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"Of all mans inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way."
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"What is most threatening and destructive in human society today is the human being who is split in his own nucleus: it is the fission in the modern soul which makes nuclear fission so dangerous — he is a split atom. He has got to heal himself, make himself whole."
What is most threatening and destructive in human society today is the human being who is split in his own nucleus: it i
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Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist. He was noted for his interest in Jungianism and the Kalahari Bushmen, his experiences during World War II, as well as his relationships with notable figures such as King Charles III and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. After hi
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Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist. He was noted for his interest in Jungianism and the Kalahari Bushmen, his experiences during World War II, as well as his relationships with notable figures such as King Charles III and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. After hi
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"By chance (to use the only phrase we have for describing one of the most significant manifestations of life)."
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"The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird."
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"Men are never alone because that which, acknowledged or unacknowledged, dreams through them is always by their side."
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"It is the not-yet in the now, The taste of fruit that does not-yet exist Hanging the blossom on the bough."
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"We suffer from a hubris of the mind. We have abolished superstition of the heart only to install a superstition of the intellect in its place."
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