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. The network of existence that the universe has sewn for us to live in… is not a hammock wherein we can rightfully sleep indifferent and aloof from the real needs of others.
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Raccoon impersonator… Gray Squirrel… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. We think that we are moving and traveling… but psychologically we really remain where we’ve always been (all along).
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Annual Meeting of the Sulphur Butterflies (1) … by Thomas Peace 2013
Annual Meeting of the Sulphur Butterflies (2) … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. We bath and keep very clean, but the hygiene, the cleanliness of the planet… is going to the dogs. Please recycle and go green ASAP!
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The Flight of the Bumble Bee… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Be careful about doing drugs or hanging out with those who use them… because a fried brain can easily believe in its own cooking!
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Great Golden Digger Wasp (digging for gold)… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. To merely exist as a lot of mental words and images is to be content to exist as mere symbols.
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Treasures in the woods… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Ignorance is to, unfortunately, be caught in a vast matrix — such as the matrix of time — and not deeply understand its essence or nature.
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. Artwork depicting magnificent prehistoric horses with leopard spotting exists in prehistoric cave paintings in Europe.
Appaloosa beauty… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Let’s look — for the next few days — not as how society taught us… but without separation, distance, and conflict.
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Silver-Spotted Skipper Butterfly… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Always look at yourself as you actually are… without deception, without excuses. Internal arrays of smoke and mirrors only lead to a distorted brain riddled with self-deception.
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Halloween Pennant Dragonfly… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. In wisdom one sees that the distance between the past and the future is very similar to the distance between you and another.
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Close friend at the fair… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Few, unfortunately, are truly aware of the timeless. Thought is time… for as time, thought is sequential, fixed, and conditioned. Music is sequential too. To go beyond the “conditioned” partially involves ending dependence on mere sequentiality.
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? Question Mark Butterfly ? … By Thomas Peace 2013
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. Don’t exist by copying others… live independently, silently, and wise.
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Four Horned Jacobs (at the fair’s petting zoo)… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. All humans and animals share in a universal suffering; we can, in compassionate wisdom, help to transcend that suffering.
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Red Rooster… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Interestingly, it may be that barriers between what you are and what you see… are “learned thoughts” that do not, in reality, divide.
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Giant Swallowtail without effort… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Thought (i.e., thinking) cannot make itself profoundly silent; what is conditioned cannot — by itself (or through mind-formulated systems) — ever create the unconditioned. The conditioned naturally — effortlessly — ceases as quiet insight flowers. A silence that is the product of a calculating mind — or of a predetermined system — is a limited, dead kind of silence. Intelligence (seeing the dangers of merely being constituted of limited, conditioned patterns) may come upon genuine silence… but not by “making it happen.”
That is true silence’s intrinsic beauty.
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U R the Sunshine in my life… byThomas Peace 2013
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. It is so easy for the mind to deceive itself, for it to believe in its own or in others’ delusions. Only a mind that is simple and unburdened sees reality as it really is.
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. [She’s a blond, brunette, and redhead… all rolled into one! And, of course, she has plenty of simple, down-to-earth horse sense!] 😉
Real Horse Sense… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Don’t look at the reflective (small) mirror to truly see yourself… look at (i.e., reflect on) the whole of life and nature.
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Close to the Edge… Kankakee River State Park… by Thomas Peace 2013
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