Open heart.
Open mind.
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"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-George Orwell
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"I am a most unhappy man.
I have unwittingly ruined my country.
A great industrial nation is now controlled by its
system of credit."
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
-Woodrow Wilson
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"For some, knowledge is a scary thing that could tear down the walls of the little fortress they have spent many years building and reinforcing around themselves, so its much easier to label something as "evil" rather than have their security jeopardized, and leave themselves vulnerable to infinite chaos. I have found that courage is always rewarded when trying to find truth and beauty for what it is, rather than what someone has told you it is. I say always trust in your own divinity and your explorations will not go unfulfilled, and by the way, the word occult simply means hidden."
-Danny Carey
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Think for yourself.
Question authority.
Throughout human history,
as our species has faced the frightening,
terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are,
or where we are going in this ocean of chaos,
it has been the authorities,
the political, the religious, the educational
authorities who attempted to comfort us
by giving us order, rules, regulations,
informing, forming in our minds their view of reality.
To think for yourself you must question authority
and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable,
open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.
Think for yourself.
Question authority.
-Timothy Leary
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...That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,
as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
-The Declaration of Independence
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From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
-Edgar Allan Poe
'Alone'
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