BEAUTIFUL

Bradon Edge
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First Edition, September 2014

2014 by Bradon Edge

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Published in the United States

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Edge, Bradon
Beautiful: Collectors Edition
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ISBN-13: 978-1523263578
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Printed in the United States of America

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BEAUTIFUL
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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known
defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found
their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a
sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion,
gentleness, a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Elizabeth Kubler Ross

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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfield
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BEAUTIFUL

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There is a voice inside of you that whispers all day long, I feel
that this is right for me, I know that this is wrong.

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend or wise man can

decide what is right for you

just listen to the voice that speaks inside.

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The world saw her as Beautiful.

But He, he saw her as magic, as

the stars, as a good book. He
saw her as the reason the world
was beautiful.
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Look around you. How many people do you think

are settling? Probably a hell of a lot. People settle
into OKAY relationships, OKAY jobs, OKAY
friends, and an OKAY life.

Why?

Because OKAY is comfortable. OKAY pays the

bills and provides a warm bed at night. Some
people are fine with OKAY, and guess what?
That's okay.

But OKAY is not thrilling, it isn't passion, it's not

life-changing or unforgettable. OKAY is not the
reason you risk absolutely everything you've got for
the smallest chance that something absolutely
amazing could happen.
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Missing you comes in waves

and tonight
tonight, I'm drowning
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Notice the people who are happy for your happiness and sad for your sadness.
Theyre the ones who deserve special places in your heart.
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She's mad, but she's magic.

There's no lie in her fire.

She understands there is a purity

in her actually being the person
she presents herself as being.
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If traveling was free,

you'd never see me again.
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to
live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same
time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but
burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like
spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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Not everyone thinks the way you think,

knows the things you know,
believes the things you believe,
nor acts the way you would act.
Remember this
and you will go a long way
in getting along with people.
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The goal of life is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-

preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out,
shouting, Holy shit! What a ride!

Hunter S. Thompson
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KEEP SOME
ROOM IN
YOUR HEART
FOR THE
UNIMAGINABLE
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When someone says, Youve changed

it simply means youve stopped living your life their way.
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"If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your
mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling
you how to do your shit, then you deserve it."
Frank Zappa
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The world is coming to an end The air is polluted, the oceans contaminated The animals are going extinct,
the economys collapsed Education is shot, police are corrupt Intelligence is shunned and ignorance
rewarded The people are depressed and angry We cant live with each other and we cant live with
ourselves So everyones medicated We pass each other on the streets And if we do speak its
meaningless robotic communication More people want 15 seconds of fame rather than a lifetime of meaning
and purpose Because whats popular is more important than whats right Ratings are more important than
the truth Our government builds twice as my prisons as schools Its easier to find a Big Mac than an apple
And when you find the apple its been genetically processed and modified Presidents lie, politicians trick
us Race is still an issue, and so is religion Your God doesnt exist, my God does and he is All-Loving If
you disagree with me Ill kill you Or even worse argue you to death 92% of songs on the radio are about
sex Kids dont play tag, they play twerk videos The average person watches 5 hours of television a day
And its more violence on the screen than ever before Technology has given us everything we could ever
want and at the same time stolen everything we really need Pride is at an all-time high, humility, an all-time
low Everybody knows everything, everybodys going somewhere Ignoring someone, blaming somebody
Not many human beings left anymore, a lot of human doings Plenty of human lingerings in the past, not
many human beings Money is still the root of all evil Yet we tell our kids dont get that degree: the jobs
dont pay enough Good deeds are only done when theres a profit margin Videos of the misfortunes of
others go viral We laugh and share them with our friends to laugh with us Our role models today 60 years
ago would have been examples of what not to be There are states where people can legally be discriminated
against because they were born a certain way Companies invest millions of dollars hiring specialists to make
little girls feel like they need make up to be beautiful Permanently lowering little girls self-esteem because
they will never be pretty enough to meet those impossible standards Corporations tell us buy, buy, buy, get
this, get that You must keep up, you must fit in This will make you happy, but it never does for long So
what can we do in the face of all of this madness and chaos? What is the solution? We can love Not the
love you hear in your favorite song on the radio I mean real love, true love, boundless love You can love,
love each other From the moment we wake up to the moment we go to bed Perform an act of kindness
because that is contagious We can be mindful during every interaction Planting seeds of goodness
Showing a little more compassion than usual We can forgive Because 300 years from now will that
grudge you hold against your friend, your mother, your father have been worth it? Instead of trying to
change others we can change ourselves We can change our hearts We have been sold lies Brainwashed
by our leaders and those we trust To not recognize our brothers and sisters And to exhibit anger, hatred
and cruelty But once we truly love we will meet anger with sympathy Hatred with compassion, cruelty
with kindness Love is the most powerful weapon on the face of the Earth Few will have the greatness to
bend history But each of us can work to change a small portion of events And the total of all those acts
will be written in the history of a generation So yes, the world is coming to an end And the path towards a
new beginning starts within
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In existentialism, authenticity is the degree to which one is true to one's own

personality, spirit, or character, despite external pressures; the conscious self is seen
as coming to terms with being in a material world and with encountering external
forces, pressures, and influences which are very different from, and other than, itself.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read,
learn, and understand life.

Langston Hughes
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Relax. Nothing is under control.

The Master said, A true gentleman is one who has set his heart
upon The Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby
clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with."

Confucius, Analects 4.9

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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude
will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where "
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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What kind of fuckery is this?

Amy Winehouse
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A Muslim, a Jew, an Atheist and a

Christian walk into a bar and they talk
and laugh and drink together.

It's not a joke. It's what happens when

people are not assholes.
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At what age did you lose your compassion?

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Eye contact is way

more intimate than

words will ever be.
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have

always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming
manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein
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Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
Lao Tzu
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Hey.

You know I love you,

Right?
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,

there's somebody nobody knows about.
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You're not like the others,

and that's not just okay,
it's fucking beautiful.
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If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's
probably better you don't judge.
Junot Daz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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EXCUSE ME,
WHY ARE
YOU
SO SEXY?
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My soul is full of longing

. for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
Bruce Lee
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You will know you made the right decision:

you feel the stress leaving your body, your mind, your life.
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Nothing hurts a good soul and the kind heart more

than to live amongst people who cannot
understand it.
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"In the middle of winter I finally

learned that there was in me an
invincible summer."

---- Albert Camus, Return to Tipasa, 1954

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Spend a little less time trying to impress people.

Being uncool is pretty much the coolest you can be.
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He, said, "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it

have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally,
loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the
all, because once you are REAL, you can't be ugly, except to
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doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or

by the time you are REAL, most of your hair has been
joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at
people who don't understand."

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We were together.

I forgot the rest.

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3AM. The hour when life becomes unmistakably authentic

and emotionally rich.
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You've got to have someone who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees.
Someone you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.
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"You're going to be happy," said life, "but first, I'll make you strong."
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ALLOWABLES

I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Not even a black widow
And if the truth were told this
Was only a small
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book

But she didn't

And she scared me
And I smashed her

I don't think
I'm allowed

To kill something

Because I am

Frightened
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There are people who are generic. They make generic

responses and they expect generic answers. They live
inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their
box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are
the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated
plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable
faces, like droids. Like ignorance.
C. JoyBell C.
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All you rule-breakers, you misfits and troublemakers, all you free spirits and pioneers, all you visionaries and
non-conformists: Everything that the establishment has told you is wrong with you is actually what's right
with you. You see things others don't. You are hardwired to change the world. Unlike nine out of ten people,
your mind is irrepressible, and this threatens authority. You were born to be a revolutionary. You have
strengths dangerous to the establishment, and it wants them eliminated, so your whole life you've been told
your strengths were weaknesses. Now I'm telling you otherwise. Your impulsivity is a gift. Impulses are your
key to the miraculous. Your distractibility is an artifact of your inspired creativity. Your mood swings reflect
the natural pulse of life. They give you unstoppable energy when you're high, deep soulful insight when you're
low. Your utter lack of repression, your wide-eyed idealism, your unmitigated open mind [...] didn't anyone
ever tell you? These are the traits shared by the greatest pioneers and visionaries, innovators, revolutionaries,
procrastinators and drama queens, activists on the social scene, space cadets, mavericks, philosophers,
derelicts, business suits flying fighter jets, football stars and sex addicts, celebrities with ADD, alcoholics who
seek novelty, first responders, prophets and saints, mystics and change agents. You know in your heart that
there's a natural order, something more sovereign than any man-made rules or laws could ever express. This
natural order is called The Way. The Way is the eternal substrate of the cosmos. It guides the very current of
time and space. The Way is known by some as The Will of God, Divine Providence, The Holy Spirit, the
Implicate Order, the Tao, reverse entropy, life force, but for now we'll simply call it The Way. The Way is
reflected in you as the source of your inspiration, the source of your passions, your wisdom, your enthusiasm,
your intuition, your spiritual fire ... love. The Way takes the chaos out of the Universe and breathes life into it,
giving it divine order. The Way, when expressed by the mind, is genius; perceived through the eyes, is beauty;
felt through the senses, is grace. When allowed into the heart ... is love. Most people cannot sense The Way
directly ... but then there are the Wayseers, the keepers of the flame. Wayseers have an unexplainable knack
for just knowing The Way. They sense it in their very being. They can't tell you why or how they arrived at the
right answer. They just know it in their core. They can't show their work, so don't ask. Their minds simply
resonate with The Way. When The Way is present, so are they. While others are blind to it, and society begs
you to ignore it, The Way stirs you inside. Neurological repression blocks most people's awareness of The
Way. Censoring all thoughts and impulses from the unconscious is their pre-frontal cortex, the Gestapo of the
brain. Nothing which violates its socialized programming even gets through. But your mind is different. Your
mind has been cracked wide open to The Way; by some miraculous genetic trait, some psychotropic chemical
or maybe even by the will of your own soul. Your brain's reward pathways have been hijacked; dopamine
employed to overthrow the fascist dictatorship of your pre-frontal cortex. Now your brain is free of
repression, your mind free of censorship, your awareness exposed to the turbulent seas of the unconscious ...
through this open doorway divine light shines into your consciousness, showing you The Way. This is what
makes you a Wayseer. Ninety percent of human civilization is populated with those whose brains are blocked
to The Way. Their brains are hardwired to enforce the social programming indoctrinated since birth. Unlike
you, they cannot break out of this programming, because they have not yet experienced the necessary
revolution of mind. These programmed people take social institutions and rules very seriously. Society is full
of games programmed to keep peoples' minds occupied so they will not revolt. These games often cause sick
fixations on peculiar protocols, power structures, taboos and domination: all subtle forms of human bondage.
This distinct form of madness is not only tolerated by the masses but insisted upon. The programmed ones
believe in rules so forcefully they become willing to destroy anyone who violates them. Wayseers are the
ones who call their bluff. Since Wayseer minds are free to reject social programming, Wayseers readily see
social institutions for what they are: imaginary games. Wayseers comfort the disturbed and disturb the
comfortable. Helping those who are lost in these games and refuse to help themselves is a calling of many
Wayseers. Since Wayseers are the ones who keep contact with the original source of reality, they are able to
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disrupt societal conventions and even governments to realign humanity with The Way. Wayseers are an
ancient lineage, a kind of priesthood, carriers of the flame, ones in the know. There must always be
Wayseers to reform the dizzying psychotic spinning wheels of society, giant mindless hamster wheels
obscuring the pure blue sky, keeping humanity shackled in a darkened cage. So Wayseers are called to
shed light on the madness of society, to continually resurrect the timeless transcendent Spirit of Truth.
Wayseers reveal this divine truth by devoting themselves to the birth of some creative or disruptive act
expressed through art or philosophy, innovations to shake up industry, revolutions for democracy,
coups that topple hypocrisy, movements of solidarity, changes that leave a legacy, rebellions against
policy, spirit infused technology, moments of clarity, things that challenge barbarity, watersheds of
sincerity, momentous drives for charity. This is your calling, Wayseer. You've found your tribe.
Welcome home.
The Wayseers Manifesto
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Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just

ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the
possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real
aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity,
you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may
sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are
always definitely and certainly mad.
Terry Pratchett, Snuff
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We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we

cannot change our thinking.
Santosh Kalwar
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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The sexiest thing in the world is being intelligent, an independent

thinker. And being thoughtful. And being generous. And artful. And
compassionate. Everything else is worthless. I promise you. It's just
crazy that people try to make you feel otherwise. So don't buy it.
Instead, be smart. Be thoughtful. Be generous. Be artful. Be
compassionate. Everything else will fall into place.
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Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do

things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or
been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within
unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to
change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of
security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear
to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more
damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure
future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion
for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with
new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have
an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and
different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose
your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-
skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But
once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full
meaning and its incredible beauty.
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All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.
George Whitman

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system.
Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts.
Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
Frank Zappa

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
John Taylor Gatto

Self-education Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would

is open to all have rubbed off some of the originality.
but it is taken Beatrix Potter
only by those
who refuse to
live a small and
purposeless
life.

See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on
your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't
do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar
fifty in late charges at the public library!
Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting

Our head is designed to develop our intelligence, to devote ourselves to self-

education, self -improvement and to broaden our perspective regarding the world
around us
Sunday Adelaja
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If your feelings are still what they were last September, tell me so at once.
My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will
silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to
tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love
you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.
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the useless days will

add up to something.
the shitty waitressing
jobs. the hours writing
in your journal. the
long, meandering
walks. the hours
reading poetry and
story collections and
novels about dead
people's diaries and
wondering about sex
and God and whether
you should just go up
and talk to him. these
things ... these things
are your becoming.
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I used to think I was the

strangest person in the
world, but then I thought
there are so many people in
the world, there must be
someone just like me who
feels bizarre and flawed in
the same ways I do. I would
imagine him, and imagine
that he must be out there
thinking of me, too. Well, I
hope that if you are out
there and read this, know
that, yes, it's true: I am here,
and I'm just as strange as
you.
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"I don't know what to say," she said.

"It's okay," he replied. "I know what we are and I know what we are not."
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This lady comes from a generation that

knows how to enjoy the moment.
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The hardest thing to do these days is find real depth

inside of people. It feels as if people are proud to be
shallow, to have weak connections, and to lack a true
burning passion. I want it deep. I want it to untangle
parts of my soul that have never been touched. I want
to explore people with layers, like onions, like
volumes. I want people to teach me things; I want
people to allow me to give them new information. I
need depth. Where is it?
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She said:

"Don't you feel lonely living in your

own little world?"

He whispered:

"Don't you feel powerless living in

other people's worlds?"
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The poet and the songwriter are produced by the people

because the people need them.
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I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi,
head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody
even looks at you funny.
Rick Riordan
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Crap. I'm in love.

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A wise man once said nothing.

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When words run dry, he does not try, nor do I.

He just is, I just am, and we just are.
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When one chooses to experience life without the constant

accompaniment of social media, one become BEAUTIFUL.
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Some people feel the rain; others just get wet.

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I do not have time for

things that have no

soul.
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And suddenly you know:

It' s time to start

something new
and trust
the magic of beginnings.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is

concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window.
Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures
and culturally laid-down models of behavior and information
processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything
you know is wrong.

Dissolved opinion structures and dissolved culturally laid-down

models of behavior and information processing, as well as being
open to view society and the world more clearly, are beautiful.
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Love is the dancing cry of the soul, calling the body to worship
Like a shining whirlpool, or a spinning mayfly
So is love among the skies.
I leap across the mountaintops, madly singing the song of all songs
I float through the ether, intoxicated, thrilled
I think only of your love, your calling to me
And I dance the thousand dances of love, all returning to you.
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There will come a time when you feel everything

is finished. That will be the beginning.
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DAMAGED PEOPLE
ARE DANGEROUS:

THEY KNOW THEY

CAN SURVIVE.
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He isn't human.
He is art,
with a heart.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and
not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live
what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation,
unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the
marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that
was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner,
and reduce it to its lowest terms.

Henry David Thoreau

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A quiet, secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being

useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not
accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes
may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's
neighbor such is my idea of happiness.

Leo Tolstoy
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You said, "Us."

And in that instant,

I knew words were magic.
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Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing

and rightdoing, there is a field.

I'll meet you there.

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You may not be his first, his last or his

only. He loved before; he may love again.
But if he loves you now, what else
matters? He's not perfectyou aren't
either, and the two of you may never be
perfect together; but if he can make you
laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit
to being human and making mistakes,
hold onto him and give him the most you
can. He may not be thinking about you
every second of the day, but he will give
you a part of him that he knows you can
breakhis heart. So don't hurt him, don't
change him, don't analyze and don't
expect more than he can give. Smile when
he makes you happy, let him know when
he makes you mad, and miss him when
he's not there.
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You are enough. A thousand times enough.

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"Eyes. Those damn eyes fucked me forever."

Charles Bukowski
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And then my soul whispered,

"Oh, there you are. I've been looking for you."

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Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don't. But
you listen to them anyway. So, sometimes with art, it is
important just to look.
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human

being with an independent will.

Charlotte Bront, Jane Eyre

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
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MAGIC:

"What! You too? I thought I was the only one who . . . "
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Friendship is love without any biological tones. It has become

a rare phenomenon. It used to be a great thing in the past, but
a few great things in the past have completely disappeared. It
is a very strange thing that ugly things are stubborn, they dont
die easily; and beautiful things are very fragile, they die and
disappear very easily.

Today friendship is understood either in biological terms or in

economic terms, or in sociological terms in terms of
acquaintance, a kind of acquaintance. But friendship means
that if the need arises you will be ready even to sacrifice
yourself. Friendship means that you have made somebody else
more important than yourself; somebody else has become
more precious than you yourself. It is not a business. It is love
in its purity.
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"I believe in everything until it is

disproved. So I believe in fairies, the
myths, dragons.

It all exists, even if its in your mind.

Whos to say that dreams and
nightmares arent as real as the here
and now?"

John Lennon
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It's your life ... but only if you make it

so. The standards by which you live
must be your own standards, your
own values, your own convictions in
regard to what is right and wrong,
what is true and false, what is
important and what is trivial.
When you adopt the standards and
the values of someone else or a
community or a pressure group, you
surrender your own integrity. You
become, to the extent of your
surrender, less of a human being.
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If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?
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And now that you do not need to be perfect, you can be good.
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P.S. The biggest communication problem is that we do

not listen to understand: we listen to reply.
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People are often unreasonable and self-centered.

Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.
Give your best anyway.

Mother Teresa
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By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

For this appears to me the safest answer to give both to
myself and others; and adhering to this, I think that I
shall never fall, but that it is a safe answer both for me
and any one else to give that by means of beauty
beautiful things become beautiful.

Socrates
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Don't feel stupid if you don't like what

everyone else pretends to like.
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Stop seeking external Praise. You are amazing. You do not need
"their" shallow approval, validation or acceptance. Let it go.
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It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.

Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
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I do not particularly like the word work. Human beings

are the only animals who have to work, and I think that
is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other
animals make their livings by living, but people work
like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay
alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge,
the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good
to give up that way of thinking and live an easy,
comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that
the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside
in the morning and evening to see if there is something
to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be
a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such
simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce
directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is
not work as people generally think of it, but simply
doing what needs to be done.

Masanobu Fukuoka
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Dont forget that youre

human. Its okay to have a
meltdown. Just dont
unpack and live there.
Cry it out and then refocus on
where you are headed.
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No man loves life like him that's growing old.

SOPHOCLES, Acrisius
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That thing we call intuition. Its your soul. You can trust it.
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The sign of intelligence is

that you are constantly
wondering.

Idiots are always

dead sure about every damn
thing that they are doing
in their life.
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There is no fundamental difference

between man and animals in their ability to
feel pleasure and pain, happiness and
misery.
Charles Darwin
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"Who are you to judge the

life I live? I know I'm
not perfect, and I don't
have to be! Before you start
pointing fingers, make sure
your hands are clean."
Bob Marley
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I will
make up
for all of
the years
I was
supposed
to be
kissing
you.
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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To
sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where
doing nothing was not boring: it was peace.
Milan Kundera
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He watched her take off her make-up and

wondered why she ever put it on.
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If you want
to make me moan
It's going to take more than
the touching of flesh.
I don't want you
to want
to fuck me
just because you're horny.
I want you
to want
our bodily fusion
like an insatiable hunger,
like an unquenchable thirst,
because it's as close as
our dark-lit, naked souls will
even come to touching.
If you want to hear
the cry of the fire
that burns white-hot
from the depths of me,
you must be willing
to walk through the flames,
and burn throughout
the endless night
with me.
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When one stops wanting to be "normal", one becomes BEAUTIFUL.

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You know what's

sexy?
A real conversation.
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When you're socially awkward, you're

isolated more than usual, and when you're
isolated more than usual, your creativity is
less compromised by what has already been
said and done. All your hope in life starts to
depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it.
One reason I stay isolated more than the
average person is to keep my creativity as
fierce as possible. Being the odd one out
may have its temporary disadvantages, but
more importantly, it has its permanent
advantages.
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Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open
doors! Give a chance to the open doors!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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Kindness is not random, it is done on purpose

Sonya Withrow
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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

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When you get to know someone, all of that persons physical characteristics
start to disappear. You begin to dwell in their energy, recognize the scent of
his or her skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. Thats
why you cant fall in love with beauty or looks. You can lust after it, be
infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and your
body, but not your heart. Thats why when you really connect with a person,
any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.
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I wonder how many people

Ive looked at all my life
and never seen.

John Steinbeck
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By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from

man. My interest in the Sun and the Moon, in the morning
and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

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Anyone who encourages intellectual, emotional,

artistic or spiritual growth is worth keeping.
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"If there was no money, and everything depended on

your moral standards, the way that you behaved, and
the way that you treated people, how would you be
doing in life?"

Tupac Shakur
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Go outside. Dont tell anyone and dont bring your phone.

Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the
road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same
roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we
cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to
work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have
not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Dont try to get
anything out of it, because you wont. Dont try to make use
of it, because you cant. And thats the point. Just walk, see,
sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with
whatever you have, and realize that that is enough to be
happy. Theres a whole world out there, right outside your
window. Youd be a fool to miss it.
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"In itself, heterosexuality is as limiting as homosexuality: the ideal

should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a
human being, without feeling fear, restraint or obligation.

Simone de Beauvoir
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I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for

making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men.
I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the
news. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are
beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home;
that wildness is a necessity
John Muir
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Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives
you bad vibes. There is no need to explain or make sense of it. Just trust the
little inner voice when it talks to you.
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I like art, and by art, I mean music, poetry, sex,

paintings, the human body, literature all of this is
art to me.
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Sometimes
people with the worst pasts
create the best futures
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The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the

twenty-first centuryor the twentieth or nineteenth, for that
matter. It was a city of alchemists and dreamers, its medieval
cobbles once trod by golems, mystics, invading armies. Tall
houses glowed goldenrod and carmine and eggshell blue,
embellished with Rococo plasterwork and capped in roofs of
uniform red. Baroque cupolas were the soft green of antique
copper, and Gothic steeples stood ready to impale fallen angels.
The wind carried the memory of magic, revolution, violins, and
the cobbled lanes meandered like creeks. Thugs wore Motzart wigs
and pushed chamber music on street corners, and marionettes hung
in windows, making the whole city seem like a theater with unseen
puppeteers crouched behind velvet.
Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo
said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I
speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already
lost it, little by little.
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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When it was dark, you always carried the Sun in your hand for me.

Sen O'Casey, Three More Plays: The Silver Tassie, Purple Dust, Red Roses For Me
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I would shake the dust from my coat, and rise

If I realized my own perfection.
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I just want to
CREATE STUFF,
go on more
adventures, be
around good
energy, connect
with people,
learn new
things, grow.
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Some people are beautiful.

Not in looks.

Not in what they say.

Just in what they are.

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When one understands that what each of us truly desire in this life is
connection, one becomes BEAUTIFUL.
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Positions and
appearances are
irrelevant. The
important thing is to
carry out our personal
duty, our commitment, no
matter what anyone else
may say. This is a life of
true victory, a life of
unsurpassed nobility and
fulfillment.
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It is the mind which

creates the world around
us, and even though we
stand side-by-side in the
same meadow, my eyes
will never see what is
beheld by yours, my
heart will never stir to
the emotion by which
yours is touched.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The less I needed, the better I felt.

Charles Bukowski
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Meeting you was like listening to a

song for the first time and knowing
it would be my favorite.
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Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More
dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act
without asking questions.

Primo Levi
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that

physical beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy
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I'll tell you what kind of red hair he had. I

started playing golf when I was only ten years
old. I remember once, the summer I was around
twelve, teeing off and all, and having a hunch
that if I turned around all of a sudden, I'd see
Allie. So I did, and sure enough, he was sitting on
his bike outside the fence--there was this fence
that went all around the course--and he was
sitting there, about a hundred and fifty yards
behind me, watching me tee off. That's the kind
of red hair he had.

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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It does not matter how long you are spending on the Earth, how much
money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the
amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights
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When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.
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Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change

someone's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to
realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward
encouraging someone who is stuck in a desolate place.
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You have to carry the fire.

I dont know how to.
Yes, you do.
Is the fire real?
Yes it is.
Where is it? I dont know where it is.
Yes you do. Its inside you. It always was there. I can see it.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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Someone once told me the definition of Hell:

The last day you have on Earth, the person you

became will meet the person you could have
been.
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

George Bernard Shaw

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Even
after
all this time
the Sun never says to the
Earth,

You owe
me.

Look
what happens
with a love like that
it lights the
whole
sky.
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird
evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world
will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read
the book.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is

intelligence with an erection.
Victor Hugo
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Dance, when youre broken open.

Dance, if youve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when youre perfectly free.
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When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different.
You feel safe and comfortable.
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Children see magic because they look for it.

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The difference between you and everyone else is everyone else.

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When one questions what it is to be "normal", one becomes BEAUTIFUL.

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ADMIT IT. YOU ARENT LIKE THEM.

Youre 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 the 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 Weathers awful, huh?, you yearn inside to say forbidden
things like Tell me what makes you cry or What are you
passionate about?

Face it, you even want to talk to the girl or guy in the elevator.
But what if that person 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.
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Yugen /yoo-gehn/ n. (Japanese)

An awareness of the universe that triggers emotional
responses too deep and powerful for words.
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Your beliefs create the reality that you experience.

A belief is just a thought that we continue to think.

If you want to change your reality, you need to start by changing your thoughts.
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Rock bottom
has built more heroes than has
privilege.
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Reading can seriously damage your ignorance.

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In the end, only three things matter:

how much you loved,

how gently you lived, and
how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
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I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should
make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may
previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many
people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to
change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity,
and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality
nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure
future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The
joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no
greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new
and different Sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination
for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first
appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will
see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, in short, adventure."
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild .
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
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All war is a symptom of mans failure as a thinking animal. John Steinbeck

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6:59 AM

Ive been told

that people in the army
do more by 7:00AM
than I do
in an entire day
but if I wake
at 6:59AM
and turn to you
to trace the outline of your lips
with mine
I will have done enough
and killed no one
in the process.
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The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever
to be able to do it.
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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"Of all things, I liked books best." -Tesla

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Im bored is a useless
thing to say. I mean, you
live in a great, big, vast
world that youve seen
none percent ofeven
the inside of your own
mind is endless; it goes
on forever, inwardly, do
you understand? The
fact that youre alive is
amazing, so you dont get
to say, Im bored.
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Find yourself first, what you love, what turns you on, and
how to be at peace; then, never settle for anyone who doesn't
compliment you and give you even more of what you already
have.
Mark Anthony
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"When we once saw the resplendissement

of happiness on the face of a loved one, we
know that there can be no other vocation for
a man than to arouse this light on the faces
that surround him".

Albert Camus, Notebooks II (1942-1951)

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Become nothing, and you will become everything.

Jalaluddin Rumi
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WRITE HARD
AND CLEAR
ABOUT WHY
YOU LOVE HIM.
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The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or

leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We
can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for
loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are
many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but
there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty
in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only
a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality.

Mother Teresa, A Simple Path: Mother Teresa

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If you have time to chatter,

Read books.

If you have time to read,

Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.

If you have time to walk,

Sing songs and dance.

If you have time to dance,

Sit quietly, you happy, lucky idiot.

Nanao Sakaki
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When one realizes that one's physical and emotional presence and
absence in another's life both mean something, one becomes BEAUTIFUL.
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Dearest child,
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Love,
Every adult still treading water
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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read

only one page.
Augustine of Hippo
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we

must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays

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Some periods of our growth are so confusing

that we dont even recognize that growth is
happening. We may feel hostile or angry or
weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed.
It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled
on a book or a person who explained to us, that
we were in fact in the process of change, of
actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we
were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel
it, as a young seed must feel the weight and
inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its
shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the
feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is
most unpleasant is the not knowing what is
happening. Those long periods when something
inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its
breath, unsure about what the next step should
be, eventually become the periods we wait for,
for it is in those periods that we realize that we
are being prepared for the next phase of our life
and that, in all probability, a new level of the
personality is about to be revealed.
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My soul is from elsewhere,

I am sure of that,
and I intend to end up there.

Rumi
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You are so much more than you have been told.

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The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all
that is wrong with the world.
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Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean

pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful
petting but transcendental metamorphosis
when you became aware that the greatness
of this being was breathing into you. Licking
the sides and corners of your mouth, like
sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled
with the essence of your passionate being
and then opened by the same mouth and
delivered back to you, over and over again -
the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss
that confirms that the universe is aligned,
that the world's greatest resource is love.
With or without a belief in God, all kisses
are metaphors decipherable by allocations
of time, circumstance, and understanding.
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My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

John Keats
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The dragonflyin almost every part of the worldsymbolizes

change in the perspective of self realization, as well as change
that has its source in mental and emotional maturity and the
understanding of the deeper aspects of life. The dragonfly
represents power and poise, maturity and depth of character, the
defeat of self-created illusions and the opening of ones eyes.
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Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your
kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force
for good who had much respect for people and life, in general.

Meet me under the sky somewhere and be alive with me.

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A person who is envied because he is a

fabulously unique individual who can kick ass
and has no need or desire to follow the flock.
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If you can't feed 100 people,

then feed just one.
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Not a single creature on Earth has more or less right to be here.

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SONNET 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough

winds do shake the darling buds of May, And

summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime

too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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If you suppress that untamed, anarchist, desirous

part of you, do you lose the best part of you?
Sure, your life is more stable and safe,
But, is it a better life?
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Maddy Loves Brad: A Musical

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ABOUT THE EDITOR

Bradon craves thunderstorms, crashing waves, bluesy passion, laughable moments
when people fall but aren't injured, warm and sunny days, all-night diners, illuminating
discoveries, wood burning stoves and covered porches, wisdom, Oscar-worthy and
ridiculously dumb movies, long highways, dolphins with which to swim, late nights
out, horse-back riding along the shore, love, people who both curse and accept
differences, the boogie, engrossing novels, sleeping under the stars, roller coasters,
Southeast Asia, Detroit Pistons basketball, compassion, hand holding, the sand
between his toes and the wind in his hair, howling wolves, people who get choked up
when a dog dies in a movie, snorkeling, gothic castles and haunted houses, the seas,
opportunities to blast AC/DC, moments to act like a kid, sunsets, deep conversations,
beach bonfires, the perfect hooded sweatshirt, mornings to sleep in, Spider-Man, mud
baths, peace in his heart, dry wood crackling in an open fireplace, the moonlight, the
hauntingly dreamy feeling that songs like Willie Nelsons Stardust and Princes How
Come You Dont Call Me Anymore? provide, caves to explore by candlelight, natural hot
springs, opportunities to give back, worn blue jeans, a dog shelter at which he may find
his new best friend, and among other things, old friendships to nurture and new
friendships to earn.
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CONTACT
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