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One Mind
If you think that I am only this body, then you have not truly seen me. When you look at my friends, you see my continuation. When you see someone walking with mindfulness and compassion, you know he is my continuation. I don’t see why we have to say “I will die,” because I can already see myself in you, in other people, and in future generations.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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I think whenever the individual changes, the collective has to change in some small way, and the more people who begin to bail out from the collective ideologies of our time and begin to ask questions in a direct, personal way, that changes the collective.
— James Hollis
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In life we are born into a certain family or societal perspective. Gifts and curses are handed down…For thousands of years tribal people’s orchestrated ‘rites of passage’ that evoked this ‘crisis’ in a ritual context to equip youth with a mightier perception of such experiences as they grow older. The Elder grew from the bereft. This has been called The Road of the Village and The Road of the Forest. We recall the association with ego and soul.
Martin Shaw
A Branch from the Lightning Tree
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