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    "I pray, surrendering my opinions and doubtsto the Divine Presence within." -Science of Mind Vol. 82 No. 6 Pg. 63
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    'On the back part of the step, toward the right, I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance. At first I thought it was revolving; then I realised that this movement was a illusion created by the dizzying world it bounded. The Aleph's diameter was probably little more than an inch, but all space was there, actual and undiminished. Each thing (a mirror's face, let us say) was infinite things, since I distinctly saw it from every angle of the universe. I saw the teeming sea; I saw daybreak and nightfall; I saw the multitudes of America; I saw a silvery cobweb in the centre of a black pyramid; I saw a splintered labyrinth (it was London); I saw, close up, unending eyes watching themselves in me as in a mirror; I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me; I saw in a backyard of Soler Street the same tiles that thirty years before I'd seen in the entrance of a house in Fray Bentos; I saw bunches of grapes, snow, tobacco, lodes of metal, steam; I saw convex equatorial deserts and each one of their grains of sand: I saw a woman in Inverness whom I shall never forget: I saw her tangled hair, her tall figure, I saw the cancer in her breast; I saw a ring of baked mud in a sidewalk, where before there had been a tree; I saw a summer house in Adrogué and a copy of the first English translation of Pliny - Philemon Holland's - and all at the same time saw each letter on each page (as a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight); I saw a sunset in Querétaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal; I saw my empty bedroom; I saw in a closet in Alkmaar a terrestrial globe between two mirrors that multiplied it endlessly: I saw horses with flowing manes on a shore of the Caspian Sea at dawn; I saw the delicate bone structure of a hand; I saw the survivors of a battle sending out picture postcards; I saw in a showcase in Mirzapur a pack of Spanish playing cards; I saw the slanting shadows of ferns on a greenhouse floor; I saw tigers, pistons, bison, tides, and armies; I saw all the ants on the planet; I saw a Persian astrolabe; I saw in the drawer of a writing table (and the handwriting made me tremble) unbelievable, obscene, detailed letters, which Beatriz had written to Carlos Argentino; I saw a monument I worshipped in Chacarita cemetery; I saw the rotted dust and bones that had once deliciously been Beatriz Viterbo; I saw the circualtion of my own dark blood; I saw the coupling of love and the modification of death; I saw the Aleph from every point and angle, and in the Aleph I saw the earth and in the earth the Aleph and in the Aleph the earth; I saw my own face and my own bowels; I saw your face; and I felt dizzy and wept, for my eyes had seen that secret and conjectured object whose name is common to all men but which no man has looked upon - the unimaginable universe. I felt infinite wonder, infinite pity.' - Jorge Luis Borges
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Sometimes you come across a quote, a line, a statement that just nails it, at some level. Cosmic, comic, whatever. If you'd like to share it, post it here, duly credited!
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'We are all ultimately responsible for our actions, and any organisation, religion, sect, cult, NGO, army captain or anyone else that tells you any different is lying.' - Peter Christopherson
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In his last novel, Timequake, the writer Kurt Vonnegut quotes his son, Mark: "We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is."
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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"what is to give light must endure burning". viktor frankl, concentration-camp survivor (subject title courtesy of baumgartner's..............serving classic limburger daily.......... :) )
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"when you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. when you're born in america, you get a front row seat." george carlin
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"common sense? that's nothing more than understanding that it doesn't take both hearing and smell to know the person next to you farted." gerald "shit liquor" mcknelly former friend, poet and all around grate guy.......4 yrs now.......rip funny friend :(
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"I bask in the lush grandeur of my ageless, birth-less,space-less, timeless, deathless, existance. I rest in the circulatory complete-ness that makes all things perfect, new, and good." -Science of Mind -Vol. 82 No. 7
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'It is better to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.' - Arthur Machen
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do try to be happy, because no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. lily tomlin comedienne extarordinaire
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reality is the leading cause of stress...............among those in touch with it. lily tomlin (i love this one)
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a word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones that need the advice. bill cosby
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"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
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Is giving up the claim to "Truth" better than fighting for it?
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Offering prayers 11 years after 9/11, realizing, by their very act of giving of up all claim to truth in the word, that they have found the key to defeat all that evil. (I think I just blew my mind!)
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Realizing that offering prayers to counteract evil in the world as evidenced by 9/ll, (by their very action of praying for an end to such evil acts) is in itself the end of evil.
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'Christian fundamentalists and fundamentalists in general are viruses, and they're killing us, multiplying and mutating, and they're destroying us. Now, you know, you got to give strong medicine to combat a virus.' - John Giorno
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"There is no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound."–John Cage
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"It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense."–Aldo Leopold
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where he lived and was inspired to write the "sand county almanac", are situated along the wisconsin river and,luckily,are a short drive from where i live. me and friends have hiked (and day-tripped :)) around there several times in past years and always get a wonderful vibe from that beautiful place. aldo's efforts have left a beautiful and thoughtful environmentally conscious legacy for future generations.
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'The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.' - David Bohm
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If you get confused listen to the music play
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'The poets are supposed to liberate the words - not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are supposed to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? "Your very own words", indeed! And who are you?' - Brion Gysin
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Don't bogart that joint my friendPass it over to me – Lawrence Wagner
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'The ability to soft-boil an egg is not regarded as a virtue in Spain. The more pervious a culture is to Surrealism, the less preoccupied it is with the least imaginative thing you can do with an egg. It's a post-Protestant talent to stand around for four minutes watching water precipitate gastronomic banality.' - Jonathan Meades
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The world IS flat, until you go around it. -ALC-
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'If you were to put all the arteries and veins and capillaries out end to end, that man would probably die.' - Eric Morecambe
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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." – Groucho Marx
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this is a big anniversary of the publication of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, my copy of which is apparently in an alternate universe, so somebody weigh in with some immortal words from Douglas Adams here...
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"Don't panic." – Douglas Adams