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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- Francis E. Dec

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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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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 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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Socrates died for your sins.
~~Lazlo Kovaks

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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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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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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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"The composer...joins Heaven and Earth together with threads of sound"
~Alan Hovhaness

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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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"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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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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Philosophy is a team sport.
~~ Tim Leary

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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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Out beyond all ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
~~Rumi

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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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"Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it."
~Jerry Garcia

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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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"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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"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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"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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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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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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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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Philosophy is a team sport.
~~ Tim Leary

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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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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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"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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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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"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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"I dance, therefore I am."

-- Momus

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"In music, instruments perform the function of the colors employed in painting."
~Honore De Balzac

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Define your limitations and BEHOLD - They are yours!
~Richard Bach

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
--M. Ghandi

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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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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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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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First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.

— Mark Twain

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

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