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. POWEMay the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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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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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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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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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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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors’ rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
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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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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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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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