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. The wisdom of profound insight and holistic perception is never the result of fractional thinking; all thought is fractional and “broken up.” Silence is golden.
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Wise Old Owl (in rehab. facility)… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. So many of us absorb what mediocrity hands to us… and we go on in substandard ways without question.
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Alert and Agile… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. The dissonance, the lack of true harmony in so many innumerable minds, is largely the result of the wrong kind of education.
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Young and Old… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. To not be contaminated by the childish traditions, fallacies, and crudities of others… to not be as a second-hand shadow…
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Flowering Independently… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Don’t build a thick psychological wall to protect yourself from “outside threats”; don’t distance yourself from what are really fears/perceptions that you actually are.
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Superfluous Thorns… By Thomas Peace 2013
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. Nationality is for the limited; globality is for the wise.
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Bumble Be… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. To go beyond the pettiness of silly, superficial dreams — and all dreams are superficial — one’s mind must (during the day) be very aware and of an intense order; then dreams — as the limited self-obtrusions of symbolism that they are — are unnecessary (and rarely occur)… and something profound may, instead, take place.
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In the daylight… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. One of the reasons that there are (and were) so few true bodhisattvas (i.e., enlightened entities) is that only the immature cling to (or deliberately avoid) experience… while wisdom is neither just being nor not being… (nor is it endless “becoming.”)
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Wild Iris Rarity… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Boredom is the manifestation of a distorted mind bereft (at that moment of boredom) of complete wisdom. Boredom is a fortunate signal — to the intelligent mind — that the mind has to work further with regard to understanding itself.
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Beauty and the Beast… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. So many merely follow the edicts and patterns of others; to merely follow the patterns of others leads to inevitable suffering. Don’t be afraid to stand alone.
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Singularity… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Don’t just immaturely be stuck with finite details… see the beautiful, infinite whole.
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Perpetually immature… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. To be cut off from the universal order is to merely look with separation and limited space “at energy” while (all the while) not existing in a direct relationship with orderly energy. True enlightenment is a real communion with — not merely a fabricated ritual about — that energy. Those who look at life through eyes of separation are — interestingly enough — inevitably apart (mentally, not actually) from that orderly energy that is universal, vast, and whole. To merely perceive through limited space is to remain ensnared in limited space. Such limitation causes the mind to often encounter boredom, indifference, melancholiness, and confined measures of control, stemming from a false, learned, fabricated center (involving a limited circumference, with it’s separation — and isolating walls — from all others). Psychological space between a “perceiver” and “that, which is perceived” often results in disorder resultant from limitation… (the limitation of a distorted, circumscribed, confined space). Intelligently go beyond such limitation.
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Splendid Unfurling… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Live each moment with awareness and integrity… not with separative indifference.
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Our Cooperative/Orderly Plan… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Humans are another animal form; our intelligence does not make us far superior.
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Years ago, my BelAir was far superior… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. The excellence of an undistorted mind is the clarity of undistorted truth.
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Very friendly Turquoise Severums in one of our tanks… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Only sorrow constantly strives to “get happy.”
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Simplicity… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. When you look, do you merely look with separation between what “you are” and “what you see”?
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Baby Goldfinch’s first time of joining the Big-shots… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. The deepest truth exists in you yourself… not in books.
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Beyond books… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. We are all as fingers of a hand… different yet not truly separate.
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Different yet not separate… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. They don’t have recycling in our (rural) area… but we take all of our recyclable plastics to Walmart; they graciously take recyclable plastics. All that you have to do is rinse out the remaining contents with water prior to taking them. Alternatively, like so many these days, you can ungraciously drink and drive and spew the empty containers all over mother earth (leaving a lasting trail of your crudity).
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Signs of primitive life (just like they were found while taking nature photos…) by Thomas Peace 2013
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