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Sometimes Peace

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Old Woman’s Secret Garden

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Tao & Zen

For this day and night, when everything is misted over and the whole world is silent. Here we say our prayers and understand what matters.

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The Places We Go

gardenOfPensivenessI do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to. ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings       ~ Image “Fairytale” by Junko Tamura

Oh yes. And a very smart man, a very sick man, (both the same) once said to me, It’s imperative that you have a place in your mind where you can go when you need. You won’t always have a book nearby, or a piano, or music, or something to cling to. When you need to go somewhere to retreat. Somewhere you can survive. Well, your mind that is. I don’t know how related or connected is your you and your mind.

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Reminders of Books

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Posted by ArtisticNature in FB.

So many photos, pieces of art, make me think of books. Here I have Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, Mutiny On The Bounty… But not Moby Dick. No, not that. The ship’s too small, the sea too calm. And there’s no dark November in my soul.

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Yosemite Waterfall

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From Nature’s Beauty

As Posted on Facebook

I cannot imagine our lives here in this beautiful country without all of our national forests and parks and rivers all protected. How fortunate we are that people like Muir and Roosevelt saw the future and knew we needed to be saved.

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Nietzsche & Math & Mind

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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.~Friedrich Nietzsche 

As quoted in The Puzzle Instinct : The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life‎ (2004) by Marcel Danesi, p. 71 from Human All-Too-Human

Nietzsche, it is said, went further into his own mind than anyone else had ever done or is likely to in future. It drove him crazy of course. And then I wonder, how would anyone know? No one could know, unless it is to be determined by what the thinker has written. A Buddhist monk has said that there are at least 30-some levels within the mind. At least that many that he had reached. And he had warned against attempting such a voyage, saying that madness lay in wait. The Grand Canyon of the mind, yes?