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402. You are part of everything.

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'Stuff your eyes with wonder... Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.'

- Ray Bradbury

'There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is miracle.'

- Albert Einstein

'The wind is low

The birds will sing

That you are part

of everything'

- The Beatles

401. 'I've seen the ocean break on the shore come together with no harm done'

Jun 24, 2009
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Ocean-Lotus

'wish i was ocean size

they cannot move you

no one tries no one pulls you

out from your hold

like a tooth aching a jawbone...

i was made with a heart of stone

to be broken

with one hard blow

I've seen the ocean

break on the shore

come together with no harm done...

it ain't easy living...

i want to be

as deep

as the ocean

mother ocean

some people tell me

home is in the sky

in the sky lives a spy

i want to be more like the ocean

no talking

all action...

no talking

all action...'

- Jane's Addiction, Ocean Size

400. 'The real marks of wildness...'

Jun 17, 2009
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Nature2

'Nature is never interrupted, never takes a vacation, never stops ruminating over its systems and tinkering with them. It works beneath a nano-level with the intelligence of entropy aimed at infinity. That's a lot of hard drive, a lot of gigabytes, a vast span, a wide plane of action, and all of it at a speed far greater than that of light because it effectively combines the velocity of all its operations at once.'

- Richard Grossinger

'There is a great insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore: that Nature is a minded entity; that Nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields; that Nature is not the empty, despiritualized lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.'

- Terence McKenna

'The real marks of wildness are a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.'

- Robert Bly

399. 'My dream was made for me as your dream is made for you.'

Jun 11, 2009
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Dream-2

'It is a funny dream, with an exact sense of humor. It fits my brain like a glove fits a hand; it fits my life. A dream is never off the rack. A dream is always sewn with your exact dimensions in mind, your humor, your obsessions. A dream fits.

When I began to study my dreams closely, I noticed how exquisitely made they are, how difficult to communicate that exquisite beauty to another because in most dreams the exquisite is idiosyncratic. Each dream invents its own beautiful language, and something always gets lost in translation. My dream was made for me as your dream is made for you.

A dream provides an exact tincture of the soul, a strong whiff - ammonia or perfume - to wake us from a faint-hearted life.'

- Rodger Kamenetz, The History of Last Night's Dream

398. Who eats light?

Jun 2, 2009
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Bamboo

WHAT SHE WANTED

What she wanted was to return

to the original rainforest

hear water pushing

through the sapwood

and leaves eating light

as she wanted to eat light.

She knew her nature

was to be water, not wood.

She knew there was a grove

of vertical rivers

of roaring waterfall-trees,

and a grove of whirlpool-trees

with vortices she could dive through,

past the hollow years of her life

right back to the roots.

- Pascale Petit

via WhiskeyRiver: http://whiskeyriver.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-she-wanted-what-she-wanted-was-to.html

397. Reach out and touch faith.

May 28, 2009
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Key

'It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.'

- Virginia Woolf

'When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.'

- Cy Twombly

'I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.'

- Andrew Wyeth

'The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.'

- Banksy

'It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.'

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

396. Rolling at your feet...

May 22, 2009
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Edge

'You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.'

- Franz Kafka

'Like my mind is disconnected, but my heart is wired...'

- Ani Difranco

395. They seem real...

May 21, 2009
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Two-Horses

'1. Reality is determined solely by frequency of manifestation. All entities vibrating at the same frequency are stable, e.g. solid, within that frequency. The world is a tone, setting plants, animals, even mud, in a trance at its frequency. Pistachios, tangerines, and chocolate, however yummy, are made solely of vibrations and spacing. Because we are vibrating at the same octave, they seem real.'

- Richard Grossinger, The Bardo of Waking Life

394. 'A message from the No Coincidences Dept.'

May 13, 2009
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Synchronicity

'Synchronicity

Serendipity's in the air. Many are the ways horizontal and vertical planes converge. When they do, they create highly charged moments of accelerated time and expanding space where multiple lines of fate collide, coincide and synchronize. Whether or not you chalk this up to fate or chance, this situation may be another message from the 'No Coincidences Department.' The mirror effect in this image reflects parallel fates or realities coming together in unexpected ways, times and places. New meaning and fresh contexts result. Like MAGIC, sychronicity exists everywhere; awareness of it increases with a closer proximity to center. The closer to center you get, the more aware of it you become.'

Antero Alli, The Vertical Oracle

393. Cause and effect.

May 12, 2009
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Pure-H

'I realise that my whole life had been leading up to this moment. People say that when they win an Olympic medal - 'My life has been leading up to this moment,' they say. But that's true of every moment. Even if you're only doing the washing up, your whole life's still been building up to that moment. Just because something's insignificant you can't immediately relegate it to the past, it has to be in the present for a moment. That is the nature of a chronological existence.'

Russell Brand, My Booky Wook