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The Real Revolution
Silence is essential. We need silence, just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light.
— Thich Nhat Hahn
“The essential quality of the infinite is its subtlety, its intangibility. This quality is conveyed in the word spirit, whose root meaning is ‘wind or breath.’ That which is truly alive is the energy of spirit, and this is never born and never dies.”
-– David Bohm
“Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.”
— Henri-Frederic Amiel — Amiel’s Journal.
The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong. The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing. And the deepest part of our separateness from creation lies in our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, in ”Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”
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I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Not even a black widow
