#owl

Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#because #breaking #exposing #good #good thing

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent. ↗

— Fannie Farmer

#better #certainly #diet #disease #distant

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

#change #city #educated #educated people #education

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#death #eat #hope #slowly #starve

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? ↗

— Arthur Helps

#boredom #dying #faculties #less #sense

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#aid #been #billions #development #dollars

When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#back #because #beginning #chance #curves

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#knowledge #only #relative #superficial #your

To comprehend Crowley, one must comprehend what he meant by "Magick"—the "discredited" tradition he swore to "rehabilitate." Magick, for Crowley, is a way of life that takes in every facet of life. The keys to attainment within the magical tradition lie in the proper training of the human psyche itself—more specifically, in the development of the powers of will and imagination. The training of the will—which Crowley so stressed, thus placing himself squarely within that tradition—is the focusing of one's energy, one's essential being. The imagination provides, as it were, the target for this focus, by its capacity to ardently envision—and hence bring into magical being—possibilities and states beyond those of consensual reality. The will and imagination must work synergistically. For the will, unilluminated by imagination, becomes a barren tool of earthly pursuits. And the imagination, ungoverned by a striving will, lapses into idle dreams and stupor. ↗

— Lawrence Sutin

#magick #dreams

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#another #becomes #bit #continual #exercises