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Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body.
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A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as…
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Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we…
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The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate…
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Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The…
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Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the…
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Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and…
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A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of…
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The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is…
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The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated –…
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Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the…
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Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense…
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Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.
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If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass…
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If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he…
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The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.
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The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
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The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate…
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The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs…
— George Steiner
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By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to…
— Fatema Mernissi
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No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe…
— Christopher Dawson
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It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns.…
— John le Carre
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I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120…
— Stephen Colbert
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Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become…
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