November 2011
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“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise...”
– ~ Walt Whitman
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“Of the various kinds of intelligence, generosity is the first.”
– John Surowiecki (Gienka Home from the Ball Bearing Plant, 1943)
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“So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish...”
– Hermann Hesse
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“Real silence is explosive; it is not the dead state of mind that spiritual...”
– U.G. Krishnamurti
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“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of...”
– ~ Carl Sagan
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“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is...”
– ~ John Cage
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Living Memories
That night you wrote me, write a novel about me someday when you’re married to some rich successful man, tell your children the tale of us, and I thought, don’t come to me thinking it’s over.
Sometimes I re-read these things I wrote years ago. It’s a strange sensation, a sort of autopsy. I can almost remember how it felt but the time has dimmed it, and you, enough that the only real memory...
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“Joy came always after pain.”
– ~ Guillaume Apollinaire
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“Divided, how can one pray? How can one pray when another oneself would be...”
– Paul Valéry, from “How Calm the Hour Is” in Selected Writings, trans. Louise Varèse (thanks Time Immemorial)
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“The body contains the life story just as much as the brain.”
– Edna O’Brien 