"Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to see itself. This is indeed amazing. Not so much in view of what it sees, although this may appear fantastic enough, but in respect of the fact that it can see at all. But in order to do so, evidently it must first cut itself up into a least one state which sees, and at least one other state which is seen."

-- George Spencer-Brown

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“The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.”
“Through what I have witnessed and documented, with proper interventions you can break those cycles. When I made the first film on this subject, 'Paper Tigers,' kids were going off the cliff. But then there was intervention, and they won't go off the cliff.”

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“I am different. Let this not upset you”

Source : Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.3, Princeton University Press
“The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.”
“My basic life philosophy is Harry Potter”
“What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love there would be no contemplation." Contemplation is a loving attainment of awareness. It is intuition of the beloved object.”
“People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.”
“I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that ***** is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.”

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