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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified."

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Angela Davis Political Activist, Scholar
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"I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world."

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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world."

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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian
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"The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us."

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world."

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Socrates Philosopher
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"One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"There’s nothing left of me. I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise. Is it still a stone, or a world made of redness? It has no resistance to sunlight."

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