Civilization and the Transformation of Power

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Cosimo, Inc., 2000 M09 1 - 359 páginas
""Civilization And The Transformation Of Power" is an absorbing, provocative, scintillating account of the interiors of western history. Jim Garrison is one of the great visionaries of our time, and his account not only traces the rise of western culture, it points beyond it to a more integral, gracious, compassionate world, drawing on the best of East and West, feminine and masculine, to paint a picture of a more caring tomorrow."--Ken Wilbur, author of "A Brief History Of Everything."

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ix
FOREWORD
xv
INTRODUCTION
xxiii
THE PARADOX OF POWER
175
THE BLACK DEATH
187
NOTRE Dame
211
OUR GOD Complex
227
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE HOLOCAUST
271
THE FEMININE
287
FAUST
309
THE ARRIVAL OF BUDDHISM IN THE WEST
331
EPILOGUE
349
INDEX
357
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Página 144 - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing ; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought : So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
Página 188 - Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
Página 80 - Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, Undisciplined squads of emotion.
Página 56 - We had the experience but missed the meaning, And approach to the meaning restores the experience In a different form, beyond any meaning We can assign to happiness.
Página 140 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Neither let the mighty man glory in his might, Let not the rich man glory in his riches : But let him that glorieth glory in this, That he understandeth and knoweth me, That I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : For in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Página 88 - I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians...
Página 108 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Página 72 - You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate.
Página 151 - Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High...
Página 74 - You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; -; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

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