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All Beings Are Related
“Dare to be naïve.”
- Buckminster Fuller
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When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
Patrick Rothfuss — The Name of the Wind
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“Use a polytheistic lens to look at the world around you. Our minds were built in Ancient Greece. We don’t call them temples to Athena, we call them universities, we don’t call it a temple to Ares, we call it The Pentagon, and it’s a gymnasium not a temple to Apollo, but the need to build and pray at these temples is still deep within us all. Because we’ve disconnected the rational from the spiritual we don’t see the ritual. Strip clubs, dance halls, brothels, boxing rings, gambling dens… all temples to forgotten gods and goddesses. Tailgating parties have much in common with sacrifices and festivals: wearing special shirts, grilling meat, chants and songs”
— Matthieu Larsen Moravia
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“By studying DNA, molecular biologists have verified that all living organisms are genetically related… Through our evolutionary history, we are related to all other beings present and past — they are our genetic kin. When we see other species as…
