Daniel Pinchbeck Quotes

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• The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that…
• If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does…
• Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For…
• 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…
• We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on…
• Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.
• Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift…
• Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took the place of…
• The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are…
• If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy…
• Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means.
• The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.
• Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.
• Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being prevented subverts the…
• As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people…
• We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.
• In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path.
• The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our…

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