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“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”
― Pierre Bourdieu

“People are obsessed with spectacle. We live in the society of the spectacle. People are addicted to the spectacular. They want bigger and better spectacles. They need more and more to keep them stimulated. They crave entertainment. They crave more powerful simulations, more breathtaking special effects, more everything. No one wants POR – plain old reality. Simulation – hyperreality – the simulacrum – these are what the people desire. We all live in Disneyland now – an utter fantasy world. Our true God is Mickey Mouse. At least he’s a lot nicer than Yahweh.”
― Adam Weishaupt, Hypersex

“Radical mind, sacred heart, lovers' spirit, cosmic deed.”
― Muzwot

“Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“We actually contain a built-in ability to rise above restriction, incapacity, or limitation and, as a result of this ability, possess a vital adaptive spirit that we have not yet fully accessed. While this ability can lead us to transcendence, paradoxically it can lead also to violence; our longing for transcendence arises from our intuitive sensing of this adaptive potential and our violence arises from our failure to develop it.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit

“Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.”
― Madame de Stael

“Sacred Anarchy -is the ultimate Truth.”
― Muzwot

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Faced with these mutations, we no doubt need to be invent-ing unimaginable novelties, far outside the obsolete frameworks that still format our behaviors, our medias, and our projects—all of which are being drowned in the society of the spectacle.”
― Michel Serres, Thumbelina: The Culture and Technology of Millennials

“What is the good of power and precision if the price we pay is ugliness and death? What is the good of thinking, if we have no idea how to live?”
― Michel Serres, The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

“In order not to leave any traces, when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do. You will have something remaining which is not completely burned out. Zen activity is activity which is completely burned out, with nothing remaining but ashes. This is the goal of our practice. That is what Dogen meant when he said, “Ashes do not come back to firewood.” Ash is ash. Ash should be completely ash. The firewood should be firewood. When this kind of activity takes place, one activity covers everything.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“We adults have transformed our society of the spectacle into a pedagogical society whose overwhelming competition, willfully ignorant, has eclipsed the school and the university. The media long ago took over the function of teaching— the time when one hears and sees, the time of seduction and consequence.”
― Michel Serres, Thumbelina: The Culture and Technology of Millennials

“The light of truth is never far away, and no human being is too negligible or corrupt to come into it.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“Gradually, however , knowledge became objectivized, first in scrolls or on pieces of vellum or parchment, which were the supports of writing; then, during the Renaissance, in books made out of paper, which found their support in the printing press; and finally, today, on the web, which is the support of email messages and information”
― Michel Serres, Thumbelina: The Culture and Technology of Millennials

“When I’m critical of modern approaches to ecology, I’m really trying to remind my reader of the long relationship that Western civilization has had to these forests that define the fringe of its place of habitation, and that this relationship is one that has a rich history of symbolism and imagination and myth and literature. So much of the Western imagination has projected itself into this space that when you lose a forest, you’re losing more than just the natural phenomenon or biodiversity; you’re also losing the great strongholds of cultural memory.

(Source: discussing "Deforestation in a Civilized World.")”
― Robert Pogue Harrison

“The forests were foris, 'outside.' In them lived the outcasts, the mad, the lovers, brigands, hermits, saints, lepers, the paquis, fugitives, misfits, the persecuted, wild men. Where else could they go? Outside of the law and human society one was in the forest. But the forest's asylum was unspeakable. One could not remain human in the forest; one could only rise above or sink below the human level.”
― Robert Pogue Harrison

“In this world
when you ask of happiness
Pain steps forward”
― Guru Nanak

“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Animism is the way humanity has been deeply connected to the land and its seasonal cycles for millennia, in rapport and conversation with the animals, plants, elements, Ancestors and earth spirits. The opposite of animism is the “cult of the individual” so celebrated in modern society, and the loss of the animist worldview is at the root of our spiritual disconnect and looming ecological crisis. Human beings are just one strand woven into the complex systems of Earth Community, and the animistic perspective is fundamental to the paradigm shift, and the recovery of our own ancestral wisdom.”
― Pegi Eyers, Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community

“The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.”
― Epicurus, The Essential Epicurus

“What should the yogi have to fear? Trees, plants, and all that is inside and outside, is He Himself”
― Guru Nanak, Sri Guru Granth Sahib

“Patriarchal religions keep this fusion from happening, imagination dies, and is replaced by mechanical-linear thought patterns, i.e., indoctrination.”
― Monica Sjöö, The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth

“O livro é um pássaro com mais de cem asas para voar.”
― Ramón Gómez de la Serna

“At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient... only the universe rearranging itself.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are - Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes.”
― Roberto Calasso

“We have come to mistake information for knowledge.”
― Monica Sjoo

“When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.”
― Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

“Realization of Truth is higher than all else. Higher still is truthful living.”
― Guru Nanak, Select Sikh Scriptures - Vol 1

“Be humble in your confidence yet courageous in your character.”
― Melanie Koulouris