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Birdsong is Essential
Everything in existence is crying out for a particular quality of consciousness that only humans can give…there’s an incredible need for a certain cooperation. The famous mystic Rudolph Steiner has said that for the agricultural process to happen, for seeds and plants and trees to grow, birdsong is absolutely essential…
…These senses that we believe we know and use are in fact divine powers. Through them we can serve the cosmos, but if we don’t they work against us… There is no safe ground, no neutrality. We are called to a certain responsibility. As human beings we’ve been given something divine, meaning something intensely mysterious and real, and we can’t hand it back.
— Peter Kingsley
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…at birth they give you a ticket, the all-inclusive ticket. It includes illness, it includes pleasure, it includes regret, it includes beautiful youth, the maturity of thought, it includes decadence, old age and death. You can’t refuse to die, it’s included in the ticket price…
— Andrea Camilleri
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The Afternoon Sun
This room, how well I know it.
Now they’re renting it, and the one next to it,
as offices. The whole house has become
