You must experience everything that you are feeling. This is what will lead you to the splintered parts of your personality.
There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
No reality transforms itself.
In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.
For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah. ” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.
If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!
The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people
No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.
The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.