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I’ve Been There, by Jonathan Solter

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Terra, by Jonathan Solter

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Source

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“Show me the clams Show me the pearls Mail me a note Sent from a world That isn’t so far And always right here Where all the boundaries Have disappeared”

Time to get wonky excited about this new album coming out.

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Ruysen Flores Venancino.

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"Make no mistake about it -- enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the façade of pretense. It is the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.”

Adyashanti

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"The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world." ~ Siddhārtha Gautama

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“Is the flow of time something real, or might our sense of time passing be just an illusion that hides the fact that what is real is only a vast collection of memories?”

~ Lee Smolin

Art: Mark Henson

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Who, then, is 'animate' and who 'inanimate'? Within the assembly of the Lotus, all are present without division. In the case of grass, trees and the soil...whether they merely lift their feet or energetically traverse the long path, they will all reach Nirvana.

Zhanran

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Tell me, what does it mean to be animate or inanimate? Personal or impersonal? Are there such separations or are they illusions of the mind that is shackled by the thoughts and the senses? Is there really decision making or is it so that there is just an awareness of an inevitable process?

Art by Sander Bos

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The last end of man, the ultimate reason for human existence, is unitive knowledge of the divine Ground---the knowledge that can come only to those who are prepared to 'die to self' and so make room, as it were, for God. Out of any given generation of men and women very few will achieve the final end of human existence; but the opportunity for coming to unitive knowledge will, in one way or another, continually be offered until all sentient beings realize Who in fact they are.

Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

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When things get too serious, Rick and Morty.

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Eighty-five years ago marijuana was banned by federal statute and in the 1970’s marijuana was classified by the federal government as a controlled substance – drugs designated illegal, which could only be illicitly obtained. These drugs were often demonized as habit-forming associated with less desirable folks with addiction issues – not contributing to society – and the focus of the morally misguided failed federal ‘War on Drugs’. Interestingly, in 2013 according to a Gallup poll, for the first time some 58% of citizens supported legalization, yet marijuana is still on the federal controlled substance list alongside dangerous drugs such as heroin and meth. 

However, the use of medical marijuana has been approved by 23 states and the District of Columbia to help minimize the side-effects of diseases ranging from nausea and glaucoma to cancer and HIV/AIDS; used to treat ailments like multiple sclerosis and to help with chronic pain – but it was still banned on the federal level a provision that lifted the ban was “quietly placed in the recent spending bill” passed by Congress last week.    

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A step in the right direction.

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A ridiculously repetitive winter jam brought to you straight from THE Animal Collective.

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Bryce National Park

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The only thing missing is a good book and a calm fire

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Warm tea and cinnamon raisin bread