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The World Is A Song
“You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye — the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.”
— Rumi
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“I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe …I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry — poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs — is how the world works. The world isn’t logical, it’s a song.”
— David Byrne
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“Yes, the great work of our time is to bring the Feminine into our overly masculine culture. In fact, She is the active archetype working in our world for some time now, but not seen by the masses trying to survive, and yet, clearly Seen by the marginalised loners, the artists, poets, the mystics and witches, the women who haven’t lost touch with the Inner Voice and its message, ‘…to go forward some people want to see power-sharing between the masculine and the feminine, a union of the opposites. But I tell you, you cannot graft peace, inclusiveness, service or empathy, knowing kinship with all life, unto a system which doesn’t care about such values, thinks it’s perfect already and is in no need to change, especially when it’s according to scriptures…
