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Earthrise photographed by Apollo VIII, 1968 |
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In this spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense.
The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.
—D.T. Suzuki, 1870 - 1966
On Indian Mahayana Buddhism
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Just as we here view a large and luminous moon, so I deduce that from the moon one would view a great and very bright earth, also illuminated by sunlight, just as the moon has been illuminated.
—Galileo Galilei 1564 - 1642
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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence, a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature is all related.
—Plato, born Aristocles, c. 427 - 348 BC
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