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• love
• nature
• loves

It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity. Rainer Maria Rilke

• black
• saying
• eyes

I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit. Samuel Beckett

• life
• women
• children

Life is only lived full-time by women with children. Marguerite Duras

• know
• other
• tuned

I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't. Ulysses S. Grant

• manifesting
• one thing
• manifested

All things are manifestations of one thing only. Paulo Coelho

• leaving
• spiritual
• mindfulness

Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma. Janeane Garofalo

• thoughts
• mindfulness
• mourning

Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, and to enjoy killing people is to lose your share in the common good. It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented. It is right that a victor in war be received... Ursula K. Le Guin

• answering
• otherness
• openings

My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you. Louisa May Alcott

• life
• revealing

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit. John C. Maxwell

• nice
• me
• nicely

He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me. Augusten Burroughs

• powerful
• believe
• power

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power. Derrick Jensen

• eating
• small
• boys

and that's how the tournament started, the Million Dollar World Series of Monopoly......Jess and Pete thought alike -- like city boys, my father would have said, looking for the payoff in a situation rather than the pitfall. Rose and Ty and I played like farmers, looking for pitfalls, holes, drop-offs, something small that will tip the tractor, break it, eat into your time, your crop, the profits that already exist in your mind, and not only as a result of crop projections and long-range... Jane Smiley

• ignorance
• different
• subjected

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers

• mind
• baseball
• mindfulness

Baseball is only dull to dull minds Red Barber

• fly
• him
• single

I have tried imagining that the single peacock I see before me is the only one I have, but then one comes to join him, another flies off the roof, four or five crash out of the crepe-myrtle hedge; from the pond one screams and from the barn I hear the dairyman denouncing another that has got into the cow-feed. My kin are given to such phrases as, 'Let's face it. Flannery O'Connor