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We Are The Pirates
“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.”
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan
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“To know ‘who I am and who I am not’ is called Absolute knowledge. “
— Dada Bhagwan
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The danger of civilization,
of course, is that you will
piss away your life
on nonsense.
― Jim Harrison
When we moved to the French countryside, we settled in a small village of fewer than two hundred people where the French ecological movement started over a hundred years ago. The people who lived there had a surprisingly cavalier attitude toward trees. We were shocked early on when they took down a whole grove of big trees in the center of the village. We compensated by planting the biggest trees we could find…
