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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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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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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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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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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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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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Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.
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Canada 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.
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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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