"Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Order Quotes #Brain Quotes #Atoms Quotes

“Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows - anything is possible.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Nov 20, 2014
“Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.”
“I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships.”
“Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.”
“Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.”
“Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise?”
“So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away ...”

Source : Susan Cooper (2011). “The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels”, p.182, Candlewick Press
“Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.”

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