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.
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…
- Laurens Van Der Post
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.
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…
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…
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. - Laurens Van Der Post
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
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…
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…
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.
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… - Laurens Van Der Post
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…
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