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"As George Meredith also writes: Barriers are for those who do not know how to fly.”

                                                On The Poetic Imagination and Reverie                                                                                    Gaston Bachelard
                                                                                      Pg.50-51  

Dream more while you are awake.

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Some of these are quotes, some are one or two page articles. The articles are underlined which will open upon clicking it. 

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Desire is not an emptiness longing to be filled.  Desire is a fullness longing to be in relationship.  Desire is love trying to happen,”

says Benedictine monk Sebastian Moore. 

“The Artist is no other than the one who unlearns what they have learned, in order to know themselves,” e.e. cummings 

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          “Love words, agonize over sentences.

            And pay attention to the world.”

                                                                  Susan Sontag

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A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer...$15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?)

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather a slide into home plate  broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”                                                                                                                                                                   Hunter S. Thompson

“Anything that invites reflection becomes a point of departure”

                                                                           Maxine Kumin

                                                                           Poetry In Person

                                                                                                 Pg. 5

WHAT IF THERE WERE NO HYPOTHETICAL QUESTIONS?

We are all here on earth to help others;

what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
                                                                                            W. H. Auden

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The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.

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Link to Krista Tippitt - Healing Spaces


http://www.onbeing.org/program/the-science-of-healing-places/4856/audio?embed=1

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The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then…

                                                                               Roger McGoug
h

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

                                                                                                                     Mahatma Gandhi

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"As long as there is a window a poem can be written."
                                                                                                                    RRM

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Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, academic, activist and author.
I reference him due to the way he has in calling for justice.

Here is an unusual demonstration of his passion

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The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything.

There would only be what is.

                                                                                             Susan Sontag

                                                                                            “now,  like a whispering in dark streets, rumors of God run through my dark blood”
                                                                      Rilke/RM
                                                              Book Of Hours
                                                                              1.38