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All life is one and it flows like a river or the waters of the sea. Plants, humans, animals down to the creatures that crawl, all draw their share from the one indivisible river of life, just as they all draw breath from the air.
-Ngugi Wa Thiongo
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If you want Happiness to bloom within you simply water the seeds. Our emotions and perceptions are like seeds in the garden of our minds- and mindfulness is like cool water. When we water the seeds of joy in ourselves, they will grow and flower without struggle or effort. This in one of the simplest and most wonderful of miracles.
;When you nourish yourself and others in this way, you see that all things= this computer screen your looking at, the air you are breathing, you, and I- are deeply interconnected. This is the truth of interdependence. No one can be ones self alone. We have to inter-be to be. May you water the seeds of joy and wisdom within you.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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existence is like
connected dots of wave thoughts,
a multi dimensional etch a sketch
of which
i am a thread of the universe...
i am the library,
infinite stories,
scattered realities,
many lives we have lived,
open doors to all...
whom are (re)membering truth.
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-everything is on its way somewhere-
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"There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment, and still be at peace...To be such a person or to witness anyone at this moment of transcendent presence is to know that what is human is linked, by a daring compassion, to what is divine. During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world, I have seen fear turn in to courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebrations. Because whatever the consequences, people standing side by side have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that--which is the foundation of activism."---from Anything We Love Can Be Saved by Alice Walker
