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“Circumstances don’t make the man,
they only reveal him to himself.”

— Epictetus

"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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Gratitude doesn't send you out shopping to find satisfaction;
it comes as a gift rather than a commodity,
subverting the foundation of the whole economy.
That's good medicine for land and people alike.

Robin Wall Kimmerer,
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge
and the Teachings of Plants.
Milkweed Editions. 16 September 2013.

"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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"Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong."

-Terence McKenna

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Tyler Grace wrote:"Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong."

-Terence McKenna

That is an interesting choice! I wrote down a much longer quote from one of his lectures to much the same effect but never ended up sharing any of it.

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"All I know is that I don't know nothin'"

- Operation Ivy

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Here’s part of the interview:

Bell: Do you mean that, for example, a psychedelic experience could turn a communist against communism?

McKenna: Absolutely, I think it could. I think that in many cases it did. How could the idea of atheistic materialism maintain itself in the face of the counterevidence of the psychedelic experience? What the psychedelic experience is saying, essentially, is that everything is connected in a way that is not woo-woo or emotional, but actually palpable. And therefore our actions have consequences. Now, most political agendas deny that their actions have consequences—so, for instance, Marxism had this theory of how human beings are that was so off base that eventually it had to be pitched out. Consumer capitalism has a theory of human beings and what constitutes their happiness that looks pretty hollow from the point of view of the psychedelic experience.

I think postmodern ideologies—marxism, consumerism, so forth and so on, have based all their planning on an assumption of the absence of spirit, and in fact, this is not true. There is a spiritual dimension to humanness that cannot be denied. Now it certainly can be distorted, and that’s another side of things, but I think the search for psychedelic experiences represents the genuine religious impulse, especially when pursued at the dose levels I recommend. This is not party recreational stuff. The phrase “recreational drugs” is an effort to trivialize this, and I think, for one reason, i dont think the government is ready for the full airing of the constitutional contradictions that are contained in suppressing people’s genuine wish to use psychedelic substances for henuine purposes of religious exploration.

Bell: Let me ask you this very good question. If everybody in the world were to have a psychedelic experience of the kind you described in the last hour, this amazing psychedelic experience that might kill you from amazement or astonishment when you take it, what would the result be? What would the social changes be? What would the new government structure, if any at all, be? What would we all be collectively, after that experience?

McKenna: I can’t see the end result except to say, I think a lot of flexibility would come into the system. A hige amount of our social structures run simply on momentum, and I think that momentum can be fatal, and it’s that momentum that these huge, reality-shattering psychedelic experiences deflect, because they push the restart button and suddenly the innocence of childhood is not a phrase or a memory, it’s a re-vivified experience.

From part 1 of an interview hosted by Art Bell

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"Permaculture is a more symbiotic relationship with nature, so I can be even lazier."

-Paul Wheaton

"Irrigation is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes."

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Perhaps the art of harvesting the secret riches of our lives is best achieved
when we place profound trust in the act of beginning.
Risk might be our greatest ally.
To live a truly creative life,
we always need to cast a critical look at where we presently are,
attempting always to discern where we have become stagnant
and where new beginning might be ripening.
There can be no growth if we do not remain open and vulnerable
to what is new and different.
I have never seen anyone take a risk for growth
that was not rewarded a thousand times over.

John O’Donohue on Beginnings
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/12/30/john-odonohue-blessings-beginnings/?mc_cid=cae3de6127&mc_eid=a3782d59bf

"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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Optimism is the belief that things will get better.
Hope is the faith that, together, we can make things better.

Jonathan Sacks,
The Dignity of Difference (2003)

"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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We are participants
in a vast communion of being,
and if we open ourselves to its guidance,
we can learn anew how to live
in this great and gracious community of truth.

Parker J. Palmer
(1939-Pres., Senior associate
of the American Association
of Higher Education,
senior advisor to the Fetzer Institute,
founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal)

"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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If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.
There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be.
We are not wise, and not very often kind.
And much can never be redeemed.
Still life has some possibility left.
Perhaps this is its way of fighting back,
that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world.
It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins.
Anyway, that’s often the case.
Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty.
Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate).

Mary Oliver
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

"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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Don't ever become a pessimist …
a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist,
but an optimist has more fun,
and neither can stop the march of events.

Robert A. Heinlein

"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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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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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Imagine harvesting food from a tree that your great grandfather planted, that your grandfather then climbed to harvest nuts from, that your father climbed and rested beneath, whose seeds your mother made a flour from to nourish you, that your son will feed your grandchildren from, that your grandchildren, when the tree dies will use the wood for shelter, the inner bark for medicines, the resin for fire-starter, the needles as incense in a ceremony for the tree and for the lives which the tree made possible. Such is the life of a people who live close to trees, intentional in their legacy.

-Ben Falk, permaculturist and author

https://medium.com/@benfalk/toward-a-tree-crop-culture-e599186b30e9

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The word humility, like the word human,
comes from humus, or earth.
We are most human when we do no great things.
We are not so important;
we are simple dust and spirit—
at best, loving midwives,
participants in a process much larger than we.
If we are quiet and listen and feel how things move,
perhaps we will be wise enough
to put our hands on what waits to be born,
and bless it with kindness and care.

Wayne Muller
(1953 to pres., leadership mentor, therapist,
minister, community advocate)

"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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“They fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier
for the consent of the nation.
Such confidence is the ruin of thrones."

Victor Hugo.
“Les Misérables."”

"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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"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."

Malcolm X

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"A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man."

Malcolm X

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"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."

Malcolm X

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“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

— Albert Einstein

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There are perhaps many causes worth dying for,
but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

Albert Dietrich,
Army GI,
Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich

"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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There is nothing more difficult
yet more gratifying in our society
than living with sincere, active,
constructive hope for the human spirit.

Maria Popova
(1984 to pres., essayist, author, poet,
literary and arts commentary)

"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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Attitude is a choice.
Happiness is a choice.
Optimism is a choice.
Kindness is a choice.
Giving is a choice.
Respect is a choice.
Whatever choice you make makes you.
Choose wisely.

Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart

"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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"In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions:
'When did you stop dancing?
When did you stop singing?
When did you stop being enchanted by stories?
When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'"

Angeles Arrien
(December 25, 1940 – April 24, 2014) was a Basque-American cultural anthropologist, educator, author, lecturer and consultant,
best known for her book The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Healer, Teacher and Visionary.

"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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"When your way doesn't work,
don't be disheartened.
You must be willing to try another way.
A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently.
It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used."

Iyanla Vanzant

"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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“Since my house burned down
I now have a better view
of the rising moon”
― Mizuta Masahide

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Do your little bit of good where you are;
it's those little bits of good put together
that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
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"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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"Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections,
but always rise up with fresh courage.
How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults
if we are impatient in dealing with our own?
He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them.
All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind."

Saint Francis de Sales

"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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Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal,
until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede,
and your life becomes increasingly merged
in the universal life.
An individual human existence should be like a river —
small at first, narrowly contained within its banks,
and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls.
Gradually the river grows wider,
the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly,
and in the end, without any visible break,
they become merged in the sea,
and painlessly lose their individual being.

Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970 English philosopher,
logician, mathematician)

"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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"Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world.
The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same."

Rumi

"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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For though my faith is not yours
and your faith is not mine,
if we each are free
to light our own flame,
together we can banish
some of the darkness of the world.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
(1948 to pres., rabbi, philosopher,
theologian, author and politician)

"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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We are tied together
in the single garment of destiny,
caught in an inescapable network
of mutuality.
And whatever affects one
directly affects all.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
(1929-1968, Minister and Activist)

"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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“We need leaders not in love with money
but in love with justice.
Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity."

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
(1929-1968, Minister and Activist)

"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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Adopt the pace of nature:
her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 to 1882, American Poet)

"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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The most fortunate are those
who have a wonderful capacity
to appreciate again and again,
freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life,
with awe, pleasure, wonder
and even ecstasy.

Abraham H. Maslow
(1908-1970, Psychologist)

"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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Imagine, for just a moment,
what this world would be like
if we truly treated one another
as if we were all in fact cousins
and we have a responsibility
to attune to our histories,
to our pain, our suffering,
to show up for the truth
of that with compassion.

Dr. Sará King
(Mother, neuroscientist, political and learning scientist,
medical anthropologist, social entrepreneur,
public speaker, yoga and meditation instructor)

"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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"The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth.
This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities
and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community
- and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”

Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

"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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“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration,
who gives us inarticulate visions and desires,
and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again
to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought."
This is the muse of form.
It may be then that form serves us best
when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us
and deflect our intended course.
It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work and when
we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

Wendell Berry

"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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...words Dwight D. Eisenhower uttered when he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in 1945, regarding the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany.

“get it all on record now. get the films. get the witnesses,
because somewhere down the road of history,
some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

"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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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

"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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