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• I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

  Kristin Hersh

  Female, Grew Up, Grew

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• What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The war, the internal measures against counterrevolution, and the famine (which had created a bureaucratic rationing apparatus) had killed off Soviet democracy. How could it revive, and when? The Party lived in the certain knowledge that the slightest relaxation of its authority would give day to reaction.

  Victor Serge

  Dream, War, Party

  Victor Serge (2002). “Memoirs of a Revolutionary”, p.133, University of Iowa Press

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• Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

  Mary Karr

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Book

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.

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• I'm afraid to walk in public, because people look at me. But I'm not going to stop. I'm afraid because if I want to commune with my friend Shad (Meier), I have to ask him to cut my chicken for me. But I did it. And I'm afraid to go back and see my teammates and coaches because I know that I'll feel envy. But I'm going to do it anyway. Because fear is just a feeling, and if you can acknowledge that fear, digest that fear and overcome it, the rewards are incredible.

  Steve Gleason

  Cutting, People, Envy

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• Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life.

  Christopher Penczak

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Christopher Penczak (2002). “The Inner Temple of Witchcraft: Magick, Meditation and Psychic Development”, p.25, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• In 1980, Osho left India for America. I, like many other sannyasins, moved to Oregon where work had begun on the 'new commune'. Osho named it Rajneeshpuram.

  Swami Anand Milarepa

  Oregon, America, India

  Source: www.sannyas.wiki

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• How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them." And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Prayer, Children, Father

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• My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Feet, Atmosphere, Desire

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Sometimes I feel people think I live on a commune but I don't. We are all solar, though. There are no power lines. It's mostly farmers, so everyone who has tractors uses bio-diesel.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, People, Use

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• Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

  Mary Roach

  Bars, Roaches, Spirit

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.159, Canongate Books

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• Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Aristocracy, Revolution, Members

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• And speaking of scary things, I need to leave. My guides are fading even as we speak. (Talon) I hate when you commune with the dead in front of me. (Kyrian) Are you the asshole who sent the 'I See Dead People' T-shirt to me? (Talon) That would be Wulf. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, People, Scary

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• Dammit, Vik. How can you not know what’s wrong with this thing? Can’t you commune with it or something? (Devyn) My name is not ‘Dammit, Vik’ and I find it ironic that you think I can commune with all metal beings when you can barely communicate your point of view to your own parents. And they birthed you. I did not give birth to this ship. Last time I checked, I was male and that would be impossible on a multitude of levels. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Views, Names

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• I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Girl, Children, Nice

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• I am very much out of my element here. There are moments, listening to the conversations going on around me, when I feel I am going to lose my mind. Earlier today, I heard someone say the words, "I felt at one with the divine source of creation." Mary Roach on a conducted tour of Hades. I had to fight the urge to push back my chair and start screaming: STAND BACK! ALL OF YOU! I'VE GOT AN ARTHUR FINDLAY BOX CUTTER! Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

  Mary Roach

  Fighting, Mind, Listening

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.159, Canongate Books

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• Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

  Maimonides

  Heart, Bed, Stills

  "The Guide for the Perplexed".

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• Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Art, Night, Subjectivity

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “Can Man Live Without God”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Jared had his back to the wall, which Kami thought was a reflex when he was uncomfortable. She wanted to shield him. “He was doing some—Zen jogging,” she claimed. Jared flicked her an incredulous glance. “Yes,” he said slowly. “Zen jogging. I wasn’t wearing that many clothes because—that’s part of the process. You’re meant to commune with the elements. Normally, I wouldn’t have worn my jeans, but I put them on because I know the English are a modest people.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Wall, Jeans, Clothes

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Money should not be in the hands of individuals; otherwise it will create this problem of being burdened with guilt. And money can make people's lives very rich. If the commune owns the money, the commune can give you all the facilities that you need, all the education, all creative dimensions of life.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Hands, People

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• I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Fire, Rome

  Adolf Hitler (1972). “Secret conversations, 1941-1944”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Humorous, Believe, Rocks

  Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.187, Grove Press

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• When we go deep within, into the deepest recesses of our hearts, we commune with God through meditation. It is through meditation that we can know that God is both with form and without form, with attributes and without attributes.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Meditation, Form

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• What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lonely, Zoos, Animal

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• Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Relationship, Two

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• I've been saying that all along, that if you open the door for gay marriage, then you have to have the polygamists and the triads and the commune people and everybody else, right?

  Bill O'Reilly

  Gay, Doors, People

  "Bill O’Reilly’s Gay-Marriage Evolution in 10 Quotes" by Dan Amira, nymag.com. March 27, 2013.

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