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    Annie Kagan
    “The same intelligence that grows trees from seeds,
    that lets birds fly,
    that waves the ocean
    and gives birth to new stars – that same Intelligence

    also breathes your breath, beats your heart,

    and heals your wounds.”
    ― Annie Kagan, The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There's Life After Death
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    John Steinbeck
    “For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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    Tom Robbins
    “My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?”
    ― Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
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    Tom Robbins
    “Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
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    Wendell Berry
    “Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
    (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")”
    ― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
    tags: community, creation, healing, health, life, loneliness
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    Tom Robbins
    “Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
    tags: advice-for-daily-living
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    Edmund Wilson
    “No two persons ever read the same book.”
    ― Edmund Wilson
    tags: books, perspective, reading
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Carl Sagan
    “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: perspective
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    Bertrand Russell
    “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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    Jane Yolen
    “Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.”
    ― Jane Yolen, Briar Rose
    tags: happily-ever-after, perspective
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    “Circus can't just be beautiful. It has to be weird. It has to be frightening.”
    ― Elizabeth Schulte Martin, Everything You Came to See
    tags: beautiful, circus, freakshows, frightening, weird
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    Anne Lamott
    “You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
    ― Anne Lamott
    tags: grief, loss, recovery
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    Lewis Spence
    “I should add, however, that, particularly on the occasion of Samhain, bonfires were lit with the express intention of scaring away the demonic forces of winter, and we know that, at Bealltainn in Scotland, offerings of baked custard were made within the last hundred and seventy years to the eponymous spirits of wild animals which were particularly prone to prey upon the flocks - the eagle, the crow, and the fox, among others. Indeed, at these seasons all supernatural beings were held in peculiar dread. It seems by no means improbable that these circumstances reveal conditions arising out of a later solar pagan worship in respect of which the cult of fairy was relatively greatly more ancient, and perhaps held to be somewhat inimical.”
    ― Lewis Spence, British Fairy Origins
    tags: beltane, fairies, fairy, halloween, pagan-gods, paganism, samhain
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  • #15
    I feel the nights stretching away thousands long behind the days till they reach the
    “I feel the nights stretching away
    thousands long behind the days
    till they reach the darkness where
    all of me is ancestor.”
    ― Annie Finch, Spells: New and Selected Poems
    tags: ancestors-quote, halloween, pagan, samhain, witch
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    Carole Carlton
    “We become paralysed with fear and guilt, obsessed by ‘labels’ and become unable to question the reasoning behind our beliefs or indeed realise that it is acceptable to challenge them. Sometimes we simply need to give ourselves permission to break free from the confines of the tribe and find our own way.”
    ― Carole Carlton, Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
    tags: carole-carlton, mrs-darley, pagan-whispers
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    N. Scott Momaday
    “To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.”
    ― N. Scott Momaday
    tags: native-american-wisdom, sacred, spirituality
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    Thomas Lloyd Qualls
    “There is a sacred marriage between water and earth... Their relationship binds everything we know and trust. Earth holds space for water. Water nurtures earth’s dreams. Their collective desires make life possible. Without their marriage, this world could not be. And we could not be of this world.”
    ― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen
    tags: desire, dreams, literary-fiction, marriage-quotes, nature-spirituality-psychology, sacred, sacred-teachings, sacred-wisdom, spiritual-quotes, water-quotes
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    Bernd Heinrich
    “Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet, tree planting is often pictorially advertised on television and in national magazines by focusing on cupped caring hands around a seedling. But forests do not need this godlike interference... Planting tree plantations is permanent deforestation... The extensive planting of just one exotic species removes thousands of native species.”
    ― Bernd Heinrich, The Trees in My Forest
    tags: conservation, forestry, monoculture, trees
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    Diane Kalen-Sukra
    “Offering sanctuary is a revolutionary act; it expresses love, when others offer scorn or hate. It recognizes humanity, when others deny and seek to debase it. Sanctuary says 'we' rather than 'I'. It is belonging—the building block of community.”
    ― Diane Kalen-Sukra
    tags: belonging, community, community-building, humanity, love, safe-spaces, sanctuary, save-your-city
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    Criss Jami
    “God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those whom He enjoys.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: apologetics, cathedral, church, depravity, elect, enjoy, faith, fellowship, forgiveness, friendship, god, grace, heaven, holiness, holiness-of-god, joy, kingdom, kingdom-of-heaven, life, like, love, mercy, peace, predestination, relationship, reserve, salvation, sanctuary, sin, unconditional-love, universalism
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    Pico Iyer
    “Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.”
    ― Pico Iyer, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
    tags: faith, sanctuary
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