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John Anthony West
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Quotes by John Anthony West
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What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?
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Don’t act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.
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Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.
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Central to all these interlinked themes was that curious irrational, phi, the Golden Section. Schwaller de Lubicz believed that if ancient Egypt possessed knowledge of ultimate causes, that knowledge would be written into their temples not in explicit texts but in harmony, proportion, myth and symbol.
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We're obliged to acknowledge the limits of reason; and to acknowledge the necessary reality of the realms to which reason has no access.