Love is God. Love one another as Love has loved you.

- Anon.


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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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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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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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God is a verb.
- Buckminster Fuller

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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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"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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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"For every complex question there is a simple and wrong solution."

- Albert Einstein

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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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"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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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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"I dance, therefore I am."

-- Momus

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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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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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"Through vibration comes motion. Through motion comes color. Through color comes tone."
~Pythagoras

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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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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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"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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"Nothing is too wonderful to be true."
- Michael Faraday

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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 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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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu

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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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"If you act like a dumbshit they'll treat you as an equal."
- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

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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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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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"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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Love is God. Love one another as Love has loved you.

- Anon.


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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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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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"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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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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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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"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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