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 My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay 

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin

 

Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is
Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things,
the divine beauty of the universe.
Love that, not man apart from that,
Robinson Jeffers 

Note to self:
You can't control how other people recieve your energy.
Anything you do or say gets filtered through the lens of whatever shit they are going through at the moment.
Which is not about you.
Just keep doing your thing with as much integrity and love as possible.
- Nanca Hoffman

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What some call luck
Is simply pluck
And doing things 
Over and over

Perseverance and skill
Courage and will
Are the four leaves
Of Luck's clover
Anon per Google


There is no such thing as luck;
There is only adequate or inadequate preparation
To cope with a statistical universe. 
Dr. Samuel C. Russell, Have Space Suit - Will Travel, RA Heinlein, 1958

The Virile Mind

One of the most striking things about the virile mind is that at the end of its thinking there is always a question mark.  The ignorant man finds it easy to convince himself that what he does not know is not worth knowing.  It is only those who are willing to go on learning, who becoome aware of how vast are the realms of to be explored beyond the farthest reach of their own understanding.
Peter Fletcher

"What makes my truth mythology and your mythology truth?"
A Hopi "Cathy"

Quoted on Facebook by friend Brian King

 “Where's your church?”

“We’re standing in it.”

“But this is a bookstore and it’s a Friday.”

“Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we’ve ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space.”
 From Forrest Church’s A Chosen Faith

In biology when an experiment goes wrong it stinks. 

In chemistry when an experiment goes wrong something blows up. 

In physics when an experiment goes wrong nothing happens. 

Hat tip to Paul Lewis on Facebook

I like to feel that I've paid rent on the piece of earth I'm using.             Hilda Burroughs.  The Number of the Beast, R.A.Heinlein, 1980.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

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