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“The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.”

Men Art States Found Individual Levels Secret Creation Return Art Is Artistic Participation Effectiveness Mystique Artistic Creation

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.”

World Littles Soul Death Dies Secret Return All Things Sight Life And Death Retiring Reincarnation Incarnation Abode Beautiful Death

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.”

Ifs Speak Perfect Secret Existence Dog Return Bird Horse Instinct Bottom Superiors Sensations Sentiments Organs Elephants Brutes Clouded Emanate

Book:Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People

Source: Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People

“I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon.”

Men Believe Earth Mother Father Names I Believe Stars Secret Company Lord Sun Fire Air Mystery Return Chaos I Believe In Breathe Sole Womb Ineffable

Author:Aleister Crowley

“In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy and security.”

World Giving Stories Spiritual Joy Secret Lord Talent Security Return Resources Ears India Asking One Word

Book:Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II

Source: Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II

“It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.”

Children Enough Simple Secret Return Daring

Author:Laozi

“We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.”

Knows Ideas Lost Memories Secret Virtue Path Personality Return Accounts Sight Mood Sail Our Memories Voyages

Book:Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained

“The CIA has transformed from an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets, into a paramilitary organization, a paramilitary force. It's not supposed to be a paramilitary force. It's not good at it. It needs to return to its roots.”

Needs Force Secret Return Roots Organization Stealing Supposed To Be Transformed Spy Cia Recruit

Author:John Kiriakou