"The Collected Quotes"
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January 2006
"...when we crave
power
over life -
endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality - then desirebecomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed and ruin weighs heavily in the scale." The wizard, Ged, in Ursula Le Guin's "The Farthest Shore" |
| April 2006 "When the "zeit" says
jump, Doris Lessing, "the
Sweetest Dream" |
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May 2006
I've proven who I am so many times The magnetic strip's
worn thin And each time I was
someone
else And every one was taken
in" Bruce
Cockburn, "Pacing the Cage"
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June
2006
"...world-wide confusion
and disorder reflects a similar condition in the mind of the
individual, but this lack of orientation is compensated in the
unconscious by the archetypes of order...The integration of unconsious
contents is an individual act of realisation, of understanding and
moral evaluation...a most difficult task...it is probable that these
forces will (instead) encroach upon consciousness and take it by
surprise and violence, against our will...We see the first symptoms
everywhere: totalitarianism and state slavery."C G Jung CW vol 10 para 454 (Nov 1946) |
July 2006“I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty’s head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth” Charles Dickens commenting during his visit to America in 1842 |
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