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    Satchidananda
    “The cause of bandha and moksha (bondage and liberation) is our own minds. If we think we are bound, we are bound. If we think we are liberated, we are liberated. . . . It is only when we transcend the mind that we are free from all these troubles. (117)”
    Sri S. Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali

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    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
    Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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    Ransom Riggs
    “Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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    William Shakespeare
    “Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
    Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
    More than cool reason ever comprehends.
    The lunatic, the lover and the poet
    Are of imagination all compact:
    One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
    That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
    Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
    The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
    Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
    And as imagination bodies forth
    The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
    Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
    A local habitation and a name.”
    Shakespeare William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
    Henry David Thoreau, Familiar letters

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    Anton Chekhov
    “You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.”
    Anton Chekhov

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    “The first men to be created and formed were called the Sorcerer of Fatal Laughter, the Sorcerer of Night, Unkempt, and the Black Sorcerer … They were endowed with intelligence, they succeeded in knowing all that there is in the world. When they looked, instantly they saw all that is around them, and they contemplated in turn the arc of heaven and the round face of the earth … [Then the Creator said]: 'They know all … what shall we do with them now? Let their sight reach only to that which is near; let them see only a little of the face of the earth!… Are they not by nature simple creatures of our making? Must they also be gods?”
    Anonymous, Popol Vuh

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

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    A.W. Tozer
    “I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.”
    A.W. Tozer

  • #12
    “Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.


    PART SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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    Terence McKenna
    “Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”
    Terence McKenna

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    Pearl S. Buck
    “I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
    Pearl S. Buck

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    Edward Abbey
    “The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.”
    Edward Abbey

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    Gary Snyder
    “Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.”
    Gary Snyder

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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet grasp each other's hands as friends. It is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with certainty about, should make us hate, persecute, and despise each other. Why a difference of opinion upon predestination, or the trinity, should make people imprison and burn each other seems beyond the comprehension of man; and yet in all countries where Christians have existed, they have destroyed each other to the exact extent of their power. Why should a believer in God hate an atheist? Surely the atheist has not injured God, and surely he is human, capable of joy and pain, and entitled to all the rights of man. Would it not be far better to treat this atheist, at least, as well as he treats us?

    Christians tell me that they love their enemies, and yet all I ask is—not that they love their enemies, not that they love their friends even, but that they treat those who differ from them, with simple fairness.

    We do not wish to be forgiven, but we wish Christians to so act that we will not have to forgive them. If all will admit that all have an equal right to think, then the question is forever solved; but as long as organized and powerful churches, pretending to hold the keys of heaven and hell, denounce every person as an outcast and criminal who thinks for himself and denies their authority, the world will be filled with hatred and suffering. To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.”
    Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

  • #19
    “ONE BUT MANY

    One God, many faces.
    One family, many races.
    One truth, many paths.
    One heart, many complexions.
    One light, many reflections.
    One world, many imperfections.
    ONE.
    We are all one,
    But many.”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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    Terry Hayes
    “The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.”
    Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

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    John Green
    “You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
    John Green

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
    Kahlil Gibran

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    Betty  Smith
    “I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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    Nina Guilbeau
    “Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now. Right now I can’t sleep. It’s right now that I can’t eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he’s not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don’t know what to do with all this hurt right now.”
    Nina Guilbeau, Too Many Sisters

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    Jonathan Harnisch
    “Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”
    Jonathan Harnisch, Freak

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    “I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a apart of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible. Love and loss, therefore, are linked.”
    Donna Lynn Hope

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    J.S.B. Morse
    “A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”
    J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death

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