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    ′′ Fear ′′ Khalil Gibran
    They say before entering the sea,
    a river trembles with fear.
    She looks back at the way
    that she has travelled, from the peaks,
    the mountains, the long winding road
    which crosses forests and villages,
    and sees in front of her such a vast ocean
    that entering it doesn't seem anything else
    than having to disappear forever.
    But there's no other way.
    The river can't go back.
    No one can go back.
    Going back is impossible in existence.
    The river needs to take the risk
    and to enter the ocean.
    It's only when entering the ocean
    that fear will disappear,
    because it's only then
    that the river will know it's not about
    to disappear into the ocean,
    but to become ocean.

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    Undo the clench
    Remember the opening
    Go right through the back of your body
    And touch the timeless field.
    In the moment of contact
    Fall a little, and then keep falling.
    Dissolve all remaining holding
    By becoming a comet
    Free-falling and burning up
    Into the infinite Dark.
    Fall and break open and dissolve
    Until there is only Transparency
    Where “you” and everything
    At last merge and become One.
    James Marshall

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    'The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself… Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.” — H. L. Mencken

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    Quote Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
    ― C. S. Lewis
    The only place a perfect right angle ever CAN be, is the mind.

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    “In the history of every great catastrophe, you will find that some masterly bit of stupidity sets fire to the oil-soaked rags.”

    Edwin Lefèvre

    It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

    Upton Sinclair

    “We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put up a façade to prevent ourselves from seeing it.”

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    "The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travails of the earth."
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    "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
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    You are comprised of: 84 minerals, 23 Elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells.
    You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed, according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix and small enough to be carried by a sperm. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s most complex living thing.
    - Aubrey Marcus
    You are not living on Earth. You are Earth.
    Nature is not matter only. She is also spirit.
    - Carl Jung

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    "Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realise that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way....and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth"

    - Rene Guenon

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    "You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending"

    - C.S. Lewis

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    ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    "When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there." ~ George Harrison

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    The Peace of Wild Things
    Written by Wendell Berry

    When despair for the world grows in me
    and I wake in the night at the least sound
    in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
    I go and lie down where the wood drake
    rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
    I come into the peace of wild things
    who do not tax their lives with forethought
    of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
    And I feel above me the day-blind stars
    waiting with their light. For a time
    I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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

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    "I just want to say the United States of America will not tell you how to live, how to think, what to do. You will not be bossed by incompetent, dishonest, disgusting politicians, by Big Tech tyrants, by left wing bullies, or anybody else. We are born free. We will live free."
    – Donald Trump [https://t.me/LizHarrington76/1651]

    Does it matter if he means it, or even believes it? We create the future, by moulding the space for the present to slip in to. Holding the ideal in your heart is what counts.
    "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
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    “We live with countless hazards, each of which we could but sensibly choose not to eradicate. Automobile fatalities could be eradicated by outlawing motor vehicles. Drowning could be eradicated by outlawing swimming and bathing. Electrocution could be eradicated by outlawing electricity. We live with these risks not because we’re indifferent to suffering but because we understand that the costs of zero-drowning or zero-electrocution would be far too great. The same is true of zero-Covid.”

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