Come faith, come love,
come be in me -

Come dwell in broken pottery -

Come the empty, come unfilled -
come all being, come to me -

I'm not living, I'm not rolling,
not walking paths of the dead -

I'm not living,
I'm not living,
in the Shadow of God anymore.

- D Cravens



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The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. ~unknown

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"The heart at the center of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet, so that the whole system is inundated with tides of joy. The plenty of the poorest place is too great; the harvest cannot be gathered. Every sound ends in music. The edge of every surface is tinged with prismatic rays."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
no light and no land anywhere,
cloudcover thick. I try to stay
just above the surface, yet I'm already under
and living within the ocean. - Rumi

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We need to stop producing a nation of stressed out students who learn how to please the teacher instead of pleasing themselves. We need to produce adults who love learning, not adults who avoid all learning because it reminds them of the horrors of school. We need to stop thinking that all children need to learn the same stuff. We need to create adults who can think for themselves and are not convinced about how to understand complex situations in simplistic terms that can be rendered in a sound bite.

Just call school off. Turn them all into apartment houses.

-- Roger Shank

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"I don't know! I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again!" ~Bart Simpson

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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Don't just eat that hamburger, eat the HELL out of it!"
- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

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When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for.
- John Lennon


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"Respect much, obey little!"

Old Mumon, crusty and unforgiving,
runs breathless after his zen.
I must stand aside, amazed.

The breeze he leaves in his path
reminds us what these words say
and again what these words
cannot say.
~~Lazlo

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"You know how dumb the average guy is, right? Well, mathematically, by definition, half of them are even dumber than that."
- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

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"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help
them discover it within themselves." - Galileo Galilei

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"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help
them discover it within themselves." - Galileo Galilei

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Noise, then, occurs when language breaks down. Noise is a wordless state in which the very constitution of our selves is in jeopardy. The pleasure of noise lies in the fact that the obliteration of meaning and identity is ecstacy.
- Simon Reynolds

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"The Sound eventually becomes louder and louder and begins to pull the spirit up. This mystic Sound reverberating ceaselessly within us lifts our soul above body-consciousness. At each stage the Celestial Music becomes more and more enrapturing. When the soul hears this divine Melody, it gets magnetized and attracted to it, and the soul soars within. Traveling on that Sound, we travel higher and higher to worlds of unimaginable joy." - (Sant Rajinder Singh)

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And
For no reason
I start skipping like a child.

And
For no reason
I turn into a leaf
That is carried so high
I kiss the Sun's mouth
And dissolve.

And
For no reason
A thousand birds
Choose my head for a conference table,
Start passing their
Cups of wine
And their wild songbooks all around.

And
For everry reason in existence
I begin to eternally,
to eternally laugh and love!

When I turn into a leaf
And start dancing,
I run to kiss our beautiful Friend
And I dissolve in the Truth
That I Am.

--Hafiz

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Play is our first act. If we are lucky, it will be our last. "The child's toys and the old man's reasons," wrote Blake, "are the products of the two seasons." We begin in play, and in our wisdom return to it. Play is the taste of paradise from which we came; a foretaste of the paradise we will enter... Play is a peak experience, the feeling of 'that which was, is, and ever shall be.'
~~George Sheehan, from Running and Being

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"Computers - the gizmos themselves - have far less to do with techie enthusiasm than some half-understood resonance to The Great Work: hardwiring collective consciousness, creating the Planetary Mind. Teilhard de Chardin wrote about this enterprise many years ago and would be appalled by the prosaic nature of the tools we will use to bring it about. But I think there is something sweetly ironic that the ladder to his Omega Point might be built by engineers and not mystics."
~~ John Perry Barlow

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"When the winds of change blow,
some people build walls and others build windmills"
--Chinese proverb

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"There are no wrong notes."
- Miles Davis

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With That Moon Language

Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them,
"Love me."

Of course you do not do this out loud;
Otherwise,
Someone would call the cops.

Still though, think about this,
This great pull in us
To connect.

Why not become the one
Who lives with a full moon in each eye
That is always saying,

With that sweet moon
Language,

What every other eye in this world
Is dying to
Hear.

~~Hafiz

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"From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless."
~Hazrat Inayat Khan


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Go placidly amid the noise and waste,
And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Avoid quiet and passive persons unless you are in need of sleep.
Rotate your tires.

Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself,
And heed well their advice, even though they be turkeys.
Know what to kiss and when.
Consider that two wrongs never make a right,
But that three lefts do.

Wherever possible put people on "HOLD".
Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment,
And despite the changing fortunes of time,
There is always a big future in computer maintenance.
Remember the Pueblo.

Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle and mutilate.
Know yourself. If you need help, call the FBI.
Exercise caution in your daily affairs,
Especially with those persons closest to you;
That lemon on your left for instance.

Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls,
Would scarcely get your feet wet.
Fall not in love therefore; it will stick to your face.

Carefully surrender the things of youth: birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan,
And let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
For a good time, call 606-4311.

Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog
Is finally getting enough cheese;
And reflect that whatever fortunes may be your lot,
It could only be worse in Sioux City.

You are a fluke of the Universe.
You have no right to be here, and whether you can hear it or not,
The Universe is laughing behind your back.

Therefore make peace with your God whatever you conceive him to be,
Hairy Thunderer or Cosmic Muffin.

With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal,
The world continues to deteriorate.
Give up.

- "Deteriorata" from National Lampoon Radio Hour

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You know, wishing won`t make it so
Hoping won`t do it, praying won`t do it
Religion won`t do it, philosophy won`t do it
The Supreme Court won`t do it,
The President and the Congress won`t do it
The U.N. won`t do it, the H-bomb won`t do it,
The sun and the moon won`t do it
And God won`t do it,
And I certainly won`t do it
That leaves you, you`ll have to do it.
-Todd

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QUIETNESS

Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
You're covered with thick cloud.
Slide out the side. Die,
and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign
that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running
from silence.

The speechless full moon
comes out now.

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When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

- Patanjali, 1st to 3RD CENTURY BC.

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"Death"

"We must make gods or die.
We must kill gods or die,"
whisper the lost stones
in their lost kingdom.

- Adonis of Syria



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My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

- Bobby Kennedy on the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I can not grasp It.
It is too big;
I am too small.
There is only one answer:
To be grasped by It...
To dance with It.
-Mary Lu Brandwein

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"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves...
Don't search for the answers,
which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is,to live everything.
Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future,
you will gradually, without even noticing it,live your way into the answer." -Rainer Maria Rilke

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“There is a community of the spirit. Join it,
and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.”
— Rumi

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Dance like no one's watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like no one's listening,
Live like it's heaven on earth.

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I don't want to die without any scars.

- Tyler Durden

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"There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love."
- Alan Watts

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Dance like no one's watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like no one's listening,
Live like it's heaven on earth.

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"We must begin to understand not only that there is an urgent need to change
the world but that we have the power to do so." --Jonathan Cohen

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Faith is not belief; it is the grasp of the ultimate as illumination.
~~Vivekananda

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The real truth is this: The whole world is joy. Heaven is a festival all year long. Of all lies, the greatest falsehood is melancholy.

- Issac Bashevis Singer

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Faith is not belief; it is the grasp of the ultimate as illumination.
~~Vivekananda

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"I dance, therefore I am."

-- Momus

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"There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love."
- Alan Watts

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