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

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Trust your crazy ideas. - Dan Zadra

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

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

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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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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 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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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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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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Look how far the light came
To paint you
This way
-Bruce Cockburn

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love is the religion
the universe its book

- Rumi

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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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The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.
~~ Henry David Thoreau

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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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"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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"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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There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. ~Dr.Who

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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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"There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber."
- Jimi Hendrix

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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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Your brain is designed to design realities.
~~Tim Leary

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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.

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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." ~Alan Kay

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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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