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“What is that personal self-sensory system? There will be no need for cosmetic makeup. People will be open, straight, and simple, and their beauty will be internal, not external...Men and women are going to reach out with such dignity, such devotion, such an elevated, lofty sense of self, and the beauty of the human character will be so bewitching, that not only will the one who is willing be enjoying and realizing, but their realization will be so profound that no destructive temptation by another person will work.” -Yogi Bhajan, August 1, 2000

“God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all things which alter my plans and intentions, and change the course of my life, for better or for worse.”
— Carl Jung

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Imagine the Universe as an ocean of fractal patterns. The same patterns emerge from the behavior of similar systems at different scales and in different dimensions. Neurons express the “branching” fractal shape, just like brains, blood vessels, lungs, trees, rivers, and evolution. Galaxy clusters express the “foam” fractal shape, as do soap bubbles, bread, and volcanic rocks.
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The Dragon and the Bear

A dragon was pulling a bear into its terrible mouth.

A courageous man went and rescued the bear.
There are such helpers in the world,
who rush to save
anyone who cries out. Like Mercy itself,
they run toward the screaming.

And they can't be bought off.
If you were to ask one of those, "Why did you come
so quickly?" He or she would say, "Because I heard
your helplessness."

Where lowland is,
that's where water goes. All medicine wants
is pain to cure.

And don't just ask for one mercy.
Let them flood in. Let the sky open under your feet.
Take the cotton out of your ears, the cotton
of consolations, so you can hear the sphere-music. . . .

Give your weakness
to One Who Helps.

Crying out loud and weeping are great resources.
A nursing mother, all she does
is wait to hear her child.

Just a little beginning-whimper,
and she's there.

God created the child, that is, your wanting,
so that it might cry out, so that milk might come.

Cry out! Don't be stolid and silent
with your pain. Lament! And let the milk
of Loving flow into you.

The hard rain and wind
are ways the cloud has
to take care of us.

Be patient.
Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.

Ignore those that make you fearful
and sad, that degrade you
back toward disease and death.

Jelaluddin Rumi in Mathnawi II 

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“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
— Stephen Jay Gould

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“In dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself embracing all. Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; love in freedom is love of all.

When you are love itself, you are beyond time and numbers. In loving one you love all, in loving all, you love each. One and all are not exclusive.”
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.”
— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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Nathalie Kelley by Neil Krug