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In ethical, moral, and practical terms, this is a Wow moment: One is called to live nonviolently, Daniel Berrigan once wrote, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the United States around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better.

In the very back final courtyard of the massive Forbidden City in Beijing, China, under a massive 3-meter tall urn, lies a flower of life patterned sphere on a ...flower of life patterned surface (with dragons)... How did they know the geometry of the sub-quantum vacuum fluctuations of the fabric of spacetime itself? See more

Everybody has a mind that can expand. But you have to cultivate that kind of mind. Now comes the letting go of obstructions, the stretching of the mind towards the impossible, towards that which says there is nothing left except peace. ~Ayya Khema (1923-1997) European born Buddhist Teacher and nun in the Theravada tradition

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may my heart be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old... may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it's sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more than truly there's never been quite such a fool who could fail pulling all the sky over him with one smile e e cummings, "53"

"...Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks." ~William Carlos Williams says "no ideas but in things" yet no thinker and no thought rejoins spaciousness... adamantine compassion this vow beyond all time. See more

The Creative is the strongest of all things in the world. The expression of its natures is invariably the easy, in order thus to master the dangerous. The Receptive is the most devoted of all things in the world. The expression of its nature is invariably simple, in order thus to master the obstructive. ... To be able to preserve joyousness of heart and yet to be concerned in thought: in this way we can determine good fortune and misfortune, and bring to perfection everything on earth. ~The I Ching, Ancient China (2800-2100? BC) Wilhelm / Baynes tr. p 353