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i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;
and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
– e. e. cummings
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If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. – Vincent van Gogh
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We are caught in an inescapable web of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. –
Martin Luther King
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galaxies (NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage
(STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (U. of Virginia,
Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University))
Thus the seer,
with vision clear,
sees forms appear and disappear,
in the perpetual round of strange,
mysterious change.
From birth to death, from death to birth;
from earth to heaven, from heaven to earth:
Till glimpses more sublime,
of things unseen before,
unto his wondering eyes reveal
the Universe, as an immeasurable wheel
Turning forevermore in the rapid and rushing river of Time.
– H. W. Longfellow, "Rain in Summer"
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. – Francis Bacon
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in
the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.
Some see nature all ridicule and deformity . . . and
some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination,
nature is imagination itself.
– William Blake
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. – Chuang-tzu
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My mind is my own Church. – Thomas Paine
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. – Niels Bohr
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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there. – John Cage
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. – Chuang Tzu
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Like the bee, gathering honey from different flowers, the
wise man accepts the essence of
different Scriptures and sees only the good in all
religions. – Srimad-Bhagvatam
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. – Albert Einstein
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We rarely hear the inward music, but we're dancing to it nevertheless. – Rumi
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Orion Nebula, Spitzer and Hubble telescopes
[NASA, ESA, T. Megeath (University of
Toledo) and M. Robberto (STScI)]
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great
dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with all other stars all singing
and shining together as one, the whole universe appears
as an infinite storm of beauty. –
John Muir
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Both the myths of religion and the laws of science, it is now
becoming apparent, are not so much
description of facts as symbolic expressions of cosmic truths.
– René
Dubos
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Joy is the realization of the truth of oneness, the
oneness of our soul with the world
and of the world-soul with the supreme love.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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Intrinsically all living beings are buddhas, endowed with
wisdom and virtue, but because their minds
have become inverted through delusive thinking they
fail to perceive this.
– Buddha
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Religion consists in doing as little harm as possible, in
doing good in abundance, in the practice of love,
of compassion, of truthfulness and purity, in all the
walks of life.
– Asoka's Edicts
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We believe nothing so firmly as what we least know. – Montaigne
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The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it. – Sri Nisargadatta
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The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.
For by
doubting we come to inquiry, and by inquiry we arrive at truth. – Peter Abelard
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When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. –– Walter Lippman
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No tool is more beneficial than intelligence. No
enemy is more harmful than ignorance.
– Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Harithi
al-Baghdadi al-Mufid
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires. – William James
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. – Plutarch
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A profound thought is in a constant process of becoming. – Albert Camus
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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of
humanity. What though we have
many bodies? We have but one soul. I know
God is neither in heaven nor down below, but
in everyone. – M. K. Gandhi
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It's more useful to think of every other person as
another you – to think of every individual
as a representative of the universe.
– Rolling Thunder
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[LASCO C2 image of solar coronal mass ejection
January 8, 2002, taken by SOHO (ESA & NASA)]
You are a second world in miniature, the sun and the moon are within you, and also the stars. – Origen
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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in
the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
– Crowfoot
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The natural world is the larger sacred community to which
we belong. To be alienated
from this community is to become destitute in all that makes
us human.
– Thomas Berry
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I have discovered that I also live in "creation's
dawn." The morning stars still sing together,
and the world, not yet half made, becomes more
beautiful every day.
– John Muir
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Whatever happens, in any form or at any time or
place, is but a variation
of the One Self-existent Reality.
– Yoga-Vasistha
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Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe. – St. Theresa of Lisieux
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Truth is the spiritual white light which falls upon
the prism of mankind and
breaks into many colors whereby individuals interpret
it.
– Paul Brunton
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"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity,
and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to
reject it all.
– Rabbi Israel Baal Shem-Tov
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NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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This day before dawn I ascended a hill, and look'd
at the crowded heaven,
And I said to my Spirit, When we become the
enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure
and knowledge of everything in
them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then?
And my Spirit said, No, we but level that lift, to
pass and continue beyond. – Walt Whitman
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Regardless of whether we realize it or not, we are
always in the midst of the Way.
Or, more strictly speaking, we are nothing but the Way
itself.
– Taizan Maezumi
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The most intimate motions within the depths of our
souls are not completely our own. For
they belong also to our friends, to mankind, to the
universe, and to the Ground of all being,
the aim of our life.
– Paul Tillich
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All are one. – Black Elk
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There is one Mind. It is absolutely omnipresent, giving mentality to all things. – Giordano Bruno
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Thus verily are we born of the moon, children of the
sun, offspring of the stars, and inheritors of the cosmic spaces;
for space itself is we and we are it, for we and the
Boundless are in essence not twain but one.
– G. de Purucker
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. – John Muir
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My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God
whom I find everywhere in the external world,
in like manner also within and inside myself.
– Johannes Kepler
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You are not alone. We are all connected.
You could no more separate yourself from humanity than a wave
could separate itself from the ocean and still be
a wave.
– Gerald Jampolsky
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I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do
everything, but still I can do something;
I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
– Edward Everett Hale
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Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a
state of mind;
a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. –
Spinoza
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In truth it is utterly impossible for any fragment
of humanity to be secure and in peace and untroubled
while any other fragment is in peril or oppressed,
because inwardly and in reality we are one.
– Katherine Tingley
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As long as the sky exists and as long as there are
sentient beings
May I remain to help relieve them of all their pain.
– Shantideva
