"There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration."
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"... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back."
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"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars."
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"I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point."
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"Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy."
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"The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!"
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"To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God."
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"We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds."
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"Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light"
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"All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star."
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"Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all."
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"Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star."
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"You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first."
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"Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins."
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"Just remember that the darkest night did not turn out all the stars."
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"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself."
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"In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires."
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"Every star may be a sun to someone."
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"And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark...""
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"We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven."
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