And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant,
insufferable master.
(Shine, Perishing Republic)
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I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion.) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars none of them seems to me important it itself, but only the whole. The whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine. It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love and that there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions - the world of the spirits.Robinson JEFFERS
It is good for man To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish, not to go down the dinosaur's way Until all his capacities have been explored and it is good for him To know that his needs and nature are no more changed, in fact, in ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles.
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They have strange quiet,
Integrity, health, soundness, to the full
They've dealt with life and been tempered by it.
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Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.
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Two wars, and they breed a third.
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Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
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