down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the road has gone,
and I must follow if I can.
Pursuing it with weary feet,
until it finds some larger way,
where many roads and errands meet,
and whither, then, I cannot say.
(Bilbo Baggins)
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| "Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down." (Kobi Yamada) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original demensions." (Oliver Wendell Holmes) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Shamanic, visionary ecstasy, the mysterium tremendum, the unio mystica, the eternally delightful experience of the universe as energy... is the ecstatic experience itself that gives one faith in the intrinsic unity and integrity of the universe, in ourselves as integral parts of the whole; that reveals to us the sublime majesty of our universe... Any religion... that defends against religious experiences, that promulgates the bizarre superstition that humankind is in some way separate, divorced from the rest of creation, that heals not the gaping wound between body and soul... is no religion at all!" (Jonathan Ott) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow if I can. Pursuing it with weary feet, until it finds some larger way, where many roads and errands meet, and whither, then, I cannot say. (Bilbo Baggins) |
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| "The most important scientific revolutions of all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos." (Stephen Jay Gould) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "What's the first rule about seizure patients? They have seizures!" (Dave Klocko, P.A. - who taught me never to overlook the obvious) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." (Albert Einstein) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind." (William James) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." (Sir Arthur Eddington) | "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." (James Baldwin) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls." (John Muir) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Life is sexually transmitted." (Unknown) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die." (Unknown) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Me with Raider. Raider used to belong to the Doyles (my husband's family). He has a new owner now, but I miss him and still think of him often. The greatest lessons are learned when you least expect them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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