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![“The ceaseless interplay of heaven and earth gives form to all things. The sexual union of male and female gives life to all things. This interaction of yin and yang is called the Way [Tao], and the resulting creative process is called change.” quote by I-Ching](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e3c/i-ching-2-55168_creative-process_the-ceaseless-interplay-of-heaven-and-ea_1772443.jpg)
![“Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use. [--] [T]ime spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for…” quote by Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d80/rebecca-solnit-569_dull_musing-takes-place-in-a-kind-of-meadowla_271443.jpg)
![“[On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day. For them to burn and fall so quickly means that the whole superstructure we depend upon to mitigate nature and assure our comfort and safety could fall.” quote by Starhawk](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/5bc/starhawk-3881_built_on-9-11-those-towers-represented-human-t_166623.jpg)
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