Laurens van der Post Citas

• The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you've never explored before, what human nature is like.

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  Commitment, Leader, Age

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• Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

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  Freedom, Fear, Doubt

  The Lost World of the Kalahari ch. 3 (1958)

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• The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.

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  Amor Es, Hombres, Yo

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• I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back we always had them. But to me it seems there is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders any more. It is because they are no longer needed. The message is clear. You no longer want to be led from the outside. Every man must be his own leader. He now knows enough not to follow other people. He must follow the light that's within himself, and through this light he will create a new community.

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  Men, Light, Profound

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• In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.

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  Niños, Creer, Corazón

  Laurens Van Der Post (2013). “Feather Fall: An Anthology of Laurens Van Der Post”, p.35, Random House

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• We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.

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  Climate, Tasks, Needs

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• Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.

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  Hero, Light, Steps

  Laurens Van Der Post (1994). “Feather Fall: An Anthology”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• That is the trouble, everybody is giving everything in the world a piece of their minds. Whereas what we want is not a piece of somebody's mind, even the best mind, so much as an open heart and an open spirit.

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  Corazón, Dar, Mente

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• Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

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  Sueño, Hombres, Yo

  Laurens Van Der Post (1994). “Feather Fall: An Anthology”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• No puedes llevar la vida de tu época más lejos de lo que te has llevado a ti mismo.

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  Tomado

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• The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

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  Children, Dark, Parent

  Laurens Van Der Post (2010). “A Walk With A White Bushman”, p.49, Random House

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• Creativity and love come from the same source.

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  Creativity, And Love, Source

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• On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: 'Look at the moon!' The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they'd never seen it.

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  Summer, War, Moon

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• Sospecho que era... la vieja historia de la implacable necesidad de que un hombre tenga honor dentro de su propio espíritu natural. Un hombre no puede vivir y templar su temple sin ese honor. Hay en él un sentido profundo de la búsqueda heroica; y nuestro modo de vida moderno, con su énfasis en la seguridad, su desconfianza hacia lo desconocido y su elevación de los valores colectivos abstractos ha reprimido el impulso heroico hasta un grado que puede producir las consecuencias más peligrosas.

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  Hero, Men, Degrees

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• Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

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  Amor, Lucha, Hombres

  "Feather Fall: An Anthology".

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• Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

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  Change, Life Changing, Journey

  Laurens Van der Post (1979). “Venture to the interior”, Harcourt

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• The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a 'thou'and and 'I'.

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  Two, Connections, Mystery

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• Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

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  Christian, Political, Organized

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• You may well be right, and disaster may well come, I had told him. But for me it will always be a point of honour to go on working to prevent disaster, if only to make certain it is the right kind of disaster life needs when it does ultimately come.

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  Doe, Needs, Goes On

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• Hay un modo en que el conocimiento colectivo de la humanidad se expresa, para el individuo finito, a través de la mera vida cotidiana... un modo en que la vida misma es puro conocimiento.

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  Life, Knowing, Individuality

  Laurens Van der Post (1979). “Venture to the interior”, Harcourt

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