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For Nothing Is Fixed - James Baldwin

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 For nothing is fixed. forever, forever, forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born,  and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, leaves cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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All You Can Do - Ram Dass

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 All you can do for another person is be an environment in which, if they wanted, to come up for air, they could.
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Enlightenment - Dogen

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 To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
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Prayer - Galway Kinnell

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 Whatever happens. Whatever WHAT is  is what I want. Only that. But that.
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What Can We Gain - Thomas Merton

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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us  from Ourselves? 
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Throughout - Teilhard de Chardin

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 Throughout my whole life, during every minute of it the world has been gradually lighting up and blazing before my eyes until it has come to surround me, entirely lit up from within.
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In Praise of Wisdom - Chinook Psalter ll

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In the pouring forth of wisdom  all things have their being;  wisdom in my shining,  wisdom beyond me shining. All things are branches of the Tree of wisdom wisdom in me growing, wisdom beyond me growing. In the circle of being all things share a blessing; wisdom in me turning, wisdom beyond me turning.     
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