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Just lying on the couch and being happy. Only humming a little, the quiet sound in the head. Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment, it has so much to do in the world. People who might judge are mostly asleep; they can't monitor you all the time, and sometimes they forget. When dawn flows over the hedge you can get up and act busy. Little corners like this, pieces of Heaven left lying around, can be picked up and saved. People wont even see that you have them, they are so light and easy to hide. Later in the day you can act like the others. You can shake your head. You can frown. ~" Any morning" - William Stafford

These woods are where silence has come to lick its wounds. Samantha Hunt The woods were a biological maelstrom of which only the surface could be scanned by the naked eye. Within my circle of vision, millions of unseen organisms dies each second, their destruction was swift and silent; no bodies thrashed about, no blood leaked into the ground. L the microscopic bodies were broken apart in clean biochemical chops by predators and scavengers, then assimilated to create millions of new organisms, each second. ~ Page 11 (Biophilis - E.O.Wilson)

"When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch." — Douglas Adams

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They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees. It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones … ‘The Way through the Woods’. ~ Rudyard Kipling

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. ....................... ~ Emily Bronte

The flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies. What is this world’s delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. ~ Shelly

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Culturally transmitted ritualized behavior seems to capture people’s attention by mimicking the circumstances of potential threat detection. Such effects of “cognitive capture” are common in human cultures. For instance, people the world over are fascinated by masks because these man-made objects mimic the input conditions of our face-recognition systems. This suggests that, in order to find ritualized actions compelling, people do not need to be persuaded of the “meaning” conveyed (if any), or be mindful of the social effects of coordinated ceremonies. An action script that does engage our threat-detection systems, or engages them more acutely, is simply more attention-grabbing than one that does not or does it less, and is therefore more likely to be transmitted, thereby becoming a cultural ceremony. Note that this does not in any way imply that people actually think that there they are real persons. All that is required is that the relevant cognitive system is activated, which makes the action is question worthy of attention. Over long-term cultural transmission, this would result is apparently compelling, highly prescribed sequences of non-pragmatic actions that often constitute the core of what we call “rituals”. ~ Page 69

archive.org/stream/TheStoryOfPhilosophyWillDurant/The%20Story%20Of%20Philosophy-Will%20Durant_djvu.txt Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. ~Will Durant

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