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Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks.
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This dream pops. it was real: and it lasted forever.
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When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.
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The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.
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All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.
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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.
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Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.
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After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board
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With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.
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Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.
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Better, the perfect, easy discipline of the swallows dip and swoop, without east or west.
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The size of the place that one becomes a member of is limited only by the size of one's heart.
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Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.
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Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.
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My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
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Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
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Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.
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If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land
gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
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Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.
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All those years and their moments— Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text.
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In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.
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Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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May 8, 1930
(age 94)
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