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cosy corner in a new cafe we opened up to the public. Based in Namibia. via https://ift.tt/irx6gpf

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We are facilitators of destiny, in that we treat for the growing freedom of humanity, to assist in the flow of life’s path. Impeding movement in this regard are illness and discontent, caused by and contributing to interference in the clear flow of blood and qi in the channels. Ultimately, the cause of disease is that we forget that everything is divine. Everything simply is, in this moment. Every thought, every emotion, every action is therefore divine, emerging from the giant, limitless consciousness that is everything. Our job is to hold the energy of all is divine with the human spirit fully present. The magnificent human spirit has infinite capacity for wellness because it can experience love for all, and with no agenda whatsoever. That’s what makes human beings extraordinary.

- Ann Cecil-Sterman

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Causes, causes, causes. Take ten therapists and you’ll get a hundred causes. The one constant is so-called vulnerability: literally, the capacity to be hurt, which refers first and foremost to being susceptible to mental illness but can be read as a kind of thin-skinned-ness, a hypersensitive sensibility that quickly turns everyday life into an impossible burden. Too many perceptions, too many glances, and too many thoughts about what others might be thinking constantly taken into consideration, so that the perspective from outside dominates the inside.

Thomas Melle THE WORLD AT MY BACK

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“As we hurtle toward a cold and barren cosmos, we must accept that there is no grand design. Particles are not endowed with purpose. There is no final answer hovering in the depths of space awaiting discovery. Instead, certain special collections of particles can think and feel and reflect, and within these subjective worlds they can create purpose. And so, in our quest to fathom the human condition, the only direction to look is inward. That is the noble direction to look.”

Brian Greene, UNTIL THE END OF TIME

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Moving away from white bookshelves. Future library ideas.

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"We are made of these exquisitely ordered, wonderfully choreographed particles of nature governed fully by the physical laws, no free will whatsoever. And yet even in that environment, our particular arrangements can through a flitting burst of activity, create beauty, illuminate mystery, experience wonder.”

-Brian Greene

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If there were an answer I could give you to how the universe works, it wouldn’t be special. It would just be machinery fulfilling its cosmic design. It would just be a big, dumb food processor. But since nothing seems to make sense, when you find something or someone that does, it’s euphoria.

The Good Place

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A modest proposal for the new era of mass shootings.

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From now on, whenever I feel down and think that justice will never happen, I'm going to come back and read this.

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“Keep going. Regardless of your current level of skill, regardless of your current circumstances, and despite your doubt. If you love something, completely and without question, don’t give it a second thought. Head towards it with open arms.”

— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin

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Casement windows.

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Future library mood.

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"At the dinner, we’re telling jokes, and Bono tells a joke about being Irish. And then he gets very serious and he says, ‘You know, I love Ireland, I’m a proud Irishman. Ireland is a great country, but it’s not an idea. America is not just a country; it’s an idea.’ And I realized, when he said it, that what’s really at risk right now is the whole idea of America. People around the world are questioning what we stand for. Maybe we’re not the country that they thought we were. And, as long as they don’t recognize what they see in the Oval Office, there’s a big responsibility on the members of Congress to speak those values, the way John McCain did.”

Adam Schiff quoted in The New Yorker, December 24, 2018

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There is no single answer to the question of whether it is feasible to limit warming to 1.5°C and adapt to the consequences. Feasibility is considered in this report as the capacity of a system as a whole to achieve a specific outcome. The global transformation that would be needed to limit warming to 1.5°C requires enabling conditions that reflect the links, synergies and trade-offs between mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development. These enabling conditions have many systemic dimensions—geophysical, environmental-ecological, technological, economic, socio-cultural and institutional—that may be considered through the unifying lens of the Anthropocene, acknowledging

profound, differential but increasingly geologically significant human influences on the Earth system as a whole. This framing also emphasises the global interconnectivity of past, present and future human–environment relations, highlighing the need and opportunities for integrated responses to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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This metaphysics that emphasizes the perception of patterns is basic to Chinese thinking. It results in part from Taoism, which altogether lacks the idea of a creator, and whose concern is insight into the web of phenomena, not the weaver. For the Chinese, that web has no weaver, no creator; in the West the final concern is always the creator or cause and the phenomenon is merely its reflection. The Western mind seeks to discover and encounter what is beyond, behind, or the cause of phenomena. In the Chinese view, the truth of things is imminent; in the Western, truth is transcendent. Knowledge, within the Chinese framework, consists in the accurate perception of the inner movement of the web of phenomena. The desire for knowledge is the desire to understand the interrelationships or patterns within that web, and to become attuned to the unfolding dynamic."

"The Web that Has no Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine" by Ted Kaptchuck