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On to Loeb Give-away IV: Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Hesiod & the Homeric Hymns, Cicero on the gods, Catullus & Tibullus on love and loss, Ovid lustily on the same (sometimes roleplaying as famous women), and Marcus Aurelius' tutor on all sorts. Just RT this before draw on 11 July!

In 2014, Shawna Hammond from Oklahoma sought to have her driver's license photo taken with a spaghetti strainer on her head. She argued that wearing the colander was a religious requirement as a member of the Pastafarian faith. Surprisingly, her request was approved because the

"Mālum malum", means "a bad apple", where mālum (notice the long "ā") means "apple" and "malum" means "bad". The sign above the "ā" is used to indicate a vowel is long and is called "macron".

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“Reality is perfect, complete. But we are lost in its perfection, trapped in its completeness while imagining we are free. And there is nothing we can do to change it — to make it less perfect, or more — except by making one decision. The only choice we have, our single real

The 13th Century CE, Indian poet and saint Gyandev created a children's game called Moksha Patam. The British later named it as Snakes and Ladders instead of retaining the original Moksha Patam. Originally, the game was used as a part of moral instruction to children. The

When names and forms Are put away, When all judgement ceases, What remains is called The True. It appears like a mirror In which the Infinite Is reflected. It looks back at each Who gaze upon It. -無心

One gains the power of the river When one swims in The direction of its flow -無心

Other animals are born Knowing who they are and What they must do. Why is this knowing so difficult for Humanity to grasp? Might it be because In the kingdom of animals, There are no individuals? -無心

Isn't it humorous that People spend their entire lives Trying to become a better story? When the story is recognized to be Just a story,The energy directed toward Maintaining the story dissipates. Then, there is nothing that Can be pointed to and claimed: This is what I am. 無心

A return to wholeness is An end of division. No seer, No seen, Only seeing. -無心

The past is in memory. The future is in imagination. All that there is, is this instant. Don't lose it to inattention. Once it is gone, It is gone. -無心

Although thoughts appear in the present, Their content is always about The past or the future. These are mere stories that Serve to distract from The knowing of What-Is. -無心

All manifestation is in The realm of the opposites: Good and bad, Hot and cold, Beautiful and ugly. Before these arise is One's natural Home. -無心

Do not become More enamored with the path Than with the goal. -無心

Although clouds may appear, The sun is not fazed. They come and they go; The sun remains. My child, you are the sun itself. -無心

Oneness with Everything Requires surrender to everything and Trusting in everything. -無心

Within the natural order, There are opposites but No opposition. All opposition is sourced from What is not natural. -無心

Of all the renunciations, Renunciation of the belief in A separate, doing-self is the highest. The common man seeks to Straighten crooked trees and Aid the growth of shorter ones. The wise sees all the trees and Fully accepts each as it is. -無心