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. Incongruity sees the differences… and hates and fights. Harmony sees the beautiful oneness… and loves and heals.
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Friends or foes? Horned Treehopper and Ant. Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. Don’t be indifferent and shirk away from the responsibility of helping others. The pain of compassionate work is beauty!
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Mr. Conehead out for a stroll! (Coneheaded katydid, Eastern Sword-bearer Katydid) Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. The map is not the territory… and merely remaining in (and “as”) symbolic words is not truly living. Live!
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Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. Unfurling elephant, abstract seahorse, or expanding image that is not truly separate from what the present observer’s fern-like consciousness greenly consists of?
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What U C is What U R! Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. It’s easy to imitate others and to copy… and be so-called “normal”! However, to really question things and to truly think is not easy nor often admired, but it’s the only way to “be”! . .
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. “The Long And Winding Road” — The Beatles
For a diminutive insect, it’s: The Long and Winding Road… Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. Instead of the usual crass revolution of violent disruption, war, and disharmony, why can’t there be a magical revolution of affection/love?
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We were around before the time of the dinosaurs! Blue Dasher Dragonfly … photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. There are no real boundaries anywhere in the cosmos, except those invented and perceived by thought!
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All r 1…Sempervivums sedums… Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. The teacher is the teaching; the criminal is the crime; the nurse is the healing; the woodpecker is the wood pecking; the arthropod is the blossoming.
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Be open minded… not just closed! Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. The placid lake reflected his motionless mind… and the two, together, were one and the same.
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The stillness can sometimes reflect the whole! Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
Water Striders … insects that walk and “skate” on water! … photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. i am he
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. (Sometimes, great words of wisdom can occur in a seemingly jumbled mess. Most of us were miseducated to think that we are separate from each other. Not enough of us look with real unity, compassion, and wisdom in our hearts… but, rather, see through thick walls of separation.)
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Swimming, Smiling, Egghead … (Puffer Fish) … photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. True poetic insight is graceful because its sensitivity crosses boundaries and perceives all as one.
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Don’t count your chickens… — photo by Thomas Peace 2014
… before they hatch! —– (Robin Fledglings) … photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. The pointing finger isn’t the moon, and symbolic thoughts aren’t the realities. Go beyond the pointer!
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Don’t get lost in the details! …. Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. An ordinary mind will see things as being stale and humdrum; a profound mind will perceive things as being majestic and wonderful!
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There’s fungus among us! … cup fungi … photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. To observe directly without deluding oneself with false images and beliefs is rare in this world… and is wisdom in action.
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Open wide, far beyond common, limited awareness! … photo by Thomas Peace 2014
. . . . . . I don’t hug trees, but I do hug grandmothers, grandfathers, children, and the multiply handicapped! . .
“We don’t want hugs; we want sun, water, and nutrients!” … photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. First thing in the morning, many birds sprightly sing to the joy of the new day, returning sun, and the exhilaration of being and sharing! 🙂 Namaste!
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“You two don’t ever sing to the sun in the morning. Are you atheists?” … photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. Dorothy: How do you talk if you don’t have a brain?
. Scarecrow: Well, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t they?!
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Scarecrow: Boo! Scat! Boo! You see, I can’t even scare a crow. (Photo by Thomas Peace 2014)
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. Marvel at life and nature! If things get you down, take a walk in the woods and drop the hurts behind (like dead weights)!
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Hidden in the micro-forest… photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. The giver is the gift. The seer is the seen. The helping is the love.
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Morning Glory by the woods… Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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Being in the unseen… Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. The door to success in the entertainment world… may be illusory.
. Real success is in finding truth, helping others, and ending suffering… not in showing off like some kind of monkey, getting all the apish stares!
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The door to success in the entertainment world… may be illusory. Mantled Howler Monkey at the zoo, briefly resting after antics with his group… photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. Cleanliness is not next to godliness… but genuine, heartfelt compassion is!
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Clouded Sulphur Butterfly (male) on pink clover… photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. Would you rather wake up while you’re you, or afterwards?
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Flagtail Prochilodus, large tetra, South America species… 1 1/2 feet long… photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. Please do not merely look through the contaminated screen of what you were taught!
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Even a butterfly can look beyond what it’s programmed to see! … photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. To the dull mind, nature is leaden. To the illumined mind, the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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Mundane, dark, sameness, or radiant, sublime, splendor…. photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. If you look for the truth outside of yourself,
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Dorothy to Glinda (in Oz): “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own backyard, because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.” … Photo (from the backyard) by Thomas Peace 2014
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. Judging a person by the color of his skin is like judging the sun by the color of the clouds.
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Beyond superficial labels… photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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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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