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"The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products."
Terence McKenna
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"Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
- From the "Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde, A bit long, a trifle didactic and repetitive, reminds me in rhyme and repetition of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". But a great line...
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"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."
˜ Plato
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Finished, an easy read, poetry after all, it takes time only in finding the right mood to appreciate it. I shall have to pick it up again, in the meantime...
Could it be that Fate measures us in spans of being,
And hence seems to us so alien?
Think how many such spans stretch from a woman
To the man she longs for and avoids.
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Found this, thought I'd share, like his philosophy, I rather share it but would not have articulated it so clearly. I'm not a philosopher, after all...
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."
"No man is free who is not master of himself."
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus
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