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“In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float on the collective level of consciousness of mankind, so that any increment we add comes back to us. We all add to our common buoyancy by our efforts to benefit life. It is a scientific fact that what is good for you is good for me.”

World Kind Facts Universe Levels Common Effort Consciousness Mankind Benefits Add Improvement Collectives Floats Interconnected Scientific Facts Buoyancy

Book:Along the Path to Enlightenment

Source: Along the Path to Enlightenment

“The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.”

Whole Dream Mankind Collectives Anchors Collective Wisdom

Book:Conversations With Myself

Source: Conversations With Myself

“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.”

“Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.”

Hard Reason Reality Seems Memories Mankind Rocks Dangerous Creation Lessons Driven Awful Fallen Collectives Hard Lessons Collective Memory

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.”

May Individual Social Term Realizing Mankind Projects Highest Ideals Tragedy Collectives

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.”