Charles Darwin

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To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.

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Adyashanti

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CURIOUS HANGOVER

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When I lost myself

I lost my god too.

Like a collapsing tent

everything fell to the ground.

Now there is nothing to contain

the space inside of things

nor keep the space outside out.

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How was I to know

that finding  meant losing

and losing meant finding ?

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When the world rights itself

in your eyes it is like waking

from an intoxicating dream

with a curious hangover that

chuckles in bewilderment saying

‘ What was that all about ? ‘

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Joseph Campbell

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Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or sky. Furthermore it is never difficult to demonstrate that, as science and history, mythology is absurd. When a civilization begins to interpret its mythology in this way, the life goes out of it, temples become museums, and the link between the two perspectives dissolves.

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George Gurdjieff

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There do exist inquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the challenges set by life, try to penetrate into the essence of things and phenomena and to penetrate into themselves. If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution to the challenge of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him. For without this knowing, he will have no focal point in his search. Socrates’ words, ” Know thyself ” remain for all those who seek their true Being.

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