Eden Project Quotes

When one has let go of that great hidden agenda that drives humanity and its varied histories, then one can begin to encounter the immensity of one's own soul. If we are courageous enough to say, "Not this person, nor any other, can ultimately give me what I want; only I can," then we are free to celebrate a relationship for what it can give.

The search for fusion regularly gives rise to various symptoms. Our own psyche knows what is right for us, knows what is developmentally demanded. When we use the Other to avoid our own task, we may be able to fool ourselves for awhile, but the soul will not be mocked. It will express its protest in physical ailments, activated complexes and disturbing dreams. The soul wishes its fullest expression; it is here, as Rumi expressed it, 'for its own joy.' Let's continue the fantasy of finding an Other willing to carry our individuation task for us. Well, in time, that Other would grow to resent us, even though he or she was a willing signatory to the silent contract. That resentment would leak into the relationship and corrode it. No one is angrier that someone doing 'the right thing' and secretly wishing for something else.

Some Western Christians read the story as a factual account of the Original Sin that condemned the human race to everlasting perdition. But this is a peculiarly Western Christian interpretation and was introduced controversially by Saint Augustine of Hippo only in the early fifth century. The Eden story has never been understood in this way in either the Jewish or the Orthodox Christian traditions. However, we all tend to see these ancient tales through the filter of subsequent history and project current beliefs onto texts that originally meant something quite different.

Позволить Другому быть Другим — это непростая задача, но это единственный путь к тому, чтобы его любить.

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Какой человек, находящийся в здравом уме, станет искать себе партнера, говоря: «Я хочу в отношениях с тобой отыграть свои детские травмы. Я тебя полюблю, потому что эти отношения мне очень хорошо знакомы»? Однако именно так мы и поступаем. Действительно, страшно себе представить, какая малая часть близких отношений осознается нами и каким сильным является наше запрограммированное желание того, что нам очень хорошо известно. Мы ищем то, что мы знаем, даже если это наносит нам травму.

This project was part of my penance. For Talia, I’d bear every ache and pain.

I’d rather be known as a freak than a science project.

I would let you take me through a million nightmares if it meant that I could have one dream with you.

...качество всех наших отношений с другими прямо зависит от того, как мы относимся к себе.

Чем лучше становится наше Я, тем более ценным даром оно оказывается для других.

Лишь люди, способные обратиться к своим страхам, жить в атмосфере амбивалентности и неоднозначности, могут обрести уверенность в себе, необходимую для того, чтобы полюбить Другого.

The search for reflection from the Magical Other is also the dynamic of narcissism, which manifests in the adult who as a child was insufficiently mirrored by a loving, affirmative parent.

A person's sense of morality and responsibility to other human beings, must not come from a professed faith or belief system. Because when it does— it is merely a projection and not an internalization. A person must be able to say "I believe this, I do this, I say this, because this is who I am; not because I see myself as a member of so and so belief system." Adam and Eve walked with God every day in the garden of Eden and yet, they still chose their own way. This only means that their own way had nothing to do with God's way. Even if they walked with God physically, daily, in a garden! This is witness to the fact that your sense of morality and responsibility must be incarnated within you. In fact, this is the beauty of God— to unfold your own spirit within you— and then you see your own spirit and say that it is indeed beautiful.

Eha sits on the keg inside a sphere of retracted sound and time, contemplating every piece of the house he and Zachary Hand to God fashioned and put together, comprehending its whole anatomy as it hangs before him, plosive, cubic, dissembled, perfectly projected. And,

If there ever were one moment where everything worked for us, where we lived in harmony and at ease with our natures, then we would still be there. There is no garden to return to, no idyllic perfect childhood, no enwombed state. The Garden of Eden was boring, childhood is a nightmare we should all be grateful to be done with, and your mother smoked while she was pregnant and poisoned you in the womb with artificial sugar substitutes. The best thing any of us can do is just to keep fucking up in a forward motion, and see what comes out of it.

For men are homesick in their homes, And strangers under the sun, And they lay their heads in a foreign land Whenever the day is done. To an open house in the evening Home shall men come, To an older place than Eden And a taller town than Rome. To the end of the way of the wandering star, To the things that cannot be and that are, To the place where God was homeless And all men are at home. From: The House of Christmas, as anthologized in Burton Egbert Stevenson, ed., The Home Book of Verse, Volume 1 (New York: Henry Holt And Company, 1912); Project Gutenberg Etext #2619.

По мнению глубинных психологов и теологов, противоположность любви — это не ненависть, а страх. Способность оказать поддержку Другому требует широты души, которая позволяет противостоять постоянно присутствующей боязливости. Любить Другого, допуская, что он обладает достаточной властью, чтобы причинить нам боль, — значит действительно обладать широкой душой и хорошо развитым чувством собственного Я, чтобы не проявлять излишнюю предосторожность, если нужно пойти на риск. Пока человек не может подвергнуть риску свое великодушие, нельзя сказать, что он способен любить.

То, что мы о себе не знаем, может и будет причинять боль и нам, и окружающим нас людям.

невозможно достичь более высокого уровня отношений с Другим, чем уровень отношений с самим собой.

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Keen to bring about a cease-fire, on November 6, Election Day, Eisenhower unleashed an impassioned campaign of personal diplomacy aimed mostly at Whitehall. But it was old-fashioned power politics that enabled him to get the job done. He mobilized world opinion against England and France through the UN Security Council—an embarrassing project that placed him in alignment with his Soviet counterparts against his lifelong friends. Ike knew his best play was to exploit Britain’s fiscal weakness, which was driving Prime Minister Eden’s notably deteriorating domestic political situation. Britain was running out of financial reserves. Refusing to repatriate dollars that Britain had supplied to the International Monetary Fund, Eisenhower muscled Great Britain into

We should limit how much beef we eat, because the amount of water, fossil fuel, and grain it takes to procure one pound of beef is nearly unimaginable. We should recycle. And precycle—buy things that have as little packaging as possible. We should do our best to walk and take public transportation and offset our fuel by giving generously to those who are helping plant trees around the world through organizations such as the Eden Project. But perhaps the most important thing we can do immediately to positively impact the health of the planet is to begin to take a Sabbath. If we work six days a week, it very well may be that we can limit one-seventh of our carbon footprint because we are not commuting on that day.

Eden Alternative and the Green House Project,

Eve looked on the project with awe, amazed at how much they had learned to do since the early days when they didn’t even have fire or a house or soft beds to rest on. God had given them great wisdom.

He, on top of a hill in Heaven, weeps whenever, outside that state of being called his country, one of his worlds drops dead, vanishes screaming, shrivels, explodes, murders itself. And, when he weeps, Light and His tears glide down together, hand in hand. So, at the beginning of the projected poem, he weeps, and Country Heaven is suddenly dark. Bushes and owls blow out like sparks. And the countrymen of heaven crouch all together under the hedges and, among themselves in the tear-salt darkness, surmise which world, which star, which of their late, turning homes, in the skies has gone for ever. And this time, spreads the heavenly hedgerow rumour, it is the Earth. The Earth has killed itself. It is black petrified, wizened, poisoned, burst, cruel, kind, dumb, afire, loving, dull, shortly and brutishly hunt their days down like enemies on that corrupted face. And, one by one, these heavenly hedgerow-men, who once were of the Earth, tell one another, through the long night, Light and His tears falling, what they remember, what they sense in the submerged wilderness and on the exposed hair's breadth of the mind, what they feel on the trembling on the nerves of a nerve, what they know in their Edenic hearts, of that self-killed place. They remember places, fears, loves, exultation, misery, animal joy, ignorance and mysteries, all we know and do not know. The poem is made of these tellings. And the poem becomes, at last, an affirmation of the beautiful and terrible worth of the Earth.

I disagree,” Valentina blurted. “Frost doesn’t imply that change is good or bad. He’s simply saying that life is always in a state of change. To project a negative connotation to the passing of time is a product of the reader’s own state of mind.” She couldn’t see me from behind her, but I was certain she was aware of my eyes on her. “So Eden sank to grief. You don’t think that implies a degree of sadness?” I asked. Val turned to face me. “I believe he’s assuring us that even sadness doesn’t last, the same way a flower can only bloom for so long. Regardless of what passes at any particular moment in time, that moment won’t last. Whether that encourages us to relish the best parts of today or assures us that the hardest parts won’t last forever, I’d say the poem is about encouragement and endurance rather than loss and helplessness.

Если наша энергия направлена на достижение цели, совпадающей с душевными устремлениями, у нас появляется ощущение удовлетворения. Если же либидо направлено на достижение целей, расходящихся стелеологией души, мы становимся невротиками.

Если наша энергия направлена на достижение цели, совпадающей с душевными устремлениями, у нас появляется ощущение удовлетворения. Если же либидо направлено на достижение целей, расходящихся с телеологией души, мы становимся невротиками.

Пока наша духовность не будет развиваться осознанно, мы будем жить поверхностно, проявлять зависимое поведение или вступать в конфликт с обществом. Наша духовность — это самая важная сфера в наших отношениях, ибо характер нашей духовности определяет содержание и результат всех отношений.

The best thing we can do for our relationships with others . . . is to render our relationship to ourselves more conscious. This is not a narcissistic activity. In fact, it will prove to be the most loving thing we can do for the Other. The greatest gift to others is our own best selves. Thus, paradoxically, if we are to serve relationship well, we are obliged to affirm our individual journey. —JAMES HOLLIS The Eden Project

And so from then onwards, Daniel understood that the point of this grueling sundial project was not merely to plot the curve but to understand why each curve was shaped as it was. To put it another way, Isaac wanted to be able to walk up to a blank wall on a cloudy day, stab a gnomom into it, and draw all of the curves simply by knowing where shadow would pass. This was the same thing as knowing where the sun would be in the sky and that was the same as knowing where the Earth was in its circuit around the sun, and in its daily rotation. Though as months went on, Daniel understood that Isaac wanted to be able to do the same thing even if the blank wall happened to be situated on, say, the moon that Christiaan Huygens had lately discovered revolving around Saturn. Exactly how this might be accomplished was a question with ramifications that extended into such fields as would Isaac, and Daniel for that matter, be thrown out of Trinity College? Were the Earth and all the works of man nearing the end of a long, relentless decay that had begun with the expulsion from Eden, and that would very soon culminate in the apocalypse? Or might things actually be getting better, with the promise of continuing to do so? Did people have souls? Did they have free will?

My siblings might be too young to remember her, but I’d known two Mommas. The first Momma had been an idealist who organized our home and planned for birthdays, holidays, and school projects. The second Momma had emerged slowly out of the turmoil of constant moving and living without running water and electricity. The latter Momma had conceded her idealism by making do with what we had. While I barely knew the first Momma, I'd seen just enough of her to miss her.

I guess since there are so few of us, you could just call it a back-to-school get-together,” Dane said. Maybe he shouldn’t have told Malini. He hoped Ethan wouldn’t get in trouble because of him. Dane liked the school in Eden better than Paris. He felt safe there. Unlike Malini and Jacob, he didn’t have Soulkeeper powers to protect him if the Watchers returned for a replay of prom night. He was vulnerable to any demon who wanted him dead. Worse, the time he spent in Hell gave Lucifer an imprint of his soul. Outside of Eden, the devil had constant supernatural GPS on his ass and could demand his astral projected presence on a whim. He was a sitting duck

It is no accident that the primary motive, the hidden agenda in any relationship, is the yearning to return. It is the cardinal's project, the Eden project, the professed aim of the Romantic poets, the yearning for the Beloved. It is essentially a religious search, as attested to by the etymology of the word "religion," from Latin religare, to tie back to, reconnect with. Consciousness is achieved only through the loss of the Other, and the perception that the Other is truly Other.

One of the false ideas that drives humankind is the fantasy of the Magical Other, the notion that there is one person out there who is right for us…a soul-mate who will repair the ravages of our personal history; one who will be there for us, who will read our minds, know what we want and meet those deepest needs; a good parent who will protect us from suffering and, if we are lucky, spare us the perilous journey of individuation… Virtually all popular culture is fueled by…the search for the Magical Other.

[The search for the Magical Other] accounts for the fact that so many couples move from naive relatedness to the joustings of power. If you do not act as I wish, I shall bring about your compliance by my actions. I will control you, criticize you, abuse you, withdraw from you, sabotage you…And so, through tactics of dependence or anger or control, mixed with emotional and sexual withdrawal, one [of the partners] tries to force the Other back into one’s original, imaginary mold. Seldom are these attitudes and behaviors conscious.

The more experimental GPO alumnus Humphrey Jennings expunged voice-over altogether in favour of an associative flow of images. Jennings was a prime mover in the 1930s Mass Observation project, a census of national consciousness recording the fleeting thoughts of thousands of British citizens on a huge range of subjects, including motorists’ gestures and shouts, beard-trimming styles and the ‘cult of the aspidistra’.

Guide us waking, O Lord, and guard us sleeping; that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace.

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Cedric: “I can think of another reason not to be the hero. Every hero has to sacrifice the one he loves. I don’t have that in me.” Saphira: “Who says you can’t be a hero when you have a heroine by your side. I believe the saying is that behind every great man there’s a great woman.” Cedric: “You’ll never stand behind me, Saphira. You will always be right by my side.

Ethan thought, These carbon sisters on my drawing will always be in the carbon water, crossing the carbon channel, beneath a carbon sun, watched from above by people of bones and blood and muscle and mind. He rubbed the hatched water behind the two figures in the drawing and two carbon shadows appeared projected behind them on the carbon water, of carbon girls and the carbon baskets filled with the carbon berries they held above her heads. What kind of world would that be, in which a shadow was composed of the same stuff as the girl who cast it, and the blueberries she ate the same stuff as she? What if when I stood, my shadow was flesh and blood? What if berries were flesh and they grew on branches of arteries pulsing with blood and decked with leaves of skin?