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“Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us.
Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us.
Cooperation with all these things brings harmony,
opposition to them brings disaster and chaos."

-Bill Mollison

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We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves strong.
The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda
(1925-1998, Anthropologist, writer, shaman)

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Roots

call it our craziness even,
call it anything.
it is the life thing in us
that will not let us die.
even in death’s hand
we fold the fingers up
and call them greens and
grow on them,
we hum them and make music.
call it our wildness then,
we are lost from the field
of flowers, we become
a field of flowers.
call it our craziness
our wildness
call it our roots,
it is the light in us
it is the light of us
it is the light, call it
whatever you have to,
call it anything.

Lucille Clifton

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Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Will Rogers

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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

William Faulkner

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In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.

Eugene Victor Debs
(November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926)
American socialist, political activist, trade unionist,
one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW),
and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.

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Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights,
fear tends to be the order of the day.

Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure.

A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.

It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.

Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear

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Remember,
we are all affecting the world every moment,
whether we mean to or not.
Our actions and states of mind matter,
because we're so deeply interconnected
with one another.
Working on our own consciousness
is the most important thing
that we are doing at any moment,
and being love
is the supreme creative act.

Ram Dass
(1931 to 2019, Spiritual Teacher and Mystic)

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To stir the masses, to appeal to their higher, better selves, to set them thinking for themselves, and to hold ever before them the ideal of mutual kindness and good will, based upon mutual interests, is to render real service to the cause of humanity.

Eugene V. Debs,

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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'

Kurt Vonnegut

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The word blessing
evokes a sense of warmth and protection;
it suggests that no life is alone or unreachable.
Each life is clothed
in raiment of spirit
that secretly links it to everything else.

John O'Donohue
(1958 to 2008, Irish poet, author,
priest, and Hegelian philosopher)

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A privately owned world can never be a free world
and a society based upon warring classes cannot stand.

Eugene V. Debs, Works of Eugene Victor Debs

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If we take responsibility
for our own little piece,
because of interconnectedness,
you take care of yourself,
you're also taking care of the world.
Each one of us
is the cells of the one body of the planet.
And when it becomes we,
rather than me,
that's a very healing direction to go in.

Jon Kabat-Zinn
(1944 to pres., Medical Doctor and Mindfulness Teacher)

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Walking,
I am listening to a deeper way.
Suddenly all my ancestors
are behind me.
Be still they say.
Watch and listen.
You are the result
of the love of thousands.

Linda Hogan

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I asked a hundred painters
and a hundred poets
how to paint sunlight
on the face of life.
Their answers were ambiguous and ingenuous
as if they were all guarding trade secrets.
Whereas it seems to me
all you have to do
is conceive of the whole world
and all humanity
as a kind of art work
a site-specific art work
an art project of the God of Light
the whole earth and all that's in it
to be painted with light.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(1919 to 2021, American Poet and Publisher)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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True engagement with the world
begins not in grand gestures
but in small, steady moments
of presence at critical times.
When we touch the stillness within,
we begin to touch the world
with more care.

~Brother Pháp Hữu
(Zen Buddhist monk)

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“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.
Even while the earth sleeps we travel.
We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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We are all visitors
to this time, this place.
We are just passing through.
Our purpose here is to observe,
to learn, to grow, to love...
and then we return home.

~Australian Aboriginal Proverb

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“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

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"Our minds as well as our bodies have the need of the out-of-doors.
Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things,
the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight,
sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn
and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees."

Edwin Way Teale

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Judith Browning wrote:

I asked a hundred painters
and a hundred poets
how to paint sunlight
on the face of life.
Their answers were ambiguous and ingenuous
as if they were all guarding trade secrets.
Whereas it seems to me
all you have to do
is conceive of the whole world
and all humanity
as a kind of art work
a site-specific art work
an art project of the God of Light
the whole earth and all that's in it
to be painted with light.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(1919 to 2021, American Poet and Publisher)

Strange…I was at the library the other day and felt inexplicably drawn to pulling out A Coney Island of the Mind. I think it was the same day you posted this.

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“Souls love. That’s what souls do.
Egos don’t, but souls do.
Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed― all the beings around you are souls.
Be one, see one.
When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one,
we human beings all over the planet.
We will be one. One love.
And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies― it’s all one.
It’s one energy.”

Ram Dass

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"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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M Ljin wrote:

Judith Browning wrote:

I asked a hundred painters
and a hundred poets
how to paint sunlight
on the face of life.
Their answers were ambiguous and ingenuous
as if they were all guarding trade secrets.
Whereas it seems to me
all you have to do
is conceive of the whole world
and all humanity
as a kind of art work
a site-specific art work
an art project of the God of Light
the whole earth and all that's in it
to be painted with light.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(1919 to 2021, American Poet and Publisher)

Strange…I was at the library the other day and felt inexplicably drawn to pulling out A Coney Island of the Mind. I think it was the same day you posted this.

He's one of my favorite poets...since high school even, when my senior year english teacher stepped out of the box and inspired her class with new readings.
I still have a few of his older books of poems but not the more recent with the poem I posted.

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PITY THE NATION

Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them

Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves

Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerors
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture

Pity the nation that knows
No other language but its own
And no other culture but its own

Pity the nation whose breath is money
And sleeps the sleep of the too well fed

Pity the nation oh pity the people
who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away

My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (after Khalil Gibran)
2007

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"Stillness is vital to the world of the soul.
If as you age you become more still,
you will discover that stillness
can be a great companion.
The fragments of your life will have time to unify,
and the places where your soul-shelter
is wounded or broken
will have time to knit and heal.
You will be able to return to yourself.
In this stillness, you will engage your soul.
Many people miss out on themselves completely
as they journey through life.
They know others, they know places,
they know skills, they know their work,
but tragically, they do not know themselves at all.
Aging can be a lovely time of ripening
when you actually meet yourself,
indeed maybe for the first time."

John O'Donohue

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Grateful living
is the stance we take
when confronting adversity.
It is the deep knowledge
that what is before us may not be desired,
but we can take control of ourselves
despite the chaos around us.

Joe Primo
(CEO of Grateful Living and Good Grief)

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Gratitude is liberating.
It is subversive.
It helps us realize that we are sufficient,
and that realization frees us.

Joanna Macy
(1929-2025, environmental activist, author,
scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory,
and deep ecology)

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my elders slowly
becoming my ancestors
red leaves in the wind

Valerie Rosenfeld

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Live in the present.
Do the things that need to be done.
Do all the good you can each day.
The future will unfold.

Peace Pilgrim
(1908-1981, mystic, vegetarian activist,
peace activist, pacifist)

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There is no power for change
greater than a community
discovering what it cares about.

Margaret Wheatley
(1944 to pres., American writer
and management consultant)

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In the point of rest
at the center of our being,
we encounter a world
where all things are at rest
in the same way.
Then a tree becomes a mystery
a cloud a revelation,
each person a cosmos of whose riches
we can only catch glimpses.
The life of simplicity is simple,
but it opens to us a book
in which we never get beyond
the first syllable.

Dag Hammarskjöld
(1905-1961, Swedish economist, diplomat,
second Secretary-General of the United Nations)

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I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

Eugene Debs

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Sometimes, in this troubled world of ours,
we forget that love is all around us.
We imagine the worst of other people
and withdraw into our own shells.
But try this simple test:
Stand still in any crowded place
and watch the people around you.
Within a very short time,
you will begin to see love,
and you will see it over and over and over.
A young mother talking to her child,
a couple laughing together as they walk by,
an older man holding the door for a stranger —
small signs of love are everywhere.
The more you look, the more you will see.
Love is literally everywhere.
We are surrounded by love.

Steven Charleston
(1949 to pres., Episcopal bishop and Choctaw elder)

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Welcome to the 4 AM Club.
It's well-attended.
People come and go freely.
There are no membership fees.
Drop-ins are always welcome.

Some people bring their physical pain:
headaches, back aches, restless legs.
Some bring their soul pain.
The language of tears is spoken.

Emotions circulate around the room:
fear, sadness, shame –
all the ones that crawl under the bed
when daylight comes.

Often prayers are whispered.
Blessings are blown across the miles
to loved ones.
Healing incantations are said
for those who suffer.
Peace is yearned for.
Thanksgivings echo through the night.

In the generosity of darkness and silence,
dreams are remembered:
nighttime dreams, childhood dreams,
daydreams awaken forgotten pathways.

From time to time, joy pops in for a visit.
So do the cats. Lured by magic,
they find their way to a warm lap
and doze off.

Visions of beauty show up,
And creative weavers
wander around, aimlessly.
Sometimes a mysterious focus grabs hold.

Then, a light appears in the darkness,
revealing the unfathomable love
that holds everything together.

Jackie Sabbagh
(New York poet and writer)

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Sit and be still
Until in the time
Of no rain you hear
Beneath the dry wind’s
Commotion in the trees
The sound of flowing
Water among the rocks
A stream unheard before
And you are where
Breathing is prayer.

Wendell Berry

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This is the true joy in life,
the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one;
The being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances
complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die.
Life is no "brief candle" for me.
It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched,
you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution,
that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless.
You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there,
as well as how much space.

Pema Chödrön

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THE MORNING WALK

There are a lot of words meaning thanks.
Some you can only whisper.
Others you can only sing.
The pewee whistles instead.
The snake turns in circles,
the beaver slaps his tail on the surface of the pond.
The deer in the pinewoods stamps his hoof.
Goldfinches shine as they float through the air.
A person, sometimes, will hum a little Mahler.
Or put arms around old oak tree.
Or take out lovely pencil and notebook to find a few touching, kissing words.

Mary Oliver

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Remind yourself,
in whatever way is personally meaningful,
that it is not in your best interest
to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness.
Even if you’ve already taken the bait
and feel the familiar pull of self-denigration,
marshal your intelligence, courage, and humor
in order to turn the tide.
Ask yourself: Do I want to strengthen what I’m feeling now?
Do I want to cut myself oﬀ from my basic goodness?
Remind yourself that your fundamental nature
is unconditionally open and free.

Pema Chodron
(1936 to pres., Buddhist Teacher)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive,
I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.”

The Dalai Lama

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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