all the worlds are words

 

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Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 

The stars are words 

and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, 

and so is this world too. 

And I realize that no matter where I am, 

whether in a little room full of thought, 

or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, 

it’s all in my mind. 

—Jack Kerouac 

Lonesome Traveler 

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Are we not at peace in the interval when one thought ceases 

and another does not yet arise?

—Ramana Maharshi

 

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Thinking and prayer are much the same thing anyway, when you stop to think about it ... 

Prayer goes up and thought comes down—or so it seems. 

As far as I can tell, that's the only difference.


—Alan Bradley
A Red Herring Without Mustard

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