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the Power of Positive Thinking, which is so strong in America because it fits in so well with the Power of Commercial Advertising and with the Power of Wishful Thinking, aka the American Dream.
Fear is seldom wise and never kind.
a thought to sit with
Opinion all too often leaves no room for anything but itself.
Art isn’t explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains.
“Ah, the Night Sea Voyage!” we cry, feeling that we have understood something important—but we’ve merely recognized it. Until we are actually on that voyage, we have understood nothing.
doesn’t have to be the way it is. That is what fantasy says. It doesn’t say, “Anything goes”—that’s irresponsibility,
All fundamentalisms set strict limits to the uses of imagination, outside which the fundamentalist’s imagination itself runs riot,
To open a door that has been kept closed is an important act.
Denial is an effective weapon in the hands of fear.
Believer and freethinker can share this vision of human existence passing from light through darkness into light, from mystery to endless mystery.
