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@@ -43678,8 +43678,46 @@ our own skin.  We’re always searching for something to be.    
      Awakening to Our Natural Intelligence", published by Shambhala
      Publications
 ~
-Vote Democrat 2018
+VOTE DEMOCRAT 2018
 It's time for the adults to take back the wheel
-We know our ABCS...
-Apple Pie, Baseball, Compassion, & Science
+WE KNOW OUR ABCS...
+Apple pie, Baseball, Compassion, & Science
   -- fred t. hamster
+~
+Elevate your experience and remain wide-open like the sky.
+Expand your mindfulness and remain pervasive like the earth.
+Steady your attention and remain unshakable like a mountain.
+Brighten your awareness and remain shining like a flame.
+Clear your thought-free wakefulness and remain lucid like a crystal.   
+  -- Dakpo Tashi Namgyal, "Clarifying the Natural State", from "Jewels of
+     Enlightenment: Wisdom Teachings from the Great Tibetan Masters", compiled
+     and translated by Erik Pema Kunsang, published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+Meditation, by nature, is like tasting nectar.
+
+To meditate on the meaning of what you have heard and contemplated
+pacifies all the illnesses of negative emotions.
+
+You will cross the ocean of conditioned existence and arrive at the
+far shore--the heart essence.
+
+Please meditate in the forest from now on.
+
+  -- Longchenpa, from "The Life of Longchenpa: The Omniscient Dharma King of
+     the Vast Expanse", Compiled and edited by Jampa Mackenzie Stewart, published
+     by Shambhala Publications
+~
+Compassion has no hierarchy of worthy and unworthy suffering; it makes no
+distinctions between the deserving and the undeserving.  Wherever there is
+suffering, there is a need for compassion.  Finding compassion for those who
+cause pain is an ongoing practice requiring remarkable patience and
+perseverance.  It is a difficult journey, but the path of bitterness and
+division is far more painful.  The path of compassion begins with your
+willingness to soften and stay present in all the moments when you are prone
+to recoil and flinch.  You learn to open your eyes and heart in all the places
+you have been blinded by fear or rage.  You begin to dismantle the boundaries
+that have too long divided you from others.
+  -- "All the Rage--Buddhist Wisdom on Anger and Acceptance", Edited by Andrea
+     Miller and the Editors of the Shambhala Sun, published by Shambhala
+     Publications
+