"Whatever is old corrupts, and the past..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
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“The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.”
“An empire is an immense egotism.”
“The eye is the best of artists.”
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“Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”
“In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.”
“I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.”
More on Past
“There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.”
“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
“When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.”