Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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Be always drunk, nothing else matters. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, Be drunken continually. Drunken with what? With Wine, with poetry, with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. And if sometimes on the stairs of a palace. Or on the green side of a ditch. Or in the dreary solitude of your own room. You should awaken and the drunkenness be half or wholly slipped away from you, Ask of the wind, or of the wave, or of the star, or of the bird, or of the clock, of whatever flies, or sighs, or rocks, or sings, or speaks. Ask what hour it is; And the wind, wave, star, bird, clock, will answer you: It is the hour to be drunken! Be drunken if you would not be martyred slaves of Time; be drunken continually! With wine, with poetry, with virtue, as you will. Charles Baudelaire

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All this mess in the world that at one time had got me so politically involved and another time so depressed was for a very important reason and that is that when there is less in the world for man to take faith in. when the world is at one of its low points like today, it forces man to go inside himself to find real values and transcendent values to live on. I ' ve been in manv situations in the past three years - traveling, not- ing, studying - and in every walk of life, in every place, I can see people involved in the same search. The intensity of the search is different but the search is always the same. It ' s you yourself that wants to become awake and you yourself that spins out this world of destruction, like in a dream. You ' re in bed at night and vou dream. A little man walks up and says, Number one. you ' re dreaming; number two, you ' ve created all this here; and number three, you and I are not we but one, we ' re all one consciousness, we ' re all one being. And you say, Dreaming? This is real. I didn ' t create all this. You wake up and it was a dream. You created the whole thing, then you destroyed the whole thing. The bizarre thing about it is, in order to wake up, you yourself took a part in that dream which was something you saw as separate from yourself which told you to wake up. Ellis Pines, past leader of student power, present follower of Meher Baba. I have come not to teach, but to awaken. Meher Baba