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“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale

“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

“Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick oder Der Wal

“Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“I try all things, I achieve what I can.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Usually, I practice poses in this order: standing, balance, hamstrings and core), hips, backbends, and restorative—however, don’t be afraid to mix”
― Jessamyn Stanley, Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body.