29 Monday Feb 2016
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“A man does not live for happiness, but for the task he chooses. For the sake of that task everything, really everything, must be borne”.
Gustav Landauer, letter
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14 Sunday Feb 2016
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“It is in revolution’s fire, in its enthusiasm, its brotherhood, its aggressiveness that the image and the feeling of positive unification awakens; a unification that comes through a connecting quality: love as force”.
Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings
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13 Saturday Feb 2016
Posted in civilization, life
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“It has taken me all of my life so far to realize that the single great obstacle in the way of survival and an extended human vision is the industrial society itself, and its expropriation and suppression of the most sensitive and creative qualities of the mind”.
Kit Pedler, The Quest for Gaia: A Book of Changes
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12 Friday Feb 2016
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“Anyone who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is”.
Meister Eckhart
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11 Thursday Feb 2016
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“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another”.
Hermann Hesse, Siddharta
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10 Wednesday Feb 2016
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“Life in societies is no exception in the animal world; it is the rule, the law of Nature, and it reaches its fullest development with the higher vertebrates”.
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid
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09 Tuesday Feb 2016
Posted in freedom
“A people living on the land enjoys a certain independence that is unknown to urban populations. Access to food is direct. People enjoy a certain relationship to nature and its rhythms, which are also the rhythms of their own lives. This relationship is included within a culture shared by those living in the same area. This collective culture is a living entity, as real and complex as the ‘personality’ of an individual”.
Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom
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08 Monday Feb 2016
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“The whole life of those societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. All that once was directly lived has become mere representation”.
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
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07 Sunday Feb 2016
Posted in capitalism, degrowth
“If human vices such as greed and envy are systematically cultivated, the inevitable result is nothing less than a collapse of intelligence. A man driven by greed or envy loses the power of seeing things as they really are, of seeing things in their roundness and wholeness, and his very successes become failures”.
E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful
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