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...and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity." -- Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
| "People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting... |
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| "Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not." - Shakespeare's Tempest, on consciousness |
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| "Among those who hate, let us not dwell in hatred." -- from the film Dhamma Brothers (at the Red Vic til May 8!) |
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| "Just one smile immensely increases the beauty of the universe." -- Sri Chinmoy (greetings from Ananda Fuara!) |
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| "Start wearing purple! Start wearing purple for me now!" -- Gogol Bordello (greetings from coachella!) |
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| Do not say 'It is morning' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. --Tagore |
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| Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Practice with small things: "I forgive you." You can always return to nonforgiveness. Sark |
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| You were once a stone. You were once a cloud. This is not poetry; this is science. -- TNH/JK |
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| "There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun." -- Thomas Merton |
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| "Propel, propel, propel your craft, softly down the liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically - existence is but an illusion." -Mr. Rogers |
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| "Henceforth I ask not good fortune; I myself am good fortune. Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing." --Walt Whitman |
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| Stand your ground and don't hold back. Throw yourself into the work of the Master; nothing you do for him is a waste of time or effort. Paul |
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| "I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." -- The Dalai Lama |
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| "In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher." - The Dalai Lama. I hope we take this to heart as we protest China today... |
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| "Hatred never ceases by hatred; only by love alone. This is the eternal law." -- Buddha. Apr 8 is Buddha's Birthday! Beautimous Buddha-mas! |
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| "In prayer, come empty, do nothing." -- St. John of the Cross |
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| "The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth." -- Adrienne Rich |
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| "People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." -- Iris Murdoch |
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| ... then see it off when it has had its fill. Be still; it will not stay the night." -- Kid Beyond |
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