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Heavy going, repetitive at times and grandiose. A history of Ireland from my families perspective. It could have done with some heavy handed editing but I guess when you are writing the entire history of a nation from your clans eyes verbosity, poeti
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Kyabjé Künzang Dorje Rinpoche told me “Vajrayana is not ordinary and so ordinary language cannot be used. Vajrayana is the poetry of existence beyond space and time. Vajrayana is every art and you must be practising every art. If you do not
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“There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings, our ocean depths and fringes are full of luminous beings, creatures lit from the inside. And they have, for many centuries, enchanted us, like glowing missionaries of wonder, emissaries of awe.
Is there anything more beautiful than living light?”
― Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
Is there anything more beautiful than living light?”
― Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
“It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
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“I keep hearing this fucking thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?”
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“Do you remember the happiest day of your life? What about the saddest? Do you ever wonder if sadness and happiness can be combined, to make a deep purple feeling, not good, not bad, but remarkable simply because you didn't have to live on one side or the other?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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