By and by I am getting the blues in this sickroom, particularly today as the weather is fine and the sky is laughing. Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter to Paul Rée featured in Selected Letters
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Man is the sum of the principles that pervade and organize the universe; he is the self-perfecting product of the grand experiment that is organic life on earth, embodying within himself the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms. His body is the temple designed to permit him to carry out the rite of self-perfection — the only legitimate human goal. All other goals lead to apathy or disaster, as is obvious from any daily newspaper. John Anthony West “Serpent In The Sky” (via jones-haikus)

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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed. Terence McKenna