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Мастер и Маргарита, The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire (Deepak Chopra); The Mighty From Their Thrones: Power in the Biblical Tradition (J.P.M. Walsh, S.J.); Light on Life, Light on Yoga (B.K.S. Iyengar); My Disillusionment in Russia (Emma Goldman)

Nawang Khechog, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, The John Butler Trio, Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson, Анна Герман, Виктор Цой, Turiaya Nada, Benjamin Iobst

Information is a symbolic expression of uncertainty.

The traits we see most clearly in others exist most strongly in ourselves.

Know yourself. Know what is good. Know when to stop.

Happiness does not consist in acquiring the things we think will make us happy, but in learning to like doing the things we have to do anyway.

...под молотом причинности на наковальне следствий.

Смерть стоит того чтобы жить, а любовь стоит того чтобы ждать.

Вера - это не слова, а качественные состояния.

Уничтожая «зло» силой, мы не уничтожаем предопределившую его причину. Поскольку причиной «зла» является «добро», то «зло» не исчерпать искусственным отслоением. А вот процесс можно изменить в сторону иных взаимоотношений.

Любая агрессия – это симптом. Но это тема другого разговора.

Мир не создан для угасания. Природа хорошо нашла внутреннюю гармонию. Она наш первый учитель. Не удивительно, что мы не говорим на облака, что они глупые. Мы не скажем, что деревья недоразвитые или злые. Мы не требуем от природы справедливости, даже когда льёт дождь. Мы не хвалим ласковый день.

…we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, most often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

...tears...[and] anger, cast into the past, deplete our moral energy for the present. And the lines are not always clear. In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

At the stations, while the train waited for an engine, the peasants would gather into groups, form a large circle, and then someone would begin to play the accordion, the bystanders accompanying with song. It was strange to see these hungry and ragged peasants, huge loads on their backs, standing about entirely forgetful of their environment, pouring their hearts out in folk songs. A peculiar people, these Russians, saint and devil in one, manifesting the highest as well as the most brutal impulses, capable of almost anything except sustained effort.

...It is not so much the Bolsheviki who killed the Russian Revolution as the Bolshevik idea. It was Marxism, however modified; in short, fanatical governmentalism. Only this understanding of the underlying forces that crushed the Revolution can present the true lesson of that world-stirring event. The Russian Revolution reflects on a small scale the century-old struggle of the libertarian principle against the authoritarian. For what is progress if not the more general acceptance of the principles of liberty as against those of coercion? The Russian Revolution was a libertarian step defeated by the Bolshevik State, by the temporary victory of the reactionary, the governmental idea.

...The State idea killed the Russian Revolution and it must have the same result in all other revolutions, unless the libertarian idea prevail.

...духовность начинается тогда, когда человек берёт ответственность за своё состояние на самого себя.