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Quote for the day – December 31

31 Thursday Dec 2015

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C.G. Jung

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“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him”.

C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

[Read about Carl Jung on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – December 30

30 Wednesday Dec 2015

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Paul Cudenec

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“I meant total opposition in a philosophical sense – attacking the current death-system at its roots, rather than focusing on trimming it back here and there. Otherwise nothing will change, all possibilities of improvement will remain blocked and the future will be like this, only a thousand times worse”.

Paul Cudenec, 2013 interview

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Quote for the day – December 29

29 Tuesday Dec 2015

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Politics and Paranoia, Robin Ramsay

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“Unfortunately, our secret state has only one response to internal dissent or the possibility of public revelation of its own errors: smash, crush, smear, destroy, frame, cover-up and lie”.

Robin Ramsay, Politics and Paranoia

Quote for the day – December 28

28 Monday Dec 2015

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class war, Miguel Amorós

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“The anti-industrial land-defence cause is the only one that raises the social question in its entirety because, more than any other struggle, it is a struggle for life. It is a class war for the 21st century”.

Miguel Amorós, The Deceitful Art of Destroying Towns

[Read about Miguel Amorós on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – December 27

27 Sunday Dec 2015

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E.F. Schumacher, industrialism, Small is Beautiful

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“Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it”.

E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

(Artwork: New Pioneers by Mark Henson)

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Quote for the day – December 26

26 Saturday Dec 2015

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Cory Morningstar, Great Reset

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“We are embarking on an inescapable and irreversible technological enslavement… This we know: the planet will not be saved by those that have destroyed it”. 

Cory Morningstar, ‘The Great Reset: The final assault on the living planet’

[Read about Cory Morningstar on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – December 25

25 Friday Dec 2015

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Gaia, Kit Pedler, The Quest for Gaia: A Book of Changes

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“In much the same way as the malignant cells of cancer invade and destroy the normal tissue of the body, so do the affairs and processes of the toymaker technocrats invade and destroy the balanced and stable earth organism”.

Kit Pedler, The Quest for Gaia: A Book of Changes

[Read about Kit Pedler on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – December 24

24 Thursday Dec 2015

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I and Thou, Martin Buber

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“Individuality makes its appearance by being differentiated from other individualities. A person makes his appearance by entering into relation with other persons. The one is the spiritual form of natural detachment, the other the spiritual form of natural solidarity of connexion”.

Martin Buber, I and Thou

[Read about Martin Buber on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – December 23

23 Wednesday Dec 2015

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alchemy, C.G. Jung

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“It is worth man’s while to take pains with himself, and he has something in his soul that can grow. It is rewarding to watch patiently the silent happenings in the soul, and the most and the best happens when it is not regulated from outside and from above”.

C.G. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

[Read about Carl Jung on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – December 22

22 Tuesday Dec 2015

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Derrick Jensen

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“How do we go on living, when every day our hearts break anew?”

Derrick Jensen, Dreams

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