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“ love is free, sometimes, & costly othertimes.
we may only have each other.
our true touch. we may only have. ”

Alta 7:3 (from Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women’s Spirituality. Edited by Marilyn Sewell)

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“We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars… We live in a galaxy that is about one hundred thousand light-years across and is slowly rotating; the stars in its spiral arms orbit around its center about once every several hundred million years.”

Stephen Hawking (from a Brief History of Time)

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“In all your life have you ever called up the dawn or shown the morning its place?

Have you taught it to grasp the fringes of the earth and shake the Dog-star from its place; to bring up the horizon in relief as clay under a seal, until all things stand out like the folds of a cloak, when the light of the Dog-star is dimmed and the stars of the Navigator’s Line go out one by one?

Have you descended to the springs of the sea or walked in the unfathomable deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you ever seen the door-keepers of the place of darkness? Have you comprehended the vast expanse of the world? Come, tell me all this, if you know.

Book of Job 38:12-18

“I know we never will be perfect
Never entirely clear
We get hurt and we just panic
And we strike out
Out of fear
I fear the sentence of this solitude
200 years on hold
Oh and all we ever wanted
Was just to come in from the cold

Come in
Come in from the cold
Please come in
Come in from the cold
Come in come in
Come in from the cold.”

Joni Mitchell (from Come in from the Cold)

We’re all in this together.

“Though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.”

John Muir (1838 – 1914)

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I was playing the game—but that’s one of the times I just did it without thinking, I reckon. You see, you do, lots of times; you get so used to it—looking for something to be glad about, you know. And most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.”

Pollyanna (by Eleanor H. Porter – Chapter 7)

“Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.”

Pema Chödrön (from The Wisdom of No Escape, p.6)