“Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people's dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings.” PeopleNeedsMayHas BeensEnoughFactsFeelingsEarthNationsTermLandDestructionPatternsObligationUrbanDependenceFamiliarityDisturbedEcologicalNomad Author:Wendell Berry
“Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.” Has BeensMadeRunningFacesMotherFatherOpportunityGivenSinGenerationsHusbandDaughterOriginalsPatternsPsychologicalCurseRepetitionPsychiatristSpoiledEducatorMemories Dreams ReflectionsOriginal Sin Book:Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy Source: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy
“We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is rightbut is it? Our populace can't really be informed, not the majority of themmost people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulationthey are working out their own patterns of wishful thinking on the social environment in which they live.” PeopleThinkingWayWantHas BeensSocialEnvironmentVoteSacredMajorityPatternsWork OutOur SocietyManipulationCowsWishful ThinkingSacred CowsSocial Environment Author:David Gerrold