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The natural, aesthetic origin of the desire to own things was concealed and perverted by economic and competitive compulsions, which in turn told on the quality of the things: all they achieved was a kind of mechanical lavishness.

Mr Capaldi believed there was nothing special inside Josie that couldn’t be continued. He told the Mother he’d searched and searched and found nothing like that. But I believe now he was searching in the wrong place. There was something very special, but it wasn’t inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.

What defines brotherhood but nonbrotherhood? Definition by exclusion

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

but don’t you see, your habit of approaching, everybody as a person, an individual, won’t do here, it won’t work. You have got to understand the powers behind the individuals.

he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand.

It was customary to start conversation with a stranger by offering your name as a kind of handle for him to take hold of. There were not many other handles to offer. There was no rank, no terms of rank, no conventional respectful forms of address.

Yo le sonreía con esa cordialidad débil de los enemigos en tregua indefinida

(...) There was to be no controlling center, no capital, no establishment for the self-perpetuating machinery of bureaucracy and the dominance drive of individuals seeking to become captains, bosses, chiefs of state.

(...) she intended that all communities be connected by communication and transportation networks, so that goods and ideas could get where they were wanted, and the administration of things might work with speed and ease, and no community should be cut off from change and interchange. But the network was not to be run from the top down.

Though she suggested that the natural limit to the size of a community lay in its dependence on its own immediate region for essential food and power,

people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passers-by —as they might in a store window— and such a display needn’t be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.

as surely as the future becomes the past, the past becomes the future. To deny is not to achieve. (…) The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

Los seres humanos nos liberamos a base de encontrarnos con nosotros mismos. No somos la tensión que sentimos periódicamente. Esas emociones no tienen nada que ver con nuestra esencia. Nosotros somos los que percibimos esas cosas.

El ser humano inmaduro piensa que todo lo que da problemas es incorrecto. Todo lo que le trastorna está mal y hay que evitarlo. Pero esa actitud es muy loca por muchas razones.

los gusanos siempre abogan por ir hacia atrás, incumplir un compromiso personal, ir en contra del crecimiento personal.

La psicología conductual nos pide distinguir entre pensamientos sanos e insanos. Los saludables son aquellos que nos hacen sentir bien, que son útiles, que nos hacen crecer. Y los insalubres son aquellos que desean que reculemos sobre nuestras decisiones, que nos hacen débiles, que nos engañan.

las emociones negativas vienen y van continuamente, y tienden a desaparecer por sí mismas, siempre y cuando no hagamos esfuerzos por evitarlas.
La huida o el rechazo impiden el natural flujo de las emociones. Y acto seguido la corriente electromagnética entra en uno de esos circuitos cerrados o loops.

Los regalos se hacen por gusto del que regala, no por mérito del que recibe.

La persuasión demanda saber aplicar el instrumento regio de la felicidad: la renuncia. (…) Sólo la disposición a renunciar a algo —si fuese necesario— nos dota de completa capacidad para conseguirlo.

Me sentí rodeado de millones de páginas abandonadas, de universos y almas sin dueño, que se hundían en un océano de oscuridad mientras el mundo que palpitaba fuera de aquellos muros perdía la memoria sin darse cuenta día tras día, sintiéndose más sabio cuanto más olvidaba.

Everyone was very polite and talked a great deal, but not about anything interesting; and they smiled so much they looked anxious. But their clothes were gorgeous, indeed they seemed to put all the lightheartedness their manner lacked into the clothes, and their food, and all the different things they drank, and the lavish furnishings and ornaments of the rooms in the palaces where the receptions were held.

Los seres humanos sólo nos transformamos si estamos convencidos de ello, si realmente vemos grandes ventajas en determinado cambio. De lo contrario, todo queda en agua de borrajas.

Odiar de veras es un talento que se aprende con los años.

All such luxuries which if freely allowed to the public would tend to drain irreplaceable natural resources or to foul the environment with waste products were strictly controlled by regulation and taxation.

las buenas relaciones son aquellas en las que se da una transformación hermosa de ambos: cambiar dulcemente y dejarse transformar, aprender y permitir que nos enseñen; modelarnos mutuamente para convertirnos en personas mejores.

Una de las trampas de la infancia es que no hace falta comprender algo para sentirlo. Para cuando la razón es capaz de entender lo sucedido, las heridas en el corazón ya son demasiado profundas.

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass, It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

no hay nada más sano que evitar el pensamiento de blanco o negro. La vida tiene grises, sombras, colorines y muchas tonalidades. Y, precisamente, la observación completa de los fenómenos es lo que nos permitirá hallar soluciones reales y efectivas, incluso hermosas.

Aquel libro me enseñó que leer podía hacerme vivir más y más intensamente