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Like the Buddhist monk in the moonlight, sweeping the long stairs year after year, believing there is more to learn in the darkness, knowing the moon does not begin with his heart but stopping every so often in the stillness of his shadow to consider it so. - Jonathan Blake

Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy. - José Maria Eça de Queirós

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts it becomes an epidemic. - Wallace Stevens

All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon. - Raymond Carver

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. - Sydney J. Harris

though we are all more or less thinking of something or other all the time, some of us are thinking more and some less. Some brains are battling and working and puzzling things over all the time and other brains are just lying down, snoring and occasionally turning over.-T.Hughes

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. - Kathleen Norris

Say you have seen something. You have seen an ordinary bit of what is real, the infinite fabric of time that eternity shoots through, and time's soft-skinned people working and dying under slowly shifting stars. Then what? - Annie Dillard

We live in the mind. - Wallace Stevens

Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.' - Richard Dawkins

The moon glows the same:      it is the drifting cloud forms      make it seem to change.  - Matsuo Bashō

To sing is to begin a sentence like "I want to get well. I am not born for nothing and neither are you: Heaven never wept Over nothing." - Thomas Merton

I would hate to be taken seriously. Serious people are always so grim and uptight that they make me want to dance naked on the lawn playing a flute. - Robert Anton Wilson

The real fun of conspiracy hunting comes when you realize you can't trust anyone, as all the paranoids know. - Robert Anton Wilson

If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience. - Pablo Neruda

If you look at your watch, realize you still don't know the time, and look again, were you strictly speaking awake the first time you looked? - Robert Anton Wilson

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.  - Hunter S. Thompson

Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part. - Robert Frost

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life. - Ram Dass

Sometimes I really believe it, that I am going to save my life a little. - Mary Oliver