"We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression."

Crisis, Spirit, Depression, Revolution, War

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"We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression."

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"If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"The epitome of our life force turns on the seam where our tempered idealistic expectations meet the annealed exigencies fueling the cataclysm of a pressing personal crisis. Many of us do not decipher who we are and what we truly cherish until we experience the terror of an inconsolable loss. Failure and suffering lead to self-scrutiny."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

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"I'm trying to keep your safe!" Puck exploded, whirling on me. His eyes feverish, and I shrank back. "This isn't a game, Meghan! The shit is about to hit the fan, and you're right in the middle of it without knowing enough to duck!"

Julie Kagawa, American Author

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"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time where industrial stock markets were at historic highs at the same time that many natural processes were shutting down, including the next generation of humans."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like, it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing."

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"The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do."

Raymond Williams, Welsh Novelist

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"We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis."

Johnnie Cochran, American Lawyer

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"Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis."

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"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."

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"A woman calls from Seaview to say her linen closet is missing. Last September, her house had six bedrooms, two linen closets. She's sure of it. Now she's only got one. She comes to open her beach house for the summer. She drives out from the city with the kids and the nanny and the dog, and here they are with all heir luggage, and their towels are gone. Disappeared. Poof. Bermuda triangulated."

Mystery

"It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God."

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"We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them."

Behavior

"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."

Creation

"What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher."

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"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

Acceptance

"It sounds as if you'd like to be God."

Ego

"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."

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