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Driven by the force of love
the fragments of the world
seek each other that the world
may come into being.

Teilhard de Chardin

February 1985
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More men die of their medicines than their diseases.

Moliere

January 1985
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree to which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Mohandas Gandhi

December 1984
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The best politics is right action.

Gandhi

November 1984
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Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

William B1ake

October 1984
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Though no two centuries are very much like each other, some hours perhaps are; moments are; critical moments nearly always are. Emotions are the same. We are the same. The man, not the day, is the lasting phenomenon.

Eudora Welty, “Reality in Chekhov’s Stories”

September 1984
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The physical senses actually can be said to create the physical world, in that they force you to perceive an available field of energy in physical terms, and impose a highly specialized pattern upon this field of reality. Using the physical senses, you can perceive reality in no other way.

Seth in Jane Roberts’ Seth Speaks

August 1984
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Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.

George Bernard Shaw

July 1984
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Despite all appearances, conditions of an exterior nature do not cause wars, or poverty, or disease, or any of the unfortunate circumstances apparent in the world. Your beliefs form your reality. Your thoughts generate practical experience. When these change, conditions will change.

Seth, in Jane Roberts’ The Nature of the Psyche

June 1984
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Truth is error burned up.

Norman O. Brown

May 1984
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