Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her tender shoon.
“Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.”
― Education and the Significance of Life: Jiddu Krishnamurti on Freedom, Self-Understanding, and Mature Love
― Education and the Significance of Life: Jiddu Krishnamurti on Freedom, Self-Understanding, and Mature Love
“As hot as the blood is the missing of her. God, how I want her little hand in mine. Only another parent can fully get this. It’s completely different from separation from a parent or lover. The clay in me wants to touch that part of myself — my blood flowing through another heart — touch the memories of her birth. The first time I held her, she was the length of my forearm.”
― Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
― Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
“When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.”
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“From 1998 to 2008 the world’s rainforests have disappeared at a rate of an acre every two minutes, approximately 1 percent a year. At this rate, in forty years we will have destroyed the last of them.”
― Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
― Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
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