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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"This wise clown of compassion is a genuine mahatma of the Cosmic Giggle."
- Ram Dass on Wavy Gravy

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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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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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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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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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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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"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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Socrates died for your sins.
~~Lazlo Kovaks

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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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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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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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"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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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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Am I talking to myself,
or to the one I love?
-Lazlo

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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 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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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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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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"There are no wrong notes."
- Miles Davis

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

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

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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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"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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It's a perfect day for letting go.
-Robert Smith, The Cure

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

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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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"I think you guys are wimps, for not being geeky enough"
- Ivan Stang

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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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"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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"I dance, therefore I am."

-- Momus

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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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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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