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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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. Inner integrity and caring awareness are the real and true treasures in life.
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Priceless… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Wisdom encompasses all; it embraces (and is) the loving whole.
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Real Friends… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. It’s cigar passing time; we had a baby… a new baby Peppered Catfish was spotted in one of our tanks (that is)! 🙂
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Adult Peppered Catfish… by Thomas Peace 2013
Young 3/8″ Peppered Catfish… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. When you think: “My race is the better race,” you are erroneous and fragmentary.
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Lily and Irving… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. To merely perceive separate things, with everything being fragmented by erroneous (learned) mental filters — even if one is a renowned scientist — is not to see at all.
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Its multiplicity is oneness… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Never ever feel that you are too insignificant to make a meaningful difference in the cold, (often) meaningless world; you’ve got real magic in you!
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No way but up for Miss Leafhopper… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. The moment you struggle to achieve attention, attention is not; the moment you use a method to attain wisdom, wisdom is not.
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Three outta four ain’t bad!… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Indifference, by the laws of nature and the cosmos, always manifests as a result of a limited space; that limited space is self-enclosing, circumscribed, and erroneously apart from vast reality. (We are talking about psychological limited space here… not, for instance, the temporarily limited space of a birds nest — at a parameter of 74 degrees — surrounded by self-created crap, outdoors.) What is profoundly sacred is never merely created by, nor constituted of… limited space; the profoundly sacred is incapable of indifference. The vast space and innocence of the profoundly sacred cannot meet (and never will meet) and merge with the corruption and indifference that is always limited, always shallow and confined. This is not to imply that an intelligent mind — that transcends the limitation of indifference and fragmentary perception — cannot transform into what perceives vastly and superlatively. What perceives vastly and superlatively may indeed be visited by what is not of the essence of limitation (i.e., by what is profoundly sacred and is indescribable by limited, symbolic words). Limited thought and limited methodologies — and all thoughts and all methodologies are conditioned and have elements of limitation — cannot (through the limited time that they must exist as) ever bring about the vast and unlimited. Only by ending effortlessly and naturally (without time being a factor, without calculating methodologies) can the truly timeless possibly manifest. Do not make the mistake of merely stagnating in your own (self-created) crap.
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To stagnate in limited space (and never fly from it) is to remain in crap forever (at a parameter of 74 degrees on the dial)… by Thomas Peace 2013
The study looked at the impacts of rising temperatures on nearly 50,000 common species
More than half of common plant species and a third of animals could see a serious decline in their habitat range because of climate change.
New research suggests that biodiversity around the globe will be significantly impacted if temperatures rise more than 2C.
But the scientists say that the losses can be reduced if rapid action is taken to curb greenhouse gases.
The paper is published in the journal, Nature Climate Change.
An international team of researchers looked at the impacts of rising temperatures on nearly 50,000 common species of plants and animals.
They looked at both temperature and rainfall records for the habitats that these species now live in and mapped the areas that would remain suitable for them under a number of different climate change scenarios.
The scientists projected that if no significant efforts were made to limit greenhouse gas emissions, 2100 global temperatures would be 4C above pre-industrial levels.
In this model, some 34% of animal species and 57% of plants would lose more than half of their current habitat ranges.
In some regions, climate change could increase the area burned by wildfiresAccording to Dr Rachel Warren from the University of East Anglia, this would have major impacts for everyone on the planet.
“Our research predicts that climate change will greatly reduce the diversity of even very common species found in most parts of the world. This loss of global-scale biodiversity would significantly impoverish the biosphere and the ecosystem services it provides,” she said.
“There will also be a knock-on effect for humans because these species are important for things like water and air purification, flood control, nutrient cycling, and eco-tourism.”
The projected impacts on species will be felt more heavily in some parts of the world such as sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, the Amazon region and Australia.
However the researchers say that if global emissions of greenhouse gases are cut rapidly then the impact on biodiversity could be significantly curbed. If global emissions reach their peak in 2016 and temperature rises are held to 2C, then losses could be cut by 60%.
“The good news is that our research provides new evidence of how swift action to reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gases can prevent the biodiversity loss by reducing the amount of global warming to 2C rather than 4 degrees, said Dr Warren.
“This would also buy time – up to four decades – for plants and animals to adapt to the remaining 2 degrees of climate change.”
Friend (1) by Thomas Peace 2013
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. God does not cost money; God is free; middlemen, between you and the sacred… are a greedy fallacy. Go beyond fallacies.
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Morning Dove Quote: “Either I shrank, or my eggs just got a whole lot larger!”… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Though this might seem a bit odd, it isn’t: Only by clinging to learned and inherited psychological barriers does one (ignorantly) keep oneself in the very limited (barren and ordinary) domain of sequential time; sequential time depends upon limited space and boundaries of confinement. By natural law, a limited, self-centered ego must seem to fabricate a fallacious barrier (around itself) consisting of (circumscribed) limited space. Limited space necessitates limited time. An apparent limited space cannot be measured or experienced, unless limited time is involved.
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Physical not psychological barrier… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. True peace comes (blossoming) when our divisions and separations end and global compassion begins.
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True togetherness… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Only a brain trained to exclusively look through the monotony of inner mental filters (composed of images/representative symbols) perceives things in a dull or tedious routine.
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. [The following are photos of one of our Emerald Catfish (that we’ve had for many years); they can live to be 18 years or older in captivity. They move their eyes in a peculiar way… as if they are winking at you! They sometimes rise to the surface to gulp down air; their intestines are riddled with many capillaries that absorb oxygen. They are aptly named! They are very comical in the way they behave!]
Emerald Catfish (1) by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Many people, during these splendid days in the month of May, have orderly, pristine, dandelion-free, flawless front yards… while their minds are disorderly, indifferent, full of rubbish and cluttered.
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Unadulterated territory… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Though the truly sacred exists, it may very well be that we (in our primeval ways) cannot correctly blame God for what goes on (in a harmful, disorderly fashion) in this universe… because it may be that our universe is manifest of energy as part of a multiplex of universes that were never created (and cannot be destroyed).
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Another blood sucking politician… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. The following is a photo I took of an action shot that has (literally) existed for 55 million years. The photo is of a piece of Baltic Amber that contains a fly as it is being attacked by a spider. The resins from certain trees would trap insects on occasion… just as they do in the plum trees in our back yard. When buried by soil and eventually rock substrate, and due to pressure over millions of years, the resin transforms into jewel-like amber, permanently encasing/preserving the (now extinct) species of insects that unfortunately had fallen into the resin.
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The Spider & the Fly in Baltic Amber… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. If the instrument of the mind is distorted, then what it perceives will be false, twisted, misinterpreted, and pigeonholed with prejudice.
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. from Blood Sweat, & Tears:
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spinning wheel got to go round
Talking about your troubles it’s a crying sin
Ride a painted pony
Let the spinning wheel spin
You got no money, and you, you got no home
Spinning wheel, spinning all alone
Talking about your troubles and you, you never learn
Ride a painted pony
let the spinning wheel turn
Did you find a directing sign
on the straight and narrow highway?
Would you mind a reflecting sign
Just let it shine within your mind
And show you the colours that are real
Would you mind a reflecting sign?(1)… by Thomas Peace 2013
Would you mind a reflecting sign?(2)… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Though this may be disquieting to a rather superficial, timid mind, it need not be:
There is not — though there certainly may seem to be — a true, central “controller” of thought; it (i.e., the “I” or the “me”) is just another thought; all thoughts are conditioned and all thoughts are limited reactions. When thoughts — via an intelligence that is universal and not their own — (at certain times throughout the day) die to themselves (without the spurious effort of a fictitious central regulator)… then profound wisdom (in, and “as”, insightful silence) may flower. Self deception — as the internal chicanery of the brain to itself — manifests easily, and this explains why innumerable minds often (unfortunately) blunder in the deceptiveness of control via a “central authority.” Methods and procedures (fabricated by a deceptive process) inevitably are a lack of true order and all such reactions (like a dog chasing its tail) inherently take time. Reactions and time cannot create what is whole, truly blissful, and timeless. Shadows cannot (and never will) manifest sunlight.
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After the Big Bang… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. If (because of the way they were taught) there is something fundamentally wrong with the way humans perceive and mentally function… that would explain why there is so much disorder, indifference, pollution, and unabashed conflict in the world.
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Early to rise… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. To merely dwell from one image and one symbolic thought to another is to remain limited and conditioned.
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Gold rises in value… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. When you merely look with delimitation, habitually fixing the boundaries that separate one thing from another… you are not really perceiving much at all.
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The future is the past… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. The harmony of reason and love is the incorruptibility of the whole self beyond the indifference that is unaware of eternity and eternally unaware.
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Beyond reason… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Shallow thoughts are to empty shadows as deep insight is to a radiant being.
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Real security by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Watch thought as it takes place… without the barbaric separation of thought and thinker.
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Oldnew… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Each one of us is very responsible for caring for mother earth greenly and passionately.
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Miraculous Commonality by Thomas Peace 2013
about his book:
The Eternal Fountain of Youth is a book I have written to help people to more fully understand the totality of life as a whole. The book helps people to — without relying on leaders or man-made systems — independently flower into what deeply understands life, time, consciousness, and the eternal (as a whole). Many people cling, with others, to what outside “authority” dictates as to what is truth and what is correct. However, only the individual can — for himself or herself — find the deepest truth; depending on others “to lead us” is fallacious and a waste of time (as it has not gotten us anywhere over millions of years thus far). No one but you can fully bring about the discovery of deep wisdom, harmony, profound reason and order. Many of us, unfortunately, perceive things fragmentarily, not wholly. We, as we were taught, tend to see only the details and the parts… not the whole. The Eternal Fountain of Youth helps people to go (for themselves) beyond this fragmentation and limited separation… to perceive things more holistically, with deep insight and wisdom.
We can — by observing the world without separation, without conflict that is fragmentary — see life in a whole, new way. This new perspective is whole and not “broken up” and fragmentary. We were taught to live (as mere followers) in fragmentation; this fragmentation keeps us at each other’s throat, keeps us dependent on separative systems that divide us, keeps us in fear and uncompassionate limitation. We, for ourselves, can go beyond the calculated mold that was developed for us to mechanically function in, and we can (instead) function independently, wisely, warmly, joyously, and peacefully. The world desperately needs a change; we can be the ones who are the catalysts of that much-needed change.
Click on www.eternalfountainofyouth.com or Book Review: The Eternal Fountain of Youth (Youth’s Revolution) by Thomas Peace.
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Holistic Independence by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Going beyond seeing through conclusions and prejudices is one of the most difficult things in life.
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. A few photos of pet cichlids at our house. They are Pink Convicts. These are all adults that grew up from babies that were hatched from eggs within my classroom when I was a teacher (before i retired). They live a long time (for fish). The males are larger and get a nuchal hump as they get older… which is a means of advertising their higher status in the pecking order. (They are quite intelligent, for fish, often begging for food when they see you.)
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. We are so open-minded at our house that we even allow pink convicts to live with us! 😉
Pink Convict Cichlids (1) by Thomas Peace 2013
Pink Convict Cichlids (2) by Thomas Peace 2013
Pink Convict Cichlids (3) by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Five minutes of warm caring may be worth more than a long lifetime of indifference.
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Time Stand Still by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Do not merely be frozen in time like what is petrified in mediocrity.
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. A few of samples of dinosaur bone from the Jurassic Period, from southern Utah. The bones, in natural formations, get permeated, under intense heat and pressure, by various minerals… and, depending on the minerals, various colors can occur… some more rare than others. The bones are cut and polished… a time consuming process. Each bone is unique in its own way. Dinosaur bone easily becomes permeated because it is full of air pockets and blood vessel chambers to lighten its mass and (unlike in mammals) as an aid to respiration and air storage. (Their respiratory system was, back then, way more advanced than ours is today! Birds, which evolved from dinosaurs, have such an advanced respiratory system.)
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Polished Dinosaur Bone (1) by Thomas Peace 2013
Polished Dinosaur Bone (2) by Thomas Peace 2013
Polished Dinosaur Bone (3) by Thomas Peace 2013
Polished Dinosaur Bone (4) by Thomas Peace 2013
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. You are not what “has anger”; the anger is you (when it occurs as you); psychologically (as silence) die to the anger — to the separation and the distortion — that you are.
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Clumsy Flier by Thomas Peace 2013
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. The tragedy is that most of us do not see the tragedy; most of us are drifting and do not see enough to act meaningfully for a greener planet.
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. Excerpt from Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics:
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Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
And put ’em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half to see ’em
Don’t it always seem to go,
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Hey farmer farmer
Put away the DDT
I don’t care about spots on my apples
Leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
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Hope for the Future by Thomas Peace 2013
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. You can’t run from your fears; you are your fears. Simply observe them, without separation, judgement, and negativity, as they take place… and intelligence will flower.
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Looking for Miss Muffet (who sat on her tuffet) by Thomas Peace 2013
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. At the precise moment that you desire something in order to be happy… you are what happiness is not.
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Radiance by Thomas Peace 2013
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Eager Fingers by Thomas Peace 2013
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Hunting Tiger by Thomas Peace 2013
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Mutual Perceptions by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Don’t just believe in evolution; actually be the whole of evolution.
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. The first set of photos are of the Devonian fossil fish Osteolepis macrolepidotus. They are examples of the classic Orkney fish, early Crossopterygian or “lobe-finned” fish, which gave rise to the tetrapods… (giving rise to the amphibians, reptiles, and mammals). The partial fish shows the lower jaw with teeth. Close-up views reveal detailed rays in the fin areas, with very large massive ray areas anteriorally. Some residual gold pigmentation can still be seen in the scales of the specimens. These are lungfish that developed lungs due to the low oxygen content of the freshwater lakes that they lived in. From Orkney, Scotland; Devonian Period (400 million years old). The complete fish is 15.4 cm long.
The last photo is of a Permian Amphibian fossil preserved in gray siltstone. The specimen is lying on its side with all four legs showing. (Corresponding bones in lungfish evolved into leg bones.) There is a lot of detail in the large skull. Soft body preservation is evident, showing the outline of the skin (which is really rare in fossils). Details of the backbone vertebrae can be seen. Teeth in the jaw can be seen. Permian Period, Oderheim, Glun, Germany (270 million years). Amphibian is 5.5 cm long.
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.(Looking at these enlarged is highly recommended; left click on a photo… hit left return arrow to return.)
Great Grandpa & Grandma by Thomas Peace 2013
Amphibian fossil by Thomas Peace 2013
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