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    "I know nothing without certainty. But the sight of stars makes me dream." -Vincent Van Gogh

    And part of a song that resonates with me, is not a quote, but it may be someday, maybe...
    "I can watch you dancin' forever
    Turnin' those stars into letters
    Write your name in the sky
    When you laugh, when you cry
    Just catch the breeze like a feather
    Turnin' your tears into treasures
    When you're here, when you're gone
    I'll be here, lookin' on
    So keep on dancin' forever"

    For a member dear to me, I dedicate this quote to the sunrise of the most beautiful stars for her!


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    Oppression, by its very nature, cultivates and encourages the seeds of its own demise.
    Hard times create strong men, Strong men create good times, Good times create weak men, Weak men create hard times.
    Where are you?

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    This self makes efforts for liberation
    Deluded by the belief that
    It will be around to enjoy the results.
    There's no question of doing anything because
    There is no one to do anything.
    If everything is unreal, then
    The practice and the practitioner are likewise unreal.
    Why perpetuate the unreality?
    Just as no effort is needed to
    Wake up in the morning, likewise
    No effort is needed to
    Fully wake up to life.
    To establish the conviction that you exist,
    What practice was required?
    wu'hsin

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    One of my all-time favorite quotes:

    Quote It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    The only place a perfect right angle ever CAN be, is the mind.

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    And all this to be just human.

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    We hear so much about safety and security in recent months. How do we choose between safety and having a life, a life of exploration and adventure and pushing ourselves beyond where we now find ourselves?

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    A million galaxies are a little foam on that shoreless sea. ~ Rumi

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    A million galaxies are a little foam on that shoreless sea. ~ Rumi

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    "What is going on? What do you think is going on? I mean, have you backed off from it? Do you have a grip on the outlines of the problem or are you just sort of adrift inside the context? Because the situation is mighty peculiar, friends. What we have here is a kind of creature made out of information, apparently loose in an environment of meaning, on the surface of a planet upon which gene swarming is happening."
    - Terence McKenna

    Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do."
    - Terence McKenna

    The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you." - Carl Jung

    "What saved me was my cynicism. That I didn't believe in anything. Never had. Had always thought believing in things was a bad idea. So then when this whole cosmos of beliefs was handed to me on a platter I just simply said: Maybe."
    - Terence McKenna

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    Political Correctness is Fascism masquerading as Manners.
    George Carlin

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    “I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.'

    I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!”

    ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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    “To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”

    ~ Søren Kierkegaard

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    “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.”

    ~ Roy T. Bennett

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    “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”
    ~ Trenton Lee Stewart,

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    Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.”
    ~ Jason Mraz

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    “Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
    ~ Robert Macfarlane

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    “I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
    ~ Herman Melville

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    “I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
    ~ Tim Daly

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    A million galaxies are a little foam on that shoreless sea. ~ Rumi

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    Bravery and Courage

    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
    ~ Nelson Mandela

    🐇

    “There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.

    But sometimes it doesn't.

    Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.

    That is the sort of bravery I must have now.”
    ~ Veronica Roth

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    “Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
    ~ Emma Donoghue

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    “Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.”
    ~ Pericles

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    “To my children, I will say, ‘Fill your skin with kindness and find solace in your solitude. It takes bravery to be kind. But to be brave you will need to know how to stand for something even if you are completely alone.”
    ~ Nikita Gill

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    “A brave death is far better than a cowardly life.”
    ~ Abhijit Naskar

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    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ~ John A. Shedd

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    A million galaxies are a little foam on that shoreless sea. ~ Rumi

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    I saw this stuck to hoarding in Bilbao, Spain a few weeks ago.

    It translates as " Cowardice is the best ally of tyrants." Apt for current times.

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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    Political Correctness is Fascism masquerading as Manners.
    George Carlin


    RIP Carlin, awesome societal commentator.
    Hard times create strong men, Strong men create good times, Good times create weak men, Weak men create hard times.
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    “You have to stick your neck out if you want to get anywhere.” An anonymous turtle.

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    If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
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    “Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning.

    They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening.

    Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.”

    -Henri Bergson

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    I'm sure the above applies to many Avalonians. I have been 80% immune to the scam that is this life since I was ten.

    Being unsophisticated and naive I thought it was just stupid, ignorant people doing stupid, ignorant things. As I got older I realized these people were not stupid or ignorant...
    Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee

    Free will can only be as free as the mind that conceives it.

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    And all this to be just human.

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    "The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future."

    -Dune
    Hard times create strong men, Strong men create good times, Good times create weak men, Weak men create hard times.
    Where are you?

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    “All that we see or seem
    Is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe

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