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Bruce William Powe , commonly known as B. W. Powe, is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher, and teacher. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. March 1955
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Famous B. W. Powe Quotes

“Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.”

B. W. Powe

Maxims and Enigmas, p. 29
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

“Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.”

B. W. Powe

Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p. 210
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)

“The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.”

B. W. Powe

A Prayer For Canada, p. 13
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

“May the ability to see many points of view keep us gentle.”

B. W. Powe

Coda, p. 167
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

“There must be engagement: there must be protest.”

B. W. Powe

Interlude, p. 77
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

“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.”

B. W. Powe

First Meditation, p. 38
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

B. W. Powe Quotes about time

“If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.”

B. W. Powe

Third Meditation, p. 161
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

“We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.”

B. W. Powe

First Meditation, p. 35
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

“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.”

B. W. Powe

Second Meditation, p. 128
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

B. W. Powe Quotes

“Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies.”

B. W. Powe

Interlude, p. 75
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)
Context: 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.

“The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.”

B. W. Powe

Interlude, p. 113
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

War

“Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.”

B. W. Powe

Patterns, Seeds, Cloaking, Soul Circling, p. 86
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)

“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.”

B. W. Powe

Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p. 208
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)

“A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.”

B. W. Powe

Emanations, Destinies, p. 54
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)

Appearance

“enlightenment should be a human right.”

B. W. Powe

Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p. 225
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)

“Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.”

B. W. Powe

Emanations, Destinies, p. 61
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)

Justice , Soul , Heart , Parting

“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.”

B. W. Powe

Emanations, Destinies, p. 4
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)

Fear , Light , Passion , Animals

“Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.”

B. W. Powe

Third Meditation, p. 157
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

Loneliness

“If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.”

B. W. Powe

Letter To Those In power, p. 92
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

“Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.”

B. W. Powe

First Meditation, p. 65-66
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

Imagination , Communication

“Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.”

B. W. Powe

A Prayer For Canada, p. 5
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

Travel , Democracy

“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.”

B. W. Powe

Forms, Eulogies, Images and Symbols, p. 157
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)

Way , History

“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.”

B. W. Powe

Letter To Those In power, p. 83
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

Democracy , Appearance

“It began in images and it ended in symbolism.”

B. W. Powe

Forms, Eulogies, Images and Symbols, p. 160
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)

“No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.”

B. W. Powe

Emanations, Destinies, p. 28
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)

Heart

“There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.”

B. W. Powe

Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p. 210
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)

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