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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
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inspirational
equilibrium
crying
tears
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Samuel Beckett |
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For Equilibrium, a Blessing
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inspirational
equilibrium
prayers
blessings
peace
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John O'Donohue |
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For Equilibrium, a Blessing: Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore, May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul. As the wind loves to call things to dance, May your gravity by lightened by grace. Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth, May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect. As water takes whatever shape it is in, So free may you be about who you become. As silence smiles on the other side of what's said, May your sense of irony bring perspective. As time remains free of all that it frames, May your mind stay clear of all it names. May your prayer of listening deepen enough to hear in the depths the laughter of god.
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inspirational
equilibrium
prayers
peace
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John O'Donohue |
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow...
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good
equilibrium
taoism
knowledge
evil
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls, the universe is changed. On every act the balance of the whole depends. The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth and light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things do, is well done, and rightly done. All these act within the Equilibrium. From the hurricane and the great whale's sounding to the fall of a dry leaf and the gnat's flight, all they do is done within the balance of the whole. But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility.
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responsibility
intelligence
equilibrium
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?
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death
life
equilibrium
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.
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equilibrium
metaphysics
harmony
mathematics
physics
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Mark Z. Danielewski |
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Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.
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life
equilibrium
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos. Therefore one can speak about music only with a man who has perceived the meaning of the cosmos.
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music
equilibrium
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Hermann Hesse |