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“Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.”

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Paul Valéry was a French poet, philosopher, and literary critic. Born on October 30, 1871, and died on July 20, 1945. Valéry is known for his profound poetry and philosophical thoughts, being an important representative of Symbolist literature. more

“...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.”

“Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.”

Men Doe Injustice Beast

Book:Plutarch's Complete Works

Source: Plutarch's Complete Works

“Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.”

Reality Revolution Avoiding

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.”

Thinking Mind Doe Body Consciousness Tree Divine Instruments Mind And Body Sensing

Author:Adyashanti

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