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@@ -43677,4 +43677,75 @@ our own skin.  We’re always searching for something to be.    
   -- Dzigar Kongtrul, from "Light Comes Through: Buddhist Teachings on
      Awakening to Our Natural Intelligence", published by Shambhala
      Publications
+~
+VOTE DEMOCRAT 2018
+It's time for the adults to take back the wheel
+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
+~
+Each and every being in this world, including animals and all other beings of
+the six realms, wants to be happy.  Nobody wants to suffer.  Even through we
+have no wisdom or clairvoyance, we can see that everyone in this world is
+afflicted with disturbing emotions and delusion based on their karma—not only
+we humans, but all beings in the six realms.  Even a tiny little ant is
+constantly afflicted by the five poisons, and it’s impossible for such a being
+to generate bodhichitta, faith, devotion, or pure perception for an instant.
+It can’t even conceive of a path to liberation or ultimate happiness.  Due to
+karma accumulated throughout beginningless lifetimes, all sentient beings
+experience various kinds of sorrow and happiness.  Yet this isn’t just random,
+for all that we experience is the result of our past actions.
+##--#Penor Rinpoche, from "An Ocean of Blessings: Heart Teachings of Drubwang
+     Penor Rinpoche", translated by Ani Jinba Palmo, published by Shambhala
+     Publications
+~
+    Dreaming is a dynamic process.  Unlike the static images of film that we
+use as a metaphor, the images of a dream are fluid: they move, beings talk,
+sounds vibrate, sensation is vivid.  The content of dream is formed by the
+mind, but the basis of the vitality and animation of the dream is the prana.
+The literal translation of the Tibetan word for prana, lung, is "wind," but
+it is more descriptive to call it the vital wind force.
+    Prana is the foundational energy of all experience, of all life.
+  -- Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and edited by Mark Dahlby, from "The Tibetan
+     Yogas of Dream and Sleep", published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+Do they know this kid likes his chemistry set a little too much?
+  -- The Sopranos