Kirk J. Schneider quotes
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“Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.”
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“Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.”
-- Kirk J. SchneiderSource : Kirk J. Schneider (1990). “The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature”, Prometheus Books
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“Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science, for example or in absolutist religious positions; or by locking ourselves into systems, whether corporate, familial, or consumerist; or by stupefying ourselves with drugs.”
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“Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure.”
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Source : Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.73, Penguin
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“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
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“All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.”
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Source : "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 134), 1988.
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“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”
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“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
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