"To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach."

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Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.40, Vintage

Sissela Bok

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“The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.”

Source : ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.318
“There's a lot I don't understand... but not understanding is better than not believing”
“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.”
“I loved working with Valerie. That was the most wonderful revelation to find that when we are on a set and we're playing our roles, we're like separated twins. We can almost finish each other's dialogue.”
“Fundamentally, however, there is neither good nor evil; this is all based on human concepts. In the universe there exists neither good nor evil, because everything has been created in accordance with immutable laws. the divine principles are reflected in these laws, and only through knowing these laws will we be able to get close to the divine.”

Source : "Initiation Into Hermetics". Book by ranz Bardon, 1956.
“I get thousands of requests for mentorship, but they don't offer anything in return, like filing, cleaning my house, or something. All too often, it's "please mentor me; I need my shot." But they don't offer anything in return.”

Source : "From Gangster to Guru for Ryan Blair". Interview with Deborah Jeanne Sergeant, homebusinessmag.com. December 9, 2015.
“There will never come a time when you don't have to practice”
“A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."”

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