Magic

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“And hence it is, that to feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety. As to love our neighbour as we love ourselves is the great law of Christianity, so it is the great precept of nature to love ourselves only as we love our neighbour, or what comes to the same thing, as our neighbour is capable of loving us.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

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