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“The bees learn to sense the world, its histories, and its futures. Indeed, we could learn anything… perhaps everything… from the careful relation with one such life form. For example, every bee is born. They have not yet flown, though they have...

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“What the serpent offered was too compelling, and this was the problem. It was a tool par excellence, but it was a tool that replaced the hand of the mind that employed it. What it was, was this: an explanation. The mind’s hand becomes addicted to it. And...

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“To remain within the boundaries of the self while transcending them in identification with the loved object is an exciting, moving and yet painful condition of love. The Mexican poet Octavio Paz (1974) has expressed this aspect of love with an almost...

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“The goal prefigures the species of the elements of experience and discovery. Where the goal continually improves itself, sometimes by leaps, sometimes by steps, one can trust in the path and its processes. Perhaps many of us are unaware of our goals in forming...