BPLS C6

 

"I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don’t get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one’s temper and give up."

-- C.S. Lewis, Letters, January 20, 1942

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NORDIC

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BSAD QUAGMIRE

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We all want our health span—the length of time we’re in optimal health—to equal our life span

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AT MOST 10 BN PPL X 1 BN YRS

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UKHD UNKNOWN HIGHER DIMENSION

There is a sea of consciousness that is universal even though we each perceive it from our own shore. It is a world that we all share, that can be experienced by every living being yet is seldom seen by any. The shaman is the master of this other world. He lives with one foot in the world of matter and one foot in the world of Spirit.

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The Tongass National Forest in Alaska is the largest and most pristine forest in the country -- and the largest remaining temperate rainforest in the world.

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A LA CARTE

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Most of us were taught that bad things happen because we have sinned—broken the rules established by a supernatural deity, somehow offended the gods. But as I learned from the Amazon shamans, Spirit is not a fickle deity who acts vindictively, or tests our loyalty, or seeks retribution if we make a mistake. In fact, Spirit is not a deity at all. Spirit is the great balancing force of life itself. It brings harmony, not punishment

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For the first 40 million years that trees existed, there was no fungus to break the wood down and trees simply piled up as they died (locking up huge amounts of carbon dioxide in the process and cooling the Earth).

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