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“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…” ~Timothy Leary
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“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship… There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.” - C. S. Lewis
 
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” - Hunter S Thompson
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"The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages." ~ Banksy
 
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.

- Mulla Nasrudin


The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust


You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

- Mark Twain
 
Remember, we are all affecting our world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being Love is the supreme creative act. ♥ -Ram Dass
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“Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.” -Henri Bergson
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.
-- John Lilly
 
MANIFESTO: THE MAD FARMER LIBERATION FRONT

Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay.
Want more of everything made.
Be afraid to know you neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery any more.
Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something they will call you.
When they want you to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute.
Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace the flag.
Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
Praise ignorance,
for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millennium.
Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.

Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees
every thousand years.
Listen to carrion--put your ear close,
and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world.
Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable.
Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap for power,
please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth?
Go with your love to the fields.
Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head in her lap.
Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and politicos can predict the motions
of your mind, lose it.
Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go.
Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.
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Wendell Berry

Just one of my favorite poems by Wendell Berry, pretty much everything i've read of his (poetry/essays/fiction/non-fiction) is pure gold. A man i have learned to have a great deal of respect and admiration for. Plus hes a kickass farmer who still holds true to the sustainable, pre-hydrocarbon "green" :roll: revolution way of food production, and can tear logical holes in anyones argument that the monoculture mass produced food production system we live under is anything but a unusutainable and destructive joke. Nature will put us in our place if we don't listen to people like him, though it will be painful and messy.
 
Quotes over time get warped and paraphrased to suit whoever is using them so for that reason I will not attribute these quotes and some may wind up paraphrased as I feel the words are always more important than who said them.


"We are not enemies but friends, we must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break the bonds of our affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

"I don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

"Life is short and if you're looking for extension, with your time you had best do well, cause there's good deeds and there is good intentions and they're as far apart as heaven and hell."

"The thing about the edge is, the only ones who know where it is are those who have gone over."

"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."

"No one knows the meaning of life, we all just have a piece of the puzzle and do the best we can."

"True bliss is found treading the wavy line between Yin and Yang, not tossing and turning between the light and dark but realizing that beauty is found in the dusk and dawn before its snuffed out by a singular shade."

"Change is coming through my shadow."

"You better free your mind instead."

"Remember what the dormouse said. Feed your head."
 
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