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    'But it's not for us, darling, it never was. I don't believe in a higher meaning, nor do I need a purpose to live for. I believe in us, in life, in the magical reality of everything around us. Look at it, then look again, look harder because I can't make you see it until you want to. This is it. This is all there is to it, and it's wonderful enough as it is. I don't believe in god or praying. I don't believe in heaven or hell. There's no afterlife I'm hoping for, no deadline I'm dreading. I don't need to know what we're put on earth for - I don't believe we were put on earth to begin with. We became and here we are. Insignificant to the universe, we could easily not have been here and all would still be as it is. But we're here now and for that we're infinitely blessed. You get to feel the cherry blossoms in your hands. Swim in cold water while the sun rises and warms your shoulders. Make love and cry because you're sad or cry because you're happy and never have to explain because the tears stain all the same. You get to grow and dance and drink and see the world in every place you travel to. If you take us all apart, you'd find we're all made of stardust - as are the trees, the frogs, the grass as well as the dew on it - why would we be any more special? I've never seen a tree stop mid-sway to contemplate why it's moving and if it'll ever get any closer. It sways and sways and sways and pretends it makes the same wind blow that it is rocking to. We hold remnants of long lost stars in our veins. That's not an answer, but it's still magnificent and nothing can ever be both pointless and magnificent.' - Eva Faber
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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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Submitted by slo lettuce on Tue, 04/16/2013 - 20:30

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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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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Wed, 04/17/2013 - 00:38

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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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Submitted by Randall Lard on Wed, 04/17/2013 - 04:38

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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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Submitted by slo lettuce on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 15:06

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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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Submitted by slo lettuce on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 14:59

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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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Submitted by Randall Lard on Thu, 05/09/2013 - 00:04

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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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Submitted by sherbear on Wed, 05/08/2013 - 14:09

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"Love is the perfect stillness and the greatest excitement,and most profound act, and the word almost as complete as His name." -Rabia
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Thu, 05/09/2013 - 03:01

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'The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.' - Gilles Deleuze
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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Thu, 05/09/2013 - 03:10

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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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Submitted by Randall Lard on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 03:27

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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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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 01:44

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& dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void! Loves these quotes you are coming up with, Lard!
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Mon, 05/20/2013 - 02:00

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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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Submitted by Randall Lard on Thu, 05/23/2013 - 04:24

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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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Submitted by Randall Lard on Fri, 05/24/2013 - 08:44

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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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Submitted by Anttheknee on Sun, 05/26/2013 - 06:27

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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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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Mon, 05/27/2013 - 02:41

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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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Submitted by Randall Lard on Tue, 05/28/2013 - 06:57

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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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Submitted by slo lettuce on Tue, 05/28/2013 - 17:27

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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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Submitted by slo lettuce on Tue, 06/18/2013 - 16:07

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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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Submitted by slo lettuce on Mon, 06/24/2013 - 17:25

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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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Submitted by sherbear on Mon, 06/24/2013 - 21:06

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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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Submitted by sherbear on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 20:21

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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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Submitted by sherbear on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 20:26

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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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Submitted by sherbear on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 20:29

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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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Submitted by sherbear on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 20:32

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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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Submitted by sherbear on Sun, 06/30/2013 - 20:28

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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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Submitted by sherbear on Sun, 06/30/2013 - 20:38

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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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Submitted by sherbear on Tue, 07/02/2013 - 20:38

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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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Submitted by sherbear on Mon, 07/08/2013 - 08:14

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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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Submitted by sherbear on Wed, 07/10/2013 - 21:15

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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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Submitted by sherbear on Fri, 07/26/2013 - 06:44

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Fearless courage is the foundationof victory. -Fortune Cookie Lucky Numbers 20, 5, 15, 51, 27, 13
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Sun, 07/28/2013 - 19:43

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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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Submitted by sherbear on Thu, 08/01/2013 - 20:01

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"There is nothing on this earthmore to be prized than true friendship." -Sir Thomas Aquinas