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“A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.”

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Jack Kornfield is an American author and meditation teacher, born in 1945. His works mainly focus on Buddhist meditation and spiritual growth, which have won him a wide audience. more

“If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.”

Ifs Giving Real Enough Would Be Values Culture Natural Findings Conscious Importance Regard Lacking Real Value

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.”

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.”

Culture Limits Essence Acceptable Imaginative

Book:Anatomy of Criticism

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers - and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.”

People Ifs Mind Said Culture Space Technology Special Speed Newspapers Cinema Delicious Columns Panacea

Book:Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard

Source: Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard

“We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society”

Ifs Culture Ability Common Achieve Masters Goodwill Cultural Diversity Human Diversity Common Culture

Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.”

People World Persons Pain Culture Reading Half Class Imagine Modern Middle Painting Pursuit Middle Class Imagine That Enthusiastic Lively Traitor Truman

Book:A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

Source: A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

“'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.”

Different Past Film Culture Speak Language Black Voice Lines White Rich Youth Titles Maturity Appropriate Black And White Mixtures Dividing Mixtapes Haves And Have Nots

Author:Aberjhani

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