"Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past."

-- Richard Overy

#Past Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Desire Quotes

“One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern armies most stop treating their communications operations as secondary assignments or (as still too often happens) dumping grounds for officers who have failed at everything else - but as missions absolutely essential to success.”
“When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.”
“There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.”
“Be to the world a sign that while we as Christians do not have all the answers, we do know and care about the questions.”
“Listen to what your higher wisdom has to say about how you can deepen your participation in the global shift-through personal healing, changing your worldview, or finding ways to help others and the environment. This is how you can both heal yourself and help humanity. At their deepest level, the two are joined and ready to awaken to a new world.”

Source : Edmund Bourne (2009). “Global Shift: How A New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity”, p.325, New Harbinger Publications
“Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.”

Source : Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”
“... I don't think anybody should avoid mistakes. If it is within their nature to make certain mistakes, I think they should make them, make the mistakes and find out what the cost of the mistake is, rather than to constantly keep avoiding it, and never really knowing exactly what the experience of it is, what the cost of it is, you know, and all the other facets of the mistake. I don't think that mistakes are that bad. I think that they should try and not do destructive things, but I don't think that a mistake is that serious a thing that one should be told what to do to avoid it.”
“I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen to be suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid.”

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