I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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Pearl S. Buck
See the world for what it is. B E A U T I F U L!
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Anthony T. Hincks
It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the vital spirituality of hope and increase that exist in the...
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We can't go back to who we once were. We can only go on and become the person we were meant to be.
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Anthony T.Hincks
When you shut out the universe around you. You inadvertently become the very universe that you were trying to shut out.
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By Ivan Illich
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it, " yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by nouns which name packages designed for passive consumption only -- 'to learn' becomes 'to accumulate credits'.
Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment where they listen to people rather than to stars, speakers, or instructors. All over the world, one can see the rapid...
