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Quote for the day – February 12

12 Friday Feb 2016

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Chuang Tzu, taoism

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“The snow goose doesn’t need a daily bath to stay white, nor does the crow need to be stained every day to stay black”.

Chuang Tzu

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Quote for the day – July 9

09 Thursday Jul 2015

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collective soul, Paul Cudenec, Tao, taoism, The Stifled Soul of Humankind

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“There is something much deeper behind the will to genuine revolution, to anarchy, than mere opinion. It rises from the depths of our collective soul and thus, by extension, from the natural world of which we are part. It is the vehicle of an intangible organic need for things to be made right, for humankind and the planet it dominates to once again exist in harmony with the Tao”.

Paul Cudenec, The Stifled Soul of Humankind

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Quote for the day – May 23

23 Saturday May 2015

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Aldous Huxley, industrial society, taoism

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“The industrial worker at his fool-proof and grace-proof machine does his job in a man-made universe of punctual automata – a universe that lies entirely beyond the pale of Tao on any level, brutal, human or spiritual”.

Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

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Quote for the day – April 9

09 Thursday Apr 2015

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Lieh Tzu, taoism

Lieh-Tzu

“What the mind likes to be is free, and prohibition of this freedom is called obstruction to the nature”

Lieh Tzu

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