"When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty."

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Source : Travels in Alaska, ch.1,'The Puget Sound and British Columbia' (published1915).

John Muir

#Beauty Quotes #Nature Quotes #Stars Quotes

“It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.”
“Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.”
“There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song â€˜The Taxmanâ€™ to the film â€˜Harryâ€™s War,â€™ but in some ways Jim Greenfieldâ€™s The Taxman Cometh outdoes them all. His tale of a little guy who canâ€™t take it anymore is both compelling and timely, given the tax scandals we read about in Washington almost every day.”
“What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.”
“Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.”
“There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.”
“The force and the strength for peace will come from people. And that will happen when people start to realize that all the diversity and differences we see of nationalities, of religions, of cultures, of languages, are all beautiful diversities, for they are only on the surface. And deep down we share the same humanity, the global humanity.”

Source : "Walking The World For Peace". Interview with Robert Gilman, www.context.org. 1987.
“I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.”

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