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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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    "I have found that a few brief statements, mentally affirmed,followed by a silent meditation, have been effective in the healing work." -The Science of Mind, page 507
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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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"It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness....... a gratefulness........ open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation. .....I think in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be." -Dr Albert Hofmann, part of a speech given by him on his 100th birthday Today marks the 70th anniversary that chemist extraordinaire Dr. Hofmann - on a hunch! - synthesized LSD 25 at Sandoz Laboratories for the second time in human history and accidentally absorbed an amount small enough to produce a couple hours of effects, which led him to intentionally take 250 mcg. 3 days later and take his famous bicycle ride home. "Thank you" seems so shallow......
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For the quote from Mr. Hofmann. All of us owe a large debt of gratitude to him. He gave us the soma of the gods and we launched a revolution to change the world. And, as Hunter S. Thompson said, "With the right kind of eyes you can look out into the Pacific Ocean and see where the wave peaked..." Jerry bore the psychedelic cross Albert created for 30 long years. In the end even he couldn't turn the tide. Did we help enough?
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'A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.' - Hermann von Helmholtz
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"Farmers and gossipers both spread shit, but for completely different reasons." -me (hope Bob's ok; feel sorry for his family and loved ones that read the speculations spewed from assholes)
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"out of sight, out of mind" -the words engraved onto a large piece of red granite at the entrance to a local cemetery; I just noticed it today.
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'Our mastery over the forces of nature has led to a rapid growth of population, and a vast accumulation of wealth; but these have brought with them such an amount of poverty and crime, and have fostered the growth of so much sordid feeling and so many fierce passions, that it may well be questioned, whether the mental and moral status of our population has not on the average been lowered, and whether the evil has not overbalanced the good.' - Alfred Wallace
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The seeming contradiction of a rising accumulation of wealth and a rising amount of poverty is an interesting phenomenon that it is a very central theme. If human beings are basically good, then why don't the more capable share with the less capable? In the Western industrialized countries they do, to a greater or lesser extent. And it is a never-ending debate. Some people say that if he rich are forced to share with the poor then they are less inclined to be productive (and dominate nature so much). Isn't that a good thing? More animals, less global warming and a whole lot more go along with that. I like to believe that human beings are good but this very thing Wallace talks about leads me to believe that, on average,we are selfish and would destroy ourselves and our planet rather than share with the less fortunate. Human beings are the number one bad-ass animal on the planet, no doubt.
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'Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.' - Jean Baudrillard
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& dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void! Loves these quotes you are coming up with, Lard!
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'Larks are the sparks torn from the revolving Earth as it turns like a wheel through the night.' - Ronald Duncan
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'Larks are the dance in which the dancer is still.' - Ronald Duncan
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'When winter whips, old men discover their life is a dream they can't remember.' - Ronald Duncan
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'The sun bleeds on the horizon till the day, like a fallow deer, is bled and the light is devoured and the lake is dead.' - Ronald Duncan
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“If "con" is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress? " - Jon Stewart
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Put me on the plane.Hurry, hurry, hurry, Before I go insane! I want to be sedated.
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'If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.' - Antonin Artaud
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"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it." -Haim Ginott
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"Most of us are inattentive. Now, next time you are conscious of inattentive, you are attentive." -J. Krishnemurti, from: You Are the World
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" I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous." - Robert Brault
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"It's the young person's prerogative to be noisy." - a line from the character Tom in the movie "Another Year"
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"If we gaze longingly at joy, it willmake its home with us, and we shall enter its portals and be happy." -The Science of the Mind page 491
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"Joy does not come from what you do;it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you." -Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
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"Inamuch as you have done it untothe least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me." -Matthew 25:40
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"Love one another and you will be happy.It's as simple and as difficult as that." -Michael Leunig
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"Only in a spirit of love, understandingand unity can there be wholeness." -How To Use The Science of Mind, page 138
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"The basic principle ofspiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love." -Jack Kornfield
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"Don't forget love; it willbring all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe." -Mira
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"5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, 6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor the destruction that lays waste at noonday." -Psalm 91 5 and 6 The Gideons International Nashville, Tennessee
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"Love is at the center of man's being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love." -The Science of Mind, page 238
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Exchanging compliments isintellectual back scratching. -Fortune Cookie Lucky numbers 50, 47, 1, 35, 20 (imagine that) You are so beautiful, xo!
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Fearless courage is the foundationof victory. -Fortune Cookie Lucky Numbers 20, 5, 15, 51, 27, 13
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"Corn can't expect justice in a court composed of chickens." - African proverb Eric Holder, US Dist. Attorney promises Edward Snowden that he will not be given the death penalty or tortured if he returns to the US for trial. Kinda has all the feeling of that creepy guy driving slowly by the school sidewalk with his window down offering candy to the kids.
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"There is nothing on this earthmore to be prized than true friendship." -Sir Thomas Aquinas