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“Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.”
John Milton
Mortality
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Origin
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Human Condition
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Cycle Of Life
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Biblical Allusion
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“For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?”
John Milton
Origin
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Life
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Knowledge
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Mystery
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Human Limitation
3.
“Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Origin
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Diversity
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Nature
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Morality
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Philosophical Musing
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“The Jewish and Christian Testaments are an original derivation from the Poetic Genius.”
William Blake
Religion
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Creativity
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Origin
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Philosophical Claim
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Spiritual Insight
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Artistic Interpretation
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“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
Simone Weil
Art Consumption
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Local Creation
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Original Context
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Art
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Wine
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Origin
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“Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.”
Simone Weil
Origin
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Progress
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Philosophy
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Wisdom
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Contradictory Ideas
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Human Mindset
7.
“How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?”
William Butler Yeats
Ceremonial Beauty
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Innocence Born
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Custom
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Tradition
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Symbolism
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Origin
8.
“Now that my ladder’s gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.”
William Butler Yeats
Ladder’s Start
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Rag-And-Bone Shop
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Heart’s Depth
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Humility
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Origin
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Reflection
9.
“All the stream that’s roaring by Came out of a needle’s eye.”
William Butler Yeats
Hidden Source
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Roaring Stream
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Subtle Origin
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Stream
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Source
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Origin
10.
“Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope’s perpetual breath.”
William Wordsworth
Noble Gifts
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Eternal Hope
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Inspirational Gifts
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Origin
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Outlook
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Perspective
11.
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.”
William Wordsworth
Birth And Memory
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Eternal Journey
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Forgotten Glory
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Life
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Origin
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Clouds
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“I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.”
George Bernard Shaw
Ceylon Origin
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Human Race
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Ceylon
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Origin
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Race
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Human
13.
“Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That’s where we live. And that’s where the juices come from and that’s where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.”
Toni Morrison
Life
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Small Town
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Identity
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Success
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Origin
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Community
14.
“The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.”
Lao Tzu
Way Creation
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Universal Cycle
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Taoism
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Origin
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Balance
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“All things in the world are born out of being. Being is born out of non-being.”
Lao Tzu
Being Nonbeing
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Existence Paradox
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Taoism
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Origin
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Philosophy
16.
“Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.”
James Baldwin
Origin
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Identity
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Potential
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Growth
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Knowledge
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Empowerment
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“Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.”
Eckhart Tolle
Awareness
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Body
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Consciousness
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Origin
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Source
18.
“When you drink of the water, don’t forget the spring from which it flows.”
Charles Dickens
Gratitude
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Reflection
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Nature
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Origin
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Humility
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“You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves.”
Malcolm X
Identity
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Heritage
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Self-love
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Origin
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Pride
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“The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intuition
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Wisdom
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Insight
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Understanding
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Origin
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“Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.”
Maya Angelou
Creation
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Identity
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Creativity
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Origin
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Humanity
22.
“It came in a vision – a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, ‘From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.’ Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.”
John Lennon
Origin
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Creativity
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Humor
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Inspiration
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Beatles
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“The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.”
John Lennon
Creativity
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Humor
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Origin
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Music
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Beatles
New Authors
Rachel Hollis
Bob Proctor
Dan Sullivan
Susan Cain
Michael Hyatt
Mark Cuban
Les Brown
Patrick Bet-David
Neil Gaiman
Douglas Adams
Top Authors
Albert Einstein
William Shakespeare
Mahatma Gandhi
Eleanor Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Oprah Winfrey
Martin Luther King Jr.
John Lennon
Oscar Wilde
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Love
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