"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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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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"If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have and my own preconceived, silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen."
- John McLaughlin

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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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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored... Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."

- Aldous Huxley




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"From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless."
~Hazrat Inayat Khan


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

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It is only through a change in the human consciousness that the world will be transformed. The personal and the planetary are connected. As we expand our awareness of mind, body, psyche, and spirit and bring this awareness into the world, so also will our world be changed. ~Michael Toms

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Sometimes I say to a poem,

"Not now,
can't you see I am bathing!"

But the poem usually doesn't care
And quips,

"Too bad, Hafiz,
No getting lazy--

You promised God you would help out

and He just came up with this
new tune."

Sometimes I say to a poem,

"I don't have the strength
To wring out another drop
Of the Sun."

And the poem will often
Respond

By climbing onto a barroom table:

Then lifts its skirt, winks,
Causing the whole sky to
Fall.

--Hafiz

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If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.

If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.

If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.

If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.

If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.
~Taoist Chant -6th Century

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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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"We must begin to understand not only that there is an urgent need to change
the world but that we have the power to do so." --Jonathan Cohen

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Trust your crazy ideas. - Dan Zadra

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Millions are now ready to awaken because spiritual awakening is not an option anymore,
but a necessity if humanity and the planet are to survive. Everything is speeding up – the
madness, the collective egoic dysfunction, as well as the arising of the new
consciousness, the awakening.
-Eckhart Tolle

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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
no light and no land anywhere,
cloudcover thick. I try to stay
just above the surface, yet I'm already under
and living within the ocean. - Rumi

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Five Guidelines for the Aquarian Age

1. Recognize that the other person is you. (In lak'ech)
2. There is a way through every block.
3. When time is on you, start and the pressure will be off.
4. Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times.
5. Vibrate the Cosmos. The Cosmos will clear the path.

(Yogi Bhajan, Mind, p. xiii)

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Your brain is designed to design realities.
~~Tim Leary

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"Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."
- Frank Zappa

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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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God is a concept
by which we
measure our pain.

- John Lennon

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Your brain is designed to design realities.
~~Tim Leary

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This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~Rumi

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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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My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

- Richard Rorty

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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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My kingdom of little things
Ended with you
I no longer possess things alone
Arrange flowers alone
Or read books alone
You came between
My eyes and my paper
Between my mouth and my voice
My head and my pillow
My fingers and my cigarette.

Of course
I do not complain
Of your living inside me
Or your interfering with the movement of my hands
Of the blinking of my eyes
Of the speed of my thoughts
The fig trees
Do not complain of housing too many birds
The cups do not complain Of holding too much wine.
~Nizar Qabbani

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Dance like no one's watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like no one's listening,
Live like it's heaven on earth.

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ONLY BREATH

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.

-- Rumi

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ONLY BREATH

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.

-- Rumi

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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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"Whether you're playing in a bar, a strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to compliment and enhance life."
~Carlos Santana

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Try to be a sheet of paper
with nothing on it.
Be a spot of ground
where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.. - Rumi

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Am I talking to myself,
or to the one I love?
-Lazlo

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I'm not here, I've gone out to look for myself. If I come back before I return, please tell me to wait.
-Andrea Pusillo

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

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“When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger”.

- Chinese proverb.

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"You know how dumb the average guy is, right? Well, mathematically, by definition, half of them are even dumber than that."
- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

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We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space colony we were attempting to create a new paganism and a new dedication to life as art.

-Timothy Leary on Millbrook

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It all comes down to a choice between fear and love.
~~ Anon

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Out beyond all ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
~~Rumi

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"I'll tell you what classical music is -- for those of you who don't know. Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. And it's formula music, the same as top forty music is formula music. In order to have a piece be classical, it has to conform to academic standards that were the current norms of that day and age ... I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health."
- Frank Zappa

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