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The Inexplicable Divine Absurdity
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men
— George Orwell
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When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.
— John Trudell
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To become conscious is a much different thing than to become positive. To become conscious and aware, we must become authentic. Authenticity includes both positive and negative.
— Teal Swan
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Human consciousness is its content. Its content is basically pleasure, fear, suffering, with an occasional sense of concern or compassion…when the content of that consciousness is changed, that affects the consciousness of the world.
— Krishnamurti
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Namaste means that my soul acknowledges yours -
not just your light, your wisdom, your goodness, but also your darkness, your suffering, your imperfections.
It is a recognition and acceptance of the inexplicable divine absurdity, the miraculous woven into the ordinary, light and darkness intimately entwined in magical, messy humanity.
