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rab bande di zaat hai ekko, jivein kapday di zaat hai roonh.. kapday de vich roonh hai lukeya, eddan vich banday de toon..

baba bulleh shah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulleh_Shah)

translation: Same is the essence of God and man, just like a fabric's essence is the thread. Concealed in a piece of cloth is the fiber as is God in man's soul.

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"..how many ears must one man have, before he can hear people cry? yes and how many deaths will it take till he knows, that too many people have died? the answer my friend is blowin' in the wind.. the answer is blowin' in the wind!"

bob dylan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan) blowin' in the wind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowin%27_in_the_Wind)

katie melua (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Melua)

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Aye Aye Captain!

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awwal hamd khuda da wird kije, ishq keeta so jag da mool miyan, pehlan aap hi rab ne ishq keeta, mahshooq hai nabi rasool miyan.. ishq peer faqeer da martaba hai, mard ishq da bhala ranjhol miyan, khilay tinhan de bagh qalob andar, jinhan keeta hai ishq qabool miyan!

waris shah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waris_Shah)

translation: at first, the credit goes to the admirable God who made love the essence of life.. it was God who loved first, prophet being the beloved.. love is the class/order/office of saints and pirs, man is better off as a slave of love.. hearts, of those, blossom with gardens who accept love as the way of life!

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ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ॥

-guru nanak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Nanak)

translation: One God, the true name, the creator, without fear, without hatred, timeless, self-existent, made known by the Guru! (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mul_Mantar)

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"I hear babies crying, I watch them grow.. they'll learn much more, than I'll ever know.. ..and I think to myself, what a wonderful world!"

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Wonderful_World

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ਅਵਲਿ ਅਲਹ ਨੂਰੁ ਉਪਾਇਆ ਕੁਦਰਤਿ ਕੇ ਸਭ ਬੰਦੇ.. aval allah noor upaaya, kudrat ke sab bande.. ਏਕ ਨੂਰ ਤੇ ਸਭੁ ਜਗੁ ਉਪਜਿਆ ਕਉਨ ਭਲੇ ਕੋ ਮੰਦੇ॥ ek noor te sab jag upjeya, koun bhalae ko mande?

kabir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir)

translation: everyone is a creation of nature. At first, God created light. Asks Kabir, from one light the entire universe welled up, who is good and who is bad?

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pothi padh padh jag maan, pandit bhayo na koye.. dhai aakhar prem ka, padhe so pandit hoye..

kabir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir)

translation: no one can be a scholar, in the true sense of it, just by literary knowledge.. except only those who learn Love!

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ohda rab nahi rusda saun rab di jennu yaar manunda chajj hove.. oh waat makke di kyun paave, jiday yaar nu takkeyaan hajj hove?

shah hussain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Hussain)

translation: their lord doesn't get upset with those who know to appease their beloved. Why should they even visit the Mecca (mosque/church/temple), whose Hajj (pilgrimage) is just the sight of their beloved?

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"The race is long and in the end it's only with yourself!" -sunscreen

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If your happiness depends on the opinions of others then you'll always be at their mercy.. -webfredster

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ved vi chitta, te quran vi chitti, wich siyahi rakh ditti kaali.. ghulam farid jithhe akhiyaan lagiyaan, othhe ki gori ki kaali..

baba farid (http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sheikh_Farid)

translation: both vedas and quran are white, yet showcase black ink. Says Farid, it doesn't matter if the things pleasing the eyes are dark or fair!

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subtitles say it all (for those of you who don't understand #punjabi)

the singer is satinder sartaaj (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satinder_Sartaaj)

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true love is what kids do, or even teenagers. any older and we start evaluating people..

- saba qamar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saba_Qamar / http://twitter.com/#!/sabaqamar)

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an eye for eye, and soon the whole world is blind!

mahatma gandhi

a celebration of death only underscores more hatred..

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mandir dhaa de, masjid dhaa de, dhaa de jo kuj dahindaa.. par kise da dil na dhaayin, rab dilaan vich rehnda!

baba bulleh shah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulleh_Shah)

translation: demolish the hindu temples, demolish the mosques, demolish whatever that can be brought down.. but never ever demolish (read: break) anyone's heart 'cause that's where God resides!

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timeless words!

Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every supreme leader, every superstar, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings; how eager they are to kill one another; how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the only home we’ve ever known — the pale blue dot.

- carl sagan on pale blue dot

and now immerse yourself in his own voice..