OVERVIEW (by Planetary Collective)
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
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| — | W.B. Yeats (via a-cceptance) |
By bringing about a change in our outlook toward things and events, all phenomena can become sources of happiness.
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| — | Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama |
Study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
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| — | Rumi (via thelittlephilosopher) |
I know that most men — not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic, problems — can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty — conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.
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| — | Leo Tolstoy |
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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| — | Kurt Vonnegut |
David Bowie - Station To Station
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“Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.”
- June Jordan
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David Bowie - Be My Wife
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“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
- Carl Jung
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me
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“Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist — the only thing he’s good for — is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if it’s only his view of a meaning. That’s what he’s for — to give his view of life.”
- Katherine Anne Porter
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