Peter Redgrove famous quotes
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The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.
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It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.
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Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.
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The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience.
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The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience.
-- Peter Redgrove
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But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.
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When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.
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Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
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I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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