if there was some way i could have traveled with lewis & clark but also lived through the beat generation and the 60's, that would have been very cool.
however, being given this gift of NOW fills me with so much joy and excitement that i sometimes think i will burst open and all my ideas will go swirling like a thousand little stars into this great nothingness that is OURS and ours alone. "The opposite of War isn't Peace - it's Creation!"
"...life is holy and every moment is precious." - kerouac
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
-Buddha
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"I can love a stone, Govinda, and a tree or a piece of bark. These are things and one can love things. But one cannot love words. Therefore teachings are of no use to me; they have no hardness, no softness, nor colors, no corners, no smell, no taste - they have nothing but words. Perhaps this is what prevents you from finding peace, perhaps there are too many words, for even salvation and virtue."
"...and here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect."
-Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
"It's hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffling slightly, "when you're only a very small animal."
Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said:
"It is because you are a very small animal that you will be useful in the adventure before us."
-Benjamin Hoff, The Te of Piglet
music: all of this has been created for us...isn't earth awesome? so glad i'm not somewhere else.
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