Friday, December 31, 2021

The revolt of the masses by Ortega y Gasset (1930). Quotes III

 -The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe.

-The mass crashes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. 

-Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. 

-We are living under the brutal empire of the masses. 

-The element of terror in the destiny of our time is furnished by the overwhelming and violent moral upheaval of the masses, imposing, invincible, and treacherous, as is destiny in every case. 

-The masses are today exercising functions in social life which coincide with those which hitherto seemed reserved to minorities. 

-These masses have at the same time shown themselves indocile to the minorities: they do not obey them, follow them, or respect them; on the contrary, they push them aside and supplant them. 

 

The revolt of the masses by Ortega y Gasset (1930). Quotes II

 -To form a minority, of whatever kind, it is necessary beforehand that each member separate himself from the multitude for special, relatively personal, reasons.

-The mass is all that which sets no value on itself, good or ill, based on specific grounds, but which feels itself 'just like everybody', and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else. 

-For there is no doubt that the most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection; mere buoys that float on the waves. 

-The division of society into masses and select minorities is, then, not a division into social classes, but into classes of men.

-A characteristic of our times is the predominance, even in groups traditionally selective, of the mass and the vulgar. 

The revolt of the masses (1930) by Ortega y Gasset. Quotes

 -Public life is not solely political, but equally, and even primarily, intellectual, moral, economic, religious; it comprises all our collective habits, including our fashions both of dress and of amusement. 

-To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

-Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.

-This faculty of wonder is the one which leads the intellectual man through life in the perpetual ecstasy of the visionary.

-Society is always a dynamic unity of two component factors: minorities and masses.

-The minorities are the individuals or groups of individuals which are specially qualified. The mass is the average man. 

-The normal formation of a multitude implies the coincidence of desires, ideas, ways of life, in the individuals who constitute it. 

Friday, December 10, 2021

Heartfulness at the center of it all

 Your heart... your beautiful heart... are you listening to it? Listen... it is whispering... calmly and patiently... Put your heart at the core of everything... Your mind will get in balance with that precious jewel in connection to your soul...

Breath with your heart... Speak with your heart... Look with your heart... Dream with your heart... Hope with you heart... Wait with your heart... 

When we yield to the kingdom of our heart, magic will overtake the dance in our souls...

Feel it!!!!! Feel it with your whole heart!!! Once you let yourself be embarked on that journey, there is no turning back... you are on your road to your eternity!