I don't want to die without any scars.

- Tyler Durden

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"There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber."
- Jimi Hendrix

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"I got my back to the sun 'cause the light is too intense/I can see what everybody in the world is up against/Can't turn back, you can't come back, sometimes we push too far/One day you'll open up your eyes and you'll see where we are."

- Dylan

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Philosophy is a team sport.
~~ Tim Leary

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"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _Universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

~ Albert Einstein

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Dissolver of sugar, dissolve me,
if this is the time.
Do it gently with a touch of a hand, or a look.
Every morning I wait at dawn. That's when
it's happened before. Or do it suddenly
like an execution. How else
can I get ready for death?

You breathe without a body like a spark.
You grieve, and I begin to feel lighter.
You keep me away with your arm,
but the keeping away is pulling me in.

Pale sunlight,
pale the wall.

Love moves away.
The light changes.

I need more grace
than I thought.

- Rumi

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"We are entering a new era. I call it 'the Singularity.' It's a merger between human intelligence and machine intelligence that is going to create something bigger than itself. It's the cutting edge of evolution on our planet. One can make a strong case that it's actually the cutting edge of the evolution of intelligence in general, because there's no indication that it's occurred anywhere else. To me that is what human civilization is all about. It is part of our destiny and part of the destiny of evolution to continue to progress ever faster, and to grow the power of intelligence exponentially. To contemplate stopping that--to think human beings are fine the way they are--is a misplaced fond remembrance of what human beings used to be. What human beings are is a species that has undergone a cultural and technological evolution, and it's the nature of evolution that it accelerates, and that its powers grow exponentially, and that's what we're talking about. The next stage of this will be to amplify our own intellectual powers with the results of our technology."

- Ray Kurzweill

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"Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction.... Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands."
~Leopold Stokowski


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It's a perfect day for letting go.
-Robert Smith, The Cure

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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

- Joseph Campbell

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"All music is nothing more than a succsession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose."
~Igor Stravinsky

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It is not in any physical ability that man excels. We are not fast, or strong, or graceful. We lack wings, fangs, talons, stingers, and hooves. We have no inherent specialties, no special skills or weapons or camouflage. We possess no exceptional characteristics at all that are not equaled or exceeded by a myriad of other living things.

But the mind! The mind of man! In that, we are unique. Alone on this earth, we question the unseeable, consider the unthinkable, and quantify the intangible. Of all creatures sharing this biosphere, only mankind can and does wonder, Why am I not better than I am?

The mind that can ask this question is the mind that can become better. The only obstacles are those imagined, those believed, and those we ourselves create for one another.

To master the universe is to master one's own mind. They are, for each of us, one and the same.

--John Thomas Wolf, Gateways

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"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. "- E. Merrill Root

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Noise, then, occurs when language breaks down. Noise is a wordless state in which the very constitution of our selves is in jeopardy. The pleasure of noise lies in the fact that the obliteration of meaning and identity is ecstacy.
- Simon Reynolds

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There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. ~Dr.Who

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Aaah, Music....a magic beyond all we do here!
~~Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

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Your imagination is also your very own all-purpose joy stick, your snakeskin bag of magic tricks. It's your remote-control channel-changer, and the only reliable rearranger of anything anywhere anytime. It's your X-Factor, your wild card, your wicked funny instigator, your Goddess-sanctioned trouble-maker -- your swarming, terraforming, always-morning brainstormer.
~~Rob Breszny

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A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,
cut holes in it, and called it a human being.

Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute.

~~Rumi

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"Do not tell your wife where you hide your money."

- Ugarit clay tablet inscription, ~1700BCE

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While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness. ~Gilda Radner

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"You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied."

- Buckminster Fuller

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Define your limitations and BEHOLD - They are yours!
~Richard Bach

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"I'll play it first and tell you what it's called later."
~Miles Davis

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"Death"

"We must make gods or die.
We must kill gods or die,"
whisper the lost stones
in their lost kingdom.

- Adonis of Syria



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"Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction.... Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands."
~Leopold Stokowski


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It's a perfect day for letting go.
-Robert Smith, The Cure

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GRACE: "... a sudden reorganization in a more economical manner, of perceptions, attitudes, and dispositions which results in a relaxation of inner and outer conflicts and in liberation of previously bound energies for projects and relationships which are satisfying to the maturing self."

-Sam Keene To A Dancing God

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"If you act like a dumbshit they'll treat you as an equal."
- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
--M. Ghandi

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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."
- John Lennon


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" After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
~Aldous Huxley

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Whoever acts with respect will get respect.
Whoever brings sweetness will be served almond cake.
Good women are drawn to be with good men.
--Rumi

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"All music is nothing more than a succsession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose."
~Igor Stravinsky

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- Francis E. Dec

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"Because the early Christians believed that resurrection had begun with Jesus and would be completed in the great final resurrection on the last day, they believed that God had called them to work with him, in the power of the Spirit, to implement the achievement of Jesus and thereby to anticipate the final resurrection, in personal and political life, in mission and holiness. It was not merely that God had inaugurated the 'end'; if Jesus, the Messiah, was the End in person, God's-future-arrived-in-the-present, then those who belonged to Jesus and followed him and were empowered by his Spirit were charged with transforming the present, as far as they were able, in light of that future..."

- N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham

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Look how far the light came
To paint you
This way
-Bruce Cockburn

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DEMAND 8: When you're too well-entertained to move, screaming is good exercise. Which is why I demand that you scream now and then whenever you're soaking up slick crap generated by the imaginations of people who are devoted to money, power, and ego instead of love, reverence, and play.
~~Rob Breszny

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"A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions."
~Oliver Wendall Holmes

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Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
- Arthur C. Clarke

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My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

- Bobby Kennedy on the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"The world is changing. Those who seize the initiative will do well." ~(I Ching Shamanic Oracle of Change, commentary to line one, Hexagram 17)

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