There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
B. W. POWEAlienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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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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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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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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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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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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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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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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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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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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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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