“One of the Big Ideas in this book is that fungi, especially fungi from old-growth forests, may be sources of new medicines that are active against a range of germs, including HIV/AIDS and the causative agents of smallpox and anthrax, potential bioterrorist threats.”
― Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
― Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
“I understand more that pain is evidence to our awakening to truth and also a measure of closeness to truth.”
― Motive Black
― Motive Black
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
“In the heavens I see your eyes,
In your eyes I see the heavens.
Why look for another Moon or another Sun?—
What I see will always be enough for me.”
― Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved
In your eyes I see the heavens.
Why look for another Moon or another Sun?—
What I see will always be enough for me.”
― Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved
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