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Leo Tolstoy wrote:Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

 
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“Like a spider web that you walk into, it is not so easy to get all the tendrils of real love off after you have passed through it.”  ~ Jonathan Carroll

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"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato

 
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"Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do."

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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I miss this guy
"We are moving into a period of bewilderment, a curious moment in which people find light in the midst of despair, and vertigo at the summit of their hopes.
It is a religious moment also, and here is the danger.
People will want to obey the voice of Authority, and many strange constructs of just what Authority is will arise in every mind…
The public yearning for Order will invite many stubborn uncompromising persons to impose it.
The sadness of the zoo will fall upon society."

-Leonard Cohen
from 'the book of longing'
2006

"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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"Children are the only thing that we remove from a human body... and then keep."

-Jim Gaffigan

Devoured by giant spiders without benefit of legal counsel isn't called "justice" where I come from!
-Amazon Women On The Moon

 
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One from my late dear old Dad, a simple farmer and a lovely human being-
A good man is good whether or not someone is watching.
 
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" when the ecosystem stops rewarding complexity, it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.”  

Clay Shirky

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...for Human Rights Day

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

"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 plural of anecdote is data.  

George Stigler

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I think we need to rethink economic policies and make thermodynamics the basis of economic theory.  

Jeremy Rifkin, 2009

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Active hope is a practice.
Like tai chi or gardening,
it is something we do rather than have.
It is a process we can apply to any situation,
and it involves three key steps.
First, we take a clear view of reality;
second, we identify what we hope for
in terms of the direction we'd like things to move in
or the values we'd like to see expressed;
and third, we take steps to move ourselves
or our situation in that direction.

~Joanna Macy

(1929-pres., environmental activist, author,
scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory,
and deep ecology)

"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 the full intensity of the present moment

there is never anything to fear—

there is only something to deal with.

It is a subtle point but it is absolutely true:

the fear I experience now

is not really present-moment based:

I am afraid of what is going to happen.

If you could be in the radical present moment,

not lost in the past,

not anxious about the future,

you could be fearless.

~Norman Fischer

(1946 to pres., Poet, Zen Buddhist Teacher, Priest)

"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 can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato

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"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato

 
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While delusions compel us
to separate ourselves from each other
and from the truth of our interdependence,
our connectedness endures.
The sufferings felt
by those we disparage and harm
return to us on the ship of karma.

~Kamilah Majied
(contemplative justice sustainability consultant,
mental health therapist, clinical educator, and researcher)

"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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Good Bones

By Maggie Smith

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.
 
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The older I get,
the more convinced I am
that the space between people
who are trying their best
to understand each other
is hallowed ground.

~Fred Rogers
(1928 to 2003, Minister, Educator,
Television Host, and Good Neighbor)

"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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Raise your words,
not voice.
It is rain that grows flowers,
not thunder.

~Mavlana Jalaladin Rumi
(1207-1273 Persian Poet and 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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“What can I say that I have not said before?
So I’ll say it again.
The leaf has a song in it.
Stone is the face of patience.
Inside the river there is an unfinishable story
and you are somewhere in it
and it will never end until all ends.

Take your busy heart to the art museum and the
chamber of commerce
but take it also to the forest.
The song you heard singing in the leaf when you
were a child
is singing still.
I am of years lived, so far, seventy-four,
and the leaf is singing still."

- Mary Oliver

"Study books and observe nature; if they do not agree, throw away the books."

– William A. Albrecht

 
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Oldie, but goodie...

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

George Bernard Shaw

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"The only person in your entire life, the only guaranteed person you're going to be with is not your husband, your mother, your father, your son, your daughter, or your dog. It's yourself. Everybody else can pass away, leave, run off with the local cat. But you are the only person you're taking with you, from birth to the grave. So every day I try to wake up, look in the mirror, and make sure that person is somebody I can live with, somebody I can respect, and that doesn't have the balls of an alley cat."
Sue Aikens

I choose...to be the best me I can be, to be the strongest me I can be, to learn the most I can. I don't know what comes next. But I'm gonna go into it balls to the walls, flames in my hair, and full speed ahead.

 
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"Life is simpler when you're nonchalant.  As soon as you start chalanting, it all goes sideways." ~ UKNOWN

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We tend to forget, baby steps still move us forward.      Unknown

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"We have built a world view that time can only have value, when it can be exchanged for money."

We soooo... need to build a new world view! (through permaculture, community, sharing knowledge, caring for the land etc)

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I love this one. . .
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Permaculture an positive design creative evolution of thinking humanity disguised as gardening.


Geoff Lawton

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Ive written a to do list and now I need to take the weekend to recover!



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