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Why I Think This World Should End – Prince Ea (full transcript)
Full text transcript for Prince Ea’s powerful new video “Why I Think This World Should End,” released on September 8, 2014. “The world is coming to an end. The air is polluted, the ocean’s contaminated. The animals are going extinct. … Continue reading
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24 Human Character Strengths and Core Virtues
“The Character Strengths and Virtues (CSV) handbook of human strengths and virtues by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, represents the first attempt on the part of the psychological research community to identify and classify the positive psychological traits of human beings. The CSV identifies six classes … Continue reading
Children Need to Be Free to Learn
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ~Socrates Children are born to be curious, sociable, skillful, joyful and empathetic. Their minds are creative and flexible, their hearts trusting and open. They come into the … Continue reading
Living Together in Peace – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts. Negroes of the United States, following the people of India, have demonstrated that nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. Sooner or later all the people … Continue reading
The Joyous Cosmology – Alan Watts
“To begin with, this world has a different kind of time. It is the time of biological rhythm, not of the clock and all that goes with the clock. There is no hurry. Our sense of time is notoriously subjective … Continue reading
Rave On John Donne – Van Morrison
Rave On, John Donne – Van Morrison, 1983 (full song) Rave on John Donne, rave on thy holy fool Down through the weeks of ages In the moss borne dark dank pools Rave on, down through the industrial revolution Empiricism, … Continue reading
Living in Tune with the Ways of Nature
Wisdom in thinking and action is not something difficult or even new for human beings. It’s actually quite natural for people to think “eco-logically” – in terms of processes, relationships, values and communities. This is how Nature works, and how … Continue reading
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In All Chaos There is a Cosmos – Carl Jung
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the … Continue reading
“Poetry Surrounds Us” – Vincent van Gogh
“The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of terrible, terrible, … Continue reading
How Einstein Saw the World
“School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was … Continue reading
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