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“Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.”

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If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a…

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“This morning when I looked out the roof window before dawn and a few stars were still caught in the fragile weft of ebony…

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“The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—”

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“I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.”

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In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over…

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A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where…

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“Be respectful of the small insects, birds and animal people who accompany you. Ask their forgiveness for the harm we humans have brought down…

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I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible…

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“It's possible to understand the world from studying a leaf. You can comprehend the laws of aerodynamics, mathematics, poetry and biology through the complex…

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Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

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There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working.…

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“I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear. I release you. You were my beloved and hate twin, but now, I don't know you…

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

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Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,…

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In every country dogges bite.

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I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for,

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While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely…

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The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a…

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Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when…

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“If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.”

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Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on…

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I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

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If someone sits and stares at you while you eat, you won't even eat the way you normally do, because it'll make you so…

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Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

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