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 have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups.
That's fine with us. Every morning
we glow and in the evening we glow again.
They say there's no future for us. They're right.
Which is fine with us. - Rumi
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Try to be a sheet of paper
with nothing on it.
Be a spot of ground
where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.. - Rumi
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"It ain't no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones."
-Tom Waits
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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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Watch your thoughts;
they become your words.
Watch your words;
they become your actions.
Watch your actions;
they become your habits.
Watch your habits;
they become your character.
Watch your character for
it will become your destiny.
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
If I am only for myself,
what am I?
And if not now, when?
-- Hillel
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Does sunset sometimes look
like the sun's coming up?
Do you know what a faithful love is like?
You're crying. you say
you've burned yourself.
But can you think of anyone who's not
hazy with smoke?
-- Rumi
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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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"If we can locate, at the very center of our silence, our individual 'still small voice', we will have found our greatest ally in life."
-Robert Lawrence Smith,Quaker Book of Wisdom
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THE NEW RULE
It's the old rule that drunks have to argue and get into fights.
The lover is just as bad. He falls into a hole.
But down that hole he finds something shining,
worth more than any amount of money or power.
Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street.
I took it as a sign to start singing, falling up into the bowl of sky.
The bowl breaks. Everywhere is falling everywhere.
Nothing else to do.
Here's the new rule: break the wineglass,
and fall toward the glassblower's breath.
-- Rumi
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Am I talking to myself,
or to the one I love?
-Lazlo
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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
-Kurt Vonnegut
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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
- Joseph Campbell
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm not here, I've gone out to look for myself. If I come back before I return, please tell me to wait.
-Andrea Pusillo
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It's a perfect day for letting go.
-Robert Smith, The Cure
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ONLY BREATH
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion
or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up
from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,
am not an entity in this world or the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any
origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.
-- Rumi
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If blood were love -
the world'd be awash with joy
(our hearts remain a desert).
If blood made truly kin -
the world a family'd be.
If blood is wine -
who's the less hungover?
If blood brings peace -
your swords contain the sea.
-- D Cravens
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"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."
- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Abigail Adams, 1787)
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WHERE EVERYTHING IS MUSIC
Don't worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
it doesn't matter.
We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.
The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and even if the whole world's harp
should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing.
So the candle flickers and goes out.
We have a piece of flint, and a spark.
This singing art is sea foam.
The graceful movements come from a pearl
somewhere on the ocean floor.
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge
of driftwood along the beach, wanting!
They derive
from a slow and powerful root
that we can't see.
Stop the words now.
Open the window in the center of your chest,
and let the spirits fly in and out.
-- Rumi
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Whoever acts with respect will get respect.
Whoever brings sweetness will be served almond cake.
Good women are drawn to be with good men.
--Rumi
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"... the role an observer plays in determining the form a quantum takes may be no more mysterious than the fact that the way a jeweler manipulates a gem determines which of its facets become visible and which do not."
-- Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe, referring to physicist David Bohm's model of the universe as a "kind of giant, flowing hologram"
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While the traditional model of psychiatry and psychoanalysis is strictly personalistic and biographical, modern consciousness research has added new levels, realms, and dimensions and shows the human psyche as being essentially commensurate with the whole universe and all of existance.
-- Stanislav Grof
Beyond the Brain
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Dissolver of sugar, dissolve me,
if this is the time.
Do it gently with a touch of a hand, or a look.
Every morning I wait at dawn. That's when
it's happened before. Or do it suddenly
like an execution. How else
can I get ready for death?
You breathe without a body like a spark.
You grieve, and I begin to feel lighter.
You keep me away with your arm,
but the keeping away is pulling me in.
Pale sunlight,
pale the wall.
Love moves away.
The light changes.
I need more grace
than I thought.
- Rumi
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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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You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure
You suppose that you are the lock on the door
But you are the key that opens it
It's too bad that you want to be someone else
You don't see your own face, your own beauty
Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours. . .
~ Rumi
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Possess nothing and be possessed by nothing. Put away what you have in your head, give what you have in your heart. Here a world and there a world, we are seated on the threashold.
- Sufi saying (from Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson)
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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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If mankind is not to perish after all the dreadful things it has done and gone through, then a new spirit must emerge. And this new spirit is coming not with a roar but with a quiet birth, not with grand measures and words but with an imperceptible change in the atmosphere -- a change in which each of us is participating and which each of us regards as a quiet boon.
- Letter to a youth leader in Germany 1959 Albert Schweitzer
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love is the religion
the universe its book
- Rumi
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“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey, but spiritual beings on a human journey.”
–Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest and paleontologist
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I was blinded by the darkness,
I searched with my mind and I found wisdom,
I searched with my soul and I found peace,
I searched with my hands and I found creation,
but still i could not see...
Till i searched with my heart and I found passion,
Whose flame became part of me
Dissipating my darkness and, I finally learned to see...
-Rachel
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Describe infinity? There is not enough time.
Not enough space, not enough rhyme.
If you try to stop it, it gives you the slip.
You will never reach it, just enjoy the trip.
-Grandpa Tucker
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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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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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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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GRACE: "... a sudden reorganization in a more economical manner, of perceptions, attitudes, and dispositions which results in a relaxation of inner and outer conflicts and in liberation of previously bound energies for projects and relationships which are satisfying to the maturing self."
-Sam Keene To A Dancing God
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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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Five Guidelines for the Aquarian Age
1. Recognize that the other person is you. (In lak'ech)
2. There is a way through every block.
3. When time is on you, start and the pressure will be off.
4. Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times.
5. Vibrate the Cosmos. The Cosmos will clear the path.
(Yogi Bhajan, Mind, p. xiii)
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Look how far the light came
To paint you
This way
-Bruce Cockburn
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It's as though we are co-conspirators of consciousness--everyone, everywhere, everywhen, mixing up our openable minds.
It's as though we could gather clouds in the sky and people into our lives. Like an eruption of consciousness, we discover the most important force is love.
Experience yourself as the Source and appreciate every moment as perfection. Sunrise--Sunset.
Thank you, thank you, Creator, profound unstoppable connectedness of all beings, pattern to everything, most radical no-thing, the Vast Expanse.
-Alex Grey
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The best maps will not guide you
You can't see what's round the bend
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
Sometimes the darkness is your friend
-from "Pacing The Cage" Bruce Cockburn
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"I dance, therefore I am."
-- Momus
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First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.
— Mark Twain
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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 got my back to the sun 'cause the light is too intense/I can see what everybody in the world is up against/Can't turn back, you can't come back, sometimes we push too far/One day you'll open up your eyes and you'll see where we are."
- Dylan
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Lead me from death to life,
from lies to truth
Lead me from despair to
hope
from fear to trust
Lead me from hatred to love
from war to peace
Let peace fill our heart,
our world
our universe
peace, peace, peace. . .
Mother Teresa
Aug 27, 1910 - Sep 5, 1997
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It is not in any physical ability that man excels. We are not fast, or strong, or graceful. We lack wings, fangs, talons, stingers, and hooves. We have no inherent specialties, no special skills or weapons or camouflage. We possess no exceptional characteristics at all that are not equaled or exceeded by a myriad of other living things.
But the mind! The mind of man! In that, we are unique. Alone on this earth, we question the unseeable, consider the unthinkable, and quantify the intangible. Of all creatures sharing this biosphere, only mankind can and does wonder, Why am I not better than I am?
The mind that can ask this question is the mind that can become better. The only obstacles are those imagined, those believed, and those we ourselves create for one another.
To master the universe is to master one's own mind. They are, for each of us, one and the same.
--John Thomas Wolf, Gateways
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If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something.
- Jack Handy
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A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."
- Jack Handy
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When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.
- Jack Handy
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"Master, if abstainence is a means to detachment, what is the means to abstainence?"
"How refreshing to drink fine wine after a long thirst!"
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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 superior man tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails and people's minds are led towards
the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearence of a great world."
- Confucius
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"All music is nothing more than a succsession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose."
~Igor Stravinsky
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"Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony."
~Isidore of Seville
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"A real musical culture should not be a museum culture based on music of past ages...It should be the active embodiment in sound of the life of a community--of the everyday demands of people's work and play and of their deepest spiritual needs."
~Wilfrid Mellers
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"In music, instruments perform the function of the colors employed in painting."
~Honore De Balzac
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"The composer...joins Heaven and Earth together with threads of sound"
~Alan Hovhaness
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Aaah, Music....a magic beyond all we do here!
~~Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
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"Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it."
~Jerry Garcia
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"Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only one place
I rejoice that things are as they are and
I renounce the blessed face."
- "Ash Wednesday, 1930," T.S. Eliot.
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The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.... It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
- Benjamin Elijah Mays
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. -Oscar Wilde
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
- John Lilly
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." ~Marianne Williamson
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"The meeting of
two personalities is like
the contact of two
chemical substances:
if there is any reaction
both are transformed"
--CARL JUNG
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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
- Mark Twain in Eruption
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
-Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.
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We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space colony we were attempting to create a new paganism and a new dedication to life as art.
-Timothy Leary on Millbrook
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PREHISTORIC ORIGINS OF DNA
Its rising is not bright
nor its setting dark
Unceasing, continuous
Branching out in roots innumerable
Forever sending forth the serpent coil
of living things
Mysterious as the formless existence
to which it returns
Twisting back
Beyond mind
We say only that it is form from the formless
Life from spiral void
—Timothy Leary from Psychedelic Prayers
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"What you love is a sign
from your higher self
of what you are to do."
--Sanyana Roman
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They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
~~ Gerald Massey
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
~~ Jimi Hendrix
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Demons Dance Alone
You can know a needle's eye
Or a hungry baby's cry
But no one knows that demons dance alone
Silver linings came and went
When I was an innocent
Never knowing demons dance alone
But somehow I was seduced
And my innocence reduced
By a demon that became my own
Knowingly I followed it
Took the hook
and swallowed it
But then I found it dancing in my home
Terrified I tried to quit
But now I need
the taste of shit
Like a dancing demon needs a home
I had hoped to fill my years with more than
melancholy tears
But the demon makes me dance alone
-The Residents
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"When the winds of change blow,
some people build walls and others build windmills"
--Chinese proverb
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"Since synergy is the only word in our language meaning behavior of wholes unpredicted by behavior of their parts, it is clear that society does not think there are behaviors of whole systems unpredicted by their separate parts. This means that society's formally accredited thoughts and ways of accrediting others are grossly inadequate in comprehending the non-conceptual
qualities of the scenario "universal evolution". ~R.Buckminster Fuller
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
--M. Ghandi
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If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.
~Taoist Chant -6th Century
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
--George Orwell, 1945
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There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. ~Dr.Who
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When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. ~Gracie Allen (1906-1964)
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I danced myself out of the womb
Is it strange to dance so soon?
~T.Rex "Cosmic Dancer"
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The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. ~unknown
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...That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter and abolish it. ~Declaration of Independence
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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 cannot teach people anything; we can only help
them discover it within themselves." - Galileo Galilei
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This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~Rumi
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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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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss
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"Assault me, music, with rhythmic fury!
Lofty reproach, hurled up high before the heart
that didn't feel so surgingly, that spared itself. My heart: there:
behold your glory. Can you almost always make do
with lesser pulsings?---But the arches wait,
the uppermost, to be filled with thundering onrush.
Why do you long for the unknown loved one's withheld face?----
Has your craving not breath to blast echoing storms
from that angel's trumpet who announces the world's judgment:
then she too does not exist, is nowhere, will not be born,
she whose absence you parchingly endure...."
-Ranier Maria Rilke
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Love is God. Love one another as Love has loved you.
- Anon.
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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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Trust your crazy ideas. - Dan Zadra
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"A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions."
~Oliver Wendall Holmes
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"We are being transformed, even at this moment, by our extraordinary velocity and by the emergence of a newly insistant force-the power of NOW." ~Stephen Bertman~
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The tendency with many people after they are a little "advanced in years" is to look backward and with regret. The "looking" should be the other way--forward. If you want to go backward in every sense, mental and physical, keep on cultivating the mood of living regretfully in your past life.
It is one chief characteristic of the material mind to hold tenaciously to the past. It likes to recall the past and mourn over it. The material mind has a never-ending series of solemn amusement, in recalling past joys, and feeling sad because they are never to come again.
-Prentice Mulford
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But the beauty is not the madness
Tho' my errors and wrecks lie about me.
And I am not a demigod,
I cannot make it cohere.
- Ezra Pound, Cantos, CXVI
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Out beyond all ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
~~Rumi
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We try to stay away from concepts of good and bad; we really tread the middle, because we know we're living in a dualistic society. The folly of the human animal has to be comedy for us.
~~ Jojo Lash of WookieFoot
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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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"This universe is a dream that all six billion of us are collaboratively dreaming up into materialization together. When we realize this, we can put our lucidity together in a way where we can co-creatively dream up a much more grace-filled universe into incarnation. This is nothing other than an evolutionary quantum leap in human consciousness, unimaginable until now."
~Paul Levy
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"Nothing is too wonderful to be true."
- Michael Faraday
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"Listen, listen, this wonderful sound brings me back to my true home." - Thich Nhat Hanh.
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"Try now to get a picture of that luminous reality, the grand orchestra of the universe. Its heavenly strains are not only filling all interstellar space but they are ringing with far more enchanting music through all the higher worlds beyond the utmost bounds of the physical. The higher we go, the more enchanting the music. In those higher worlds the music is less mixed with matter, and so it is not dulled. After passing the Third Region on the Path of the Masters, this sublime chorus becomes so overwhelmingly attractive that the soul grows impatient to go on up. It is absorbed in it. It lives in it day and night. It is its life, its joy, its spiritual food. There is not a cubic millimeter of space in existence which is not filled with this music. Sweeter and sweeter its heavenly strains vibrate through every living being, great or small, from world to world, and from universe to universe. Its life-giving melodies may not be consciously heard by those who are not trained to catch them, but there is not one living being in all creation which does not derive its life from this current. All joy that has ever thrilled a living soul has come out of this divine harmonic. How great is this luminous reality!"
- Julian Johnson, "The Path of the Masters"
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"We are entering a new era. I call it 'the Singularity.' It's a merger between human intelligence and machine intelligence that is going to create something bigger than itself. It's the cutting edge of evolution on our planet. One can make a strong case that it's actually the cutting edge of the evolution of intelligence in general, because there's no indication that it's occurred anywhere else. To me that is what human civilization is all about. It is part of our destiny and part of the destiny of evolution to continue to progress ever faster, and to grow the power of intelligence exponentially. To contemplate stopping that--to think human beings are fine the way they are--is a misplaced fond remembrance of what human beings used to be. What human beings are is a species that has undergone a cultural and technological evolution, and it's the nature of evolution that it accelerates, and that its powers grow exponentially, and that's what we're talking about. The next stage of this will be to amplify our own intellectual powers with the results of our technology."
- Ray Kurzweill
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"The world is changing. Those who seize the initiative will do well." ~(I Ching Shamanic Oracle of Change, commentary to line one, Hexagram 17)
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People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe. And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. People populate their darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.
~~Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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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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A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,
cut holes in it, and called it a human being.
Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute.
~~Rumi
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You've no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.
What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean.
Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient.
It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these.
So- I've brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me.
~~Rumi
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"I intend to live forever; so far, so good." -- Steven Wright
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"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. "- E. Merrill Root
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"Have tremendous expectations and believe in them" --- Unknown
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"I am allergic to dogma. I thrive on questions, and don't trust any idea that tempts me to believe in it absolutely. There are very few perceptions or theories about which I am totally certain". -- Rob Brezsny
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"We come into this world alone,
We depart alone" --
This also is illusion.
I will teach you the way
Not to come, not to go!
~~Ikku
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In the beginner's mind
there are many possibilities;
in the expert's mind
there are few
~~Shunryu Suzuki
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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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This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~Rumi
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"Remember, Information is not knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom; Wisdom is not truth; Truth is not beauty; Beauty is not love; Love is not music; Music is the best."
- Frank Zappa
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"If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have and my own preconceived, silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen."
- John McLaughlin
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"I'll play it first and tell you what it's called later."
~Miles Davis
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"Through vibration comes motion. Through motion comes color. Through color comes tone."
~Pythagoras
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"Whether you're playing in a bar, a strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to compliment and enhance life."
~Carlos Santana
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"Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction.... Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands."
~Leopold Stokowski
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" After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
~Aldous Huxley
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"I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would never have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do."
~Brandford Marsalis
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"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."
~Montaigne
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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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"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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"Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves."
~Henry Threadgill
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Faith is not belief; it is the grasp of the ultimate as illumination.
~~Vivekananda
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Why should i see god better than this day?
I see something of god each hour
of the twenty four, and each moment then,
in the faces of men and women,
and in my own face in the glass;
I find letters from god
dropped in the street,
and every one is signed by god's name.
And I leave them where they are,
for I know that others will punctually
come forever and ever.
~Whitman
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"There is no here, no there; Infinity is right before our eyes." Seng-Ts'an
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Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doing it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy cat, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebrati' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who came after how much fun it was.
~~Molly Ivins
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This I replied: no one,
if he could help it,
would tolerate the presence
of untruth in the most vital
part of his nature concerning
the most vital matters.
There is nothing he would fear
so much as to harbour falshood
in the the soul.
~~The Republic Of Plato
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For sixty years I have been forgetful,
every moment, but not for a second
has this flowing toward me slowed or stopped.
I deserve nothing. Today I recognize
that I am the guest the mystics talk about.
I play this living music for my host.
Everything today is for the host.
~Rumi
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"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
~T.S.Eliot
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You make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story. That's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshiped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you."
- John Lennon
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."
- John Lennon
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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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"If you act like a dumbshit they'll treat you as an equal."
- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
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"I think you guys are wimps, for not being geeky enough"
- Ivan Stang
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"There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber."
- Jimi Hendrix
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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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"Don't just eat that hamburger, eat the HELL out of it!"
- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
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"This wise clown of compassion is a genuine mahatma of the Cosmic Giggle."
- Ram Dass on Wavy Gravy
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"We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self."
- Wavy Gravy
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"Too much is always better than not enough."
- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
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"I'll tell you what classical music is -- for those of you who don't know. Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. And it's formula music, the same as top forty music is formula music. In order to have a piece be classical, it has to conform to academic standards that were the current norms of that day and age ... I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health."
- Frank Zappa
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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
- Frank Zappa
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"Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."
- Frank Zappa
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"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
- Frank Zappa
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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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"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
- Jubal Harshaw
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"Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil."
- Jubal Harshaw
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"There are no wrong notes."
- Miles Davis
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"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
- Miles Davis
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"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
- Buckminster Fuller
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The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.
- Buckminster Fuller's final interview before his death, "NewsCenter4", WNBC-TV , 1983
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Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
- Buckminster Fuller
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God is a verb.
- Buckminster Fuller
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Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
- Arthur C. Clarke
|
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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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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And now, my son, I have shown thee everything, and the law of all the stars of the heaven is completed. And he showed me all the laws of these for every day, and for every season of bearing rule, and for every year, and for its going forth, and for the order prescribed to it every month and every week: And the waning of the moon which takes place in the sixth portal: for in this sixth portal her light is accomplished, and after that there is the beginning of the waning: (And the waning) which takes place in the first portal in its season, till one hundred and seventy-seven days are accomplished: reckoned according to weeks, twenty-five (weeks) and two days. She falls behind the sun and the order of the stars exactly five days in the course of one period, and when this place which thou seest has been traversed. Such is the picture and sketch of every luminary which Uriel the archangel, who is their leader, showed unto me.
- Book of Enoch, Chapter 79
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They always come in threes.
Your survival depends on your knowledge of the Law of Threes:
· They say a human can live without air for three minutes.
· They say a human can live exposed to the extreme elements for three hours.
· They say a human can live for three days without water.
· They say a human can live for three weeks without food.
· They say a human can live for three months without love.
They always come in threes.
- Nixxon
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- Francis E. Dec
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm a schizophrenic
And so are we
- Nixxon
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I don't want to die without any scars.
- Tyler Durden
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My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.
- Richard Rorty
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People often tell me, "Leave your ego at the door." And I say, "My ego is one of the only things keeping me from sleeping with the apes. That, and Dry Chimp Syndrome."
- Nixxon
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There is no greater sin than desire,
No greater curse than discontent,
No greater misfortune than
wanting something for oneself.
Therefore he who knows that
enough is enough
will always have enough.
~~Lao Tsu
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It all comes down to a choice between fear and love.
~~ Anon
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Often our true path is not the apparently safe one - but if we examine the "safe" path, it leads only to deadness and limitation. The only real safety lies in being true to our own self. What does your heart tell you is real for you? If you were to allow your authentic self to come forth, what would you be doing differently? The only quality of character that will guide you reliably through the many changes happening in and around you, is realness. Trust who and what you are, and the universe will support you in miraculous ways.
~Alan Cohen
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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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Let go of my ears,
I know what I'm doing! -unk
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The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.
~~ Henry David Thoreau
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"Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us."
- Jerry Garcia
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A wine bottle fell from a wagon
And broke open in a field.
That night one hundred beetles and all their cousins
Gathered
And did some serious binge drinking.
They even found some seed husks nearby
And began to play them like drums and whirl.
This made God very happy.
Then the "night candle" rose into the sky
And one drunk creature, laying down his instrument,
Said to his friend-for no apparent
Reason,
"What should we do about that moon?"
Seems to Hafiz
Most everyone has laid aside the music
Tackling such profoundly useless
Questions.
-Hafiz
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Sometimes I say to a poem,
"Not now,
can't you see I am bathing!"
But the poem usually doesn't care
And quips,
"Too bad, Hafiz,
No getting lazy--
You promised God you would help out
and He just came up with this
new tune."
Sometimes I say to a poem,
"I don't have the strength
To wring out another drop
Of the Sun."
And the poem will often
Respond
By climbing onto a barroom table:
Then lifts its skirt, winks,
Causing the whole sky to
Fall.
--Hafiz
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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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Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you're perfectly free.
~~Rumi
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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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Your imagination is supposed to be the engine of your destiny. It is the wizard's wand you can use to design your future. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Every human creation on this earth has begun as a vision in someone's imagination.
~~Rob Breszny
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Your imagination is also your very own all-purpose joy stick, your snakeskin bag of magic tricks. It's your remote-control channel-changer, and the only reliable rearranger of anything anywhere anytime. It's your X-Factor, your wild card, your wicked funny instigator, your Goddess-sanctioned trouble-maker -- your swarming, terraforming, always-morning brainstormer.
~~Rob Breszny
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Your imagination is the single most important tool you have in your daily fight to be free. It is the source of every act of liberation you will ever need to pull off.
~~Rob Breszny
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DEMAND 6: I demand that you refuse to be entertained and entranced by bad news--by stories whose plots are driven by violence, abuse, terrorism, bigotry, lawsuits, greed, crashes, alcoholism, disease, and torture.
~~Rob Breszny
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DEMAND 7: I demand that you seek out and create stories that make you feel that the universe is friendly and life is on your side. You could hunt down stories about how, for example, rising rates of intermarriage are helping to dissipate ethnic and religious strife worldwide; how the violent crime rate in America has been steadily declining for 30 years; how death rates from cancer are shrinking; the birth rate among teenage mothers is the lowest it's been in six decades; acreage devoted to organic farming is increasing rapidly; the number of refugees and weapons sales all over the world are way down from the level they were 15 years ago, and how the actual bare naked truth is that levels of literacy and education and political freedom and peace and wealth are steadily growing all over the world.
~~Rob Breszny
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DEMAND 8: When you're too well-entertained to move, screaming is good exercise. Which is why I demand that you scream now and then whenever you're soaking up slick crap generated by the imaginations of people who are devoted to money, power, and ego instead of love, reverence, and play.
~~Rob Breszny
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It is only through a change in the human consciousness that the world will be transformed. The personal and the planetary are connected. As we expand our awareness of mind, body, psyche, and spirit and bring this awareness into the world, so also will our world be changed. ~Michael Toms
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While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness. ~Gilda Radner
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving. ~Katherine Hepburn
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Philosophy is a team sport.
~~ Tim Leary
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Your brain is designed to design realities.
~~Tim Leary
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Socrates died for your sins.
~~Lazlo Kovaks
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"For every complex question there is a simple and wrong solution."
- Albert Einstein
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored... Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."
- Aldous Huxley
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Millions are now ready to awaken because spiritual awakening is not an option anymore,
but a necessity if humanity and the planet are to survive. Everything is speeding up – the
madness, the collective egoic dysfunction, as well as the arising of the new
consciousness, the awakening.
-Eckhart Tolle
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"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."
- Stanley Kubrick
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu
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"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities." ~Stephen R. Covey
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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." ~Alan Kay
|
"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
|
My kingdom of little things
Ended with you
I no longer possess things alone
Arrange flowers alone
Or read books alone
You came between
My eyes and my paper
Between my mouth and my voice
My head and my pillow
My fingers and my cigarette.
Of course
I do not complain
Of your living inside me
Or your interfering with the movement of my hands
Of the blinking of my eyes
Of the speed of my thoughts
The fig trees
Do not complain of housing too many birds
The cups do not complain Of holding too much wine.
~Nizar Qabbani
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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 live tenfold more intensely than any living thing, and die a thousandfold deeper. I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it."
~~the Voice of Music, according to Danish composer Carl Nielsen
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"... It had been five years since the brutal but transformative illumination of my own Bwiti initiation in the damp jungles of secretive Gabon, and it seemed, abstractly, a good idea to check in with the ancestors and the hard-ass Iboga spirit once again. And the trip would be paid for..."
- Daniel Pinchbeck, 2012: The Return of Quetzalqoatl
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“When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger”.
- Chinese proverb.
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Three quarters of mankind needs no written music and knows no written music.
~Carl Orff
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The Universe is a creation entirely within a being that is outside time and space, and dreaming about what we are. Everything is connected, because it's all being created by this one consciousness. And we are tiny reflections of the mind that is creating the universe. That's what the alchemy says. -Augustus Owsley Stanley
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"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _Universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
~ Albert Einstein
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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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Music is a moral law.
It gives soul to the universe,
Wings to the mind, flight to
the imagination,
And charm and gaiety to life
and to everything.
-Plato
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"Because the early Christians believed that resurrection had begun with Jesus and would be completed in the great final resurrection on the last day, they believed that God had called them to work with him, in the power of the Spirit, to implement the achievement of Jesus and thereby to anticipate the final resurrection, in personal and political life, in mission and holiness. It was not merely that God had inaugurated the 'end'; if Jesus, the Messiah, was the End in person, God's-future-arrived-in-the-present, then those who belonged to Jesus and followed him and were empowered by his Spirit were charged with transforming the present, as far as they were able, in light of that future..."
- N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham
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"You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied."
- Buckminster Fuller
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"Do not tell your wife where you hide your money."
- Ugarit clay tablet inscription, ~1700BCE
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Define your limitations and BEHOLD - They are yours!
~Richard Bach
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When you pray, remember to move your feet.
~African proverb
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"If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them."
- Spock
"This Side of Paradise"
Stardate 3417.7
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"There is no refuge. There is no place to hide. No matter where you look, you're still the one who's looking."
- Andrew Hill
"No matter where you go, there you are."
- Buckaroo Bonzai
|
...every atom that belongs to me
as good belongs to you...
~Walt Whitman
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What is important is to be wholly discontented, for such total discontent is the beginning of the initiative which becomes creative as it matures; and that is the only way to find out what is truth.
~~J. Krishnamurti
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We've all been in prison
because we couln't tell the truth
Ya know each man has made
the very bars he's clinging to
~Mike Cochran
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God is a concept
by which we
measure our pain.
- John Lennon
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Boredom, with a bad reputation for frivolity, nonetheless allows us to glimpse the abyss from which issues the need for prayer. ~~E.M. Cioran
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