“The pairs of opposites have never been clearer: gross materialism, stock exchanges reeling because of overwhelming greed, and at the same time people dying in millions from starvation.”

— Benjamin Creme

Source: The Art of Living: Living within the Laws of Life (2006)

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artist, author, esotericist 1922–2016

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