We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.
a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves
A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.
…a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn’t clouded her insight into how people think and act.
Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.
A friend asked, “If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?” No answer.
I waited for him to come out. He didn’t. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die.
In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.
Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.