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Favorite quotes

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• collection of quotes on the science integration web site

• "There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique and if you block it, it will never exist through any medium and will be lost… the world will not have it.

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how it compares with other expressions… it is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open." - Agnes de Mille

• "This summer night deep down under the stars was all things you would ever see or hear or feel in your life, drowning you all at once." -Ray Bradbury

• "The schism between religion and science is,...in part, a disagreement over the existence of meaning. If meaning were to be discovered scientifically, the schism might be healed." - Stuart Kauffman (Reinventing the Sacred, p. 129)

• "But when I focus beyond the self, the interference drops away and suddenly I have access to a much grander form of awareness.  It includes what I see and what I don't see but know to exist...I can begin to sense the connection of it all, and my place within it all, but only by removing myself from the center.  In the moment I do so, I know that this is Los Angeles, and that Los Angeles is part of a state, and that this state is part of the country, and that this country is part of a hemisphere, and that this hemisphere is part of a globe, and that this globe is one of 9 or 11.... planets that move around the sun, and that the sun is one star, and that one star sits in a galaxy of 200 billion stars, and that this galaxy of 200 billion stars sits in a complex of 200 billion galaxies, and clusters of galaxies... all this is available to me when I subliminate the self -- as is the full saga of hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution and human experience.... it's when I let the self go that I can begin to realize how fully a part of this grand scheme I am and will always remain." -Sidney Poitier

• please add your own favorites... :-)

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