Quotes by B. W. Powe

B. W. Powe

Canadian poet, novelist and teacher

Lived from: 1955 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary)

Born: 23 march 1955

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  • A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p.54
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  • Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
    Towards A Canada of Light Third Meditation, p. 157
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  • Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.
    Towards A Canada of Light Second Meditation, p. 128
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  • Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Patterns, Seeds, Cloaking, Soul Circling, p. 86
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  • Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
    Towards A Canada of Light A Prayer For Canada, p. 5
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  • Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
    Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 75
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  • Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Forms, Eulogies, Images and Symbols, p. 157
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  • Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
    Towards A Canada of Light Maxims and Enigmas, p. 29
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  • If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
    Towards A Canada of Light Letter To Those In power, p. 92
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  • It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Forms, Eulogies, Images and Symbols, p. 160
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  • May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
    Towards A Canada of Light Coda, p. 167
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  • No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 28
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  • Passion was animal flesh, raw desire gnawing and ripping at its early limitations. These passions were to be feared only if undirected by the conscience of the higher self. Mind was the key to the process of enlightenment. Hence reason was the first principle, light itself.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 4
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  • The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.
    Towards A Canada of Light Letter To Those In power, p. 83
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  • The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.
    Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 38
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  • The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
    Towards A Canada of Light A Prayer For Canada, p. 13
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  • The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
    Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 113
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  • Then there were his encounters with the two mystics. Trudeau met Mounier only once, according to the Nemnis; and according to John English, he had only one direct encounter with Teilhard de Chardin.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p. 2
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  • There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p.21
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  • There must be engagement: there must be protest.
    Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 77
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What are the most famous quotes from B. W. Powe?

The two most famous quotes from B. W. Powe are:

  • "A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals."
  • "Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness."

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B. W. Powe is still alive and was born in 1955.