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Orb Pill Thought Collection

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How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always  burning? Why do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by darkness?

Siddhartha Gautama

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Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge... It has nothing to do with the individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. Indeed in a certain sense two "I"'s are identical namely when one disregards all special contents — their Karma. The goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further... when man dies his Karma lives and creates for itself another carrier."

Erwin Schrödinger (Quoted in A Life of Erwin Schrödinger (1994) by Walter Moore)

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Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Tonight’s realization: Pokémon is a Solarpunk setting.

Evidence:

“Science is amazing!” / Science as a recurring theme

Coexisting with nature (pokémon) is a major theme

Healthcare is free for everyone

Society is generally safe enough for 10-year-olds to travel alone with only their pets. In fact, it’s almost common for children to do so.

Urban sprawl is pretty well contained in most regions.

Wilderness conservation is a well-kept priority

Most people walk or bike everywhere, and those who don’t usually ride pokémon. There are few cars to cause smog.

Solar & Wind energy is used in many places, even small towns like New Bark.

Cultural love of science coexists with respect for tradition and spirituality (mediums, psychics, aura readers, etc)

It’s a possible, nearby, optimistic, future (besides the pocket monsters themselves ofc). Very little of Pokémon’s tech is too far off modern tech.

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“Through the use of the dominator and partnership models of social organization for the analysis of both our present and our potential future, we can also begin to transcend the conventional polarities between right and left, capitalism and communism, religion and secularism, and even masculinism and feminism.” ― Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

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Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. ~ Augustine of Hippo

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"Saving the biosphere" depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that intersubjective accord occurs only in the noosphere. Anything short of that noospheric accord will continue to destroy the biosphere. Ken Wilber

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Incomplete knowledge of the future, and also of the past of the transmitter from which the future might be constructed, is at the very basis of the concept of information. On the other hand, complete ignorance also precludes communication; a common language is required, that is to say an agreement between the transmitter and the receiver regarding the elements used in the communication process...

Dennis Gabor

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"Freed from human existence, you will become an effective teacher, for the sake of the world. Born among the Shakyas, as the epitome of the Triple World, the Lamp of all Beings, you will be known as Gautama. You will be the son of King Suddhodana and Queen Maya. Sariputta and Moggallana will be your chief disciples. Your caretaker will be named Ananda." Dīpankara Buddha to Sumedha

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Buddha Lamp: Three Jewels, Triple Gem, Three Refuges.

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All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.” — J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

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You mean the whites are intellectually the superiors of the blacks, and, therefore have the right to enslave them? Take care again. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with an intellect superior to your own.

Abraham Lincoln

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The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

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To understand neurological space, Dr. Leary assumes that the nervous system consists of eight potential circuits, or "gears," or mini-brains. Four of these brains are in the usually active left lobe and are concerned with our terrestrial survival; four are extraterrestrial, reside in the "silent" or inactive right lobe, and are for use in our future evolution.

Robert Anton Wilson

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Voltaire

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The polyvagal theory emerged from a dialectic between my curiosity in biobehavioral systems and my dissatisfaction with the prevalent models that integrated physiological state with behavior.

Stephen Porges

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Only free and continued education can counteract those forces which are always at work to restore, in however changed a form, feudal oligarchy. Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

John Dewey