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“What need has a child of dreams or aspirations? They live, and love, the life that is.”

“Williamson also wrote: ‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.’ We hide behind claims of modesty or shyness or inadequacy: Oh, I couldn’t do that! But what if ‘that’ is something that could bring you into the light — something that might allow you to flourish as a loving, giving human?”

“The melancholy truth is that many of us are frightened by the demands of living lovingly, when it sometimes seems easier to resort to negative, egotistical alternatives…”

“Fundamentalists and assorted religious extremists and fanatics are so passionately certain of the invincibility of their own position; so sure of themselves, so obstinate, that there doesn’t actually seem to be any room for faith…Doubt is the oxygen that keeps the flickering candle of faith alive: I believe precisely because I can’t know.”

“There’s a childlike innocence about curiosity. An openness. A flexibility, too, that allows us to move on from something that isn’t working and look for something that works better.”

“Your culture is not what your hands touch or make—it’s what moves your hands.”

“But if we think about it for a moment, jobs are not what we want. We want shelter, food, strong relationships, a liveable habitat, stimulating learning activity and time to perform valued tasks in which we excel. I don’t know of many jobs that will allow access to more than two or three of those things at a time…”

“Oldman Juma says all this…will continue to happen as the universe breathes in and out. You can live with it, but you need to adapt and change every aspect of your society and culture when transitioning from one era to the next.”

“When it comes to global environmental catastrophe the jury is done deliberating and the case is closed. It requires no more debate. This apocalypse is real. On the upside, apocalypses have proven to be survivable in the past, although on the downside it usually means that your culture and society will never be the same again…”

“It is difficult to talk to people about the impossible physics of civilisation, especially if you are Aboriginal: you perform and display the paint and feathers, the pretty bits of your culture, and talk about your unique connection to the land while people look through glass boxes at you, but you are not supposed to look back, or describe what you see.”

“Anyone who thinks they’re better than a rock should be turned into one — then they would find out they’re not that special, and they could finally be happy.”

“Engaging with [narcissists] alone is futile — never wrestle a pig, as the old saying goes; you both end up covered in shit, and the pig likes it. The fundamental rules of human interaction do not apply to them, although they weaponise those rules against everyone else.”

“Containing the excesses of malignant narcissists is a team effort.”

“I don’t know why Stephen Hawking and others have worried about super-intelligent beings from other planets coming here and using their advanced knowledge to do to the world what industrial civilisation has already done.”