Peter Redgrove quotes
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“The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.”
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“It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.”
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“Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.”
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“The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience.”
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“The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience.”
-- Peter Redgrove
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.”
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“Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.”
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“If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.”
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