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Re: Natures Paradoxes -
10-16-2007, 07:22 AM
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As for the poem, I didn't write it.
Well, maybe we can learn something of ourselves from observation of how subjective with 'truth' we can be? From there we can expand the question to a possible: "Why do I deceive myself so?"
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People look after the things they have affection for. It is thus
essential
that we learn to have affection for the planet that sustains us.
"The sense of threat from every quarter of what is known as the Establishment – which is to say, of modern civilization – is not altogether a put-on or an act for many of these young folk, but an actual condition of soul. The break-off is real, and what is being bombed and blown up outside are actual symbols of interior fears."
- Joseph Campbell
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