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For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth.
What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you.
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave.
They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

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

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The Beautiful is always bizarre.
I mean that it always contains
a touch of strangeness,
of simple, unpremeditated,
and unconscious strangeness,
and that it is this touch of strangeness
that gives it its particular quality as Beauty.

Charles Baudelaire
(1821-1867, French poet, essayist, translator, and art critic)

"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 teaching freedom to others, the best way is to first establish five things and then teach.
What are the five?
When you teach others, you must think:
I will teach in a gradual and sensitive way.
I will speak with the goal in mind.
I will speak with gentleness.
I will not speak in order to gain anything.
I will not speak with a view to harming anyone.
If you establish these five things your teaching will be received.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
(563 to 483 BCE, from the Anguttara Nikaya)

"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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Compassion is much purer and simpler than we think.
It’s the spontaneous alchemy of two ingredients,
care and suffering,
comingling in an open human heart.
This care is not an anxious worry.
It’s an attentiveness toward wellness—
a mixture of mindfulness, goodwill, and empathy.
When it notices suffering,
the result is a trembling resonance
of sincere warmth
that emanates through the emotional field.

Justin Michelson

"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 the result of inner maturity.
It depends on us alone,
and requires patient work,
carried out from day to day.
Happiness must be built,
and this requires time and effort.
In the long term,
happiness and unhappiness
are therefore a way of being,
or a life skill.

Matthieu Ricard
(1946 to pres, Scientist and Buddhist Monk)

"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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Love moves mountains.
Magic is real.
Presence is everything.
And epic plot twists are most welcome.

Leena Wilde Ryan
(soul anthropologist, mystic, co-Founder of WishWell Village)

"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'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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Cultivating gratitude opens us to allurement,
strengthens our trust,
and expands our compassion.
Gratitude manifests in the midst of our everyday living
when we pause to take account
of how much we have been given.
We are present to the wonder of the simplest gifts:
a glass of water, a spoonful of food, a breath of air.
At such times our hearts are full.

Michael Dowd
(1958-2023, minister, eco-theologian)

"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 Universe is a communion of subjects
not a collection of objects.
When we are not talking to rivers;
when we are not listening to the wind and stars;
we have broken the great conversation.
by breaking that conversation
we have shattered the Universe.

Thomas Berry
(1914-2009, Priest and Eco-thologian)

"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 peace that we are looking for
is not peace that crumbles
as soon as there is difficulty or chaos.
Whether we’re seeking inner peace
or global peace or a combination of the two,
the way to experience it
is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness
to all that arises.
Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges,
free of rough and smooth,
it’s an experience that’s expansive enough
to include all that arises
without feeling threatened.

Pema Chodron
(1936 to pres., Tibetan Buddhist nun,
teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia)

"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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Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself,
there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
This soul, or life within us,
by no means agrees with the life outside us.
If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks,
she is always saying the very opposite
to what other people say.

Virginia Woolf
(1882 to 1941 English novelist, essayist,
biographer, and feminist)

"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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Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world
so worthy of rescue.

Martha Postlewaite

"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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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling 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

"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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Respect Mother Earth.
Love one another.
Be truthful.
Give to your brothers and sisters.
Be gentle with each other.
Be happy.
Everything is so simple,
and we make everything so complicated.
That’s why we’re confused.

Vickie Downey
(Tewa//Tesuque Pueblo Elder)

"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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Dismiss whatever insults your own soul,
and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman
(1819 to 1892, poet, journalist, and essayist)

"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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Healing is embracing what is most feared;
healing is opening what has been closed,
softening what has hardened into obstruction,
healing is learning to trust life.

Jeanne Achterberg
(1942-2012, transpersonal 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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Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(4BC to 65AD, Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist)

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"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Spirituality is not a faith or religion;
it is a science that seeks to uncover
the same answers as traditional science.
Spirituality is a science that seeks
to find the answers of who are we,
why are we here, where did we come from,
and where do we go after death.
Spirituality is not to be confused
with rites and rituals of religion.
Spirituality is a study in which we seek to discover
the existence of the powers that brought all known matter,
planets, earth, people, animals, chemicals,
atoms, quarks, and genes into existence.

Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj
(1946 to pres., Author, Scientist,
Mystic Adept of Light and Sound Current Yoga,
Leader of Science of Spirituality and
International Movements for World Peace)

"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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Remember the sky that you were born under,
know each of the star’s stories.
Remember the moon, know who she is.
Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the
strongest point of time. Remember sundown
and the giving away to night.
Remember your birth, how your mother struggled
to give you form and breath. You are evidence of
her life, and her mother’s, and hers.
Remember your father. He is your life, also.
Remember the earth whose skin you are:
red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth
brown earth, we are earth.
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their
tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them,
listen to them. They are alive poems.
Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the
origin of this universe.
Remember you are all people and all people
are you.
Remember you are this universe and this
universe is you.
Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.
Remember language comes from this.
Remember the dance language is, that life is.
Remember.

Joy Harjo
(1951-pres., Muscogee Elder, poet, musician, playwright, author,
23rd United States poet laureate from 2019 to 2022)

"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 eye receives information from the outside world.
But, the eye has no consciousness—it’s a physical thing.
What has consciousness is our true nature,
which is aware of all the sense input that comes in.
Who we truly are underneath all our thoughts, emotions,
objects of experience, we are that awareness.

Krishna Das
(1947 to pres., devotional musician,
spiritual teacher, mystic)

"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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One day at a time – this is enough.
Do not look back and grieve over the past
for it is gone;
and do not be troubled about the future,
for it has not yet come.
Live in the present,
and make it so beautiful
it will be worth remembering.

Ida Scott Taylor
(1820 to 1915, English hymnist, poet,
composer, mission worker)

"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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