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Quote for the day – January 30

30 Saturday Jan 2016

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Forms of Freedom, Paul Cudenec

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“There are mystical moments when we seem to stop existing as an individual and are absorbed into everything that surrounds us – trees, mountains, rivers, wildlife. This is not an illusion that we are experiencing, but the falling-away of an illusion”.

Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom

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Quote for the day – January 28

28 Thursday Jan 2016

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Martin Buber

“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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Quote for the day – January 26

26 Tuesday Jan 2016

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Ascona, Max Weber, Michael Löwy

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“One of the essential themes of this critique, which resurfaces like an obsession in the work of writers, poets, philosophers and historians, is the clash between Kultur, a spiritual realm of ethical, religious or aesthetic values, and Zivilisation, the vulgar materialist world of economic and technological progress. If capitalism is, according to Max Weber’s mercilessly perceptive expression, the disenchantment of the world (Entzauberung der Welt), then anti-capitalist Romanticism has to be seen primarily as a despairing and nostalgic attempt at the re-enchantment of the world”.

Michael Löwy, Rédemption et utopie: le judaïsme libertaire en Europe centrale

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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

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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

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Quote for the day – November 25

25 Wednesday Nov 2015

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Ferdinand Tönnies, Gesellschaft

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“The merchants or capitalists are the natural masters and rulers of the Gesellschaft. The Gesellschaft exists for their sake. It is their tool”.

Ferdinand Tönnies, Community and Society

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Quote for the day – November 10

10 Tuesday Nov 2015

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Gaia, Kit Pedler

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“The entire living pelt of our planet, its thin green rind of life, is actually one single life-form with senses, intelligence and the power to act. Stretching from man to the worm, from the fishes of the abyss to the yoghurt bacterium, and from the moulds of decay to the birds riding the sky, I hold that there is but one single interwoven web of life and that our own kind was, until recently, an integral part of this single magnificent entity”.

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

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Quote for the day – November 8

08 Sunday Nov 2015

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Herbert Read

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“The determination of scientists not to ask questions that cannot be answered empirically, and proved logically, has led to a drastic shrinkage of philosophical territory: philosophy is now identified with logic, deductive and inductive, and it is the claim of the scientific philosophers that no other mental activity deserves the name of philosophy. Logical formulas have taken the place of what the scientist calls ‘the picture language of speculative systems’, and on a diet of such dry dog biscuits modern man is asked to undertake his spiritual Odyssey”.

Herbert Read, The Forms of Things Unknown

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Quote for the day – October 26

26 Monday Oct 2015

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Martin Buber

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“In general, the world of objects in every culture is more extensive than that of its predecessor. Despite sundry stoppages and apparent retrogressions, the progressive augmentation of the world of It is to be clearly discerned in history”.

Martin Buber, I and Thou

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Quote for the day – October 24

24 Saturday Oct 2015

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Plotinus, The Enneads

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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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