We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.
B. W. POWEWe become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.
B. W. POWEIf you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
B. W. POWEThe myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.
B. W. POWEIt began in images and it ended in symbolism.
B. W. POWEA just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
B. W. POWENo rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
B. W. POWEAlienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
B. W. POWEThreaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.
B. W. POWEThe origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
B. W. POWEMay the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
B. W. POWEWe remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.
B. W. POWEHere I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn’t work out in theory.
B. W. POWEThere is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
B. W. POWEEach voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
B. W. POWECanada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.
B. W. POWECertainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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