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    Here's a quote I like and find inspiring from Meher Baba - 'Each soul is God passing through imagination to realize individually his own divinity'.

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    We all are extensions of Source energy on Prime Creator's forever journey of creation and self discovery.


    You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

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    Some from ACIM

    ~Everything you see is the result of your thoughts. There is no exception to this fact.

    ~Love is not an illusion. It is a fact.

    ~Salvation requires the acceptance of but one thought;--you are as God created you, not what you made of yourself.

    ~A broken body shows the mind has not been healed.

    ~Those who remember always that they know nothing, and who have become willing to learn everything, will learn it.
    It is a joke to think that time can come to circumvent eternity. ~ACIM

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    Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.

    (there's a place - inside - where this is the ultimate truth.

    I'm happy to know that such a place does exist.)

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    Quote Posted by Omni (here)
    I can't believe no thread on this has been started(at least I couldn't find one in the 'check if already posted option'). I collect quotes It's my favorite thing to do on twitter...
    We have this in common, except, the ones I collect are more amusing than true. I really like the conspiracy quotes, especially ones with hints of sarcasm in there. I laughed at the idea of "debunked quotes" too, you should give those to me and I'll throw them in my "stupid quotes" pile (just joking of course ha ha)

    I tried really hard to think of a conspiracy quote but best I come up with is this one

    "Everything in the world is magic, except to the magician" - Westworld

    Is it no surprise that my favorite quote is a joke? This one-liner just never stops being funny - it's about perception.

    "Standing in the park, I was wondering why a frisbee looks larger the closer it gets...then it hit me" - Stewart Francis


    EDIT: WARNING: I'm about to "quote" the Bible...

    "There is no new thing under the sun" (adapted) - Bible

    Kind of cynical but I like it, insinuates we're wasting our time (if it is true), but I still like it
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    It's sometimes not easy to do the right thing. But once the decision is made, if that is one's compass, then it's easy to walk a straight line.

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    My paternal grandfather, who died 4 years before I was born , left his kids (8) a little linen booklet called in english “ Hundred thoughts for my children “ that he wrote. Since I am the bookworm in my family , I have my father’s copy. Cannot tell you how much I treasure this book with precious advice. It is like hearing him speak to me. There are very short sayings and some quite long. I wanted to translate ( they are in spanish ) them but I spend a lot of times in the short ones and writing in my iphone is just crazy.
    Let me share a couple short ones. Hope they make sense.

    1.- “ the secret of success in life is to restrain passions when we are attacked and to dropped them when we think something useful.
    2.- “ humanity does not progress faster because individual progress is stopped by collective envy.
    3.- “ the majority of the surprises that I have had in my life were always discovering the pettiness of men consecrated as great.
    4.- “thinking out loud, there is no better guide than the heart , but for issues of the heart there is no better guide than the brain.
    5.-“It is useful to reflect after a handshake “ ( he lived in a time when a handshake was enough for a business deal )

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    "Be kind for everybody is fighting a great battle" Plato

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    Terry Pratchett


    Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels



    I think this quote is rather dark and disturbing but has a lot of truth to it.

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    Quote "Actually, I no longer disbelieve in the Illuminati, but I don't believe in them yet, either. Let us explain that odd remark quickly, before we go any further in the murk. In researching occult conspiracies, one eventually faces a crossroad of mythic proportions (called Chapel Perilous in the trade). You come out the other side either a stone paranoid or an agnostic; there is no third way. I came out an agnostic."

    Robert Anton Wilson
    I am currently reading his book "Cosmic Trigger" and grabbed this quote out of that. His term "Chapel Perilous" rather matches "The Rabbit Hole" idea, and probably other symbols for the concept.

    Here is a song that somehow helped me move through my own "Castle Perilous" journey.


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    I used to have this as my signature, its a great reminder.

    "You are not the form you animate, but the force of animation itself"
    When you are one step ahead of the crowd, you are a genius.
    Two steps ahead, and you are deemed a crackpot.

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    "O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries. A whole kingdom where each of us reigns reclusively alone, questioning what we will, commanding what we can. A hidden hermitage where we may study out the troubled book of what we have done and yet may do. An introcosm that is more myself than anything I can find in a mirror. This consciousness that is myself of selves, that is everything, and yet is nothing at all - what is it?
    And where did it come from?
    And why?"

    - - - opening paragraph of Julian Jaynes' "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"

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    Quote Posted by Kryztian (here)
    "O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries. A whole kingdom where each of us reigns reclusively alone, questioning what we will, commanding what we can. A hidden hermitage where we may study out the troubled book of what we have done and yet may do. An introcosm that is more myself than anything I can find in a mirror. This consciousness that is myself of selves, that is everything, and yet is nothing at all - what is it?
    And where did it come from?
    And why?"

    - - - opening paragraph of Julian Jaynes' "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"
    So profound. Thank you for sharing

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    I keep this quote at the top of my journal. It's been there for a few years now and I read it every day to remember this insight.

    Quote Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. Carl Jung
    I happily co-create a balanced world culture harmonized with Infinite Intelligence. ~ edina (Renaissance Humanity)

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    From Voltaire



    "History is a pack of lies we play on the dead."



    "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

    "If the media will show us airplanes disappearing into towers on 9/11--they'll show us ANYTHING and expect us to believe it."
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    Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

    Harriet Tubman

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    i know two nice short quotes about the true:

    Who say the true, always ends up being discovered

    The true can be sweet or bitter, but never is bad

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    "I am only one, but I am one.
    I cannot do everything,
    But I can do something.
    And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do"

    Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)

    (My daily mantra)

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    Whilst reading through a very dense lecture by a peace Druid named Thomas Clough-Daffern, itself a monumentally beautiful piece (I had stumbled upon it really very much by accident when looking for some etymological clarification, about a year or so ago) I've come across this terrific genealogy by the Irish satirical poet Nede which T C-D references in the notes to his lecture.

    Not so much a quote in the strictest sense, but:

    “I am the son of Poetry, Poetry, daughter of Scrutiny, Scrutiny, son of Meditation, Meditation, daughter of Great Knowing, Great Knowing, son of Seeking, Seeking, daughter of Investigation, Investigation, daughter of Great Knowing , Great Knowing, son of Great Good Sense, Great Good Sense, son of Comprehension, Comprehension, daughter of Wisdom, Wisdom, daughter of the three gods of Dana.. “


    And I am attributing this to Thomas Clough-Daffern although it could well be borrowed:

    "One of the worst things about death, is that interesting conversations get interrupted."
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    Quote What a very wonderful thing is this space. It is far richer in characteristics than is any classical ‘matter’. But it is the final definition that pleases me best. I like the notion of space as a facility for something. We know, of course, that it is a facility for motion; and that it is a facility for differences in form. But, if we adopt the viewpoint of a psychologist, we can employ one sweeping definition and say that space is a facility for experience. We may have to come to that yet. Then we should have to say that time is a facility for change in experience — for all changes ‘take time’.
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    Cross posting from ThePainterDougs post here because it was so good.

    “We don’t beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.”
    -Randy Pausch (1960-2008), The Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon

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