28 Thursday Jan 2016
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“Every child that is coming into being rests, like all that is coming into being, in the womb of the great mother, the undivided primal world that precedes form”.
Martin Buber, I and Thou
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23 Saturday Jan 2016
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“It is time for the insight that there is no individual, but only unities and communities. It is not true that collective names designate only a sum of individuals: on the contrary, individuals are only manifestations and points of reference, electric sparks of something grand and whole”.
Gustav Landauer, Skepsis und Mystik
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21 Thursday Jan 2016
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“Good shows itself as the separability of good and evil. If you can’t draw a distinction between these poles, then there are no more values, no more value judgements. Evil (which is also a deliaison, Freud’s principle of Thanatos) is the same as the inseparability of good and evil, that is to say the impossibility of distinguishing between them”.
Jean Baudrillard, Interview with Le Journal des Psychologues
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03 Sunday Jan 2016
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“What is to take the place of the soul- and life-destroying metaphysics inherited from the nineteenth century? The task of our generation, I have no doubt, is one of metaphysical reconstruction”.
E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
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31 Thursday Dec 2015
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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
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11 Friday Dec 2015
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“Anarchism’s lone objective is to end the fight of men against men and to unite humanity so that each individual can unfold his natural potential without obstruction”.
Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings
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09 Wednesday Dec 2015
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“I’ve never had much patience for those – and there are a lot of them – who consider humans to be the ‘apex’ of evolution, who evidently believe that all of evolution took place so that we can watch television”.
Derrick Jensen, Dreams
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08 Tuesday Dec 2015
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“Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively, so that you disbelieve in all the rest; otherwise, you will lose much good, nay, you will fail to recognise the real truth of the matter”.
Ibn Al ’Arabi
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07 Monday Dec 2015
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“Modifying the mental outlook of a people is the one and only means of bringing about any deep or lasting change”.
René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines
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01 Tuesday Dec 2015
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“For the Outsider, the world into which he has been born is always a world without values. Compared to his own appetite for a purpose and a direction, the way most men live is not living at all; it is drifting. This is the Outsider’s wretchedness, for all men have a herd instinct that leads them to believe that what the majority does must be right. Unless he can evolve a set of values that will correspond to his own higher intensity of purpose, he may as well throw himself under a bus, for he will always be an outcast and a misfit”.
Colin Wilson, The Outsider
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