Henryk Skolimowski quotes
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“The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.”
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“Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have flowers and plants where we live, because they breathe, too. Contemplating a flower for three seconds can be a captivating solitary journey back to original geometry, which is always revitalizing.”
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“If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet all trying to touch the heavens.”
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“There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the love of nature, the love of animals, the sense of social compassion, the sense of the spiritual dangers of affluence.”
-- Henryk SkolimowskiSource : Henryk Skolimowski (1993). “A Sacred Place to Dwell: Living With Reverence Upon the Earth”, HarperElement
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“Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on the other hand, engages you, enthralls and satisfies you, it contributes to the meaning of your life”
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“The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.”
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“Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things.”
-- Henryk SkolimowskiSource : Henryk Skolimowski (1999). “Dharma, Ecology and Wisdom in the Third Millennium”, p.123, Concept Publishing Company
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“What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
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Source : Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.337, Penguin
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“To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.”
Source : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.8, Courier Corporation