Sunday, January 16, 2011

Notes in the Raw #2

Here are some important quotes from Listen Little Man by Wilhelm Reich

"Recognize the smallness and narrowness of thoughts and actions" and how that endangers happiness p. 7

Lost all feeling for the best that is in you, stifled it...small and want to stay small p.23

p 18 "Knowing yet naive; trusting yet cautious; streaming with love and kindness, and yet able to hit hard; gentle and yet strong, just as the child of the future is"

p 22 "Does a flower live "as if" it were a flower, or a deer "as if" it were a deer? Does a flower or deer proclaim itself as a flower or deer? They are what they are. They live it. They function it."
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2 comments:

  1. MaryJanuary 17, 2011 at 6:35 AM

    "WOW"

    These are very powerful words! Thank you for posting these today as they are touching me in wonderful ways.

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  2. Dan HoffmanJanuary 17, 2011 at 5:01 PM

    Thanks, Mary. Yes, they touched me when I was rereading them too. Out of the whole book, this is what really spoke to me, I remember, especially the last one.

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