Nature is Spiritual, Including The Insects

Gaugin

Peace can only come from taking responsibility for all forms of life…all sentient beings, including the insects.

— Dalai Lama

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You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly — that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

— Anne Lamott

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With or without religion, good people will do good things and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things, that takes religion.

— Steven Weinberg

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It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on this earth as though I had a right to be here.

— James Baldwin

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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

— Walt Whitman