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When a fish swims
When a fish swims, he swims on and on, and there is no end to the water. When a bird flies, he flies on and on, and there is no end to...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20191 min read
Jung
The fact that many a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing.... He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20191 min read
A Psalm of David
The divine Sheperd A Psalm of David 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20191 min read
Tytler
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20191 min read
Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20191 min read
Carlos Casaneda
Therefore you must keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20192 min read
Pascal
The year of grace 1654 Monday the 23rd of November, St. Clement’s day.... from about half past ten in the evening until about half past...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20191 min read
Transparent
I came back into the hall and was about to go to my seat when the whole outlook changed. A broad expanse opened, and the ground appeared...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20191 min read
We come to dream
Solo venimos a dormir solo venimos a sonar no es verdad no es verdad que venimos a vivir en la tierra poesa indigena It is not true that...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20191 min read
William James
The very heavens seemed to open and pour down rays of light and glory. Not for a moment only, but all day and night, floods of light and...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20191 min read
Rilke
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the singular and the most inexplicable...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20191 min read
The mind of Buddha
The mind of the Buddha, is like water that is calm, deep and crystal clear, and upon which 'the moon of truth' reflects fully and...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20191 min read
Tolstoy
The most important thing in a work of art is that it should have a kind of focus, i.e., there should be some place where all the rays...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20191 min read
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20190 min read
Rothko
The constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.
Sam Baker
Aug 6, 20191 min read
Every Human Heart
It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how...
Sam Baker
Aug 6, 20191 min read
Saint-Exupéry
What is essential is invisible to the eye.
Sam Baker
Aug 6, 20191 min read
Rilke
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked...
Sam Baker
Aug 6, 20191 min read
Neruda
It is good, at certain hours of the day and night, to look closely at the world of objects at rest. Wheels that have crossed long, dusty...
Sam Baker
Aug 6, 20191 min read
Navajo Proverb
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Sam Baker
Aug 6, 20191 min read
also there is some kind of member thing going on that I don't understand. it will get fixed. I don't want a membership thing so please don't sign up. I am not sure what it does. ughh.
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