“The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.”
Schopenhauer
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Mon 10 Jul, 2017 08:48 am
"However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for."
Aldous Huxley, "The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell"
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
Albert Einstein
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coluber2001
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Tue 11 Jul, 2017 04:14 pm
"We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life."
Edward O. Wilson, "The Social Conquest of Earth"
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coluber2001
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Wed 12 Jul, 2017 08:40 am
"There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't."
Richard Brautigan, The Tokyo-Montana Express
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coluber2001
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Thu 13 Jul, 2017 07:15 am
"Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that Realm."
Aldous Huxley
"Heaven and Hell"
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coluber2001
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Fri 14 Jul, 2017 08:16 am
"Someday Time will die, and Love will bury it"
Richard Brautigan
Spirit
is Life
It flows thru
the death of me
endlessly
like a river
unafraid
of becoming
the sea
Gregory Corso
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coluber2001
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Tue 18 Jul, 2017 08:42 am
"Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language."
Meister Eckhart, c 1260-c 1328-
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coluber2001
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Wed 19 Jul, 2017 09:10 am
"We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born."
Meister Eckhart--c1260-c1328
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coluber2001
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Thu 20 Jul, 2017 10:41 am
"If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved."
Gregory Corso
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coluber2001
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Fri 21 Jul, 2017 08:44 pm
"Look within!
The secret is inside you."
Hui-Neng--The 6th Patriarch
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coluber2001
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Sat 22 Jul, 2017 10:03 am
"Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings."
Gerald Durrell
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coluber2001
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Sun 23 Jul, 2017 09:06 am
"There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said."
Alan W. Watts
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coluber2001
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Mon 24 Jul, 2017 08:27 am
"The quality of owning freezes you forever in 'I,' and cuts you off forever from the 'we'."
John Steinbeck, "The Grapes of Wrath"
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coluber2001
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Tue 25 Jul, 2017 11:36 am
"I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright."
Gregory Corso
