06 Sunday Sep 2015
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“Pulling himself together on the border-line of destruction, the independent human being may arise, one who will take matters into his own hands and will enjoy true being”.
Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age
27 Monday Jul 2015
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“I am powerful Papatūānuku of the Māori peoples. Any woman’s womb, her te whare tangata, is the house of humanity, and from my womb I give birth to all living things and then nourish them, not just physically but emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. My placenta is whenua, the land, the source of all thought, values and principles”.
Paul Cudenec, The Green One
15 Wednesday Jul 2015
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“I was not a modern man, nor an old-fashioned one either. I had escaped time altogether, and went on my way, with death at my elbow and death as my resolve”.
Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
30 Saturday May 2015
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“Anyone who hopes to be free must first be aware of their chains and not just carry on living as if they weren’t there”.
Guillaume Carnino, Divertir pour dominer
25 Monday May 2015
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“One who truly has courage is one who, inspired by an anxious feeling of the possible, reaches out for the knowledge that he alone who aims at the impossible can attain the possible”.
Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age
11 Monday May 2015
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“What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice”.
Ursula K. Le Guin
03 Sunday May 2015
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“Anxiety turns us toward courage because the other alternative is despair. Courage resists despair by taking anxiety into itself”.
Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be
29 Wednesday Apr 2015
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“The Outsider’s way of thinking is called existentialism. But it might as easily be called religion. It is a way of thought which, like the religious way, regards man as involved in the universe, not just a spectator and observer, a sort of naturalist looking at the universe through a magnifying-glass and murmuring: ‘Mmm. Most interesting’”.
Colin Wilson, Religion and the Rebel
06 Monday Apr 2015
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“The Sufi is, by virtue of his transmutation, a conscious part of the living reality of all being”.
Idries Shah, The Sufis
25 Wednesday Mar 2015
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“Existentialism is the revolt against mere logic and reason. It is a plea for intuition and vision. It is a plea for recognising oneself as being involved in the problems of existence as a participant, not just as a spectator”.
Colin Wilson, Religion and the Rebel
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