"Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them."
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"I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything."
"Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star."
"May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars."
"In a tuxedo, I'm a star. In regular clothes, I'm a nobody."
"Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars."
"A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land."
"Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward."
"My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars."
"...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars."
"You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable."
"Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation"
"I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles."
"The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together."
"Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars."
"What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all."
"Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it."
"Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars."
"The wind shows us how close to the edge we are."
"I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul."