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The State of Dancing
My wife is gone, my girl is gone,
my books are loaned, my clothes
are worn, I gave away a car; and
all that happened years ago.
Mind & matter, love & space
are frail as foam on beer.
— Gary Snyder
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Very few in the world know what great power is hidden in the wish of a person whose heart is in the state of dancing.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I often wonder at the strength and courage my father had in taking me out of the traditional school situation and providing me with these extraordinary learning experiences. I am certain he established the positive directions of my life that otherwise, given my native hyperactivity, could have been confused and catastrophic. I trace who I am and the direction of my development to those years of growing up in our house on the dunes, propelled especially by an internal spark tenderly kept alive and glowing by my father.
— Ansel Adams
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For millions of years man has been speaking about peace, but he has not come forward to first find peace within himself.
