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Herbs: Medicinal, Magical, Marvelous!

by Deborah J. Martin (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 04, 2013 06:36PM

“The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable.”
― F.T. McKinstry, Crowharrow

tags: aging, gardens, power, silence, snakes, wizards

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“Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.”
― Hermann Goering

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“The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: complacency, compliance, comply, conform, conforming, differences, different, expectations, heard, herd, independence, independent, laziness, lazy, mediocre, mediocrity, norms, opinion, placate, placating, problem, problematic, societal, society, surrender, surrendering, unique, uniqueness, voice

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“Probably about 20 to 25 percent of the adult American population is so right-wing authoritarian, so scared, so self-righteous, so ill-informed, and so dogmatic that nothing you can say or do will change their minds,”
― John W. Dean, Conservatives Without Conscience

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“Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism