13 Saturday Feb 2016
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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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11 Thursday Feb 2016
“All human thought, social or individual, is also situated in the processes of body, nature and place”.
Charlene Spretnak, The Resurgence of the Real
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17 Sunday Jan 2016
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“The more atomized the society we live in and the more cut off from the whole we become, the greater the sense of pain and loss that forces us to try and create some kind of identity out of this void”.
Paul Cudenec, Antibodies
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16 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted in life, metaphysics
“I see individuality as a temporary separation from the fabric of the universal life process. Imagine a flexible sheet of infinite extent. All plants, animals and humans emerge from the sheet as if someone had pushed a finger against the reverse side and made it bulge. The bulge becomes a sphere with a thin neck still attached. Then the neck becomes almost infinitely thin and the now individual life in the sphere is born and free for just a lifetime. At death, the sphere contracts down on to the surface of the sheet, flattens and flows out again into the whole until there is finally no trace of its previous existence”.
Kit Pedler, The Quest for Gaia: A Book of Changes
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24 Thursday Dec 2015
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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
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23 Wednesday Dec 2015
Posted in life, spirituality
“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
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18 Friday Dec 2015
“There is an undeniable glory in the thought that an indelible temporal bond links us, not only with our ancestors and our descendants, but above all also with the whole rest of the organic world”.
Constantin von Monakow
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16 Wednesday Dec 2015
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“The struggle against capital is not simply a struggle for a free life, but a struggle for survival”.
Miguel Amorós, Elementary Foundations of the Anti-Industrial Critique
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03 Tuesday Nov 2015
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls”.
C.G. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
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24 Saturday Oct 2015
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“The secret is: firstly that this All is one universally comprehensive living being, encircling all the living beings within it, and having a soul, one soul, which extends to all its members in the degree of participant membership held by each; secondly, that every separate thing is an integral part of this All by belonging to the total material fabric”.
Plotinus, The Enneads
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