"A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see."

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Source : "Richard Rohr: Learning To See (VIDEO)". Interview with Travis Reed, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2012.

Richard Rohr

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“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.”

Source : In Newsweek 28 Mar. 1960, p. 89
“The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.”
“I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didnt even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.”
“Most people didnt have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.”
“They left us together for a reason. Let's show them why.”
“For ten years, I wrote regular columns about science for women's magazines, and to my knowledge I'm the only person in the world who can say that. This has no kudos in either the science-writing world or the academic world, but it's one of the most challenging things I've ever done. It's much harder to write about cosmology for a magazine like Vogue than for the New York Times, which I've also written for, because you have to imagine that on the page opposite there'll be an advertisement for eyeliner, or an article about the latest trends in skirt length.”
“If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.”
“As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction.”

Source : "Toward an Ecological Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1980.

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