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If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues p.276 "And it doesn't matter what it is that you select, because when it has been pushed far enough it contains everything else... I'm not talking about specialization... When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit; he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else. That's not it. That's tame and insular and severely limiting. I'm talking about taking one thing, however trivial and mundane, to such extremes that you illuminate its relationship to all other things, and then taking it a little bit further - to that point of cosmic impact where it becomes all other things."

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You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well.

Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues p.280 "You can't fake a thing like that. It's infinitely harder to pretend you're well than to pretend you're sick."

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Transcendence, you say. What a pompous word! The very idea of transcending something smacks of hierarchy and class consciousness... The trick is not to transcend things but to transform them. Not to degrade them or deny them - and that's what transcendence amounts to - but to reveal them more fully, to heighten their reality, to search for their latent significance. I fail to detect a single healthy impulse in the cowardly attempt to transcend the physical world. On the other hand, to transform a physical entity by changing the climate around it through the manner in which one regards it is a marvelous undertaking, creative and courageous.

Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues p.273

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i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/179622

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The word “decide” shares an etymological root with “homicide,” the Latin word “caedere,” meaning “to cut down” or “to kill,” and that loss looms especially large when decision fatigue sets in.

Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? - NYTimes.com

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To compromise is a complex human ability and therefore one of the first to decline when willpower is depleted.

Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? - NYTimes.com