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

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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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"I dance, therefore I am."

-- Momus

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God is a verb.
- Buckminster Fuller

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"I'll play it first and tell you what it's called later."
~Miles Davis

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Socrates died for your sins.
~~Lazlo Kovaks

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

- Albert Einstein

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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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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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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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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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"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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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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"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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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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“When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger”.

- Chinese proverb.

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

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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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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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"It ain't no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones."
-Tom Waits

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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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"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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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'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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"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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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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"I dance, therefore I am."

-- Momus

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

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