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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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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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 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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Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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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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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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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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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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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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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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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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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