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Self-Completion: Keys to the Meaningful Life
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Robert S. de Ropp28 ratings, 4.43 average rating, 3 reviews
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“Here then is a scientific answer to the question, “What went wrong?”. Man is the victim of an evolutionary error, an error in brain building. Nature or the Mind Force was in too much of a hurry. It created our truly magnificent neocortex without setting up a clear chain of command to ensure that the new brain, seat of the reason, would dominate the old brains, seats of the instincts and emotions. The result was a highly suggestible, unstable naked ape that lived largely in the world of fantasy, was full of paranoid delusions and chronically liable to panic.”
― Self-Completion: Keys to the Meaningful Life
― Self-Completion: Keys to the Meaningful Life
“From a strictly Darwinian standpoint flowers would seem a needless extravagance. Evidently the Life Force has no use for Darwin or Darwinism. The Life Force is an artist.”
― Self-Completion: Keys to the Meaningful Life
― Self-Completion: Keys to the Meaningful Life
“The spiritual level of a civilization can be measured by the amount of objective art it generates. By this criterion, our technological civilization is not much better than a gadget-infested barbarism.”
― Self-Completion: Keys to the Meaningful Life
― Self-Completion: Keys to the Meaningful Life
“It is true that you are a sorry lot, unbalanced, hysterical, half-completed creatures with a tendency to go mad en masse and a habit of thinking of yourselves as the Lords of Creation. But you are not the lords of anything. You are slaves. You like your slavery. You would rather be slaves than free. But why find fault with me? If I left you incomplete it was to see if you could complete yourselves. I gave you the power to carry out this work of self-completion. Stop complaining and do it or I’ll throw you out and put something else in your place!” There speaks Old Mother Hardass.”
― Self-Completion: Keys to the Meaningful Life
― Self-Completion: Keys to the Meaningful Life
“I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would question a Window concerning a Sight. I look thru’ it not with it.”
― Self-Completion: Keys to the Meaningful Life
― Self-Completion: Keys to the Meaningful Life
“If life is as meaningless as death, if guilt is as questionable as perfection, if being is no more meaningful than nonbeing, on what can one base the courage to be?”
― Self-Completion: Keys to the Meaningful Life
― Self-Completion: Keys to the Meaningful Life
