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Book cover for The Spectrum of Consciousness (Quest Books)
But the overall concept is simple: Spirit first “throws itself outward” to get “lost” in the manifest world of maya (Hegel called it “Spirit in its otherness” or “alienated Spirit”). Spirit then begins the slow and tortuous return to ...more
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Ursula K. Le Guin
“Words are my matter. I have chipped one stone for thirty years and still it is not done, that image of the thing I cannot see. I cannot finish it and set it free, transformed to energy.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016

Melissa Febos
“Navel-gazing is not for the faint of heart. The risk of honest self-appraisal requires bravery. To place our flawed selves in the context of this magnificent, broken world is the opposite of narcissism, which is building a self-image that pleases you.”
Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

Kevin Ansbro
“Prejudice wears a variety of hats, none of them becoming.”
Kevin Ansbro

Winston Graham
“All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.”
Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

Reni Eddo-Lodge
“White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.”
Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

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