The Great Quotes thread

[Kryztian]

"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"

[Constance]

"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 :heart:

[edina]

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.



Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. Carl Jung

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[frankstien]

From Voltaire

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

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

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[Deega]

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

[RogeRio]

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

[lightwalker]

"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)

[Tintin]

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 (https://deadideas.net/2017/01/22/geis-part-4-nede-the-satire-poet-and-the-death-of-connla/) 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."

[Cara]

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’.
From: “The New Immortality” by J. W. Dunne (1938)

[Constance]

Cross posting from ThePainterDougs post here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?108206-Gifts-from-the-Dying&p=1308418&viewfull=1#post1308418) because it was so good. :heart:

“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

[Rhogar]

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are,what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine"

William Blum(Former US State Department Employee)

[James]

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

-Rabindranath Tagore

[Ron Mauer Sr]

"When one door closes then another door opens." author unknown


"When one door closes then another door opens, you have ghosts." author unknown.

[Caliban]

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is….Most people love you for who you pretend to be….To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense…It's true, we're locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image – they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it – they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.

Jim Morrison

[Franny]

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let us teach our children to be thinkers. ~ Jacques Fresco

What sane person could live in this world and not be a little crazy? ~ Usula LeGuin

I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange. ~ Sigbjorn Obsterfelder

[Cara]

“We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”


― W H Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

[Ron Mauer Sr]

"There are many aspects of 'New Age' philosophy that are unhealthy, perhaps the largest of which is the propensity for (and the encouragement of) cognitive dissonance.

A prime example being the propagation of ignoring those things that are a genuine problem by stating, "What you focus on, is what you create."

Actually, it is not what you create, you just need to be aware that it is what you will experience more of, so the danger is that engaging negative situations is likely to exhaust you or dampen your vibration.

The thing is, if a genuine problem exists, it doesn't go away by ignoring it, indeed, by not tackling it, the problem is free to grow unhindered.

It takes bravery to challenge the worlds greatest ills, it really is like fighting demons, and the denial of their existence is tantamount to cowardice.

So I'm sending a big cheer out to the warriors in this world, the defenders of the vulnerable, the truth-speakers and whistle-blowers."

Amora Steve Melchizadek
July 4, 2019

[Rich]

Agreed to some extent Ron, however we must look at the root cause of it, that created it in the first place, our thinking.

[Constance]

Agreed to some extent Ron, however we must look at the root cause of it, that created it in the first place, our thinking.

I think this was a quote made by Amora Steve Melchizadek that Ron was referring to Rich and not Rons own thoughts :flower:

:focus:

[Franny]

For Valerie :highfive:

Last night I passed at the edge of darkness,
and slept with green dew, alone.
I have come a long way,
to surrender my shadow
to the shadow of my horse.

James Wright


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[Franny]

What are you going to believe, what we tell you or what you see with your own eyes? ~ Groucho Marx

You can't have a planet with Christ-like beings running around. They don't pay taxes and they're completely unmanageable. ~ William Henry

Due to the absence of qualified leaders, I've decided to follow myself. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

[Franny]

Who can resist Rumi...

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[Cara]

Who can resist Rumi...

Or Hafiz :heart:

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[petra]

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are,what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine"

William Blum(Former US State Department Employee)

Well this is depressing but true, perhaps I can offer a counter-quote. Here it is on a shirt... :)

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[Franny]

Or Kabir...

:star:

Inside this clay jug there are
canyons and pine mountains.
And the maker of canyons
and pine mountains.
And seven oceans are inside,
and hundreds of millions of stars.
~ Kabir

[drneglector]

So many great quotes here, thanks. I have quite a few I want to add...

"Nature, to be commanded, must first be obeyed."
- Francis Bacon

"The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the Laws of Nature, because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever."
- Mikhail Bakunin

"The best way to learn the secrets of nature is not by inventing instruments, but by improving the investigator himself."
- Max Heindel

"Heed these words, You who wish to probe the depths of nature: If you do not find within yourself that which you seek, neither will you find it outside. If you ignore the wonders of your own House, how do you expect to find other wonders? In you is hidden the Treasure of Treasures. Know Thyself and you will know the Universe and the Gods."
- Delphi Oracle

"The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception."
- Georges Bataille

"Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed."
- William Blake

"It is a great mystery that, though the human heart longs for truth, in which it alone finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to truth is one of hostility and fear."
- Anthony de Mello

"There are only two mistakes one can make on the path to truth: Not starting and not going all the way."
- Buddha, on the extreme nature of truth

"As its foundation, any guide to freedom needs a thorough knowledge of why and how that freedom has been removed in the first place. Without that, there can be no answers."
- David Icke

"Accept responsibility for yourself and your actions, thoughts and words. You alone make choices. You alone are answerable to the consequences of your behavior. The feeble excuse that your boss required it, the establishment expected it, holds no truth of justification."
- David Icke

"What is the point of having principles if you allow others to dictate your behavior? At the end of the day, you will judge your performance and the contribution you have made to Creation. It will not be based on what another expected of you, or what you did because you felt trapped."
- David Icke

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
- Denis Diderot, French philosopher

"No problem can be solved by the same level of consciousness that created it."
- Albert Einstein

"They must find it difficult... those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority."
- Gerald Massey

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind if my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
- Thomas Paine

"What is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
- George Mason, Co-author of the Second Amendment

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
- Thomas Jefferson

"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency... the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people f all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied."
- Thomas Jefferson

"There's a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot."
- President John F. Kennedy, 7 days before his assassination

"Behind the ostensible governments sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent."
- J. Edgar Hoover

"Military men are just dumb, stupid animals, to be used as pawns in foreign policy."
- Henry Kissinger

The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
- Malcom X

"If the words "life, liberty and happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."
- Terence McKenna

"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the police state dictatorship it is going to get."
- Ian Williams Goddard

"The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed."
- Paul Joseph Goebbels

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
- Hermann Goering

"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food."
- Hippocrates

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
- Plato

"Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it. But those that do will become well."
- Vernon Howard

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude."
- Julian Huxley

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
- Milton Friedman

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable, and therefore, not popular."
- Carl Jung

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what is not true; the other is to refuse to accept what is true."
- Søren Kierkegaard

"The greatest conspiracies are not actually hidden, just fragmented into different pieces, like a puzzle, right before our eyes."
- Judith Moriarty

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell

"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild

"Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity."
- Nikola Tesla

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire

"Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws."
- Confucius

"I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true."
- Travis Walton

"Even the extremely small radius of an atom still contains some 99.99999 per cent space."
- Nassim Haramein

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
- John Lennon

[Rhogar]

Here is a quote that describes me,how about you my friends?

"Fortunately,some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social
conditioning.They begin sensing that something is amiss and start looking for answers.Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side
of reality others are oblivious to,and so begins their journey of awakening.Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd
and by choosing the knowledge over the veils of ignorance."

Henri-Louis Bergson

[Rhogar]

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”
Roy T. Bennett

and my favorite quote:facepalm:

“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
Thomas Edison

[petra]

I really love that Edison quote, I've never heard it before!

My favorite quote is from a comedian, and I posted it here already - it also applies to thinking :)

[Cara]

Another marvellous one from Hafiz:


My dear,
Is it true that your mind is sometimes like a battering
Ram

Running all through the city,
Shouting so madly inside and out

About the ten thousand things
That do not matter?

[RogueEllis]

All the night
I heard the thin gnat voices cry
Star to faint star across the sky

- Ian Ridpath

[Eva2]

Just thought of this quote from Hafiz that I really like:

"The small man builds cages for everyone he knows while the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful rowdy prisoners"

[Franny]

Not sure where I found this, perhaps a book...

“Choose Love rather than Hope. Because the expression of Hope can be quite static. The expression of Love is creative and moving; it promotes change. Hope tends to look outside for help and waits; Love looks within and finds the power of Self.”

[Cara]

The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle

When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness,

When you have found the courage
To marry
Love.

- Hafiz

[Franny]

The quote is attributed to Rumi.

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[Franny]

Ah well, I smiled...

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[Franny]

A learning experience...


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[frankstien]

Writer Charles Bukowski

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”

“How the hell could a person enjoy being awakened at 6:30AM, by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, ****, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”

“We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.”

“If I stop writing I am dead. And that’s the only way I’ll stop: dead.”

“If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.”

“Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.”

“If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.”

“People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”

“Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.”

“Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.”

“Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.”

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[Franny]

Is this an absolute?

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[Franny]

Someone around here has got to be old enough...

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[greybeard]

Does the audio book "Illusions Adventures of the reluctant messiah" count?
Chris


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and


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[Franny]

What if...


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[Franny]

Feed thy soul...

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[Rhogar]

"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”
Albert Einstein

"The treacherous are ever distrustful.”
J.R.R. Tolkien

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
Aristotle

[Franny]

...it's not the end.

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[Franny]

I wish...

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[Mike]

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[raregem]

"If you have to lie, cheat, steal and bully to get your point across then, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merit." - An Actor

[Franny]

So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp...

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[frankstien]

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“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion… when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats...”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

“I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

“You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

“Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

“The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

“The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.”
― Wilhelm Reich

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[Chester]

Life is an unbroken, continuous observation of and participation in contrast.

[DeDukshyn]

Probably already posted somewhere here, but its a good one ...

“Fear doesn't prevent death. It prevents life." ― Naguib Mahfouz

[Kryztian]

"If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?"
--- G.K. Chesterton

[DeDukshyn]

 
"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible nature; Unaware that the nature he is destroying is the God he is worshiping." -- Hubert Reeves

[Valerie Villars]

"Cover me boys. I'm going in."

Valerie Marie Villars

[Bluegreen]

"I have a moral obligation to be happy."

- My cousin

[Rhogar]

“Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity.”
Santosh Kalwar

“Truth starts with truth and ends with truth.”
Santosh Kalwar

“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”
莊子(Zhuangzi)

[Cara]

Will I dim the lights inside me just to satisfy someone?

~ John Mayer

[conk]

Why imagine an easy life, when you can imagine being a strong person? - Unknown.

95% of people sit around waiting for the other 5% to tell them what to do - A. Einstein

[Franny]

Nonconformists...

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[Anka]

Wonderful thread ...if you allow me in Latin,

Actiones secundum fidei ab antiquo, ab origine, a posteriori,a mundo conditio, ad unum omnes ad infinitum ad astra per aspera,audaces fortuna juvat !

[Cara]

When Thou is spoken, the speaker has no thing for his object. For where there is a thing there is another thing. Every It is bounded by others; It exists only through being bounded by others. But when Thou is spoken, there is no thing, Thou has no bounds. When Thou is spoken, the speaker has no thing, he has indeed nothing. But he takes his stand in relation.
—Martin Buber, I and Thou

* This work was translated into English from German (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou) and sometimes the Thou is translated as You.

[Franny]

Fundamentally...

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[Franny]

Someday...

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[Franny]

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[Valerie Villars]

Much peace and blessing to you Omni. Thanks for starting this thread. Many kind thoughts from me to you.


"I will rouse myself from my traditional languor."

From the movie "Pirate Radio".

[Sue (Ayt)]

Always a great re-minder to myself.
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[Caliban]

Two from Chuang Tzu:

Once we happen into the form of this body, we cannot forget it. And so it is that we wait out the end. Grappling and tangling with things, we rush headlong toward the end, and there’s no stopping it. It’s sad, isn’t it? We slave our lives away and never get anywhere, work ourselves ragged and never find our way home. How could it be anything but sorrow? People can talk about never dying, but what good is that? This form we have soon becomes others, and the mind vanishes with it. How could it be called anything but great sorrow? Life is total confusion. Or is it that I’m the only one who’s confused?


If you follow the realized mind you’ve happened into, making it your teacher, how could you be without a teacher? You don’t need to understand the realm of change: when mind turns to itself, you’ve found your teacher. Even a numbskull has mind for a teacher. Not to realize yourself in mind, and to insist on yes this and no that – it’s like leaving for Yueh when you’ve already arrived there. It’s like believing that what isn’t is. What isn’t is – even that great sage-emperor Yu couldn’t understand such things, so how could someone like me?

[Valerie Villars]

"I am in the Kingdom of the Glorious State of my Evolution."

Dustin Stephen Talley

[Bill Ryan]

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou

[Delight]

“We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic—a moral code independent of religion—strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities?”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

"Grow strong, my comrade ....that you may stand
Unshaken when I fall; that I may know
The shattered fragments of my songs will come
At last to find melody in you;
That I may tell my heart that you begin
Where passing I leave off, and fathom more."
Will Durant.

[Anka]

Inspired by a traditional Romanian saying,impossible to translate through google:)

So I adapted it in the same sense of understanding.But I want to say that, I would very much like all people to look up to sky offering something beautiful they can't have, instead of asking for something they can have.

"If you give and don't have, but you think you can get, you end up not giving something you could actually have."

[Anka]

For all the responsibility of the future that belongs to us,

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today"

Abraham Lincoln



And some of the thousands of sayings I grew up with,

When everything is too late
Bring water after the fire has gone out.

When someone is looking for the good in something that is wrong
Collect the pimples for its back.

When you can no longer resist a situation
Get the knife to the bone.(metaphorically and ironically):blushing:

When there is an ace up your sleeve for a person you want to calm down
To have someone's coat needle.

For people who are very lucky without making any effort that requires focus on a plan
To have more luck than mind.

When someone insists on a subject without making a good objective resolution.
Beat the water in the well

When someone is unjustifiably avenging the person or animal who is the most peaceful and fair
Beat the horse that pulls.

When someone can't keep a secret and tells everyone he meets
Beat the drum all over the village.

When someone goes beyond any measure of common sense and your understanding comes to an end
To step on the light bulb.

When you are on the side of someone who is dear to you and more importantly, you know with simple facts that he is right
Singing for someone in the hall

When you do something in vain but continue for a good purpose
Carrying water with sieve.

When you encounter something similar to the previous situation with small different details.
The same Marie with another hat.

When you study a difficult situation and break it down into chapters methodically
Split the thread into four.

Arguing someone very hard with too real arguments
Make someone with egg and vinegar.

When you try to reconcile two people who have the same opinion but quarrel
Reconcile the goat with cabbage.

When you hunt a truth and without wanting it, you find the truth in its demonstration
Shoot two rabbits out of a fire.

When you live in a society where you no longer find meaning in what it represents,and those who rule the world always advise you to go wrong.
Put the cart before the cattle.

When you realize that there is no God and you are already trying to help yourself in your aspirations.
Help yourself and the Lord will help you.

Water conducts and purifies everything and in all its effort the stones are self-standing as a demonstration of memory and steadfastness
The water passes, the stones remain.

For a person who is poor but prides himself on his needs
He has a cart with oxen and a hundred needs.

When you have the highest allowance listen with interest and study whatever you hear but you can't believe it until you have clear evidence for yourself.
Listen to everything, but don't believe everything.

When an heir makes wrong choices similar to his father's.
The bark does not jump far from the trunk.

A hard-working man he takes care to get what he needs long before he needs it.
The good housekeeper makes a sledge in the summer and a carriage in winter

When such a small truth can overturn the whole plot against this Planet.
The small log can overturn the big cart.
:blushing:...I hope you liked them, because I have lived them so far, the peak from the perspective of the one who still suffers
Love,
Anka
:cat:

[Rhogar]

"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" - African proverb

"The soul of man,as it were,flows outwards in the activities of his own will." - Rudolf Steiner(Theosophy)

[Zanshin]

Without seeking to diminish in any way, great quotes from the past -
here's something a little more current.

"The technology is on the engineering benches today. But most Americans and most members of Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what is going on here. But I’ve had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these scientists. This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour."

- Recently retired USAF Lt.Gen. Stephen L. Kwast. - last month.

Around 12mins in -

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[Bill Ryan]

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

Socrates

[frankstien]

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent van Gogh

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

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“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

[frankstien]

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“Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement that you can imagine. Be active or abdicate. The future is in your hands.”
― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

“To cling to the past is guaranteed suicide. To remain apathetic is assured enslavement. To learn the truth and then act on it is the only means of survival at this moment.”
― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

“The general rule is that there is profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best approach is to create problems and then offer the solutions.”
― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

“Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.”
― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

“when you assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you.”
― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

“Experience has proven that the SIMPLEST METHOD of securing a silent weapon and gaining control of the public is to KEEP THE PUBLIC UNDISCIPLINED AND IGNORANT of basic systems principles on the one hand, WHILE KEEPING THEM CONFUSED, DISORGANIZED, AND DISTRACTED with matters of no real importance on the other hand. [WC all emphases.”
― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

“The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the poorest sort, so that the moat of ignorance isolating the inferior class from the superior class is and remains incomprehensible to the inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves from their assigned lot in life. This form of slavery is essential to maintaining some measure of social order, peace, and tranquility for the ruling upper class.”
― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

[Anka]

"When I don't know who I am, I serve you, when I know who I am, I am you, I am loving awareness, I am home"

"We are not under time or space, we are infinite"

In the memory of Ram Dass



Love,
Anka

[Rhogar]

"No society wants you to become wise,it is against the investment of all societies.If the people are wise they cannot be exploited.
If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated,they cannot be forced into a mechanical life,to live like robots...They will have the fragrance of
rebellion around them.
In fact,a wise man is afire,alive,aflame.He would like rather to die than to be enslaved." - Osho

"They are two primary choices in life:to accept conditions as they exist or accept the responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley

[Bill Ryan]

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee

[Rhogar]

"Willful ignorance in the presence of the Knowledge is the measure of a bad person" - Mark Passio

"The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and Consciousness cannot evolve unconsciously.
The evolution of man is the evolution of his will,and Will cannot evolve involuntarily." - George Gurdjieff

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human." - Agatha Christie

[Ernie Nemeth]

'Onward through the fog...' Greg Young, friend

[Anka]

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leonardo da Vinci




and only a few thoughts,
I have a survival instinct that makes me feel completely different from myself and others.We all have it.
My individuality transcends even quietly to others and this implies love for the community and human beings.

The whole life course turns into a journey in which the purpose becomes the same as the journey itself, as futuristic metamorphosed into the whole spiritual philosophy that attests me in this life.
At the same time, the fear of death is an absurd competition which is no longer important to me.

The spontaneity of the life we ​​live comes from itself, not from us, and if we try to command with force, through negative emotions or indecision, this process of spontaneity called "life" actually manages to stop it.

Why should we follow such a negative process that we finally give in to positivity?
Why look for the secret of life, when you can be fully engaged in a simple mechanism of sufficient self, to be constantly aware of what you are doing and how much importance it has in the end?

I really do not see the need to continue to live, except through the prism of what life teaches me to listen to (and is so subtle) in order to make the premise that human (modern) civilization may be classified according to its own genetically inscribed senses, in essence of initial construction initiated by the primary order and full of love which means life.
:focus:

[Iloveyou]

"To get a human body is a rare thing. Make full use of it. There are four million kinds of lives which a soul can gather. After that one gets a chance to be human, to get a human body. Therefore one should not waste that chance. Every second of human life is valuable. If you don't value this then you will weep in the end. Because you are human, God has given you the power to think and to decide what is good and bad. Therefore you can do the best kind of action. You should never consider yourself weak or a fallen creature. Whatever may have happened up to now may be because you didn't know, but now be careful. After getting a human body, if you don't reach God - then you have sold a diamond at the price of spinach."

Swami Bramananda Saraswati (quoted by Greg Caton (https://eventhorizonchronicle.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2018-11-02T19:16:00-07:00&max-results=100&start=30&by-date=false)) in an interview

[frankstien]

"Americans love their captivity. There's no responsibility. When you're a captive, you don't have to make a decision about anything, though you have no Liberty. People don't want Liberty. Liberty is nothing but uncertainty. It's much easier to have someone tell you where you'll be, what you'll do and who you'll pay tomorrow than to worry about it yourself. The same goes for what you think"
--Eustace Mullins


"The Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves; and it is not a system at all, but rather, a criminal syndicate."
--Eustace Mullins


"The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous burden on the nation for "rearmament" and "defense", in order to create inextinguishable debt, simultaneously creating a military dictatorship and enslaving the people to pay the "interest" on the debt which the bankers have artificially created."
--Eustace Mullins


"It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, both of whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller syndicate. This touching evidence of "democracy" serves to convince most Americana that we are indeed a free people. We even have a cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to prove it."
--Eustace Mullins


"The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks."
--Eustace Mullins


"According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the Russian Revolution had been financed by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, with a member of the Warburg family carrying the actual funds used by Lenin and Trotsky in Stockholm in 1918."
--Eustace Mullins

[Sue (Ayt)]

An 1898 quote apropos to the current situation perhaps.

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[Anka]

"For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death."
Tom McMillan
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[frankstien]

The great author of the Golden Age of Russian Literature: Ivan Turgenev


“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.”
― Ivan Turgenev

"I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible."
― Ivan Turgenev

"The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling."
― Ivan Turgenev

"Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that."
― Ivan Turgenev

"Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew."
― Ivan Turgenev

"Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em."
― Ivan Turgenev

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons


“Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!”
― Ivan S. Turgenev, Rudin

[frankstien]

Frank Zappa Quotes

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."
--Frank Zappa

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
--Frank Zappa

"Music is the only religion that delivers the goods."
--Frank Zappa

"The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons."
--Frank Zappa

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
--Frank Zappa

"There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!"
--Frank Zappa

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
--Frank Zappa

"Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity."
--Frank Zappa

"I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the government and industry too. For I'm destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I'm pernicious, but you can't look away. I'll make you think I'm delicious with the stuff that I say. I'm the best you can get... have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozing out of your TV set."
--Frank Zappa

"Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower."
--Frank Zappa

"I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance."
--Frank Zappa

"A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment."
--Frank Zappa

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[Anka]

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle
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[Bill Ryan]

If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together.

Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist and philanthropist

[Anka]

I ...

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...am...
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...here...

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...to live...

[Valerie Villars]

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Hunter S. Thompson

And make no mistake folks. It is pretty weird out there right now. And I'm from New Orleans; Home of the Weird.

[Caliban]

Hey Valerie. Great to see you.


At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. ― Frank Zappa

[edina]

I kinda grew up on Cayce readings... recently the ARE has rebooted it's Thought of the Day emails of EC readings.

This one is from yesterday,


"This is the first lesson ye should learn:  There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us.  This is a universal law, and until one begins to make application of same, one may not go very far in spiritual or soul development."

Edgar Cayce reading 3063-1

[Constance]

"When inspiration comes you have two choices, you could let it come, selfishly get what you want from it and then it goes away unless you work and cultivate it. That is what is called upon all of us as human beings. We all get inspired, all throughout the day about certain things but what are you going to do with that inspiration?" Bradley Cooper

[Rhogar]

“It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.” - Bruce Bickel

“One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.” - Denis Diderot

“The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.” - Mike Norton

[Anka]

This is my joy for a friend, Constance, her help in the world discovers the kindness and love in us, a natural state that preserves us as human beings throughout the Universe.We are all at home on this planet, we must take care of each other!:sun:

In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself.” — Unknown

“Don’t search for what you’re passionate about, serve others to make yourself passionate.”

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[Constance]

This is my joy for a friend, Constance, her help in the world discovers the kindness and love in us, a natural state that preserves us as human beings throughout the Universe.We are all at home on this planet, we must take care of each other!:sun:

In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself.” — Unknown

“Don’t search for what you’re passionate about, serve others to make yourself passionate.”

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The two quotes by e.e.cummings Anka; so divinely expressed! I want to share these with a close friend of mine. I'm so grateful to know you :heart::bowing:

[Constance]

“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”

C. G . Jung

[Eva2]

Thinking that one has to
Make an effort to
Get rid of the illusion is a
Part of the illusion.
There is no need get rid of it,
Just see through it.
wu'hsin

[TargeT]

There's no such thing as science fiction

It's always easier to reach down, than it is to reach up

and my signature below... some of my goto quotes ;)

[Icare]

I'vejust been sent this quote today:


It doesn't matter if you can't get a cellphone signal or Wi-Fi where you are. You are always connected to source.

[Constance]

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig. ~ Mark Twain

[Tintin]

Fuddruckers - the sound made [under one's breath] by a person attempting to push a broken down 4 x 4 uphill during a mudslide - Tintin Quarantino, April 2020

[Le Chat]

"The files of bureaucracy are bulging with private information which threatens the freedom of the individual" - Harold Steptoe


:o

[Constance]

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. Socrates

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[Icare]

.
.
"A facemask is NOT a muzzle".


A German doctor recently said that when it became clear that doctors who did not agree with how this crisis is being handled were left out of the mainstream media and silenced.

[The Moss Trooper]

The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.

[Rhogar]

"We should allow and encourage women to act as stupid as imaginable and denounce men as "faggots" and "misogynists" if they dare to criticize the women stupidity" - Adolf Hitler,Mein Kampf

"The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will" - Aleister Crowley

[DSKlausler]

Vulgarity has its place.

Do you feel how angry he is?

"Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a **** about them. They don’t give a **** about you. They don’t give a **** about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all."

Mr. Carlin

[edina]

“Don’t wake the deep sleeping ones, go without their knowing.”-Rumi

[Anka]

" The most powerful art in life, is to make your pain a powerful healing talisman.. a butterfly that is born in a colorful party!"

Frida Khalo


A thank you note with the greatest gratitude to the person who sent me good thoughts every day.

Each of us is the portrait and "subject of what we know best."

The reproduction through wisdom and patience of the piece of art that we call life, must be the prominent symbol in the greatest conversation in fantastic complexity and the wonderful mystery of being all here on Earth.

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An energy aligned with a fundamental and extremely honest character and the most expensive, vulnerable and fragile way of exposing ourselves in the legacy of consciousness that we will gain, obviously undertakes the individual revolutionary authenticity of the irreducible performance of the freedom of our human spirit!

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[Rhogar]

"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body." - George Carlin RIP

"Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude." - Confucius

[Bill Ryan]

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, and they have no respect for the status quo. 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 people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs

[Bill Ryan]

In order to know soup, it is not necessary to climb into a pot and be boiled.

Oliver Heaviside, English mathematician and physicist

:)

[happyuk]

I cannot also help feeling that vaccination is a violation of the dictates of religion and morality.

The vaccine is a filthy substance, and it is foolish to expect that one kind of filth can be removed by another.

The fact of the matter is that it is only the self-interest of doctors that stands in the way of the abolition of this inhuman practice, for the fear of losing the large incomes that they at present derive from this source blinds them to the countless evils which it brings.

Those who object to vaccination should observe all the more strictly the laws of health already explained; for the strict observance of these laws ensures in the system those vital forces which counteract all disease germs, and is, therefore, the best protection against small-pox as well as other diseases. If, while objecting to the introduction of the poisonous vaccine into the system, they surrendered themselves to the still more fatal poison of sensuality, they would undoubtedly forfeit their right to ask the world to accept their views on the matter.”

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian lawyer and activist.

[happyuk]

“How do these diseases arise? Surely by our negligence or indulgence.

I overeat, I have indigestion, I go to a doctor, he gives me medicine, I am cured. I overeat again, I take his pills again.

Had I not taken the pills in the first instance, I would have suffered the punishment deserved by me and I would not have overeaten again.

The Doctor intervened and helped me to indulge myself.”


Mahatma Gandhi, again.

I think the above observation of Gandhi is just as appropriate today as it was then. For many, healthcare is still an unnecessarily costly affair.

[happyuk]

The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.

That's a great one. I think it's an African proverb.

[Rhogar]

Here is a quote from an impressive lady:
"The most violent element in society is ignorance." Emma Goldman

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." Edward R.Murrow

"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." Edward R.Murrow

[Eva2]

The accumulation of knowledge does not
Lead to omniscience.
Knowing what needs to be known,
For every moment,
In every moment is omniscience.
It begins with Knowing one’s mind
Is not one's mind.

wu'hsin

[Sue (Ayt)]

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, and they have no respect for the status quo. 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 people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs


“Have I gone mad? I'm afraid so.
You're entirely Bonkers.
But I will tell you a secret,
All the best people are.”


― Alice in wonderland

[Eva2]

Identification is bondage.
Whether it is identification
With a thought
With a feeling
Or with an object
It matters not.
Only identification with the
Limitless is
Freedom.
wu'hsin

[The Moss Trooper]

The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.

That's a great one. I think it's an African proverb.

Yeah..... Either that, or Welsh!

[The Moss Trooper]

Thanks for the 'Thanks' Bill.

I didn't expect many to understand the little inside-joke in my reply to happyuk.

Well spotted!

[Anka]

“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”


“I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"

"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."

"To establish ties?"

"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”

“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

[edina]

Analysis is all about ‘understanding’ the information.

http://www.intelligence101.com/an-introduction-to-the-intelligence-cycle/

[EFO]

"I must furnish those who would protect or save life, with an energy source, which produces energy so cheaply that nuclear fission will not only be uneconomical, but ridiculous. This is the task I have set myself in what little life I have left."

Viktor Schauberger
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[Rhogar]

"It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system for if they did,
I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." Henry Ford-1922

"A single person who stops lying can bring down a tyranny." Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

[The Moss Trooper]

"They don't always fly when they flap their wings". - My old man, in reference to people who say they'll do things, but invariably don't.

[EFO]

"The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect.
What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart."

Viktor Schauberger
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"Thoughts that have important consequences are always simple. All my thinking could be summed up with these words: 'Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.' It is as simple as that."

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

[Anka]

https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer-6096.jpg

https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer-6107.jpg

https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/albert-camus-1442.jpg

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[DSKlausler]

“Just look at us. Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality and governments destroy freedom.”
― Michael Ellner

[Anka]

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[Anka]

A Quotable Quote forever...:heart:

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...”

― Henry David Thoreau

And, in the blink of an eye, I came to live preparing for the biggest step :flower:

:heart:
Anca

[Anka]

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Plato

[TargeT]

There's no such thing as science fiction

It's always easier to reach down, than it is to reach up

and my signature below... some of my goto quotes ;)

so....


I feel like this post is extremely poignant currently.............

[Rhogar]

"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort." Confucius

"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." Confucius

"The Cautious seldom err." Confucius

[Jake]

"You are unique... (Just like everyone else,)"

My 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Rose.

[Franny]

Well, all of these are favorites but the first is an excellent and useful way to view and frame one's travails and exultations while rambling through the world. See how well it moves into the second one...

The third one might be useful for SJW's and the perpetually offended to ponder.

“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
― Carlos Castaneda

"Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.”
― Carlos Castaneda, Fire from Within

“For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.”
― Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan

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...and a central idea of Don Juan's:

“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary.

This question is one that only a very old man asks. Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long long paths, but I am not anywhere. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Before you embark on any path ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path. A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it.”

― Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

[Constance]

Don't practice what you don't want to become - Jordan Peterson

[Anka]

"The fools make laws, the good ones make channels for national energy"-Nicolae Iorga

An Romanian historian, literary critic, documentary filmmaker, poet, encyclopedist, memorialist, parliamentarian, prime minister, university professor and Romanian academician (he dislike the female "mind" :)):heart:

"Don't darken the sky of others with your anger.
If you can walk, why crawl.
The wisdom of life is simple: make your past better than before.
The good word and the smile and the beneficent deed are rays of the Sun reflected in the human soul.
Vices are executioners who kill you slowly, like an unsharpened sword.
By deceiving, you are preparing to be deceived.
I would be too lazy to be lazy.Evil thoughts are driven away by good deeds.
A nation that does not know its history is like a child that does not know its parents.
Wisdom is yours only when you give it to another, otherwise it is only in you.
To know a book does not mean that you know wisdom.
The egoist sees himself as the ultimate goal of creation: he would expect the end of the world to be the moment of his death.The child does not owe life to the parent, but growth.
Good is not he who suffers evil, but he who does good.
You have no right to be different from the others, but more than them and especially for them.
Laziness is gentle suicide.
Some people have the dignity of their ambition, others of their situation, the few the dignity of their person.
Beware of both the friendship of the enemy and the enmity of the friend.
At the end of each day, count not what others have done to you, but what you have done to others.

The truly good man is only the one who could have been bad and was not.
A fact is only history when none of its roots reach the present.
The truth is everywhere, but only the one who seeks it recognizes it.
A good man is not one who does good, but one who enjoys good.
The thought of death may serve you at any moment to understand the price of life.
Leaving a fight because of the villainy of the environment is also like cutting your throat because there is mud outside.
The sources of all evil are taverns and luxury.
There are successes that degrade you and defeats that elevate you.
Never say "you can't", but start with "let's see".
In a fight there can be two losers, but only one winner.
Write so as not to lose the flowers of your thought, which the wind takes otherwise.
Self-satisfaction - the best tombstone of talent.
Your nation is not only the nation you come from, but also the nation you deserve to be a part of.
Wisdom is a commodity that whoever sells it has bought.
Sometimes flattery is the advance payment of the betrayal that is being prepared for you.
Man's joy is like the smell of flowers: it does not rise from withered souls.
A free man is one who does not need to tell a lie.
Art gives everything to everyone and still remains whole.
Only the one who does not allow evil to be done around him is truly good.
Courage is the sight over one's own being and over any danger of a purpose.
So far no one was able to send in the perfect solution, which is not strange.
Insult is an exaggerated helplessness.
Insult is the declaration of defeat.

Every day comes before you with gifts that most of the time you don't know how to collect.
You associate your defects more easily than your qualities, almost all vices make you sociable.
You do not leave an ideal without leaving something of your being.
To judge man, seek to see him love. You can't go wrong.
The biggest miracle is to think you can make one, the rest is very easy.
Silence has its voice of wisdom listen to it.
Believing that you are more than you are, you will never move towards what you imagine you are.
Be sure that if wisdom is on everyone's lips, it is only in the minds of a few, to listen to those.
Everyone has a path to follow, but no other path can be created than the one he is called to walk.
There are tears so heavy and hot that the eyes cannot cry, they lie in the heart burning it.
Life in action is the best teacher.
Unused talent is theft.
Being young comes with a duty and not an excuse.
You attack a fool's opinion and wake up with the whole fool in question.
Your victory begins when enemies use your weapons.
When it's so easy to look away from a man, it's a waste of feeling to hate him.
You are often silent because you are convinced of your opponent's stupidity.
The long road starts where you got tired.
Most controversies reached their goal when they created confusion and mistrust.
Whoever has wronged you is not left with a debt to you, but a loss to himself.
If you will be pretended for a long time, you will pretend without permission.
An idea is not clearer with larger letters.
Any goodwill is a power that only the arrogant fool can reject.
The best pleasure is the one you give.
In a controversy, to answer only when the public needs it, not the opponent.
Many believe that you can straighten a donkey by shortening its ears.
Distinguish between the hand that reaches out to lift you and the one that catches you to stop you.
For too long, no one has ever aged.
Trust is lost only once.
Nature gives you the example of living every day. "

...A little too long, but I like them all (generally speaking), and more:happythumbsup:
:heart:
Anca

[Bill Ryan]

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

J W Stephens

[Eva2]

“We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in mind and heart, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.”
E. Merrill Root

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"People who can't control their emotions will want to control your behaviour." - John Cleese.

Most applicable in these trying times.

[Eva2]

Chinese Proverb: ′′ When winds of change arise, some people build containment walls, while others build windmills ".

[EFO]

ANCIENT PROVERBS (True Wisdom)
(4:30 min.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oCVIt6duzY


THE GREATEST QUOTES OF ALL TIME
(5:02 min.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj7Q4_Oabuc

[Franny]

...and so fitting for this time, as it is for all times:

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." ~ Marcus Aurelius

[Anka]

“We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.”
― William James

"Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance" - Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman

[Anka]

"I know nothing without certainty. But the sight of stars makes me dream." -Vincent Van Gogh

And part of a song that resonates with me, is not a quote, but it may be someday, maybe...
"I can watch you dancin' forever
Turnin' those stars into letters
Write your name in the sky
When you laugh, when you cry
Just catch the breeze like a feather
Turnin' your tears into treasures
When you're here, when you're gone
I'll be here, lookin' on
So keep on dancin' forever"

For a member dear to me, I dedicate this quote to the sunrise of the most beautiful stars for her!

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d0/af/48/d0af483cc19e7d817da2fad0b7e26b8b.jpg
:heart:, Anca

[TargeT]

Oppression, by its very nature, cultivates and encourages the seeds of its own demise.

[Eva2]

This self makes efforts for liberation
Deluded by the belief that
It will be around to enjoy the results.
There's no question of doing anything because
There is no one to do anything.
If everything is unreal, then
The practice and the practitioner are likewise unreal.
Why perpetuate the unreality?
Just as no effort is needed to
Wake up in the morning, likewise
No effort is needed to
Fully wake up to life.
To establish the conviction that you exist,
What practice was required?
wu'hsin

[gord]

One of my all-time favorite quotes:


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

[Anka]

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.KEmNQOywOmtPCLRGmTsoJAHaLK%26pid%3DApi&f=1

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[Franny]

We hear so much about safety and security in recent months. How do we choose between safety and having a life, a life of exploration and adventure and pushing ourselves beyond where we now find ourselves?

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[Eva2]

"What is going on? What do you think is going on? I mean, have you backed off from it? Do you have a grip on the outlines of the problem or are you just sort of adrift inside the context? Because the situation is mighty peculiar, friends. What we have here is a kind of creature made out of information, apparently loose in an environment of meaning, on the surface of a planet upon which gene swarming is happening."
- Terence McKenna

Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do."
- Terence McKenna

The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you." - Carl Jung

"What saved me was my cynicism. That I didn't believe in anything. Never had. Had always thought believing in things was a bad idea. So then when this whole cosmos of beliefs was handed to me on a platter I just simply said: Maybe."
- Terence McKenna

[Bill Ryan]

Political Correctness is Fascism masquerading as Manners.

George Carlin

[Franny]

“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.'

I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!”

~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

🥧

“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”

~ Søren Kierkegaard

🦌

“Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.”

~ Roy T. Bennett

🛸


“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”
~ Trenton Lee Stewart,

🏕

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.”
~ Jason Mraz

🌠

“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
~ Robert Macfarlane

🏔

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
~ Herman Melville

⛵️

“I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
~ Tim Daly

🧗🏻

[Franny]

Bravery and Courage

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
~ Nelson Mandela

🐇

“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.

But sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.

That is the sort of bravery I must have now.”
~ Veronica Roth

🐋

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
~ Emma Donoghue

🦩

“Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.”
~ Pericles

🐞

“To my children, I will say, ‘Fill your skin with kindness and find solace in your solitude. It takes bravery to be kind. But to be brave you will need to know how to stand for something even if you are completely alone.”
~ Nikita Gill

🦔

“A brave death is far better than a cowardly life.”
~ Abhijit Naskar

🐠

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

🐉


“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
~ John A. Shedd

🐹

[pueblo]

I saw this stuck to hoarding in Bilbao, Spain a few weeks ago.

It translates as " Cowardice is the best ally of tyrants." Apt for current times.

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[TargeT]

Political Correctness is Fascism masquerading as Manners.

George Carlin

https://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-think-of-how-stupid-the-average-person-is-and-realize-half-of-them-are-stupider-than-that-george-carlin-281888.jpg

RIP Carlin, awesome societal commentator.

[Satori]

“You have to stick your neck out if you want to get anywhere.” An anonymous turtle.

[Eva2]

If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Robin Williams

[pueblo]

“Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning.

They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening.

Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.”

-Henri Bergson

[Ernie Nemeth]

I'm sure the above applies to many Avalonians. I have been 80% immune to the scam that is this life since I was ten.

Being unsophisticated and naive I thought it was just stupid, ignorant people doing stupid, ignorant things. As I got older I realized these people were not stupid or ignorant...

[Anka]

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.nQNMzXIf-hKKo6B3577ORwHaFj%26pid%3DApi&f=1

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[TargeT]

"The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future."

-Dune

[Eva2]

“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

[pueblo]

..........

[Kryztian]

Now, the first time you encounter the spinning of the wheels you try to go inside and figure out every single spoke of the wheel. Then, over time, you go, ‘Madness, madness, madness, madness, oh, really strong truth. Let me hold on to that.’ You have to reach inside the hurricane and pull out that beautiful little baby.”

- - - George Wolfe

[pueblo]

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[EFO]

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My reaction :)
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[Eva2]

One is nothing that
One is conscious of.
Yet one creates it all.
When the structure is dismantled,
The foundation is revealed.
This one can point to the sky;
The seeing of the stars is One's own.
wu'hsin

[TargeT]

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

-Dune

[pueblo]

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[norman]

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - Bejamin Franklin

https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ben-franklin-facts.jpg

[pueblo]

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[Sue (Ayt)]

Some quotes on fear that I had saved:


A propaganda tactic of dehumanization is a tactic that involves lumping a group together in such a way that takes away any individuality.
Unknown


“For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.“
Job


Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
ACIM


“Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.”
Bhagavad Gita



“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”
FDR


Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato


If you want to cure the world, don’t emanate fear – emanate love.
Ram Dass


There is no illusion greater than fear.
Lao Tzu


Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
Plotinus


Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.
Paulo Coelho


If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great path and fear only straying from it.
Lao Tzu


Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
Sophocles


People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
C.G. Jung


Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John


“But I'm not, I'm not giving in an inch to fear
'Cause I've promised myself this year
I feel oh, like I owe it, to someone… “
CS&N

[The Moss Trooper]

You can pick your friends,

And you can pick your nose.

But you can't pick your friend's nose.


Again, another of my father's pearls of wisdom. When I was growing up and in my teens, and these little pearls were oft spouted, I used to think he was the biggest hypocrite on Earth......... It wasn't until I was older, wiser and had children of my own, that I realised that, no, he wasn't a hypocrite, he'd just lived more and had more life experience than I. Had done these things and made the mistakes, and hence, knew.

[justntime2learn]

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ~ Albert Einstein

[onawah]

“It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”
JOHN STUART MILL

[Zanshin]

The following is excerpted from a letter to Woodrow Wilson from Col. Edward Mandell House:

“Very soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a national system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions.

Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be none the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two would figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability.

After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor to this fraud which we will call ‘Social Insurance.’ Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner; every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America.”

As a matter of course these prophetic words have come to apply to all of us - not just Americans.

[Bill Ryan]

Here's a quote for us all in 2020.

~~~

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us."

St. Antony the Great

[Sue (Ayt)]

Here's a quote for us all in 2020.

~~~

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us."

St. Antony the Great

That reminds me of the theme of that weird childhood poem I shared in another thread. It was a strange middle-of-the night download type of a poem, that I was compelled to jump up and write down.
I don't know if I was actually the author, though.
Share-one-poem-from-your-younger-days (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?107982-Share-one-poem-from-your-younger-days&p=1305799&viewfull=1#post1305799)

[justntime2learn]

Here's a quote for us all in 2020.

~~~

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us."

St. Antony the Great

This reminded me of a song, speak to me by Pink Floyd.


"I've been mad for ****ing years, absolutely years,
Been over the edge for yonks,
Been working me buns off for bands

I've always been mad, I know I've been mad,
Like the most of us, very hard to explain why you're mad,
Even if you're not mad" ~ Pink Floyd

[Sue (Ayt)]

And yet another:

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

[Eva2]

This knowledge came upon me
In a flash:
When I sought to remember
What was before
Thoughts arrived, before
The sense of the body arrived, before
This me was born.
The revelation was that
I was birthed from Nature,
From the Totality of every thing.
Shackled by time,
Anchored to an identity
Of my own making,
With smallness.
When I am done,
I will return there;
The cycle will be complete.
Not by death
But renewal into the Continuum
wu'hsin

[pueblo]

“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.”

― Heraclitus

[pueblo]

.......

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[pueblo]

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[pueblo]

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"Since each of us were several, there's already quite a crowd."

- Guiles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus


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'And he spoke to me and said, "I am you and you are I, and wherever you are, I am there, and in all things am I sown. And from wherever you wish, you gather me, and when you gather me, you gather yourself."'

- Gospel of Eve, in Epiphanius, Panarion 26.3.1



In the case of people who are setting out on a road with which they are unacquainted, it is sufficient merely to point out the direction. After this they must walk and find out the rest for themselves.

- Clement of Alexandria Str. 4.2.4.3

[Sue (Ayt)]

This quote is always relevant to keep in mind, as we consciously chose to act rather than re-act. (sometimes it's a challenge, though!)

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[Karen (Geophyz)]

"The one who plants trees, knowing that he or she will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Rabindranath Tagore

[Eva2]

I will not tell you
What it looks like
Because then
You will assume that
You know
What you are looking for.
You cannot know it
You can only
Be it and
This being is without cause.
So what is left
For you to do?
wu'hsin

[The Moss Trooper]

These words from Haruki Murakami's South of the Border, West of the Sun are some of the most beautiful ever committed to print......... I sometimes struggle to read them without becoming emotional.

For anyone who has loved and lost.......

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
 
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.

Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more.

Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

[Bill Ryan]

We wouldn't let our enemies have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

Joseph Stalin

[justntime2learn]

Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality ~ Neil Peart

[pueblo]

"We ought not to be ashamed of appreciating the truth and of acquiring it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us…”

– Abu Yusuf Ya’qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi (c. 800-866)

[pueblo]

"There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen."

- Rumi

[Eva2]

'I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.'
Mahatma Gandhi

[edina]

"Life in its manifestation is vibration.
Electricity is vibration.
But vibration that is creative is one thing.
Vibration that is destructive is another.
Yet they are from the same source."

Edgar Cayce reading 1861-16

This is interesting, Tesla said something similar.

[pueblo]

..... WS or not WS, that is the question :)

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[Kryztian]

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group.”
- - Franklin D. Roosevelt


“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
- - Benito Mussolini


“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
- - Carl Sagan

[chocolate milk]

“This life's five windows of the soul.
Distort the heavens from pole to pole.
And teach us to believe a lie.
When we see with, not through, the eye." ~William Blake

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is not ignorance, it is the Illusion of Knowledge."
- Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

[Eva2]

Thought this was a pertinent quote for the times:

http://https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fawendao%2Fposts&psig=AOvVaw1fQVSgwzOkExjdH3iATeWT&ust=1603742063183000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCIinp_TC0OwCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
'Any society that cannot tolerate those who choose to peacefully live outside of its control is an insecure society. All governments mandate obedience for the illusion of security. But in truth, the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are really the same thing.
To hold your breath is to lose your breath. To cling to life is to lose touch with it. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-holding contest in which everyone is stressed, neurotic, and enslaved to the delusion that “with enough control and obedience, we will finally know peace and freedom' Humberto Braga

[Eva2]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4d/3c/e1/4d3ce16c97134c75ad3efebc097de0e2.jpg

[chocolate milk]

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is not ignorance, it is the Illusion of Knowledge."
- Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Bumping this profoundly underrated quote. It points to the very heart of the illusion humanity finds itself stuck in. Seemingly impossible to escape from, yet resolved as swiftly as removing a tablecloth and shaking it out, if only we simply wake up and become aware of it, instead of being in conflict with it.

“Whatever you think appears in consciousness as a show. That’s the way thought works to display its content, as a show of imagination. Therefore if you think the observer is separate from the observed, it’s going to appear in consciousness as two different entities. The point is that the words will seem to be coming from the observer who knows, who sees, and therefore they are the truth, they are a description of the truth. That’s the illusion.”

David Bohm (1917 – 1992)

[pueblo]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4d/3c/e1/4d3ce16c97134c75ad3efebc097de0e2.jpg


“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

[Eva2]

Since the very earliest time
When both people and animals lived on earth
A person could become an animal
and an animal could become a human being.
Sometimes they were people
and sometimes animals
and there was no difference.
All spoke the same language
That was the time when words were like magic.
The human mind had mysterious powers.
A word spoken by chance might have strange consequences.
It would suddenly come alive
and what people wanted to happen could happen--
all you had to do was say it.
Nobody could explain this:
That's the way it was.
Nalungiaq, Inuit woman interviewed by ethnologist Knud Rasmussen in the early twentieth century.

[justntime2learn]

The eyes are useless when the mind is blind ~ Mark Venturini

[pueblo]

"Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work.

So do you also; cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is in shadow; labor to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiseling your statue until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness established in the stainless shrine."

- Plotinus

[Bill Ryan]

Indeed you won the election, but I won the count.
Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza (1896-1956)

[sandyinatlanta]

"Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted"

Always thought it was Einstein but turns out it is by a sociologist by the name of William Bruce Cameron.

[justntime2learn]

There is a difference between loyalty and bondage. There's a difference between faithfulness and fearfulness. There's a difference between being devoted and being dominated. The difference is called freedom, and it is all the difference in the world ~ Bryant McGill

[Lunesoleil]

- Edgar Cayce: "... the position of the planets shows the trends for a given life, without reference to the will of the native ..." ... So make the individual understand how the power of his will can overcome everything .... ". (Reading 3744-3)

- Dante: "... The stars are indeed the first cause of your actions, but you have received a light which allows you to distinguish good from evil, and a free will which, after having begun to fight against the stars, triumphs everything if it is well directed ... "- (Purgatory, XVI, 73).

Time ripens all things, by time all things come to light, time is the father of truth. François Rabelais

Never take astrology as a mechanic, even if it is celestial, because you risk drying yourself up in it.
Charles VOUGA

I am not trying to know the answers, I am trying to understand the questions. "Confucius


The one who does not know ... and who does not know that he does not know, run away from it
The one who does not know ... and who knows that he does not know, educate him
Whoever knows ... and who doesn't know that he knows, wake him up
Whoever knows ... and who knows he knows, follow him
Chinese proverb

Pay attention to your thoughts because they will become words.

Pay attention to your words because they will become deeds.

Pay attention to your actions because they will become habits.

Pay attention to your habits because they will become your character.

Pay attention to your character because it is your destiny. "
The Talmud

"Do not believe ..." (Kâlâma sutta Siddhârtha)
“Do not believe in the faith of traditions even though they have been honored for generations and in many places.
Don't believe a thing because many are talking about it.
Do not believe on the faith of the wise men of times past.
Do not believe what you have imagined, thinking that a God has inspired you.
Do not believe anything on the sole authority of your masters or priests. After examination, believe what you have experienced yourself and found to be reasonable, which is for your own good and that of others. "

:wizard:

[Franny]

We have been speaking to each other as though we are all in the same sphere of consciousness, we are not. What we are seeing is not a rivalry in ideas, or even politics, but rather completely different levels of consciousness trying to establish social homeostasis. ~ Gigi Young

[norman]

The Media has spent 4 years Fact Checking the President, well now it's time to Fact Check the Vote - Paul Joseph Watson, November 2020

[Eva2]

Martin Luther King: ′′ I have one dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, dream of justice, dream of equality and wish I no longer need to dream them "

[Eva2]

A similar theme/scheme has played out with me (obviously on a smaller scale :) but having been on the receiving end of a group of vile narcissists, I certainly understand and feel this message.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/11/24/ca/1124ca546ae2c7e5e7d3f5e5c28daaf9.jpg

[Hermoor]

Charlie Robinson's delivery close to his effortless best.

"China is an interesting place, to say the least. In less than half a century the country was transformed from mostly farmland in to the largest factory on earth. This was not an accident."

One way or another that little ripple is shaping up to tsunami the lot of us unless we can pull the plug on it.

[Eva2]

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

[Constance]

"Let someone love you just the way you are .... as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room."
Marc Hack

[Eva2]

'Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.'
Alberto Hofmann

'I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.
Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And ‘tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
The birds around me hopped and played:
Their thoughts I cannot measure,
But the least motion which they made,
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.
The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.
If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature’s holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?'

Alberto Hofmann

[Eva2]

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[pueblo]

"Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self."

- Kierkegaard


"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens."

- Carl Jung

[Lunesoleil]

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The most difficult subjects can be explained To thé most slow-wittew man or he has bit formes any idea of them aldready , but thé simples thinf canot ne made clean To the most intelligent man if he is format persuaded that he knows already , without a shadow of doubt what is laid before him
Leo Tolstoy

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Remember that great accomplishments take time and that there is no overnight success. Leo Tolstoy

Of all the sciences that man can and should know, the main one is the science of living in such a way as to do the least harm and the most good possible. Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be it! Leo Tolstoy

It is only a short step from killing animals to killing people, just like making animals suffer to make people suffer. Leo Tolstoy

Go, sow, sow and God will make it grow. Leo Tolstoy

:Avalon:

https://citations.ouest-france.fr/citations-leon-tolstoi-853.html

thank you for discovering this author

[Sue (Ayt)]

Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?

Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they?

And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?

And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
:flower:

Matthew 25-29

[Wind]

"All grown-ups were once children... But only few of them remember it."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

http://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/little-prince-quotes2.jpg

https://www.writersdigest.com/.image/t_share/MTczNDc2MTg2MDc1MjQzOTg1/the_little_prince_by_antoine_de_saint_exupery_quotes_its_all_a_great_mystery.png

[avid]

Enough is enough...
h6BJJe9JV_A
Thank goodness for Kenneth Williams RIP

[Anka]

“Everything you can imagine is real.”- Pablo Picasso
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”-Anaïs Nin
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”-Dr. Seuss

[Bill Ryan]

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Arthur C. Clarke

[TargeT]

Perhaps a bit off color... but we are all adults here eh?

https://i.redd.it/w63kbk2yb0161.jpg

[Eva2]

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[norman]

"It's not a Deep State, it's an In Your Face State" - Steve Bannon, 24th Nov' 2020

[Wind]

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/1e/c6/6a/1ec66a3591a23bbc8e3ce8c8de698016.jpg

[Constance]

Everyone wants to go back to Eden, but no one wants to go on foot

~ 1990's german bumpersticker

[Eva2]

I couldn't find a place to put this so if it doesn't belong here or there is a better place for it, please move/delete. For me, its more about the image than the words. A good depiction of how grief feels:

'This is what Grief feels like..
Don’t judge it
Don’t rush it
Don’t dismiss it
Don’t suppress it
There is no Rulebook for Grief.
It comes in waves. And I pray for the ones
who feel as though they’re drowning.

This is in Switzerland~ I think it describes grief perfectly. ❤️
By Albert Gyorgy and it is entitled
"Mélancolie"



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[Eva2]

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[pueblo]

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
— Soren Kierkegaard

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
— Anais Nin

“The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.”
— Gandhi

[Anka]

“Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.” Criss Jami, Killosophy

Quarantine is when you restrict the movements of sick people
Tyranny is when you restrict the movements of healthy people
Stupidity is when when some can't or don't want, to manage the difference.(Stephen King?)

[Kryztian]

“The bad news: There is no key to the universe.



The good news: It was never locked.”







― Swami Beyondananda

[justntime2learn]

“[T]hat form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the law, is the best the republics.” ~ John Adams

[Michi]

"Never stop looking for what's not there." -The Magic of Belle Isle

[Bill Ryan]

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato

[Richter]

Sometimes I'm inspired, sometimes I'm more inspired
- Robert Fripp

[Adi]

It is your choice, and it really is yours alone, how you choose to proceed in the face of that which presents itself before you!

- An old wise soul!