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| Buber, Martin: |
I and Thou |
"Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power."
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| Cameron, Julia: |
The Artist's Way |
- "Weeds are greedy, and choke out the garden by claiming too much territory.
Pull the plug on people and ventures that do not serve your authentic goals and aspirations."
- "We must ask not only 'Do I love this person?" but also 'Is this relationship self-loving?"
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| Chikly, Bruno |
Silent Waves:
theory & practice of lymph drainage therapy |
"Silent Waves is the bible in the field of lymph drainage therapy."
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| de Chardin, Teilhard: |
The Phenomenon of Man |
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
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| Eckhart, Meister: |
The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart |
"The man from whom God hid nothing…"
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| Friedman, Edwin: |
A Failure of Nerve |
- "The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work
with people who are unmotivated to change."
- "Playfulness can get you out of a rut more successfully than seriousness."
- "Triangles are the plaque in the arteries of communication and stress is the effect
of our position in the triangle of our families."
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| Ginsberg, Alan: |
HOWL and other poems |
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness..."
[ Note: Now a classic, this is not a book for the timid, but it is
a pure, raw example of 'shadow' at its best/worst.
William Carlos Williams writes in the forward "Hold back the edges of your gowns, ladies,
we are going through hell." ]
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| Hora, Thomas: |
Existential Metapsychiatry |
"There is more to human beings than meets the eye. We all have the faculty to discern spiritual
qualities in the world. We can see honesty; we can see integrity; we can see beauty; we can see love; we
can see goodness; we can see joy; we can see peace; we can see harmony; we can see intelligence; and so
forth. None of these things has any form; none of these things can be imagined; none of these things is tangible,
and yet they can be seen. What is the organ that sees these invisible things? Some people call it the soul,
spirit, or consciousness. Humans are a spiritual beings endowed with spiritual faculties of perception."
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| Ibarra, Herminia: |
Working Identity |
"We learn who we are—in practice, not in theory—by testing reality, not
by looking inside. We discover the true possibilities by doing—trying out new activities, reaching
out to new groups, finding new role models, and reworking our story as we tell it to those around us.
What we want clarifies with experience and validation from others along the way ... To launch ourselves
anew, we need to get out of our heads. We need to act."
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| Jung, Carl: |
Memories, Dreams, Reflections |
- "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
- "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
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| Khayyam, Omar: |
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly---and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
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| MacKenzie, Gordon: |
Orbiting the Giant Hairball |
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"Orville Wright did not have a pilot's license."
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| Merzel, Genpo Roshi: |
Big Mind/Big Heart |
"There is a transcendent awareness, a Big Mind, a Big Heart, present and readily accessible
to each and every one of us. When we realize it, we see it is the source of true peace, happiness, satisfaction,
courage and joy."
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How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive |
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"While the levels of logic of the human entity are many and varied, your car operates
on one simple level and it's up to you to understand its trip. Talk to the car, then shut up and listen.
Feel with your car; use all your receptive senses and when you find out what it needs, seek the
operation out and perform it with love. The type of life your car contains differs from yours
by time scale, logic level and conceptual anomalies, but it is 'Life' nonetheless. Its
Karma depends on your desire to make and keep it — ALIVE!"
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| Pirsig, Robert M.: |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
- "Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."
- "It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say,
'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling."
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| Pirsig, Robert M.: |
Lila |
- "Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and
social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social
level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control."
- "We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own
purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it
is absolutely morally good."
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| Prigogine, Ilya & Isabelle Stengers: |
Order Out of Chaos |
- "We now know that far from equilibrium, new types of structures may originate spontaneously.
In far-from-equilibrium conditions we may have transformation from disorder, from chaos, into order."
- "Only when a system behaves in a sufficiently random way may the difference between past and future,
and therefore irreversibility, enter into its description... the arrow of time is a manifestation of the fact that the
future is not given."
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| Progoff, Ira: |
At a Journal Workshop |
"The acorn knows how to grow."
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| Soleri, Paolo: |
Technology and Cosmogenesis |
"The technology of transforming cosmos into logos is beyond imagining. But perhaps no other
routes are available for consciousness to achieve equity and grace."
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| Stewart, Barbara: |
How to Kazoo |
- "Master the backing-up-truck beeping sound to alert listeners when you plan to kazoo backwards."
- "Do not kazoo in the road unless it has been cleared of traffic as a parade route."
- "Never kazoo in the direct path of elephant, buffalo or other animal herds."
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| Thoreau, Henry David: |
Walden |
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived... "
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| Whitman, Walt |
Leaves of Grass |
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"The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world."
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| Wilber, Ken: |
Integral Spirituality |
"Integrating critical thinking and maintaining a sense of clear rationality is an essential part of your
spiritual practice. It's not the enemy of spiritual growth, it is an indispensable ally."
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| Wilber, Ken: |
The Integral Vision |
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"During the last 30 years, we have witnessed a historical first: all the world's cultures are now available to us...
knowledge itself is now global. This means that, also for the first time, the sum total of human knowledge
is available to us—the knowledge, experience, wisdom, and reflection of all major human civilizations—premodern,
modern, and postmodern—are open to study by anyone."
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| Wilber, Ken: |
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality |
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"The world is full of enlightened dickheads."
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