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"Love" may enter the vocabulary with increasing frequency; for all its ambiguity, its connotations of sentimentality, no word in English better approximates the new sense of caring and connectedness.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
And it is the body's hysterical overreaction to a virus, rather than the virus itself, that makes us ill.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
We have two essential strategies for coping: the way of avoidance or the way of attention.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
The more significant the question, the less likely there will be an unequivocal answer.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
Or, as Kazantzakis expressed it, the real meaning of enlightenment is "to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darknesses."
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
If a new prototype of society is to emerge, rather than a coup d'etat, dialogue and debate must occur at the highest levels.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
It's like the old dilemma: You can't get a job without experience, but you can't get experience because no one will give you a job.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
The business of the Aquarian Conspiracy is calm diagnosis of that illness—to make it clear that synthesis is needed—paradigm change rather than pendulum change.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
Something we were withholding made us weak Until we found it was ourselves.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
Conspire, in its literal sense, means "to breathe together." It is an intimate joining. To make clear the benevolent nature of this joining, I chose the word Aquarian.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
Spending is an opiate to many people, a balm to disappointments, frustrations, emptiness. If the individual transforms that inner distress, there is less need for drugs and distractions.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
Not understanding our societies as great organisms, we have manipulated them into "cures" worse than the ailments.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
If we respond to the message of pain or disease, the demand for adaptation, we can break through to a new level of wellness.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
Another strong force for change: crisis. All the failures of education, like a fever, signal a deep struggle for health.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
Another discovery: uncertainty. Not just the uncertainty of the moment, which may pass, but oceanic uncertainty, mystery that washes across our beaches forever.
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The perturbation would come from the privileged classes, he said, because that is the way of revolutions. They are launched by those disenchanted with the culture's ultimate reward system.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
You can only have a new society, the visionaries have said, if you change the education of the younger generation. Yet the new society itself is the necessary force for change in education.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
The worldwide quest for community typified by the networks of the Aquarian Conspiracy is an attempt to boost that attenuated power. To cohere. To kindle wider consciousness.
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