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One feels that [in Knossos, c. 1500 B.C.] man [...] was religious in the only way which is becoming to man, by making the most of everything that comes to hand, by extracting the utmost of life from every passing minute.

— Henry Miller The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)

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There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957)

Political leaders are never leaders. For leaders we have to look to the Awakeners! Lao Tse, Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Milarepa, Gurdjiev, Krishnamurti.

My Bike & Other Friends (1977)

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)

The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957)

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