Getting in The Middle
The crisis is not political; the crisis is not economic, nor religious, but the crisis is in consciousness, in our minds, in our hearts, in our brain. The crisis is there.
~ Krishnamurti
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
~ Werner Herzog
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No one told me it would lead to this.
No one said there would be secrets
I would not want to know…
~ Fragment of ‘No One Told Me,’ by David Whyte
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Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. The more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights, (1848)
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To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light. Once one has experienced a few times what it is like to stand judgingly between the opposites, one begins to…
