"Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future."

-- Alvin Toffler

#Disorientation Quotes #Shock Quotes

“The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives in the present moment - wholeheartedly. If the present moment spells disaster, the child suffers it with his whole heart, his whole soul, his whole strength, his whole little being ...”
“People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.”
“I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else. Most of the time, thinking is an autonomous process, something that happens outside of our control. This perception of machine-like quality of the self is something many people discover, then try to overcome, through meditation.”

Source : Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.129, Three Rivers Press
“Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No furniture, no light fittings, no carpet, no bodies. Not a single body. Nothing but the million ducks, the three million ducklings and a window.”
“The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.”
“I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.”
“I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.”
“I like soft candy. I'm not a fan of the hard stuff. I like that quick flavor boost!”

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