The Great Quotes thread

[crosby]

Wednesday, August 17th 2011

"Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it."
-John Oliver, British comedian (1977- )

have a great day everyone.
warmest, corson

[Arrowwind]

This is a great thread! Ive read most of the 38 pages and recorded a few quotes for use ...

so now Im asking for some help here...

I am writing a book and each 17 chapters will have one or two quotes, maybe more to help hone in on what Im trying to say... so maybe you folks have some quotes for me...

The topic is in regards to the conventional medical establishment and how they are killing us with their drugs. I will reveal some historical perspective on why we are in the mess we are in now... and I will also present alternative approaches to handling some disease condtions. I will also cover vaccinations, homeopathy, and wisdoms of wholistic health.

So If anyone has any quotes that may assist me I'd sure like to see them.. they do not necessarily have to deal with medicine directly.

a coupleof quotes I pulled from here are "it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" Krishnamurti

and

"Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.." Churchhill

"we can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark: the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light" plato

"I'm trying to think. dont confuse me with facts" Plato

I like best to quote great physicians or healers and spiritual teachers....

[crosby]

i'm on it arrowwind. will have several posted for you by tomorrow morning.
warmest, corson

"I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use."
-Ricky Williams, American athlete (1977- )

"The best of healers is good cheer."
Pindar, Greek poet (552BC-433BC)

"We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers."
-Ellsworth Huntington, Educator (1876-1947)

"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."
-Hippocrates, Greek scientist (460BC - 357BC)


this should get the ball rolling....... anyone else?
warmest, corson

[Lord Sidious]

Wednesday, August 17th 2011

"Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it."
-John Oliver, British comedian (1977- )

have a great day everyone.
warmest, corson


Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed sheep contesting the vote.
There ya go.

[crosby]

Thursday, August 18, 2011

"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."

"A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident."

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, not does truth become error because nobody sees it."

-Mohandes Gandhi, Spiritual leader (1869-1948)

[Calz]

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."

Cicero - 55 BC



What have we learned in 2,066 years?

[pickle]

What have we learned in 2,066 years?

Wait for me mate, I'm only through 57 of them... I might have it cracked with another 2009 ;)

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"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts." ~Washington Irving

[benevolentcrow]

Inspirational Quotes



'With stillness comes the benediction of peace'.

'Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.'

'When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.'

-Eckhart Tolle

[crosby]

Friday, August 19, 2011

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."
-Mother Teresa, Spiritual leader (1910-1997)

[pinkfrost]

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

[crosby]

hello there fellow avalonians. i was sitting here this morning thinking about how much i wish i didn't have to go to work today..... which, in turn, made me think of ways to laugh at the fact that i have too. so i dedicate this mornings' quote to the common workday. have a great day everyone, and for those of you who have to go to work today like me, try to find a little levity in it......

Sunday, August 21, 2011

"Common sense is genius dressed in its' working clothes."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
-Robert Frost

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-Robert Frost

okay, now i'm ready to face the day.
regards, corson

[ViralSpiral]

:)

Before enlightenment: chop wood, fetch water; after enlightenment: chop wood, fetch water…

[KosmicKat]

This is a great thread! Ive read most of the 38 pages and recorded a few quotes for use ...

so now Im asking for some help here...

I am writing a book and each 17 chapters will have one or two quotes, maybe more to help hone in on what Im trying to say... so maybe you folks have some quotes for me...


The only one I have that might be relevant (and I refuse to give it up too) is accredited to Hippocrates (in latin thanks to Paracelsus):

Primum non nocere (first, do no harm)

Although I rather like the words of Sir Lancelot Spratt in the movie Doctor at Large:

Three things you must have to be a competent surgeon: the heart of a lion, the eyes of an eagle and the hands of a lady.

[Lord Sidious]

This is a great thread! Ive read most of the 38 pages and recorded a few quotes for use ...

so now Im asking for some help here...

I am writing a book and each 17 chapters will have one or two quotes, maybe more to help hone in on what Im trying to say... so maybe you folks have some quotes for me...


The only one I have that might be relevant (and I refuse to give it up too) is accredited to Hippocrates (in latin thanks to Paracelsus):

Primum non nocere (first, do no harm)

Although I rather like the words of Sir Lancelot Spratt in the movie Doctor at Large:

Three things you must have to be a competent surgeon: the heart of a lion, the eyes of an eagle and the hands of a lady.

That was an excellent series of movies and that guy was great in the Carry On series too.

[DoubleHelix]

A person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world, some one to love, something to do and something to hope for. ( Buddha )

[Gaia]

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

[Arrowwind]

So I went through about 10 pages of posts today looking for quotes I could use in my book and made a list. Each one goes just perfectly with a section of book or a specific paragraph. This is such a rich source. Quotes from people I would have never considered. Thanks guys.

And I will leave with one of my favorites... " And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make" John Lennon


""We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
— Plato
"Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil."
— Plato
I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts."
— Plato




"I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use."
-Ricky Williams, American athlete (1977- )

"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."
-Hippocrates, Greek scientist (460BC - 357BC)




"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."


"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, not does truth become error because nobody sees it."

-Mohandes Gandhi, Spiritual leader (1869-1948)


'Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.'

'When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.'

-Eckhart Tolle


The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity answered,

“Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

:)


"" A crank is a man with a new idea - until it catches on" - Mark Twain

"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be lived" - Van Der Leeuwarden




Be who you are
and say what you feel,
Because, those who mind- don't matter
and those who matter- don't mind. By Dr.Seuss

All truth passes through 3 stages:
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self evident. By, Authur Schopenhaur.


Let the people know the Truth and the country is Safe". By Abe Lincoln




Michael Bernard Beckwith: "I often share that there are particular types of seeds that remain dormant until they are broken open by a forest fire. Likewise, there is a seed within all of us that opens only by the fire of our readiness to transform. Let us ignite the inner fire of transformation today!"


"All the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it." - Helen Keller




"Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act" Albert Einstein


"Either move or be moved."
-Ezra Pound, American poet (1885-1972)




"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle


David Wilcock put it this way :

"Each time we shame someone, manipulate them, control them, hurt them, defeat them, and then try to hide it all behind a cloak of secrecy, we are voting for the negative elite to continue doing this to us on a planetary level. The more we vote to be humble, listen to other people, consider other people's needs as well as our own, be flexible, be open to changing our minds, and treat others with love, compassion and forgiveness, the more the negative elite's grip is loosened."


"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up." J.M. Power



For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. ~Maya Angelou




Meddle not in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with guacamole.~ Ashleigh Brilliant (perhaps)

What does the perhaps mean here? perhaps the author is Asheigh Brilliant. would like some confirmation



TREASON

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
Cicero, 42 B.C.E.



When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26919.html)

C. P. Snow (http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/C._P._Snow/) (1905 - 1980)

[Normalguy31]

In the end the love you take is equal to, the love you make.
One of my favorites too. (see signature)
There are so many great lines from Abbey Road.
"I never give you my number, I only give you my situation"
Speaks about a man afraid to be able to connect with a woman, or vice versa, which I can relate to.(my interpretation)
" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, all good children go to heaven"
"Here comes the sun, little darlin', here comes the sun, and I said its alright"
So many good ones, will post more have to go right now.

[Lisab]

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it: Willian Arthur Ward

[benevolentcrow]

You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.....Louise L. Hay

[Gaia]

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

All my very best,

Jack Layton

[Normalguy31]

"I hear babies cry. I watch them grow. They'll learn much more. Than I will ever know, and I think to myself what a wonderful wooooooorld" Louis Armstrong

[noxon medem]

Suggest you can do, to others
Demand , only from yourself

( unknown source, and day ..).

[noxon medem]

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Constructive, at least, at last ..

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(could be a timely motto)

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[ViralSpiral]

http://www.designbuddha.co.uk/quotes/jug.gif

[benevolentcrow]

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says..I'm possible............Audrey Hepburn

[jagman]

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry( Thomas Jefferson)

This is like deja vu all over again (Yogi Berra)

[DoubleHelix]

"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." ( Orlando A. Battista )

[kathymarie]

..."Momma, I love you so very much"....my daughter

[benevolentcrow]

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities........J. K. Rowling

[Ruby L.]

.
Knowledge is power.

- Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
English author, philosopher, lawyer, statesman & scientist (1561 - 1626)

[Gaia]

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Kurt Cobain

[Gaia]

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Carl Sagan

[ViralSpiral]

http://i56.tinypic.com/mbk7pv.png

[Normalguy31]

I seek sun, deceive none, for each one must teach one At least one must flow and show the structure, of freedom It's me dunn, cause petty things we don't need 'em Let's focus to create somethin great, for all that sees them They innocent, they know not what they face While politicians save face genius minds lay to waste If I wasn't kickin rhymes I'd be kickin down doors Creatin social change and defendinthepoor The god's always been militant, and ready for war We're gonna snatch up theringleaders sendem home inthey drawers But first where's the safe at? let's make em show us And tell em hurry up, give up the loot that they owe us We bringin it back, around the way to our peeps Cause times are way too deep, we know the code of the streets Meet your defeat; this is myrobbinhood theory... my robbin hood theory

Guru from the hip hop group gangstarr. Lyrics from the song " Robbin hood Theory"

[Gaia]

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Margaret Mitchell

[starsha]

"Karma is like farting in a space suit" -- Mooji :)

[Mike]

"all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." Edgar Allan Poe

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

http://i55.tinypic.com/11sify9.jpg

[Lisab]

I tried jogging once but I kept spilling my wine... Carol Decker singer of T'pau

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

Apologies in advance, expletives in the next quote.
I read this yesterday and it had me literally laughing my head off.
Talk about "insight"! ;)



"Enlightenment comes when your third eye is at one with your turd eye and you can see your own sh!t." Christopher Wynter

[Lord Sidious]

Oy vey, gewalt!
Uncle Sidious to Oliver S in avalon chat. :p

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

:eek:
Oh noes, now I am in trouble....




"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer". ~Edward R. Murrow
:P

[starsha]

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.


~ Rumi ~

[ViralSpiral]

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l21tmudue41qagjw8o1_500.jpg

[Gaia]

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/25757_381559619042_60280919042_3547930_7712415_n.jpg

[Lord Sidious]

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/25757_381559619042_60280919042_3547930_7712415_n.jpg

Just hope that river isn't the 3 litres of second hand tea you are holding back. :p

[Gaia]

I sure am thirsty ! Hope you're having an enjoyable and relaxing Labor Day weekend.

Gaia
xx

[Lord Sidious]

I sure am thirsty ! Hope you're having an enjoyable and relaxing Labor Day weekend.

Gaia
xx

Not for second hand tea, only once filtered by human kidneys?
I hope not. :p

[Lisab]

Money? What money? We never had any money..... graffiti sprayed on the side of my mums house last week. Safe to say she ain't a happy bunny!

[Jetsam]

Two by John Coltrane:

"There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state. So that we can see more and more clearly what we are. In that way, we can give to those who listen the essence, the best of what we are. But to do that at each stage, we have to keep on cleaning the mirror."

"My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being."


Listen to his music! ;)

[Lisab]

Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep

Robert Frost

[Gaia]

"The National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society focus most of their resources on research and treatment rather than on cancer prevention. By talking as if the cure is around the corner and their "War on cancer" is being won, when certain cancer rates notably breast cancer and lung cancer among women and malignant melanoma are on the rise, they divert attention from strict regulation of industry and minimizing people's exposure to carcinogens."

H. Patricia Hynes, "The Recurring Silent Spring" [1989]

[Elle]

“The greatest miracle in the world is to be so intelligent that nobody – no society, no state, no church – can hypnotize you.” Osho

[Gaia]

Just love this one Elle:)

[Jake]

I always looked at the world and thought that someone should do something about it. Then I realized that I WAS someone... :)

[starsha]

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.

~ Rumi



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[starsha]

"Angry people want you to see how powerful they are...loving people want you to see how powerful You are." - Chief Red Eagle

[Normalguy31]

"You are the pilot, not the passenger. Never give up." Billy, my skydiving instructor.

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

http://i54.tinypic.com/qwydz7.jpg

[Lord Sidious]

Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep

Robert Frost

Aha!
You seen Telefon then? :cool2:

[Lisab]

Noo! Havnt seen Telefon just had to hop off to see what u were on about - I thought you were speaking welsh! Lol. Love Charlie B tho and I love Donald Pleasance in erm escape to witch mountain!!!!
More Frost....Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence (I think I'm getting there-finally).

I think I can, I think I can,I think I can.. The Little Engine Who Could x

[Someoneson1]

I came, I saw, I laughed, I left

[Guest]

Precious Human Life -Garchen Rinpoche

[starsha]

"What people fail to realize is that their enlightenment is capable of endless enlargement." -- Harada Roshi

[Normalguy31]

" Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. "

" Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[WhiteFeather]

There are none more hopelessly enslaved, than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[animalspirits]

Everything presented to us is a lesson with an opportunity to learn.

Learn the lesson, move the knowledge to your soul, drop the rest as baggage you don't need, and walk into your future wiser and lighter.

~animalspirits

[Gaia]

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa

[crosby]

sorry that i haven't been here very often in the past couple of weeks. internet troubles galore............ however, i should be back online in full swing on monday the 12. thank you all for your continuing patronage on the "quotes" thread. it uplifts my heart... i hope you all are well.

"Love prefers twilight to daylight."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, American writer, (1809-1894)

[DeDukshyn]

"You are the creator of all you survey"
Ken Carey (sort of)

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

http://i56.tinypic.com/wum060.jpg

[Gaia]

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, Not French, Not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour we're more like celery as a flavour.

Mike Myers

[Lisab]

I dislike arguements of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. Oscar Wilde

[jagman]

“This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.”
Isaac Newton

[crosby]

okay fellow avalonians i am back on line and ready to rumble........ i am going to start today off with this quote from Somerset Maugham:

Monday September 12, 2011

"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
-W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright and author (1874-1965)

and too my son: A very happy 30th birthday dear. Lets strive for another thirty, heh?

[Lisab]

Be it prayer, tranquilisers or a bottle of Jack Daniels - whatever gets you through the night. Frank Sinatra

[benevolentcrow]

Be not the slave of your own past- plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old...........Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Gaia]

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

[KosmicKat]

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

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[off-topic]
IMO, when the lyrics were rewritten, the song lost a lot.
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[Fred Steeves]

"You are the pilot, not the passenger. Never give up." Billy, my skydiving instructor.

" Don't forget to pull that thingy down there " :lol: Bill, my old skydiving instructor. Small world huh?

[Guest]

In "True Reality" Love does not have a face -author unknown


Nora

we are all related

[Lord Sidious]

"You are the pilot, not the passenger. Never give up." Billy, my skydiving instructor.

" Don't forget to pull that thingy down there " :lol: Bill, my old skydiving instructor. Small world huh?

I am hoping he meant the ripcord! :eek:

[crosby]

Wednesday September 14, 2011

"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
-Bette Davis, American actress (1908-1989)

have a great day everyone.
warmest, corson

[Fred Steeves]

"You are the pilot, not the passenger. Never give up." Billy, my skydiving instructor.

" Don't forget to pull that thingy down there " :lol: Bill, my old skydiving instructor. Small world huh?

I am hoping he meant the ripcord! :eek:

Well, he didn't recommend doing it more than once...LOL

[W.C.]

'The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.'
— C.G. Jung

[starsha]

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” -- Dr Suess

[Gaia]

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Gaia

[crosby]

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Gaia

truly beautiful Gaia. i am with you on that totally. thank you.
warmest, corson

[ViralSpiral]

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[Gaia]

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It's all right. When you come to a fork in the road take it.

Gaia

[Marianne]

“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

― Frank Mc Court, Angela's Ashes

[starsha]

"The reality of the ET phenomenon would PALE in comparison to the discovery of our OWN potential." -- Jake

:)

[crosby]

Saturday September 17, 2011

"I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me!"
-Dr. Seuss

have a great one everybody!!
warmest, corson

[ViralSpiral]

A big bat......

/chuckle

♥ Dr Seuss

[starsha]

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss

:)

[Lord Sidious]

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes " -~ William Gibson

[starsha]

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes " -~ William Gibson

hahaha that's a good one !

[Lisab]

Music was my refuge.I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl back to loneliness...Maya Angelou

[crosby]

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes " -~ William Gibson

Lord Sidious, that is priceless!!!!!!!!!
warmest, corson

[crosby]

Sunday September 18, 2011

"I hope I never get so old I get religious."
and~
"I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images."
-Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director (1918-2007)

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes " -~ William Gibson

http://i54.tinypic.com/2l87xiu.gif
Ahahahahahaha!
Love it too.



http://i56.tinypic.com/9usprb.jpg

;)

[Lisab]

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way,you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that....James Brown

[starsha]

"I am what i am, and that's all that i am" -- Popeye the sailorman

[Jake]

"I am what i am, and that's all that i am" -- Popeye the sailorman

Ha! I love it...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8TRoMSG-5I

[starsha]

"I am what i am, and that's all that i am" -- Popeye the sailorman

Ha! I love it...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8TRoMSG-5I

Jake!! hahaa ... that was great, i've never seen this movie, me thinks i'll have to share it with my son. ;)

[crosby]

Wednesday September 21, 2011

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."
-Frank Zappa, American musician (1940-1993)

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

http://i53.tinypic.com/imot4p.jpg

[crosby]

Thursday September 22, 2011

"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end."
-Leonard Nimoy, American actor (1931- )

[Lord Sidious]

Righting wrongs with a big stick, one asshole at a time.
Dean Clifford

[crosby]

i got my stick..... you got yours? let's go gett'um
warmest, corson

[Lord Sidious]

i got my stick..... you got yours? let's go gett'um
warmest, corson

Dean's application for membership is in the pipeline.
I showed him our marvelous forum the other day and he signed up straight away.

[crosby]

excellent Lord Sid!!!! i am very excited about this.

Friday September 23, 2011

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."
-Albert Einstein, German physicist (1879-1955)

have a great day everyone.
warmest, corson

[Lord Sidious]

The most fearsome adversary is one who is willing to be destroyed for revenge. Such an adversary rarely needs to take revenge. ~~Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

http://i52.tinypic.com/2ynidlc.jpg

[crosby]

there is something about the look on this mans' face that really got me. earnestness. the need to know. thanks Ineffable Hitchhiker, this will stay with me today.
warmest, corson

[Lisab]

Decent clothes.....a car.....but what's it all about? from Alfie by Bill Naughton

Life moves pretty fast. If you dont stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it...Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[Gaia]

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

[crosby]

Sunday September 25, 2011

"And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay."
-Buddha, (563-483 BC)

[Lisab]

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men....Neil Gaiman from Good Omens

[starsha]

"The Ocean Refuses No River" --- Chandra

hRKJi3-lxHs

wow, can she sing or what? .... *goosebumps :)

[ViralSpiral]

To live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die. ~Thomas Campbell


In loving memory of Tim, a dear friend, who passed away yesterday

♥

[Lord Sidious]

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce.

[W.C.]

'He who opens a door, closes a prison.'
— Victor Hugo

[Lisab]

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.......William S Burroughs

After one look at this planet a visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager"....again William S Burroughs

[finally there!!!]

"I love to talk about nothing. Its the only thing I know anything about." Oscar Wilde

[KosmicKat]

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce.

To underline this, I would like to re-state a favorite of mine from anon.

If you never make a mistake, you certainly won't make anything else.

[starsha]

Be the Change

[Guest]

I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces
I sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains
I sing my song to the free.

-Pete Townshend "Song is Over"

Nora

we are all related

[crosby]

To live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die. ~Thomas Campbell


In loving memory of Tim, a dear friend, who passed away yesterday

♥


my thoughts are with you ViralSpiral. btw, love the avatar. very stripey!!
warmest thoughts, corson

[starsha]

:thumb: ;)

[ViralSpiral]

my thoughts are with you ViralSpiral. btw, love the avatar. very stripey!!
warmest thoughts, corson


Thank you Corson. Tim will always be remembered as Mr Sunshine!
I am in the safari business, can you tell? ,-)




“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

[crosby]

Thursday, September 29, 2011

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
-Abraham Lincoln, American President (1809-1865)

starsha: THAT IS EXCELLENT!

warmest regards and hope for a stronger, more resilient future,
corson

[Lisab]

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is disease...Lao Tzu

[starsha]

:cool::cool:

[enrique]

corson, here is a line from Carson (Tonight Show Legend)...

Sha Sha Gabor was on his show she sat across from his desk with a beautiful cat on her lap.. Sha Sha not a native english speaker says to Johnny, 'would you like pet my pussy'. Johnny, replies in classic Carson style.....

"you'll need to move the cat first"...

Instant cut to a commercial... too risque for 70s us TV ... may be pushing the Avalon censors as well... my apologies in advance...


Great thread, thanks

[Lisab]

Beautiful day today,not a chemtrail in the sky....me.

[Lord Sidious]

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Frederick Douglass.

[crosby]

Saturday October 1, 2011

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentment when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
-Spencer Tracy, American actor (1900-1967)

just wanted to get the message out there that our collective 'recognition' is still within our own grasp.
warmest regards, corson

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

http://i55.tinypic.com/21e6ecg.jpg

[starsha]

Empower yourself :o

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Life really is like a box of chocolates. And when you say that God does not exists you keep the wrapper and throw away the rest... (unknown)

[KiwiElf]

"Be yourself and say what you feel.
Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter, won't mind
- Dr Seuss

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

Happy birthday Mahatma :humble:

http://i51.tinypic.com/o5xjdi.jpg

[Lord Sidious]

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/305438_293142130713060_100000518266897_1203262_674363504_n.jpg

[starsha]

"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -- Bob Marley

[Lord Sidious]

"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -- Bob Marley

Pity we don't have some type of built in gauge for this.

[starsha]

"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -- Bob Marley

Pity we don't have some type of built in gauge for this.

Maybe we don't have it built in, but if we can learn to embrace the suffering then it's not so bad to be hurt by the ones we love. :)

[crosby]

Sunday October 2, 2011

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it."
-Ernest Hemingway, American novelist (1899-1961)

[starsha]

Sunday October 2, 2011

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it."
-Ernest Hemingway, American novelist (1899-1961)


love it !! :)

[Ron Mauer Sr]

Everyone makes me happy.
Some when they arrive.
Others when they leave.

author unknown

[starsha]

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -- Anais Nin

&

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” -- Anais Nin

[ViralSpiral]

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills

[Lisab]

People plan, God laughs....anon

[Newlyn]

I have never begun any important adventure, for which I felt adequately prepared." ~ Sheldon Kopp

Go on with your journey in courage and trust!

[Gaia]

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

Paulo Coelho

[crosby]

Wednesday October 5, 2011

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
-Thomas Jefferson, American president (1743-1826)

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author (1918-2008)

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

http://i56.tinypic.com/290vsp4.jpg

[Ruby L.]

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

-- Thomas Paine

[starsha]

"There is nothing "bad" or "good", there is no "positive" or "negative" (putting aside batteries); there is what is and labels are a way to "cope" - to like or dislike something does not make it "bad" or "good" - "it is what it is". " -- King Anthony

[benevolentcrow]

Good to be back...

[ViralSpiral]

Glad to have you back! :)



"I am warning you, one day we will start praying for the defeat of the ANC government. You are disgraceful". Bishop Tutu on the ANC's refusal to grant the Dalai Lama a visa for his 80th birthday celebration.


Happy Birthday Bishop Tutu!

[crosby]

benevolentcrow welcome back........ we've all missed you!

Friday October 7, 2011

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."
-Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860)

to my daughter annie on her 21st birthday celebration:

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer."
Rainer Maria Rilke

[benevolentcrow]

“Here's to the crazy ones ~ the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers ~ the round pegs in the square holes ~ the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them ~ but the only thing you can't do is ignore them ~ because they change things ~ they push the human race forward ~ and while some may see them as the crazy ones ~ we see genius ~ because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world ~ are the ones who do” ~ Steve Jobs

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Stay hungry. Stay foolish." -Steve Jobs

[starsha]

:biggrin1: :thumb: :biggrin1:

[starsha]

"Really, Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time". -- Dumbledore

[Gaia]

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

La vérité est en marche, et rien ne l'arrêtera.

Emile Zola. Extrait de L'Affaire Dreyfus.

[starsha]

Maybe

Once upon the time there was an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically.

“Maybe,” the farmer replied.

The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. “How wonderful,” the neighbors exclaimed.

“Maybe,” replied the old man.

The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune.

“Maybe,” answered the farmer.

The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son’s leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out.

“Maybe,” said the farmer.

-- Zen Parable

[starsha]

Sorry this one is long, but i just read it this morning and had to share. :)




Here's the challenge: when opinions differ about things that feel like they really matter (because they effect our lives & the lives of our children) can we keep our hearts open to each other? How we are with each other when we do not agree is where the spiritual rubber hits the road (so to speak! :-) Can I listen, really listen & bring a genuine curiosity to why the other reacts or thinks or feels differently than I do? Can I speak in away that helps the other hear- without hyperbole or derision, with deep respect for them as another human being?

It's about having the courage to participate where we can & are called (which maybe on the street with others, in solitary prayer, &/or in conversation & meditation with others) without putting anyone out of our hearts, without forgetting that there is no "them" and "us"- it's all just us, muddling along, trying to figure it out, sometimes behaving badly (usually out of fear) and sometimes shining so brightly it takes my breath away.

It's about expanding our ability to be the peace- feel it, feed it, embody it within- wherever we are.

-- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

[Lisab]

"What's your name"? Coraline asked the cat. "Look I'm Coraline. Okay?" "Cats dont have names" it said. "No?" said Coraline. "No" said the cat. "Now you people have names. Thats because you dont know who you are. We know who we are so we dont need names". Neil Gaiman, Coraline

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.. Neil Gaiman

[benevolentcrow]

Only by its own roots does a tree stand tall and only by its own light does the sun shine brightly and bring life to our world. So it is with you - only when you're trusting, loving and rooted in your true Self will the life that is your highest potential begin to manifest. Only when you are walking on the path of your highest potential will you ever be able to shine brightly and bring light to the darkness in others.......Jackson Kiddard

[crosby]

October 11, 2011

"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
-Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist (1860-1904)

[Lisab]

In the end, everything is a gag..Charlie Chaplin

[KosmicKat]

October 11, 2011

"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
-Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist (1860-1904)
somebody else expressed a similar thought thus:
"Chefs cover their mistakes with sauce. Lawyers cover their mistakes with words. Doctors cover their mistakes with earth."

[benevolentcrow]

"Humor begets joy. You cannot have joy in your life without humor connected with it. Imagine a candle, and the wax of the candle is joy, and the wick of the candle is you. The candle stands there inactive. Nothing happens with the wax (the joy). It is suspended in a shaft going nowhere, but is poised and ready. Then the light and flame of humor is assigned to the wick (you). It will start to melt the joy and activate it. You can smell it, and the joy then becomes pliable. It is working. It gives off light, it is alive -- because of the humor that is applied to it. Humor is the catalyst for joy. Joy begets peace and melts the Human heart.


~ Lee Carroll ~

[benevolentcrow]

More of a comment...

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

What luck for rulers that men do not think. (A. Hitler)

[Phoenix10]

Love it!!!


Hello corson

One of my favourite Churchill quotes; When a cabinet colleague asked: “Prime Minister can you lend me a penny to phone a friend?” Churchill replied: Here’s Twopence - phone them all…” Ha ha ha

Best regards. JP :cool:

[crosby]

Friday October 14, 2011

"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now on this earth."
-Ayn Rand- Russian writer (1905-1982)

[starsha]

Each second of life is a miracle. — Thich Nhat Hanh

[benevolentcrow]

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.........Cherie Carter-Scott

[Gaia]

Always say “Yes” To the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is ? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now ? Surrender to what is. Say “Yes” To life and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

Eckhart Tolle

[truthseekerdan]

I don't know if this one was posted yet...

"The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly coloured, and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question - is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride.' And we...kill those people. Ha ha ha. 'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride. SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and family. This just has to be real.' It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings, and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defence each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace." -- Bill Hicks

[Samsara]

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

[benevolentcrow]

'Fall, leaves, fall'

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night's decay
Ushers in a drearier day.


Emily Jane Brontë

[confident824]

I hold NO emotional attachment to places, things, teams, or beliefs. Nor, anything else that is incapable of showing any sincere feelings in my reality.
Jason Antwine

One of the main diseases that affects man-kind today is his own insecurities. It affects every decision we make from the clothes we buy, to how we treat others, all the way up to the people we choose to be with. Subconsciously we make these decisions only to overcompensate for our insecurities. So once we finally erase our insecurities is only when we can truly keep it real.
Jason Antwine

"Success", is not defined or measured by money, fame, or how many toys you have, but it is the achievement of goals set by an individual.
Therefore, it is the perception of an individual that determines what is or isn't a success.
Jason Antwine

The Ego is a mental disorder that fools the Self into thinking he/she is better than other people around them.
Jason Antwine

[crosby]

welcome to avalon confident824. i loved your last quote: "The Ego is a mental disorder that fools the Self into thinking he/she is better than other people around them." ------ truly wonderful. thanks!

Saturday October 15, 2011

"There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall."
-Bernard Malamud, American novelist (1914-1986)

[Samsara]

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus

[Lisab]

I know that if I wasnt scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary....Richard Pryor

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic....Richard Pryor

[crosby]

Sunday October 16, 2011

"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
-Jean~Paul Sartre, French philosopher (1905-1980)

[Samsara]

Once it was: What would you do if you found out you had a month to live, or a year?
Some day it will be: What will you do, now that you’ve found out?

Stephen Jenkinson

[benevolentcrow]

It's so common for your world to just turn upside down when you really commit to raising your vibration. It's no secret that thoughts are like magnets, so it's impossible for people and life circumstances to stay the same when you change your mind and commit to a new belief. Embrace the change for a change and just allow in the new life that's working its way into your experience and TRUST that it's all for your benefit. I promise you it is.........Jackson Kiddard

[Lisab]

Expect a miracle...Linda Goodman

[Normalguy31]

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you will die today. -James Dean

[benevolentcrow]

Stop! Take a moment, at the beginning of each and every day, to say to yourself:... “Today will be a beautiful day. I commit to having my senses open to all the possibilities that abound. I commit to accepting my empowered self. Love yourself and own who are you – with no apology.” – Dr. Angela

[Samsara]

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[Lisab]

A man who practices the mysteries of love will be in contact not with a reflection, but with truth itself. To know this blessing of human nature, one can find no better helper than love....Socrates

[benevolentcrow]

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine........Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Referee]

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
- Plato

[Samsara]

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Alden Nowlan

[starsha]

'Knowing where the root of happiness lies saves us from escalating pain. If someone insults you, for instance, you may long to retaliate, but you know this won’t benefit anyone. Instead, in the very grip of wanting to get even, you can say to yourself, “May the rage that I feel toward this person cause us both to be liberated.”

This is the aspiration of a young bodhisattva, one in the process of learning to let go. Even if we don’t genuinely feel it, we’re able to say, “May this seemingly negative connection be our link to waking up.”'

Pema Chodron

[benevolentcrow]

Don't play small! Stand up! Take charge! You are doing yourself and others a disservice by catering your actions towards how you think others will react. Instead, just be yourself, exactly as you are. When you are simply being yourself you will attract everything that is in alignment with who you truly are. You will be shocked to see who drops away. Their absence will leave a space for new and amazing relationships to enter your life. Just be you, and let everyone else do what they may. You are not what others believe you to be, you are what you know you are and nothing else. Just be. You will be rewarded for your courage with a life that reflects your true essence instead of an invented identity created to "please others". Ahhhh, doesn't it feel good to just be!?" .........Jackson Kiddard

[Jetsam]

“I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.”

“Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.”

Both by Arthur Rubinstein.

[crosby]

Wednesday October 19, 2011

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."
-Richard M. Nixon, American president (1919-1994)

[Samsara]

When your heart speaks, take good notes.

Judith Campbell

[benevolentcrow]

The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult.......Marquise du Deffand

[Samsara]

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

"View your life with kindsight. Stop beating yourself up with things from the past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking “What was I thinking?” breathe and ask yourself the kinder question “What am I learning?”







The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Alden Nowlan

What a wonderful quote.
Thank you.

[crosby]

Sunday October 23, 2011

"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."
-Garrison Keillor, American writer (1942 - )

love his lake wobegon collections.

[benevolentcrow]

Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change.......Catherine Pulsifer

[Samsara]

I dreamt I was a butterfly, and didn't know when I awoke if I was a man who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly who now dreamt he was a man.

Chuang Tzu

[crosby]

Monday October 24, 2011

"First of all, I try to be a positive roll model."
[I]-Bruce Jenner, American athlete (1949- )[/[B]

[jorr lundstrom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc_-icFHwQo

[crosby]

interesting. do you know what he's quoting?
corson

[modwiz]

interesting. do you know what he's quoting?
corson

"Merry, merry king of the bush is me......"

BTW. Awesome clip Jorr. What a great spirited being that bird is.

[crosby]

interesting. do you know what he's quoting?
corson

"Merry, merry king of the bush is me......"


you look so.... hollywood!! i love it.
corson

[crosby]

"The contemporary proliferation of bull**** also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are. These "anti-realist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective inquiry. One response to this loss of confidence has been a retreat from the discipline required by dedication to the ideal of correctness to a quite different source of discipline, which is imposed by pursuit of an alternative ideal of sincerity. Rather than seeking primarily to arrive at accurate representations of a common world, the individual turns toward trying to provide honest representations of himself. Convinced that reality has no inherent nature, which he might hope to identify as the truth about things, he devotes himself to being true to his own nature. It is as though he decides that since it makes no sense to try to be true to the facts, he must therefore try instead to be true to himself.

But it is preposterous to imagine that we ourselves are determinate, and hence susceptible both to correct and to incorrect descriptions, while supposing that the ascription of determinacy to anything else has been exposed as a mistake. As conscious beings, we exist only in response to other things, and we cannot know ourselves at all without knowing them. Moreover, there is nothing in theory, and certainly nothing in experience, to support the extraordinary judgment that it is the truth about himself that is the easiest for a person to know. Facts about ourselves are not peculiarily solid and resistant to skeptical dissolution. Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial -- notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself, is bull****."
Harry G. Frankfurt, -American author

[modwiz]

"The contemporary proliferation of bull**** also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are. These "anti-realist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective inquiry. One response to this loss of confidence has been a retreat from the discipline required by dedication to the ideal of correctness to a quite different source of discipline, which is imposed by pursuit of an alternative ideal of sincerity. Rather than seeking primarily to arrive at accurate representations of a common world, the individual turns toward trying to provide honest representations of himself. Convinced that reality has no inherent nature, which he might hope to identify as the truth about things, he devotes himself to being true to his own nature. It is as though he decides that since it makes no sense to try to be true to the facts, he must therefore try instead to be true to himself.

But it is preposterous to imagine that we ourselves are determinate, and hence susceptible both to correct and to incorrect descriptions, while supposing that the ascription of determinacy to anything else has been exposed as a mistake. As conscious beings, we exist only in response to other things, and we cannot know ourselves at all without knowing them. Moreover, there is nothing in theory, and certainly nothing in experience, to support the extraordinary judgment that it is the truth about himself that is the easiest for a person to know. Facts about ourselves are not peculiarily solid and resistant to skeptical dissolution. Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial -- notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself, is bull****."
Harry G. Frankfurt, -American author

So, short essay of the day. :becky:

[crosby]

but it's my thread, i can do what i like, short or not......nugget, :p
corson

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

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[modwiz]

but it's my thread, i can do what i like, short or not......nugget, :p
corson

Those who know me well call me nuggets. :secret:

[crosby]

i don't know you well, but may i call you : half-pint?
teehee

[modwiz]

i don't know you well, but may i call you : half-pint?
teehee

If it tickles your nuggets, yes.

Half-pint, eh? I smell innuendo.:eyebrows:

[crosby]

you may just be the biggest smile of my day. thanks.
regards, corson

[crosby]

hi Paul.
:o

[Samsara]

I take a breath when I have to.

Ethel Merman

[benevolentcrow]

Be a warrior!
The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him....... Carlos Castaneda

[Samsara]

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Janis Joplin

[starsha]

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

Albert Einstein

[starsha]

"Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows." -- Nisargadatta Maharaj

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

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If you have some time, please watch this incredible documentary posted by kudzy, in the Off Topic section.
"I know I am not alone" by Michael Franti. (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?33375-I-Know-I-m-Not-Alone-by-Michael-Franti)

[benevolentcrow]

When you're Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don't need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness....Marci Shimoff

[ViralSpiral]

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
Spike Milligan


;)

[benevolentcrow]

We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.......Alan Cohen

[Sidney]

"Actions speak louder than words".

[truthseekerdan]

"All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there's too much corruption in the world" — Aristotle

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." — Henry David Thoreau






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[starsha]

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." -- Japanese Proverb

[benevolentcrow]

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you........St. Jerome

[benevolentcrow]

Make it beautiful!

[benevolentcrow]

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness....Susan Jeffers

[Samsara]

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

[Lisab]

We want the finest wines available to humanity....quote from Withnail and I

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

My posts today are dedicated to Banksy.
He said:-
“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.” :becky:
— Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall)


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"Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world, I cannot finish my second apple pie."

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“A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.”

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[benevolentcrow]

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement..........Golda Meir

[benevolentcrow]

To have courage for whatever comes in life-everything lies in that...........Teresa of Avila

[Samsara]

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Francis Bacon

[benevolentcrow]

You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace. You can transcend the dream of hell just by making the agreement to be impeccable with your word. Right now I am planting that seed in your mind. Whether or not the seed grows depends upon how fertile your mind is for the seeds of love. It is up to you to make this agreement with yourself: I am impeccable with my word. Nurture this seed, and as it grows in your mind, it will generate more seeds of love to replace the seeds of fear. This first agreement will change the kind of seeds your mind is fertile for........Don Miguel Ruiz

[animalspirits]

You were given this life because you were strong enough to live it. ~unknown

[benevolentcrow]

Daylight savings time. old Indian saying: only a white man would think you could cut a foot off of one end of a blanket and sew it on the other end and make it longer.