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The Transforming Mind
Laurence and Phoebe Bendit
Suggests that once we look inward to encompass the whole of nature, we will automatically re-order the world and save it for peaceful use by our children and their children.
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"The word 'archetype' is derived from the Greek prefix which signifies a first or primal cause….The word is best taken for the numinous or abstract principle behind any thing or group of things in the phenomenal world. Being thus Numinous or Essential, it is not extended in space-time, but is what we would call a mathematical point with neither size or time-extension."
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"The way through the present crisis is to learn to understand ourselves."
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"If we can learn to understand the universe from within, to feel our unity with it, we shall no longer need the instinctive reactions of fear or aggression, and the whole face of civilization will change."
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"What is truly spiritual includes all aspects of ordinary life."
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"The Absolute or Supreme God is the basic, or final Archetype in which all lesser archetypes originate and are resolved."
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"At a deep level we are all united and interdependent."
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"The individual who becomes aware of his true standard of what is Good finds himself free."
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"Myth is psychic truth."
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"Wholeness, holiness or integration is the teleological aim of every individual."
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"Religious teachers and writers remind us: that there is behind the urge into matter the teleology which eventually – and, in fact, all the time – draws us back toward the Essential ground behind our existence."
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"It is well known that every minute physical particle in some measure affects the whole universe….In other words, there is no such thing as an independent entity in the universe, and what happens in one corner sends ripples indefinitely out from itself….what I think and feel spreads all around and influences others."
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"There are an infinite number of points at which Tao or God can be discovered by the inwardly open eye."
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"Archetypal images have something in common throughout mankind."
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"We can learn much by holding on to the hand of the ancient intuitive tradition of real Religion."
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"I am completely at one with God. At the same time, the totality of this God-Self is in every creature equally, not merely a part of it, but wholly."
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"There can be no more than one infinity, a place where all things, the great, the small, the external and the internal meet."
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"Only as we know ourselves can we bring about the inner transformation which will lead to a real and deep re-ordering of the world."
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"The world of existence is only dual in our conception of it. In Reality there is but one World."
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"We do not have to look for God; he is there all the time, and no movement or travel is needed to find him."
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"Each individual is deeply interlocked with the collectivity in which he is born and in which he lives. The group affects him, he affects the group, in a two-way interchange."
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"Man [is] the source of his own deeper insights. He is also the focus from which he may help order to emerge from chaos through his inner contact with Being or Tao, his true Self – the God within."
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