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.
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… - Laurens Van Der Post
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…
- Laurens Van Der Post
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 s… - Laurens Van Der Post
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 s…
You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself. - Laurens Van Der Post
You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.
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 m… - Laurens Van Der Post
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 m…
Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian. - Laurens Van Der Post
Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. - Laurens Van Der Post
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
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 i… - Laurens Van Der Post
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 i…
Creativity and love come from the same source. - Laurens Van Der Post
Creativity and love come from the same source.
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… - Laurens Van Der Post
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…
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