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@@ -43678,8 +43678,32 @@ 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
+