Revenge of the Chaos Agents

Daria Petrilli

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In a time where denial reigns supreme and there is a corrupt emphasis in spiritual circles on a fake compassion, cheerfulness, and too-easy forgiveness coupled with a complete inability to face or respond to dire structural injustice, it is a very difficult task to tell the truth. People have been trained in habits they call spiritual but which really are designed to reinforce bypassing and dissociation.

~ From Andrew Harvey

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‘I think, therefore I am’ is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. ‘I feel therefore I am’ is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything alive.

~ Milan Kundera

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I think Freud is kind of crazy, right? A man working on a sexual obsession…I tried reading some of his stuff, but I thought He was a charlatan or a madman, in a certain sense. After all, the world is too complex to be brought to such a simple absolute scheme, while in Jung a broader and more hospitable mind is evident. It all comes down to a few rather unpleasant facts. But, of course, this is simply due to my ignorance or my prejudices.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

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Tomatoes are the most patriotic plant. Because botanically, tomatoes are a fruit…