There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
B. W. POWEIf you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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We 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.
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Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn’t work out in theory.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.
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The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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.
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Each 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.
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The 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.
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