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Mr. Middle said:

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Love it! I watched the old movie last night

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Chronic777 said:
There are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is the same as that of the religious fanatics, and it springs from the same source.
They are creatures who can't hear the music of the spheres - Einstein

We rarely hear the inward music,
but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless - Rumi

I saw you and became empty.
This emptiness, more beautiful than existence,
it obliterates existence, and yet when it comes,
existence thrives and creates more existence!
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To praise is to praise
how one surrenders
to the emptiness. Rumi

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some good shit right there.

It's funny how simple It really is.  And I will agree, if you miss the forest for the trees, that one may get distracted by silly details.  I just wish people who are the way they "actually" are would just be as they are.  And I mean that in the best way possible.

The first step is realizing the "mess" you've been living.  If you don't panic out of regrets of the past and scorn whatever catalystic event made this reality apparent, you might learn something and "better" yourself to reverberate with what's actually going on.  And when you do get to a certain point of realization and maintain a pragmatic understanding of the relationships everything has with each other then you know there no other place to go but of right this moment.  All else is just a clashing of poles (+,-) in all its beauty and grace.  Once you stop looking at the big picture under a microscope, you realize you might as well stop observing everything happenings and just be a part of it.  In the entropic dance of life, where the configuration of a protein is based on what its present environment is, I couldn't be more pleased with ease to live the same way everything else is "living". 
~Xeng Xhi Wu

For those who are missing the forest for the trees.
In one previous book, I read this, "Words are mere pins by which we may hang ideas and concepts from."
From that, I hope you will see the similarities and differences in everything and not get bogged down by the "definitions" of words but of the ideas and concepts they are trying to put an extremely loose shape around.

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soldatheero said:
The Universe

What if someone said to an embryo in the womb,
“Outside of your world of black nothing
is a miraculously ordered universe;
a vast Earth covered with tasty food;
mountains, oceans and plains,
fragrant orchards and fields full of crops;
a luminous sky beyond your reach,
with a sun, moonbeams, and uncountable stars;
and there are winds from south, north and west,
and gardens replete with sweet flowers
like a banquet at a wedding feast.

The wonders of this world are beyond description.
What are you doing living in a dark prison,
Drinking blood through that narrow tube?”
But the womb- world is all an embryo knows
And it would not be particularly impressed
By such amazing tales, saying dismissively:
“You’re crazy. That is all a deluded fantasy.”

One day you will look back and laugh at yourself.
You’ll say, “ I can’t believe I was so asleep!
How did I ever forget the truth?
How ridiculous to believe that sadness and sickness
Are anything other than bad dreams.”

-Rumi

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I can remember the first time I read that, thanks for it again

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Freedom said:

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soldatheero said:
The Universe

What if someone said to an embryo in the womb,
“Outside of your world of black nothing
is a miraculously ordered universe;
a vast Earth covered with tasty food;
mountains, oceans and plains,
fragrant orchards and fields full of crops;
a luminous sky beyond your reach,
with a sun, moonbeams, and uncountable stars;
and there are winds from south, north and west,
and gardens replete with sweet flowers
like a banquet at a wedding feast.

The wonders of this world are beyond description.
What are you doing living in a dark prison,
Drinking blood through that narrow tube?”
But the womb- world is all an embryo knows
And it would not be particularly impressed
By such amazing tales, saying dismissively:
“You’re crazy. That is all a deluded fantasy.”

One day you will look back and laugh at yourself.
You’ll say, “ I can’t believe I was so asleep!
How did I ever forget the truth?
How ridiculous to believe that sadness and sickness
Are anything other than bad dreams.”

-Rumi

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I can remember the first time I read that, thanks for it again

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"People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless."

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