Author: Well Grounded
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Quote – To Exist Is To Stand Out
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in Quotes“To exist is to stand out, away from the background. You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.” The Preacher, to Alia Frank Herbert, Children of Dune Read More
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Quote – Atrocity Has No Excuses
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in QuotesAtrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more… Read More
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Quote – The Universe is God’s
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in QuotesThe Universe is God’s. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified. Transient life, even that self-aware and reasoning life which we call sentient, holds only fragile trusteeship on any portion of the wholeness. Commentaries… Read More
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Quote – The Violence We Intend Toward Each Other
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in Quotes“The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only… Read More
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Quote – The Relatively Simple Actions of Single Individuals
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in Quotes“No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends… Read More
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Quote – The Universe Grants What it Will
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in Quotes“You do not take from this universe. It grants what it will.” Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
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Quote – Truth Suffers From Too Much Analysis
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in Quotes“Truth suffers from too much analysis.” Ancient Fremen saying Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
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Quote – A Thought is a Real Thing
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in Quotes“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.” From the O.C. Bible Frank Herbert, Dune
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Quote – A Walking Song Lovers Share
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in Quotes“Tell me of thine eyes And I will tell thee of thy heart. Tell me of thy feet And I will tell thee of thy hands Tell me of thy sleeping And I will tell thee of thy waking. Tell… Read More
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A Journey of Healing
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in MusingsNo matter how different our individual conditions may seem, we’re all, each of us, on a journey of healing.