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“A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation.”

Book:The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World

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The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World

This book delves into the profound impact of creative thinking and expression on society, culture, and personal growth. more

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Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde is an American essayist and poet, known for his profound reflections on creativity, culture, and society. His work delves into the lives and work of artists, as well as the role of art in society. more

“What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.”

People Has Beens Different Age Names Individual Wise Heard Childhood Perspective Bears Innocent Old Age Maturity Collectives Dunces

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.”

Believe Spiritual Law Political Social Economic Fields Activity Ordinary Contrary

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“The question before the United States is whether the magnitude of its power will eclipse the light by which it was founded, or whether it will use its power to serve greater light. Does it seek mastery to dominate or mastery to serve?”

Doe States Use Light United United States Greater Mastery Magnitude Eclipse

Author:Jim Garrison

“The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.”

World Consciousness Crisis

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Grand visions, even those as prescient as Washington's, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses up before history in the long run arrives to validate the vision.”

Long Running Vision Long Runs Nevertheless Toss

Book:Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Source: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

“The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they are afraid to show the emotions, afraid to say what they want to say. To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable.”

Want Moments Shows Bigs Differences Emotion Victim Warrior Repression Refrain Right Moment Impeccable

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.”

“When you are free, you have no choice.”

Choices

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.”

World Turns Upside Down Inconvenient

Book:Reality

Source: Reality

“We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.”

Years Age Born Struggle Bed Old Age Death Bed

Author:Dee Hock

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