Parents want their kids’
Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval. Elizabeth Kolbert
Reversal
power is not a
power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, … Read more
The search for God
The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you … Read more
It is only in
It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the … Read more
Jealousy seems the absolute
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole. Elbert Hubbard
History is full of
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true. Edmund Snow Carpenter
To the ego, the
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it – who are you? Eckhart Tolle
To every reversal of
To every reversal of people’s soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. \”Tell me, according to what you judge and I’ll tell you who you are.\” No axiom in politics is more certain than this. Francois Mitterrand
This is a catastrophic
This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes. Doris Lessing
Turning something upside-down elicits
Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven. Dennis Oppenheim