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"Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them."
"Use whatever excuse you can to vibrate in harmony with those things you've been saying you want. And when you do, those things that are a vibrational equivalent flow into your experience in abundance. Not because you deserve it, not because you've earned it, but because it's the natural consequence of the Law of Attraction. That which is like unto itself is drawn."
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception."
"There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide."
"Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development."
"For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end."
"Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature."
"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge."
"The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature)."
"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition."
"The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement."
"It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination"
"The voice of nature is always encouraging."
"Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not."
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way."
"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."
"Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image."
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
"All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another."
