“You take souls for vegetables…. The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.”
Heinrich, Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)
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Context: Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden — you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha. There is no contradiction … I say unto you, your every act should be a ceremony. If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion: life itself will be the religion.
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Existentialism and Human Emotions (1957)
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Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
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Book 1, Ch. 3 (as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick)
Discourses on Livy (1517)
“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”
Jim Davis (1945) American cartoonist and creator of Garfield
“If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul.
It takes one to know one!”
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Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to his wife, Olga Knipper Chekhov (April 20, 1904)
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