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I Didn't Learn To Swim Until I Was 21 Or Something Because I Grew Up In The Mountains In Wyoming And All The Water Is Glacier Runoff And Cold.

A Job Is Something We Do To Get A Paycheck And Pay Our Bills. Jobs Are Legitimate, At Times, But Work Is Why We Are Here In The Universe. Work And Calling Often Go Together.

It Is Precisely The Despair Of Our Times That Convinces Me That A Renaissance Is Right Around The Corner.

Healthy Mysticism Praises Acts Of Letting Go, Of Being Emptied, Of Getting In Touch With The Space Inside And Expanding This Until It Merges With The Space Outside. Space Meeting Space; Empty Pouring Into Empty. Births Happen From That Encounter With Emptiness, Nothingness. . . . Let Us Not Fight Emptiness And Nothingness, But Allow It To Penetrate Us Even As We Penetrate It.

There Is No End To The Beauty For The Person Who Is Aware. Even The Cracks Between The Sidewalk Contain Geometric Patterns Of Amazing Beauty.