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“No honres nunca como tu conveniencia lo que te fuerce en alguna ocasión a infringir la confianza de la que gozas, a dejar a un lado la vergüenza, odiar a alguien, sospechar, maldecir, aparentar, anhelar algo que precisa de muros y cortinajes[217]. Quien escoge su propia inteligencia, el espíritu divino y los ritos propios de su virtud no hace una elección trágica, no se lamenta, no precisará ni de soledad ni de muchedumbre. Y lo más importante, vivirá sin perseguir ni huir. Si hace uso de su alma, encerrada en su cuerpo, durante mayor o menor intervalo de tiempo no le importa nada en absoluto. Porque aunque tenga ya que separarse se alejará tan liberado como si ejecutara alguna otra de las acciones que pueden ejecutarse con decencia y orden, con esta única preocupación durante toda su vida, que su reflexión se ocupe en algo impropio de un animal inteligente y social.”
― Marco Aurelio, Meditaciones

“Si llevas a cabo la tarea presente de acuerdo con la razón recta, con diligencia, con fuerza, con buen ánimo y no te desvías en nada accesorio sino que vigilas que tu espíritu divino permanezca puro como si ya hubiera que devolverlo, si te agarras a eso sin esperar ni evitar nada, sino que te conformas en tu actuación presente a la naturaleza y en lo que dices y declaras a la verdad romana, tendrás una buena vida. Nadie hay que pueda impedírtelo.”
― Marco Aurelio, Meditaciones

“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” – Robespierre”
― Mike Hockney, Magic, Matter and Qualia

“Si nos detenemos en la reflexión poscrisis sobre el Estado podemos repetir aquello que lamentó Gandhi a mediados del siglo xx, quejándose del trato recibido: primero nos combatieron, luego nos censuraron, más tarde nos ignoraron y al final dijeron que lo que nosotros planteamos es lo que ellos habían sostenido desde el principio. El medio es el mensaje, y quien controla los canales de comunicación será quien ponga el marco discursivo, la matriz de opinión, en la opinión pública.”
― Juan Carlos Monedero, Disfraces del Leviatán. El papel del Estado en la globalización neoliberal (Universitaria)

“Es más fácil escribir una columna de periódico criticando los excesos neoliberales que cambiar los planes de estudios de las facultades de economía, grandes responsables de sembrar precisamente el delirio neoliberal (no hay noticia de cambios que modulen la hegemonía teórica neoliberal en ningún país del mundo).”
― Juan Carlos Monedero, Disfraces del Leviatán. El papel del Estado en la globalización neoliberal (Universitaria)

“Lo que da sentido a la vida no puede reducirse a la condición de mercancía.”
― Juan Carlos Monedero, Disfraces del Leviatán. El papel del Estado en la globalización neoliberal (Universitaria)

“As the anger, or the fear, within a personality builds, the world in which it lives increasingly reflects the anger, or the fear, that it must heal, so that eventually, ultimately, the personality will see that it is creating its own experiences and perceptions, that its righteous anger or justifiable fear originates within itself, and therefore can be replaced by other perceptions and experiences only through the force of its own being.”
― Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul

“To be intelligent is to understand our position on this earth. To be intelligent is to seek to transform the meaning of daily life for ourselves. All this opens on to higher meaning.”
― Anonymous

“This is what intelligence means in the Work—the position of a thing in the Scale of Being, and the influences to which it is open”
― Anonymous

“Walt Whitman is just an American bamboo. But LEAVES OF GRASS is immensely beautiful. Something overflowing from God has been caught by this poet. No American as far as I know, except Walt Whitman, may have touched it – that too, partially; otherwise no American has been so wise.”
― Anonymous

“If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like.
Leap clear of all that is corporeal, and make yourself grown to a like expanse with that greatness which is beyond all measure; rise above all time and become eternal; then you will apprehend God. Think that for you too nothing is impossible; deem that you too are immortal, and that you are able to grasp all things in your thought, to know every craft and science; find your home in the haunts of every living creature; make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths; bring together in yourself all opposites of quality, heat and cold, dryness and fluidity; think that you are everywhere at once, on land, at sea, in heaven; think that you are not yet begotten, that you are in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you have died, that you are in the world beyond the grave; grasp in your thought all of this at once, all times and places, all substances and qualities and magnitudes together; then you can apprehend God.

But if you shut up your soul in your body, and abase yourself, and say “I know nothing, I can do nothing; I am afraid of earth and sea, I cannot mount to heaven; I know not what I was, nor what I shall be,” then what have you to do with God?”
― Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius

“Once the web has lost its charm, its terms lose theirs; suddenly they seem contingent and open to revision. For those epi-predators who work with the signifiers themselves rather than the things they supposedly signify, language is not a medium that helps us see the true, the real, the natural. Language is a tool assembled by creatures with “no way” trying to make a world that will satisfy their needs; it is a tool those same creatures can disassemble if it fails them.”
― Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

“As Mark Lombardi would discover to his eternal disillusionment, Pope Paul VI not only worked the Nazi ratlines while managing the Vatican’s intelligence operations but directly assisted in installing highly placed Mafiosi in key political positions to extend US influence in Italy. He paved the way for Sindona to enter the Vatican Bank. Beatified in 2014 because of an alleged miracle attributed to his intercession, Montini was a highly compromised figure in more ways than one.”
― Patricia Goldstone, Interlock: Art, Conspiracy, and the Shadow Worlds of Mark Lombardi

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like. Leap clear of all that is corporeal, and make yourself grown to a like expanse with that greatness which is beyond all measure; rise above all time and become eternal; then you will apprehend God. Think that for you too nothing is impossible; deem that you too are immortal, and that you are able to grasp all things in your thought, to know every craft and science; find your home in the haunts of every living creature; make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths; bring together in yourself all opposites of quality, heat and cold, dryness and fluidity; think that you are everywhere at once, on land, at sea, in heaven; think that you are not yet begotten, that you are in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you have died, that you are in the world beyond the grave; grasp in your thought all of this at once, all times and places, all substances and qualities and magnitudes together; then you can apprehend God. But if you shut up your soul in your body, and abase yourself, and say “I know nothing, I can do nothing; I am afraid of earth and sea, I cannot mount to heaven; I know not what I was, nor what I shall be,” then what have you to do with God?”
― Dennis William Hauck, The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy of Personal Transformation

“When a cycle of civilisation is reaching its end, it is difficult to achieve anything by resisting it and by directly opposing the forces in motion. The current is too strong; one would be overwhelmed. The essential thing is to not let oneself be impressed by the omnipotence and apparent triumph of the forces of the epoch. These forces, devoid of connection with any higher principle, are in fact, on a short chain. One should not become fixated on the present, and on things at hand, but keep in view the conditions that may come about in the future. Thus the principle to follow could be that of letting the forces and processes of this epoch take their own course, while keeping oneself firm and ready to intervene when "the tiger, which cannot leap of the person riding it, is tired of running".”
― Julius Evola, Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul