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    T.S. Eliot
    “Do I dare
    Disturb the universe?
    In a minute there is time
    For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: life, poetry
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor, truth
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    William Blake
    “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    tags: infinity, perception
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    Miguel Ruiz
    “The Four Agreements
    1. Be impeccable with your word.
    2. Don’t take anything personally.
    3. Don’t make assumptions.
    4. Always do your best. ”
    ― don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
    tags: advice
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    tags: fear-of-unknown
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
    ― H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
    tags: dread
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “That is not dead which can eternal lie,
    And with strange aeons even death may die.”
    ― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City
    tags: death
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
    tags: magic, science, technology, wonder
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “It may be that our role on this planet
    is not to worship God--but to create him.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
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    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: poetry
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    Walt Whitman
    “Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: personal-faith, religion
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    Walt Whitman
    “From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.”
    ― Walt Whitman
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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
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    Harlan Ellison
    “Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
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    Harlan Ellison
    “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
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    Muhammad Ali
    “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.”
    ― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
    tags: inspirational
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    Anthony de Mello
    “When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.”
    ― Anthony De Mello
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    Anthony de Mello
    “You see persons and things not as they are but as you are. ”
    ― Anthony de Mello SJ
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    Anthony de Mello
    “These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.”
    ― Anthony de Mello
    tags: awareness, compassion, learning, politics, relegion, spirituality, work
    260 likes

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    Anthony de Mello
    “You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.”
    ― Anthony De Mello
    tags: stories-life
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    Anthony de Mello
    “There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
    ― Anthony de Mello
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  • #23
    “You see a mousetrap; I see free cheese and a fucking challenge!”
    ― Scroobius Pip
    tags: challenge, free-cheese, mousetrap
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    Anthony de Mello
    “If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.”
    ― Anthony de Mello
    tags: awakening, truth, wisdom
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    Anthony de Mello
    “Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.”
    ― Anthony de Mello
    tags: awakening, bitterness, dying, harmony, spirituality, truth
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  • #26
    Anthony de Mello
    “Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.”
    ― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom
    tags: god, knowledge, mysticism, unknowing
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    Anthony de Mello
    “Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.”
    ― Anthony de Mello
    tags: stories-life
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    Clive Barker
    “Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred. ”
    ― Clive Barker
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    Stephen King
    “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
    ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
    tags: dark, jon-jake-chambers, stephen-king, tower
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    Alan W. Watts
    “You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: self, universe
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: harmony, self, universe
    814 likes



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