Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.
Category: Inspirational
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities.
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead?a dead parent, for example?can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be