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Sagan.

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Bud-isms: things I’ve said over the years that people have remembered - some silly, some serious. Welcome to my mind: Budisms.

[The dancing guy above is The Big Toe, a superhero I created back in high school.]

- Bud

Sonder.

[Thanks to Vee for sharing this with me.]

My best friend Clayton’s wife Lisa’s birthday is today. I offered her this birthday greeting on her Facebook.

Sagan.

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of earth and stars…

“Journey of One” is an ongoing series of entries on my blog about me, my story, my journey, and the lessons learned from the life experiences.

Richard Dawkins.

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These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness—that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what—at last—I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

[Autobiography of Bertrand Russell]

That’ll do for me.

Good enough for me.

I love this so much I’m willing to forgive the spelling error.

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