I can not grasp It.
It is too big;
I am too small.
There is only one answer:
To be grasped by It...
To dance with It.
-Mary Lu Brandwein

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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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“There is a community of the spirit. Join it,
and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.”
— Rumi

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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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What is important is to be wholly discontented, for such total discontent is the beginning of the initiative which becomes creative as it matures; and that is the only way to find out what is truth.
~~J. Krishnamurti

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"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
- Miles Davis




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When you pray, remember to move your feet.
~African proverb

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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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"I dance, therefore I am."

-- Momus

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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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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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Your imagination is supposed to be the engine of your destiny. It is the wizard's wand you can use to design your future. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Every human creation on this earth has begun as a vision in someone's imagination.
~~Rob Breszny

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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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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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They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
~~ Gerald Massey

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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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"I think you guys are wimps, for not being geeky enough"
- Ivan Stang

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

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

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The Universe is a creation entirely within a being that is outside time and space, and dreaming about what we are. Everything is connected, because it's all being created by this one consciousness. And we are tiny reflections of the mind that is creating the universe. That's what the alchemy says. -Augustus Owsley Stanley

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"If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them."

- Spock

"This Side of Paradise"

Stardate 3417.7

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"I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would never have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do."
~Brandford Marsalis


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"When the winds of change blow,
some people build walls and others build windmills"
--Chinese proverb

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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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While the traditional model of psychiatry and psychoanalysis is strictly personalistic and biographical, modern consciousness research has added new levels, realms, and dimensions and shows the human psyche as being essentially commensurate with the whole universe and all of existance.
-- Stanislav Grof
Beyond the Brain

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"Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil."
- Jubal Harshaw

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What is important is to be wholly discontented, for such total discontent is the beginning of the initiative which becomes creative as it matures; and that is the only way to find out what is truth.
~~J. Krishnamurti

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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"A real musical culture should not be a museum culture based on music of past ages...It should be the active embodiment in sound of the life of a community--of the everyday demands of people's work and play and of their deepest spiritual needs."
~Wilfrid Mellers

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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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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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"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves...
Don't search for the answers,
which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is,to live everything.
Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future,
you will gradually, without even noticing it,live your way into the answer." -Rainer Maria Rilke

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We need to stop producing a nation of stressed out students who learn how to please the teacher instead of pleasing themselves. We need to produce adults who love learning, not adults who avoid all learning because it reminds them of the horrors of school. We need to stop thinking that all children need to learn the same stuff. We need to create adults who can think for themselves and are not convinced about how to understand complex situations in simplistic terms that can be rendered in a sound bite.

Just call school off. Turn them all into apartment houses.

-- Roger Shank

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love is the religion
the universe its book

- Rumi

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Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doing it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy cat, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebrati' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who came after how much fun it was.
~~Molly Ivins

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The best maps will not guide you
You can't see what's round the bend
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
Sometimes the darkness is your friend

-from "Pacing The Cage" Bruce Cockburn

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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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"I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would never have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do."
~Brandford Marsalis


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"Through vibration comes motion. Through motion comes color. Through color comes tone."
~Pythagoras

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Boredom, with a bad reputation for frivolity, nonetheless allows us to glimpse the abyss from which issues the need for prayer. ~~E.M. Cioran

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Let go of my ears,
I know what I'm doing! -unk

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