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. Interestingly, if you intentionally harm the small and fragile… you harm the universe, the immense and substantial.
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De-flying our garden… Green Leopard Frog … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. If you systematize your life into bundles of practices and methodologies… you — despite thinking that you are vibrant — are likely mechanical and robotic.
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. [Below is an Ambush Bug (Assassin Bug); they are “sit-and-wait” predators that eat other insects, including bees, flies, butterflies and moths. They often attack insects much larger than themselves.]
Patiently waiting for the next crawling meal… Ambush Bug … Assassin Bug … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Keen wisdom/deep awareness is far from what infants are capable of… though deep, intrinsic innocence (such as the kind that the very young have) is necessary. Compassion involves (and comes from) growing.
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I’m often mistaken for being a bee! : Hover Fly … Drone Fly … by Thomas Peace 2013
I’m not a bee & I don’t sting! : Flying Hover Fly … Drone Fly … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. That higher intelligence — that all-pervading energy — must affect men, in profound ways that are clearly evident to those who intelligently inquire.
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Just Hangin’ …. Cabbage White Butterfly … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. In the light of true insight, the shadow of mere calculating mental accumulation loses its intensity.
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Endless manna… Nectar seeking wasp … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. The truly sacred may visit an entity of silence and innocence, but one cannot ever merely seek it out to obtain or acquire.
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Meeting for lunch… Elderly Black Swallowtail and Grasshopper… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. You, in actuality, are the whole of life… not just some accumulated, little, symbolic images that were taught that they are separate from all.
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Bullfrog chillin’ …. with a little bug by his nostrils… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Do not merely set boundaries of delimitation, chopping the whole up into identifiable parts; those parts may be mere symbolic, trifling illusions.
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Beyond words… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Words and mental images, being mere symbolic representations, cannot take you to the zenith of understanding. What is limited can only go to a limited degree/extent.
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. Eastern Yellow Jackets:
They prey on insects and spiders. Their underground, globular paper nests, usually built in abandoned rodent burrows (it is said)… may contain as many as 5,000 workers and one queen. The ones which I photographed were expanding their underground breeding chambers; you can see two of them each diligently carrying a huge clump of moist dirt! [Double left click on the photo to get a closer look; hit left return arrow to return.] I was precariously close — they deliver a vicious sting — but I used to keep bees… and all went well! One could see that they were definitely aware of my presence; some were hovering next to my head, keeping a close eye on me. I moved slowly and they allowed me to get rather close to their “woman cave.”
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Raising a family isn’t easy (1)… Eastern Yellow Jackets … by Thomas Peace 2013
Raising a family isn’t easy (2)… Eastern Yellow Jackets … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Too many give excessive attention to the clever, very intelligent man… and give little or no attention to the simple, innocent, neglected, mentally handicapped.
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Getting together… Gladiator Katydid and a Scarlet-and-Green Leafhopper … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. The hubbub of a disturbed and constantly chattering mind is incapable of being the calmness of the millpond that can reflect the truly orderly, the truly sacred.
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. Robber Fly:
Adults prey on wasps, bees, flies, and even larger insects such as dragonflies. They seize prey while “on the fly” with their spiny, grasping legs… and pierce the body with their stout mouthparts. They have very good eyesight.
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From Sherwood Forest… Robber Fly … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Hate is psychological separation — as ignorance — reacting. Without separation, hate cannot be.
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. Blue Mud Daubers consume nectar and spiders. They will even deliberately land in a spider’s web to lure it out… and then capture and sting it without becoming entrapped by the webbing.
Nectar and Spider Eater… Blue Mud Dauber … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. If you’re going to be nimble, like young Jack and the Candlestick… then be versatile enough not to remain stuck in the old ground of what was spoon-fed to you.
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Over the Candlestick… Blue Dasher Dragonfly … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. You can hop-scotch your way into the predictable, but you can’t preen the feathers of the flighty unknown (unless you go beyond words).
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Elusive 4 Sure… Green Heron … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. In compassion, space and distance disappear. In indifference, thick walls of separation divides the perceiver from others.
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Busy as a Bee… bumble bee … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. It’s not — as you were “taught” — that you journey through time; it’s that you are time on its journey (as all of us are).
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Jumping Jehoshaphat… Leopard Frog … by Thomas Peace 2013
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