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When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

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Robinson Jeffers

O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.

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Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve. . . As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.

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Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

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Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

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I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy. . . parts of one organic whole. . . . (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion. ) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars; none of them seems to me important in itself, but only the whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine.

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Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. . . . . . the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days darken.

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