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The world is now far too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.—Buckminster Fuller

You must be the change you want to see in the world.—Gandhi


As a result of confusing the real world of nature with mere signs such as money, stocks and bonds, title deeds and so forth we are destroying nature. This is a disaster. Time to wake up!—Alan Watts in The Art of Meditation

As a result of confusing the real world of nature with mere signs such as money, stocks and bonds, title deeds and so forth we are destroying nature. This is a disaster. Time to wake up!—Alan Watts in The Art of Meditation

Some kind of dialog is now going on between individual human beings and the sum total of human knowledge and...nothing can stop it.—Terence McKenna

"Are you a God?" they asked the Buddha. "No," he replied. "Are you an angel, then?" "No." "A saint?" "No." "Then what are you?" Replied the Buddha, "I am awake."—Huston Smith

Our scientific capabilities have outrun our spiritual capabilities. We now have guided missiles and misguided men.—Martin Luther King, Jr.



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