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“Mother, where did you find the courage?’ …’ Courage, Johnny? I don’t know. We just do blindly the thing we think is right...What was it that moved me: love? Duty? Ambition? All three. Now I have my reward in full measure.’ -p. Abigail to Johnny, Those Who Love, p. 564”
― Irving Stone

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“Mycelium?” Joey asked. “What is that?”

Water explained, “It is a huge organism made up of very, very small fibres or filaments of fungus. The fungus grows underground, and it connects all the roots of the trees together. Its flower is a mushroom. Do you like to eat mushrooms?”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

tags: emotional-awareness, energy-connection, environment-and-energy, exploring-unity, growth-mindset, healing-vibrations, holistic-approach, life-cycles, teaching-connection, thoughtful-parenting

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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
not the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
― Charles Darwin

tags: life

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“Before going to breakfast, you are in your room experiencing the gongs of a classic religious
bell, a unique and cuddly invitation to the morning meditation session. In ten minutes it will be 7:00 a.m.—dawn’s brisk reminder that life will never be easy. Mornings are a bit cruel.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: descriptive, drama, empathy, joy, meditation, motivated, peace, religous, self-healing, spiritual

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“Just like the myth of the people’s or popular capitalism, which was propagated since the mid1950s in the countries to the west of Berlin Wall, to the east and the north of it, since the same time it was introduced the myth of the people’s or popular socialism. But the suggestion is always the same. Under any “people’s” power—from people’s capitalism to people’s socialism—the greatest illusion suggested to the oppressed classes is that the people are sovereign, i.e., that all the people dominate over themselves. In this respect, even John Kenneth Galbraith makes Marxist conclusions, which even in the Internet epoch have the same power: “Young people are suggested that in a democracy the entire power belongs to the people!” (“The Anatomy of Power”)
Yet, old people know that this is not true!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face