“For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs - not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression - they will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material goods.” WayNeedsTryingHumansLongSpiritualTurnsHuman BeingsLossCreativeExpressionMaterialsIncludingDisasterFulfillmentGoodsAcquisitionHuman NeedsBasic Human Needs Author:Riane Eisler
“Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human contact, to be void of meaning. We have communication problems, suffer from egocentrism and narcissism, are frustrated by information glut and loss of environment; we stagnate despite the rising GNP.” HumansProblemSufferingLossEnvironmentInformationExpressionCommunicationContactDespiteRisingVoidNarcissismFrustratedMasturbationCommunication Problems Author:Gunter Grass
“Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.” WaitingLossReadyExpressionShameGuiltConfusionInnocence Book:The Works of Mr. Congreve in Two Volumes Source: The Works of Mr. Congreve in Two Volumes
“To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.” MeanMomentsFeelingsAbleActionTogetherChoicesPassionLossAbilityActingCreativityCreativePossibilityExpressionGoes OnFindingsMessagesUniqueResponseReactionsCarrieSuppressingMilieuAction And Reaction Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.” MomentsDreamMightFacesPoliticalMemoriesLossRaceCitiesParticularExpressionMaterialsProveInnocenceInjuryWoundedLoss Of Innocence Book:Against the Day Source: Against the Day