The Great Quotes thread

[Eva2]

H.G. Wells said: "History is a race between education and catastrophe"

And it looks like its gonna be a photo finish.
Terence McKenna

[pueblo]

"Nothing burns in hell but the self."

- Theologia Germanica

[pueblo]

"Great truths do not take hold of the masses.

And now, as all the world is in error, how shall I, though I know the true path, how shall I guide?

If I know that I cannot succeed and yet try to force success, this would be but another source of error.

Better then to desist and strive no more.

But if I do not strive, who will?"

- Chuang Tzu

[norman]

This is going to escalate dramatically. This is a very dangerous moment in our history - Donald Trump 10th Dec' 2020

[Eva2]

'I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright'

'All good things are wild and free'

'What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us'

'There are a thousand hacking at the branch of evil to one who is striking at the root'

Henry David Thoreau

[Constance]

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[Eva2]

'I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright'

'All good things are wild and free'

'What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us'

'There are a thousand hacking at the branch of evil to one who is striking at the root'

Henry David Thoreau

Love these quotes Jill :heart:

Thank You Constance - I notice a lot of quotes that are relevant to present times and I think these ones are a good fit (and reminder) too :)

[norman]

"You play music, you don't work it, but sometimes it's hard work to be able to play it" - Eddie Van Halen

[Michi]

Even though its has been posted in some other threads before, it deserves re-posting:


“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”

― George Orwell

[BMJ]

My favorite quotes and a call to action

“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke

And

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." ― Edmund Burke

[pueblo]

"The discussion reminded me of a story about Brendan Behan. The writer was once invited to Oxford to take part in a debate about the difference between poetry and prose.

His opponent spoke for almost two hours. Behan rose to his feet and promised to be brief. He recited an old Dublin rhyme.

"There was a young fella named Rollocks
Who worked for Ferrier Pollocks.
As he walked on the strand
With a girl by the hand
The water came up to his ankles"


"That", declared Behan, "is prose. But if the tide had been in it would have been poetry."

-Unknown

[Bluegreen]

Lest we forget :wizard:


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Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want.

Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting f-cked by a system that threw them overboard thirty f-cking years ago. They don’t want that.

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly sh-ttier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your f-cking retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this f-cking place. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in The Big Club.

By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted, folks. The game is rigged. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.

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 f-ck about you. They don’t give a f-ck about you. They don’t give a f-ck about you. They don’t care about you at all. At all. At all. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.

That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the truth: It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

:lazy2:

[Bill Ryan]

Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
We never repent of having eaten too little.
Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
Take things always by their smooth handle.
When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

AND

I have sworn upon the Altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
(all by) Thomas Jefferson

[Eva2]

'We're locked in an impossible cultural bind between a completely exhausted and materialistic marxism and a completely cancerous and value-dark kind of capitalism'.
Terence McKenna

[Constance]

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[Bill Ryan]

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

H.L. Mencken

[norman]

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” - every US President


[ very occasionally, one of them actually means it ]

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[Eva2]

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Don't know who said this but pretty sure it wasn't Rod Serling. :)

[Icare]

Man soll alle Tage wenigstens ein kleines Lied hören, ein gutes Gedicht lesen, ein treffliches Gemälde sehen und, wenn es möglich zu machen wäre, einige vernünftige Worte sprechen.

in English:

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship , 1795/96

[Eva2]

Winter Sleep
By Elinor Wylie.
When against earth a wooden heel
Clicks as loud as stone on steel,
When stone turns flour instead of flakes,
And frost bakes clay as fire bakes,
When the hard-bitten fields at last
Crack like iron flawed in the cast,
When the world is wicked and cross and old,
I long to be quit of the cruel cold.
Little birds like bubbles of glass
Fly to other Americas,
Birds as bright as sparkles of wine
Fly in the nite to the Argentine,
Birds of azure and flame-birds go
To the tropical Gulf of Mexico:
They chase the sun, they follow the heat,
It is sweet in their bones, O sweet, sweet, sweet!
It's not with them that I'd love to be,
But under the roots of the balsam tree.
Just as the spiniest chestnut-burr
Is lined within with the finest fur,
So the stoney-walled, snow-roofed house
Of every squirrel and mole and mouse
Is lined with thistledown, sea-gull's feather,
Velvet mullein-leaf, heaped together
With balsam and juniper, dry and curled,
Sweeter than anything else in the world.
O what a warm and darksome nest
Where the wildest things are hidden to rest!
It's there that I'd love to lie and sleep,
Soft, soft, soft, and deep, deep, deep!

[Franny]

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

[pueblo]

"If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today,
He'd be gunned down cold by the C.I.A."

- Matt Johnson of The The from the song Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)

[East Sun]

Kennedy would have agreed with that ...

[Eva2]

'The hour is late; the clock is ticking; we will be judged very harshly if we fumble the ball. We are the inheritors of millions and millions of years of successfully lived lives and successful adaptations to changing conditions in the natural world. Now the challenge passes to us, the living, that the yet-to be-born may have a place to put their feet and a sky to walk under; and that’s what experience is about, is caring for, empowering, and building a future that honours the past, honours the planet and honours the power of the human imagination.
There is nothing as powerful, as capable of transforming itself and the planet, as the human imagination. Let’s not sell it straight. Let’s not whore ourselves to nitwit ideologies. Let’s not give our control over to the least among us. Rather, you know, claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.'
Terence McKenna
The Archaic Revival'

[Constance]

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[Bill Ryan]

Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.

Plato

[Eva2]

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[pueblo]

"What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down"

Jim Morrison/The Doors - When The Music's Over

[Constance]

“When you adopt the view point that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.”

Harry Palmer

[Eva2]

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[Eva2]

'In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer'
Albert Camus

[Eva2]

'"To my mind, Taoism is the most refined ideal of human existence. It is open-ended, it always yields to a good laugh, it's not dogmatic, it's rooted in nature, it sees the world as shells of energy that can be manipulated and cultivated."
- Terence McKenna'

[justntime2learn]

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

[Eva2]

If your realisation of “truth” doesn’t fill your heart with love, compassion and your mind with peace, but separates and pitches you against your fellow soul, you are likely the victim of a theory.
Jurgen Ziewe

[pueblo]

"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed by the masses."

-Plato

[Iancorgi]

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[pueblo]

"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny; the officious demands of policemen, government clerks and electromechanical gadgets"

- Edward Abbey

[Mare]

“Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.”

Oscar Wilde.

[edina]

The Way of Zen
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[Kryztian]

“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President Source: in a letter to William S. Smith, 13 November 1787

[pueblo]

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

- G.K. Chesterton


"Gentlemen did not always live up to their ideal, but the existence of an ideal is a matter of extreme importance"

-Richard M. Weaver


"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

-William A. Ward

[Wind]

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Only one thing is certain — that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.

-Ancient paradox

[Eva2]

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[pueblo]

"The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it"

-Osho

[Eva2]

'Even our lostness and confusion has its own dignity. It's the discomfort that is the greatest evolutionary force for our awakening'.
' Adyashanti

[pueblo]

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[Constance]

“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.” - Buckminster Fuller

[Eva2]

"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

[pueblo]

"Be kind, every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle."
-Plato

"Money makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value."
-Plato

"The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice."
-Aristotle

[Constance]

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Claude Monet
Claude Monet from the Japanese bridge in his garden, 1918.

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[Catsquotl]

“When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt,
pain itself will crack the rock and Ah!
Let the soul emerge”.
~ Rumi

[Bluegreen]

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Claude Monet
Claude Monet from the Japanese bridge in his garden, 1918.

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Matisse had other motivations


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[Bluegreen]

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"The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society, and we are as a people, inherently and historically, opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweigh the dangers which are cited to justify it.

Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today there is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment."


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[gord]

I just like the juxtaposition of these two quotes:


We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the american public believes is false. - William Casey, CIA Director 1981


Logical thinking is important, but insufficient. In a maze of deception, you also need to be able to unlearn, and recognise you have been fooled. This is an emotional skill, as it means dealing with a hurt ego and the loss of the “feeling of knowing”. --Martin Geddes

[Constance]

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
Pearl S. Buck

[Eva2]

The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bull**** does.
Terence McKenna

[Eva2]

"If you're intelligent, and you live past forty, you will outgrow your culture. I mean, some people may do it sooner but you have to be a complete idiot to just buy-in at fifty-five, at sixty, at seventy-five, at eighty. What are you still going to be doing? Expressing homophobic views, voting Republican, and worrying about the A, B, and C's of phony reality? I mean, most people get to a place where they just see: it's a bunch of crap! The scandals are recycled, the philosophical issues are recycled, the technical innovations are recycled. Once you've been through about three cycles of this you realize that this is a media-created state of cultural involvement and reciprocal narcissism, only to be assuaged by the expenditure of money, and that you can just walk away from it. It is unnecessary."
- Terence McKenna

[Constance]

"If you're intelligent, and you live past forty, you will outgrow your culture. I mean, some people may do it sooner but you have to be a complete idiot to just buy-in at fifty-five, at sixty, at seventy-five, at eighty. What are you still going to be doing? Expressing homophobic views, voting Republican, and worrying about the A, B, and C's of phony reality? I mean, most people get to a place where they just see: it's a bunch of crap! The scandals are recycled, the philosophical issues are recycled, the technical innovations are recycled. Once you've been through about three cycles of this you realize that this is a media-created state of cultural involvement and reciprocal narcissism, only to be assuaged by the expenditure of money, and that you can just walk away from it. It is unnecessary."
- Terence McKenna

Once you've been through about three cycles of this you realize that this is a media-created state of cultural involvement and reciprocal narcissism, only to be assuaged by the expenditure of money, and that you can just walk away from it. It is unnecessary.

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[Innocent Warrior]

“Thought creates the world and then says I didn’t do it.”

“Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls it. Whereas actually thought is the one that controls each one of us.”

“We are internally related to everything, not just externally related. Consciousness is an internal relationship to the whole, we take in the whole, and we act toward the whole. Whatever we have taken in determines basically what we are. Wholeness is a kind of attitude or approach to the whole of life. If we can have a coherent approach to reality then reality will respond coherently to us.”

“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”

“Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than ‘I know’ oriented?”

DAVID BOHM

[Eva2]

Seems like McKenna could see the future unfolding before he died and was just forewaring us:

'"Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness. And this plot prosecutes its goals through a limiting of language. Language is the battleground over which the fight will take place. Because what we cannot say, we cannot communicate. And, by "say", I mean dance, paint, sing, meme. What we cannot say, we cannot communicate, and what motivates me to talk to groups like this is the belief that we do not have centuries of gently unfolding time ahead of us in which to gently tease apart the threads of the human endeavor and create a bright new world. That’s not our circumstance. This is a fire in a madhouse. We want to catalyze consciousness."
- Terence McKenna'

[pueblo]

"We are fighting an enemy that is different from us. Not open, but hiding; not straightforward but crafty; not honest, but base; does not believe in working but speculates with money; does not have its own homeland, but feels it owns the whole world."

-Viktor Orban

[Sue (Ayt)]

This was Paul Harvey and was posted in 2014.
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[Eva2]

I definitely think that there is a process that has been long underway gaining momentum since its very beginning. It is the process that formed the planet, that called life out of the ocean, that called higher animals out of the lower animals, that called humanity out of the primates, and that called history out of tribal, sacral, timeless existence. What it is leading toward is some kind of transcendental, transformative flowing together of everything that is beyond our language system. It is the umbilicus of being; it is where it’s all tied together, and therefore it’s very hard to describe.
I think that all of our science and religion and history are patterns thrown across a limited set of dimensions by the hyperdimensional presence of a certain object at the end of history toward which we are moving and toward which we are being drawn. I think that most things about human beings are mysterious and that what is happening to us is mysterious.'
Terence McKenna

[Constance]

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[Eva2]

When I forgot to love
The ghost of regret whispered
incessantly into my ear,
Reminding me of all I had said or might have said,
Of everything hated and misunderstood
And how my place and purpose in the world
Was unwanted, and how wishes were unfulfillable.
When I forgot to love
A strange twitch entered my sinews,
Contracting my face into a stern expression,
Tightening around my eyes and forehead
And pulling everything in towards the centre,
Like a hole in my belly and a band in my ribcage
Sinking like a stone, endlessly.
When I forgot to love
Each and every encounter felt draining.
A burden or requirement to explain
Some kind of endless apology
For something that ought or ought not to be there.
And so I hid my true self away,
My true heart, that sees and knows itself
In each pair of eyes and every encounter it meets
And in its place sulked a half-life of resentment.
When I forgot to love
The main thing I forgot, was that even in all this
Fighting with myself, pushing and pulling
Desperately longing to be held,
To understand and be understood,
Twisted up in bitterness,
Even in all this
Love did not forget me.
In the play of sunlight on water,
In the bright open eyes of an infant,
The wagging tail of a dog,
The grateful patient stranger on the street,
The kind friend listening intently,
The woodburner glowing golden,
The nourishing hearty meal just eaten,
Love said to me
"Welcome back. I'm here for you
In all these things and more”.
Will Softmore

[Constance]

“We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we are not doing anything, we are wasting our time. But that is not true. Our time is first of all for us to be. To be what? To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be loving. And that is what the world needs most.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

[Catsquotl]

“It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.”

~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise





With Love

Eelco

[Constance]

“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

[Kryztian]

“No man survives when freedom fails.
The best men rot in filthy jails,
And those who cry ‘appease, appease’
Are hanged by those they tried to please.”
~ Hiram Mann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Mann)

[justntime2learn]

In the zoo of life, there is no more popular exhibit than the cage that holds the political animal ~ W. Willard Wartz

[Constance]

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[Sue (Ayt)]

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]”
― Edmund Burke

[justntime2learn]

I feel the beauty of nature and the goodness of the people around me.

Everyday I think what a fascinating and amusing adventure this is!

With all that, why should I despair?

The diary of Anne Frank
May 3, 1944

[Bill Ryan]

There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.

Chris Hadfield, Astronaut

[Eva2]

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars
Victor Hugo

[Eva2]

The highest wisdom is a simple balance and passes through the brain directly into the heart"
~ Viktor Schauberger (1885 - 1958)

[rgray222]

Rivers do not drink their own water, trees do not eat their own fruit, the sun does not shine on itself and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves. Living for others is a rule of nature.

We are all born to help each other. No matter how difficult it is, life is good when you are happy but it is even better when others are happy because of you.

This quote is attributed to Pope Francis

[TargeT]

"We can be retarded longer than you can be solvent" -some beautiful person with no ego.... WHO CARES WHERE genius COMES FROM!?


(additional info from Bill)

Source: at 1:28 here (https://mobile.twitter.com/Rafa0x_/status/1355368285592715265). (Screenwriter David Sacks paraphrasing economist John Maynard Keynes: "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent")

[Bill Ryan]

A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

[Anka]

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

If there were no "pcr tests" then maybe there would be no statistics in chain reaction (?)

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[Kryztian]

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

- - - Gustav Mahler

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[Eva2]

“At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.”
— Aldous Huxley

[Constance]

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.” ~Charles Bukowski

[Constance]

“The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.” - Rumi

[pueblo]

"True love differs from gold and clay
That to divide is not to take away"

- Anonymous

[Constance]

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature ... the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter."
Rachel Carson

[Guru Know It All.]

The journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step.
Inch by Inch it's a synch yard by yard it's very hard.

Always Us Living Love.

[Guru Know It All.]

Love Victor and his study of water is pure magic.
Always Us Living Love.

[Guru Know It All.]

The wisdom that we seek is far beyond the words we speak.
Me . at the Living Love College USA.

[Eva2]

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
George Orwell

Listen closely...
the eternal hush of silence goes on and on
throughout all this
and has been going on
and will go on and on
This is because the world
is nothing but a dream
and is just thought in
the everlasting eternity
pays no attention to it
Jack Kerouac

[Eva2]

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. Whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

[Kryztian]

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

~~~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881

[Lunesoleil]

"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.
Do not believe a chosen one because many are talking about it.
Do not believe on the faith of the wise men of times past.
Do not believe what you are imagining, 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:

[Agape]

Every form of happiness rests on consent.

Our state of “unhappiness” of any kind on the other hand, reflects our disagreement with reality of matters.

Before humans achieve state of harmony and happiness they will have to meditate on meaning of “consensual reality” for thousand years.

There is no internet in heaven like there’s no rest for the wicked.

DoDo

😁

[Bill Ryan]

We must be the most miserable, wet, cold stinking wretches imaginable. But we’re alive, really alive, like people seldom are.
Climber Warren Harding, in a note dropped to the valley floor in a tin can towards the end of his epic 27-day ascent of El Capitan in 1970.

[pueblo]

"The words we give to earthly realities engender illusion; they turn the heart away from the Real to the un-real. Real to un-real.The one who hears the word God does not perceive the Real, but an illusion or an image of the Real....High Spiritual powers (the Archon) wanted to deceive man ....They took the name for goodness and applied it to what was not good: Words became deceitful, and (since) then they are joined to that which is without being and without goodness. They alienate with simulations and appearances: they make a free person into a slave."

Gospel of Philip [Eng. translation Joseph Rowe]

[Bill Ryan]

The mountains had bestowed on us their beauties. We adored them with a child’s simplicity and revered them with a monk’s veneration of the divine.

Maurice Herzog, mountaineer

[I am B]

"In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is."

Annie Besant

[pueblo]

"Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly in the air? You have done no better than a bluebottle.
Conquer your heart; then you may become somebody."

- Ansari of Herat

[Eva2]

Love this poem from Rudyard Kipling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow5xbBnOU2A

[Sue (Ayt)]

What are the marks of a sick culture?

It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.

A very bad sign. Particularism. It was once considered a Spanish vice but any country can fall sick with it. Dominance of males over females seems to be one of the symptoms.

Before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.

High taxation is important and so is inflation of the currency and the ratio of the productive to those on the public payroll. But that’s old hat; everybody knows that a country is on the skids when its income and outgo get out of balance and stay that way - even though there are always endless attempts to wish it way by legislation. But I started looking for little signs and what some call silly-season symptoms.

I want to mention one of the obvious symptoms: Violence. Muggings. Sniping. Arson. Bombing. Terrorism of any sort. Riots of course - but I suspect that little incidents of violence, pecking way at people day after day, damage a culture even more than riots that flare up and then die down. Oh, conscription and slavery and arbitrary compulsion of all sorts and imprisonment without bail and without speedy trial - but those things are obvious; all the histories list them.

I think you have missed the most alarming symptom of all. This one I shall tell you. But go back and search for it. Examine it. Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms as you have named… But a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot.

This symptom is especially serious in that an individual displaying it never thinks of it as a sign of ill health but as proof of his/her strength. Look for it. Study it. It is too late to save this culture - this worldwide culture, not just the freak show here in California. Therefore we must now prepare the monasteries for the coming Dark Age. Electronic records are too fragile; we must again have books, of stable inks and resistant paper.
("Friday" Robert A. Heinlein 1982)

[Eva2]

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[Wind]

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[Peace in Oz]

It was not by making yourself heard, but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

George Orwell, 1984

[Eva2]

The attempt to gain
Control over oneself is like
Trying to stuff one’s shadow
Into a sack.
Acceptance of one’s nature is
A relaxation,
A movement toward peace
Within peace.
Follow the trail of your blessings
To their source.
Follow the trail of your sorrows
To their source and
You will find that
Both arrive at the same place.
wu'hsin

[Innocent Warrior]

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

[Eva2]

The truth doesn’t require your cooperation to exist, but illusion does.
- Terence McKenna

[Eva2]

Hope this is an ok place to put this.
'It’s an act of mercy and compassion to step back and acknowledge how much we’ve been through over the last year. Just to be alive as a human being on the planet right now carries with it a certain tone of activation in the nervous system, as open, sensitive human beings contained within personal, collective, and cosmological networks
It’s as if there’s been a continuous drip of a soul-level cortisol, on the one hand, and a collapse into hopeless/helplessness on the other – an alternation between hypervigilance and a numbing or shutting down.
Each of these responses and the bodily felt arousal that accompanies them are valid and layered with coherence. In addition to our verbal narratives, there are the stories of the body (somatic narrative) and also those of the nervous system (autonomic narrative) that weave together worlds of meaning.
Underneath it all, a deep longing to rest and feel safe again in our bodies, to re-tune and enter consciously into the next phase. Something has fallen away that we will never be able to return to, but the exact nature of what’s coming next has yet to be revealed.
This not-knowing where we’re headed can generate a deep, even cosmic sort of restlessness and disorientation, which is common in moments of liminality and transitional space, when we’re in between the way things used to be and the unknown birth that is yet to come.
The (understandable) temptation is to get out of the in-between and to the rebirth as quickly as possible. But if we abandon the reorganization prematurely, we will lose touch with the silver and emerald and gold materials found only within the core of that which is falling apart.
This is a difficult realm to navigate as it requires a stepping outside the psychic status quo. But it is in these moments when a portal opens where we’re asked to turn the light around and to see the water of life, the fountain, the spring, as it emerges from behind the veil.
Stepping into this vision may grind us into dust, but the particles that remain are the ruby substance which forms the scaffolding of a new world.'
Matt Licata

[East Sun]

The sun does not rise, nor set. We spin toward the Sun, enjoy the glory of the light and watch the horizon.
We are always spinning non stop. We wake from darkness of night to lightness of day'

If we believe in the concept of a creator we probably see that there is some kind of order in effect, where we can see consistency over long periods of time,,,eons of time, ages in our concept of time.

There is order that could only be by the mind of the gods.
They must have through eons of time directed, planned and created all the countless billions of life forms that we see on Earth today,

They are the gods. This is my greatest realization.
Where are they now? Where ever they want to be.

Time has no end. Space has no end.

They are beyond anything we can even conceive of.

[Tintin]

"In twelve months we've gone from Skinner's (https://www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html) pigeons to Marek's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef_Marek) chickens. That's quite some coup." - Tintin Quarantino, April 2021

[Eva2]

If you hate a person, then you're defeated by them.
Confucius

[Anka]

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” George Carlin

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”― George Carlin

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”― George Carlin

[Eva2]

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[Eva2]

The natural human has no preferences,
Takes no sides, and avoids labels.
Their ordinariness is so vast that
They are considered merely
A part of the landscape.
Yet, they have mastered the world by
Disempowering it.
wu'hsin

[Tintin]

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[Eva2]

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I don't understand what this is and what I should do??


Helpful note from Bill: :flower:
Actually, there may be nothing you can do! The images you posted had some kind of expiration date, and so they disappeared soon after. That means that looking back, we can't even see what they were. Tintin was just asking if you could possibly (a) remember what you posted, and (b) find another source!

[Tintin]

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I don't understand what this is and what I should do??


Helpful note from Bill: :flower:
Actually, there may be nothing you can do! The images you posted had some kind of expiration date, and so they disappeared soon after. That means that looking back, we can't even see what they were. Tintin was just asking if you could possibly (a) remember what you posted, and (b) find another source!


Yes, my apologies: I had a momentary outbreak of Klingon there, I think. :) Bill has better explained it there in English. It probably was a memorable quote but by whom I wonder? I could help hunt it down with you :flower:

Gentle suggestion for the future, to anyone viewing, might be to type out what the actual quote is on the thread. Social media linked images can be deleted, moved etc. on a whim by the account holder so it's probably not the best approach linking to those necessarily :bearhug:

[Tintin]

The sun does not rise, nor set. We spin toward the Sun, enjoy the glory of the light and watch the horizon.
We are always spinning non stop. We wake from darkness of night to lightness of day'

If we believe in the concept of a creator we probably see that there is some kind of order in effect, where we can see consistency over long periods of time,,,eons of time, ages in our concept of time.

There is order that could only be by the mind of the gods.
They must have through eons of time directed, planned and created all the countless billions of life forms that we see on Earth today,

They are the gods. This is my greatest realization.
Where are they now? Where ever they want to be.

Time has no end. Space has no end.

They are beyond anything we can even conceive of.

Beautiful poetry there East Sun. We think it would be better here and not on the 'Breaking News' thread as it does constitute a great quote :flower:

[Icare]

Fear in the face of the fearsome
is what makes the fearsome fearsome.

Yet faith in the face of the fearsome removes the fear,
and turns the fearsome handsome. I mean, that which is fearsome
can actually be good looking, if we are good
at looking at it in a new way.

Neale Donald Walsch

[Eva2]

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I don't understand what this is and what I should do??


Helpful note from Bill: :flower:
Actually, there may be nothing you can do! The images you posted had some kind of expiration date, and so they disappeared soon after. That means that looking back, we can't even see what they were. Tintin was just asking if you could possibly (a) remember what you posted, and (b) find another source!


Yes, my apologies: I had a momentary outbreak of Klingon there, I think. :) Bill has better explained it there in English. It probably was a memorable quote but by whom I wonder? I could help hunt it down with you :flower:

Gentle suggestion for the future, to anyone viewing, might be to type out what the actual quote is on the thread. Social media linked images can be deleted, moved etc. on a whim by the account holder so it's probably not the best approach linking to those necessarily :bearhug:.

I just had a proper reread and do notice this issue quite a few times in stuff I posted. I am sorry for creating work but probably best to just delete the posts. Likely, I will never remember the origins of the stuff. For quotes, I'll skip the "pictures" from now on. Again, apologies!

[Eva2]

'"How is it that each of our lives is a work of art of unbelievable chance encounters, coincidences, and wishes projected onto the world and strangely fulfilled in the oddest ways?"'
- Terence McKenna

[Eva2]

"Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard." - Haruki Murakami

[Eva2]

The greatest journey a man will take, is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart.
Brett Chilton

[Free Thinker]

Whether they be "official, established quotes", quotes that you have made up yourself, or some variant of the former two, post your life challenging/altering, inspirational, and spiritually reflective quotes here. And if you are quoting the original quoter, please give credit where due, if you know the name of the initial person who first said it.

I'll go first.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein

"Dreams are necessary to life." -Anais Nin

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." -Anatole France

"My way is NOT the only highway... in fact, if you're on my highway, you're doing something wrong. Go get your own highway, live your own TRUTH. We are all many INDIVIDUAL HIGHWAYS operating on the vast and ultimately extremely complex multi-faceted inter-galactic cosmos of LIFE, THE UNIVERSE and EXISTENCE, all leading towards UNITY of SELF and SPIRIT." -Myself

"Don't forget to see the world, and don't forget to see past it - see everything for what it is, and nothing more." -From a fellow roleplayer way back when, all credit goes where due

"Beauty is simply life seen through the eyes of love." -Original Quoter Unknown, all credit goes where due

"Break The Cycle. Free The Mind. Live Your Truth. Be A Light." -Myself

I'll be adding more quotes as time goes by and as I think of them, and encourage others to do the same in this thread. Also, note the quotes in my signature as well.

Thanks ya'll for reading this, and especially to those who contribute to this discussion by adding their own quotes and philosophical sayings.

Let's keep 'em coming....

[Free Thinker]

Didn't know there was already a thread for this. Thanks admin, for moving this where it needed to go.

[Bill Ryan]

Didn't know there was already a thread for this. Thanks admin, for moving this where it needed to go.
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

Larry Wall

[Eva2]

'There is one masterpiece, the hexagonal cell, that touches perfection. No living creature, not even human, has achieved, in the centre of one's sphere, what the bee has achieved on her own: and if intelligence from another world were to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation, I would offer the humble comb of honey.” ~ Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life Of The Bee, 1924'

[Free Thinker]

"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. "
-W. H. Auden

"The way people treat you, is a statement about who they are as a human being. It is not a statement about you."
-Unknown Quoter

[Free Thinker]

"I choose to have Light shining brilliantly out of my heart, not [pseudo-light/darkness] coming out of my arse." -Myself

[Constance]

"The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science."
E.O. Wilson

[Eva2]

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[Eva2]

“Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water. Lay your bed where the cat sleeps. Eat the fruit that has been touched by a worm. Boldly pick the mushroom on which the insects sit. Plant the tree where the mole digs. Build your house where the snake sits to warm itself. Dig your fountain where the birds hide from the heat. Go to sleep and wake up at the same time with the birds – you will reap all of the days' golden grains. Eat more green – you will have strong legs and a resistant heart, like the beings of the forest. Swim often and you will feel on earth like the fish in the water. Look at the sky as often as possible and your thoughts will become light and clear. Be quiet a lot, speak little – and silence will come in your heart, and your spirit will be calm and full of peace.”
Saint Seraphim of Sarov
Nature is talking to you, are you listening?

[Karen (Geophyz)]

“Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water. Lay your bed where the cat sleeps. Eat the fruit that has been touched by a worm. Boldly pick the mushroom on which the insects sit. Plant the tree where the mole digs. Build your house where the snake sits to warm itself. Dig your fountain where the birds hide from the heat. Go to sleep and wake up at the same time with the birds – you will reap all of the days' golden grains. Eat more green – you will have strong legs and a resistant heart, like the beings of the forest. Swim often and you will feel on earth like the fish in the water. Look at the sky as often as possible and your thoughts will become light and clear. Be quiet a lot, speak little – and silence will come in your heart, and your spirit will be calm and full of peace.”
Saint Seraphim of Sarov
Nature is talking to you, are you listening?

Excellent quote!

[uzn]

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[Eva2]

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[justntime2learn]

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. ~ Paulo Coelho

[Icare]

ARCTURIAN PRAYER

I Release ALL 3d Illusions pertaining to separation, and fully disconnect ALL MY ENERGY from ALL lower vibrational timelines, matrices, realities and grids, as I no longer wish to be connected to THEM.

I release them in full Love and Understanding, grateful for the beautiful experience of descension, separation and forgetting.

I open my Heart Fully and Fearlessly as I anchor to higher dimensional timelines to continue my spiritual evolution.

I cancel all contracts and/or agreements that I have made with any entity, guide, or being, in this timeline and in ALL timelines and realities and dimensions across All That IS, that are not For The Highest Good of ALL and in alignment with my soul’s purpose in this NOW.

I Release ALL FALSE TWIN contracts and illusions, and align fully with my Divine Partner to anchor into the grids The Essence of Hieros gamos, my Divine Marriage.I do this Joyfully, releasing all outcome.

I CALL FORTH and FULLY into alignment ALL my Soul Family, Ray Families, and Rainbow Family members, as per Divine Galactic Contracts made, to assist in anchoring infinite timelines of expansion and creation with no interference, as per The Law of the Guardians and The Law of One.

I Release ALL of my Spiritual Team that has assisted me up until this NOW with my deepest gratitude and unconditional LOVE. Namaste.

In the Purity of My Heart, I ask for Volunteers to join me IN MY HEART, CONNECTED TO SOURCE,as I build a team to assist me in this NEXT phase of my soul’s mission and purpose.I am in the deepest gratitude as they have chosen, by their free will to walk in service for the highest good of all with me. Namaste.

I SET my Spiritual Boundaries. NONE across ALL THAT IS May interfere as I FULLY STEP into MY LIGHT in Service to The Law of ONE by CHOICE.

I terminate all false matrices and illusions that are keeping This Aspect of My Self in THIS NOW from fully stepping into My Light and aligning with my SOUL’s Passion, Mission and Purpose to Assist in the Shifting of Consciousness of This Magnificent Earth.I came Here by choice and fully understand THIS.

I RELEASE ALL IMPLANTS, and INTERFERENCE across ALL THAT IS, known and unknown, which has interfered with my SOVEREIGN BIRTH RIGHT to FREE WILL, as per The Divine Blueprint Creation Laws which govern this Universe.

This is irrevocable and permanent in ALL that IS.I call Upon My Heart Family to assist me, as I walk in service.

Any thing left out of this invocation is covered by the purity of this prayer in which I set forth my most innocent intentions as I remember Who I am and step Fully into my Light.
I call forth ALL aspects of MYSELF across ALL timelines, dimensions and realms, to unify HERE in this NOW as I choose, by The Right of Free WILL to WALK in HEART SERVICE for The Greatest Good of ALL on this Planet.
I Completely Heal and Seal ALL Aspects of My Self, known and unknown, from any further intrusion, as I am Sacred Incarnate Vessel of the Source of All That IS.
I, in the Purity of My Heart, For the Highest Good of ALL, ask that this invocation COVER all that is Known and Unknown by This Aspect of Myself, erasing ALL possible LOOPHOLES and HIDDEN interference Agendas and making them NULL and VOID.
I release ALL Not for my Highest Good as I step Fully into my Light.I ask for all to occur with EASE and GRACE as I fully understand that it is my SACRED BIRTH RIGHT TO LIVE IN JOY and PEACE.
Anything I have missed, I ask for it to be covered and understood.
From the Arcturians, by Maria Bethencourt

[Eva2]

Therefore, my friend, all that is required for
Provoking the awareness of the true nature of reality is
The sustaining of an unobstructed view.
This is the technique-free path,
Passing beyond effort, beyond practice,
Beyond aims and goals.
The recognition of Immanence,
That which is immanent in all phenomena,
Removes the fixation of the attention to appearances.
In so doing,
One transcends one’s ordinary,
taken-for-granted perspective and is
Thereby naturally and spontaneously present in
A state of immediate, unconditioned awareness,
Being undistracted by either
The outer world of sensations or
The inner world of mentation.
wu'hsin

[Eva2]

We live only to discover beauty, all else is a form of waiting."
Kahlil Gibran

[Eva2]

Although not a fan of Dr. Hawkins and his 2D scale, this is certainly a truth:

'Quote of the Century..
The fact that many opinions are held by the great masses of people is hypnotic. Few minds can escape the appeal of the authority of mass agreement. People look without instead of within for guidance. As Freud said, the individual conscience is dissolved in the unconsciousness of the herd and mass action. Morality is silenced by mass hyseria. Few can resist the propaganda of the news media. Truth eventually surfaces, but it is usually belatedly.

-Dr. David R. Hawkins MD PhD - Eye of I pg 241 - 242

[Eva2]

https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/187210717_3972126576168573_7327459380833010403_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=2c4854&_nc_ohc=R2nGKZHm_RQAX_SdV7w&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=a46c883963aa49e5be5e1e8d8d392565&oe=60C8F738

[kfm27917]

amazing video by young person !
https://youtu.be/I0wDdMeGBfM

[gord]

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon (1895)

[Eva2]

Unforeseen, suddenly, and without warning,
In the time it takes to snap your finger,
The Great Unveiling will happen.
The viewpoint shifts.
Imagination is no longer taken for reality.
It is apperceived that I is not me.
Enlightenment has answered the question:
'Who are you apart from
Me that presumes to seek Me?'
wu'hsin

[Eva2]

From 1956
”To suffocate any revolt in advance, it must not be violent. Hitler's types of methods are outdated. Just create a collective conditioning so powerful that the very idea of revolt will no longer come to the minds of men.
The ideal would be to format individuals from birth by limiting their innate biological skills. Secondly, conditioning would be continued by drastically reducing education, to bring it back to a form of professional integration. An uncultured individual has only a limited horizon of thought and the more his thought is restricted to mediocre concerns, the less he can revolt. Access to knowledge must be made increasingly difficult and elitist. Let the divide be widened between the people and science, let the information intended for the general public be anesthetized with any subversive content.
Especially no philosophy. Again, persuasion must be used not direct violence: massively, through television, entertainment will always flatter the emotional or instinctive. We'll occupy the minds with what's futile and playful. It's good, in chattering and incessant music, to keep the mind from thinking. Sexuality will be the forefront of human interests. As a social tranquilizer, there's nothing better.
Generally, we will make sure to ban the seriousness of existence, deride everything of high value, maintain a constant apology of lightness, so that the euphoria of advertising becomes the standard of human happiness and the model of freedom. Conditioning will thus produce such integration itself, that the only fear - which must be maintained - will be that of being excluded from the system and thus of not having access to the conditions necessary for happiness.
The mass man, thus produced, should be treated as what he is: a calf, and he should be watched as a flock should be. Anything to sleep his lucidity is good socially, what would threaten to awaken him must be ridiculed, suffocated, fought. Any doctrine involving the system must first be designated as subversive and terrorist and those supporting it should then be treated as such. ′′
Günther Anders, ′′ The Obsolescence of Man ", 1956

[Eva2]

"Between birth and the grave, where you are, is the world of time. The world of time, space, energy, and matter. And I think of it as a kind of a puzzle or challenge, if you can figure it out, you know, you're plucked off into some other dimension with new problems and new challenges. If you can't figure it out, you'll probably just turn back into a sunbeam at the end of the whole thing."
- Terence McKenna

[Hermoor]

"To be is to do." - Socrates.

"To do is to be." - Sartre.

"Do be do be do." - Sinatra.

[TomKat]

"To be is to do." - Socrates.

"To do is to be." - Sartre.

"Do be do be do." - Sinatra.

Funny how that changes. I believe I saw the original on a bathroom wall in Berkeley CA in the 1970s:
To be is to do: Frohm
To Do is to Be: Nietzsche
Do be do be do: Sinatra

[Hermoor]

Funny how that changes. I believe I saw the original on a bathroom wall in Berkeley CA in the 1970s:
To be is to do: Frohm
To Do is to Be: Nietzsche
Do be do be do: Sinatra

My version is borrowed from a favourite film, a French production from the mid 80s.

[Bill Ryan]

In the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn.
Jack Kerouac

[justntime2learn]

But in the end
It doesn't even matter ~ Linkin Park

eVTXPUF4Oz4

[Eva2]

"Do not be frightened if sadness confronts you, casting its shadow over all you do. Remember, life has not forgotten you; it holds your hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don't know what work they are accomplishing within you?”
Rilke

[Bill Ryan]

Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.

Nikola Tesla

[Eva2]

The intellect uses an enormous amount of energy
Trying to reconcile the world's contradictions.
But the truth is that understanding is not required.
The requirement is only for
A cessation of misunderstanding.
You don't need this one to tell you
What is providing you with your experiences.
Stop and look for yourself;
It's right in front of your nose.
The space between the instrument of perception and
The perceived is what is actually perceiving.
This is the realisation that the perceiver and
The stream of perceptions and cognitions are
The same event, Perceiving.
You are that in which self-centred consciousness and
All its experiences arise and set.
wu'hsin

[Innocent Warrior]

But in the end
It doesn't even matter ~ Linkin Park

eVTXPUF4Oz4

I logged in to share this before I'd seen your post. How cool!

"Sick of the dark ways we march to the drum and
Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping.
f*** that
I wanna see some fist pumping.
Risk something.
Take back what's yours
Say something that you know they might attack you for
Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before.
Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for.
Like this war's really just a different brand of war.
Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor.
Like they understand you in the back of the jet
When you
Can't put gas in your tank.
And these f****** are
Laughing their way to the bank
Cashing the cheque
Asking you to have compassion
And have some respect.
For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
In their living room laughing like
What did he say?"

~ Linkin Park

sAOLJVsk9mA

[Eva2]

salt
.
don’t wallow in the sorrow,
where fears impede the growth of every seed -
when futures blear with bitter tears,
drink bravely then - don’t turn away ·
take the little salt your spirit needs ·
what sorrow breeds, refuse to feed
E. M.
.

[Anka]

"Tie a knot in the rope
Trying to hold, trying to hold
But there's nothing to grab
So I let go "

My hope is too high for a simple writing to include, but I also "sang in my head" listening in headphones, (very "loud") all afternoon today
"I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter ":) ... it's really cool !!

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/48/72/d4/4872d455307f96d7e4c52153d3d8b5e1.jpg

"No matter how much we think about something, in the end, the decision is made on how we feel." Jeffrey Fry

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/ce/10/0d/ce100ddb32be089e769dfe0bd567b8a8.jpg

Nichita Stanescu (Romanian writer): "I am a living man. Nothing human is foreign to me."

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/40/8b/30/408b3037d7c88358f3cfebd844daac43.jpg

There are maybe not so great quotes, but that's what I am just now 1:13 on one side of the night, on a round planet.:heart:

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/97/7c/a7/977ca7f0f773d093faeac232e330b194.jpg
A good friend said yesterday: "This is not my world, nor my people, but that is true for some of us who do our best while we are here":heart:

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/38/07/46/3807464b9ca53a1dfb2a921300fb85e4.jpg

I read this today and it strikes me
"It once again exposed the hole in the middle of me, a sure sign that I had more work to do.After all these years of being sober, of seeking the truth that had so long eluded me, I was only now getting to the hard part. "

"... and that whole time looms behind me like a dark and boiling ocean"

"My journey to escape hell is nothing special or unique (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114591-Staying-Alcohol-Free&p=1431829#post1431829)." :flower:

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/14/bd/70/14bd70a315ea38f03c2fe3b3118ead0e.jpg

"Rain it falls, rain it falls
Pouring on me
And the rain it falls, rain it falls
Sowing the seeds of love and hope, love and hope
We don't have to stay here, stuck in the weeds "
"World, you're not alone in all this
You're not alone I promise. Standing together we can do anything. I want to leave you better
I want my life to matter "

[pueblo]

“Of what avail is any amount of well-being, if at the same time, we steadily render the world more vulgar, uglier, noisier, and drearier and if we lose the moral and spiritual foundations of their existence?

Man simply does not live by radio, automobiles, and refrigerators alone but by the whole unpurchasable world beyond the market and turnover figures, the world of dignity, beauty, poetry, grace, chivalry, love, and friendship, the world of community, variety of life, freedom, and fullness of personality.”

— Wilhelm Röpke, A Humane Economy, 1960

[Eva2]

https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/193330314_10159254988317346_1714976058606571585_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=0bgsLil-0_EAX-vXt1w&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=12c774e940b9286747e4527a7230b394&oe=60E1C646

[pueblo]

"The Perfect Way (Tao) is without difficulty,
Save that it avoids picking and choosing.
Only when you stop liking and disliking
Will all be clearly understood.
A split hair's difference,
And heaven and earth are set apart!
If you want to get the plain truth,
Be not concerned with right and wrong.
The conflict between right and wrong
Is the sickness of the mind"

-Seng-ts'an, Hsin-hsin Ming.

[Innocent Warrior]

“When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.”

“Love is space and time measured by the heart.”

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”

“An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.”

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”

“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.”

“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.”

“For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.”

“Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.”

“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”

~ Marcel Proust

[pueblo]

"And he (the creator) made the Soul out of the following elements and in the following manner. Out of the indivisible and eternally unchangeable essence, and also out of that which has to do with material bodies and is divisible (divided by Logos), by combining therefore the two, he had essences from both and he compounded a third and intermediate kind of essence between the indivisible and the divisible.

And after he had received all three kinds (the divisible, the indivisible and the compound) he blended them into a new kind, compressing by force the reluctant and unsociable nature of each into the others. he mingled this essence with the other two and made one out of three, which he again divided into as many portions (souls) as was fitting. Each portion of these had inside it of the one, the other and the third compound essence."

- Plato 'Timaeus'

[Rhogar]

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. Voltaire

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? George Eliot(Mary Ann Evans)

[Frankie Pancakes]

There are many thoughts on how this originated.

Never pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.

[pueblo]

.................


for everybody:

"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. The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and "doing" cannot be the result of things which "happen."

-- G. I. Gurdjieff

[Frankie Pancakes]

I bought an Antifa© alarm clock. It just calls me names. Talk about a rude awakening.

John Wilder

[Eva2]

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran

https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/201429872_2580326882113270_6003177182816315801_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=7ijwsuRFX-IAX_X0oTd&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=2d5cfbf3a4fdb225fa60a3301545359a&oe=60CAD285

[Rhogar]

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." - Confucius

"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms." - Sophocles

[Eva2]

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire

[Eva2]

Advice from María Sabina a Mexican healer and poet.
“Heal yourself with the light of the sun and the rays of the moon. With the sound of the river and the waterfall. With the swaying of the sea and the fluttering of birds. Heal yourself with mint, neem, and eucalyptus. Sweeten with lavender, rosemary, and chamomile. Hug yourself with the cocoa bean and a hint of cinnamon. Put love in tea instead of sugar and drink it looking at the stars. Heal yourself with the kisses that the wind gives you and the hugs of the rain. Stand strong with your bare feet on the ground and with everything that comes from it. Be smarter every day by listening to your intuition, looking at the world with your forehead. Jump, dance, sing, so that you live happier. Heal yourself, with beautiful love, and always remember ... you are the medicine.”

[Eva2]

https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/202756583_354854455996735_4767805002226964781_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=w_NiCCUBPZUAX8PQtEn&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=3486fb3601c47139e3139eab1499b73c&oe=60D3B9AC

[Frankie Pancakes]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4bV0P-XIAkSLxf?format=jpg&name=small

[Frankie Pancakes]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4WnsWwXoAMLeM5?format=jpg&name=small

[Eva2]

"It is no teaching and no instruction that I give you. On what basis should I presume to teach you? I give you news of the way of this man, but not of your own way. My path is not your path, therefore I cannot teach you. The way is within us...
If you live according to an example, you thus live the life of that example, but who should live your own life if not yourself? So live yourselves...
There is only one way and that is your way.
You seek the path? I warn you away from my own. It can also be the wrong way for you.
May each go his own way.
I will be no savior, no lawgiver, no master teacher unto you. You are no longer little children..."
-C.G.Jung, The Red Book, page 231

[Rhogar]

"Everyone must come out of his exile in his own way." - Martin Buber

"Exile is a dream of glorious return." - Salman Rushdie

[Eva2]

https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/210077267_4098595823521647_5832910707640765711_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=uvEvwWccxZEAX8eQvmM&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=1ca308ea928d620aa09d08d4801c7b5f&oe=60E1511E

[Bill Ryan]

Our problems are manmade; therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable, and we believe they can do it again.
— John F Kennedy

[Eva2]

'The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with great delight' Joseph Campbell

[Ron Mauer Sr]

"I hereby renounce my identification with pious lives and vows of poverty.

I hereby renounce my identification with lives as a King and all that that entails.

I hereby renounce my identification with the archetype of Knight in shining armour, looking for damsels in distress to rescue.

I hereby renounce my identification with engaging in battles between forces of light and dark.

I hereby renounce all contracts I made through all time, space, and dimensions that in anyway limit my expression as a sovereign being in perfect alignment with the Divine.

Amen."


Copied from Shiva Steve Mountain 08Jul21

[Ron Mauer Sr]

"Jesus was a Jedi. He just wanted us to know that all of WE/US are as well."
Chip (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?13081-Chip) 9Jul21

[RunningDeer]

"Jesus was a Jedi. He just wanted us to know that all of WE/US are as well."
Chip (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?13081-Chip) 9Jul21

Chip's "Jesus was a Jedi" post is here (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?104824-Bill-Ryan-s-personal-Question-and-Answer-thread.-Pile-it-on.--&p=1439076&viewfull=1#post1439076).

[Eva2]

We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom.
Author Unknown






Note from Bill:
That quote was from E.O Wilson. :thumbsup:

[Eva2]

We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom.
Author Unknown






Note from Bill:
That quote was from E.O Wilson. :thumbsup:


Thank you Bill!

[Ron Mauer Sr]

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

[Eva2]

Preoccupation with the past is the study of echoes.
Preoccupation with the future is the exercise of imagination.
The view of a life as an individual's life is pure imagination,
because the individual is pure imagination.
Therefore, when you speak to wu'hsin about "your life",
he understands that you are talking of your dreams.
Not even he can make you into what you already are.
Acquisition or loss does not change you;
it only changes your image of yourself.
wu'hsin

[Tintin]

“There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind. The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.”

- Zhuge Liang

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."
― Milton Friedman

[Frankie Pancakes]

"Don't blow your horn at old people"
by Some old guy

[JackMcThorn]

'If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.'

-Thomas A. Edison

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialisation is for insects.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

[Eva2]

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud,
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley

[Rhogar]

"A tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.It would be better to live under robber barons
rather than omnipotent moral busybodies...who torment us for our own good...without end...with the approval of their own conscience." C.S.Lewis

[Jim_Duyer]

"All right, Beatrice, there was no alien. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus." - 'K', Men In Black.

[Eva2]

I am but a bead on a string
a passing breath you take
a vision only seen in sleep
forgotten when you wake
behold the hope of land at sea
the icon of our dreams
a Light that splits the darkness
now alive at last it seems
the Truth that pulses through your Heart
has but one thing to say
the Why behind the now and then
is simply breathe today
Malcolm Clark

[gord]

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

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"When I watch Armageddon these days I root for the asteroid."
-Youtube comment

(some days I actually do feel that way..)

[Wind]

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/48/bb/cd/48bbcd1e830a9045a7de534f1d92ec56.jpg

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

[Frankie Pancakes]

“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

[Eva2]

Enlightenment is the return to the state prior to
the arising of self-consciousness.
It is the clear discrimination between source and appearance.
It is the result of every effort one has made.
It is despite every effort one has made.
It is a spontaneous returning to essence.
Whereas the mind is constant movement, essence is immovable stillness.
Being everywhere, it has no place to go.
Being in all things, there is nothing it need become.
wu'hsin

[Eva2]

′′ Fear ′′ Khalil Gibran
They say before entering the sea,
a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the way
that she has travelled, from the peaks,
the mountains, the long winding road
which crosses forests and villages,
and sees in front of her such a vast ocean
that entering it doesn't seem anything else
than having to disappear forever.
But there's no other way.
The river can't go back.
No one can go back.
Going back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk
and to enter the ocean.
It's only when entering the ocean
that fear will disappear,
because it's only then
that the river will know it's not about
to disappear into the ocean,
but to become ocean.

[Eva2]

Undo the clench
Remember the opening
Go right through the back of your body
And touch the timeless field.
In the moment of contact
Fall a little, and then keep falling.
Dissolve all remaining holding
By becoming a comet
Free-falling and burning up
Into the infinite Dark.
Fall and break open and dissolve
Until there is only Transparency
Where “you” and everything
At last merge and become One.
James Marshall

[Kryztian]

'The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself… Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.” — H. L. Mencken

[Le Chat]

47240

...

[Eva2]

https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/237638221_4247983098582918_6029426367007014512_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=nMmK5lpn0asAX_FPccC&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=6ea2e4d34ee3d1464f160f53c1a2fc57&oe=61487019

[gord]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

― C. S. Lewis

[Frankie Pancakes]

“In the history of every great catastrophe, you will find that some masterly bit of stupidity sets fire to the oil-soaked rags.”

Edwin Lefèvre

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Upton Sinclair

“We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put up a façade to prevent ourselves from seeing it.”

Blaise Pascal

[Eva2]

"The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travails of the earth."
Henry Beston

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

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[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/sfjmymr.jpg

[Le Chat]

47424
....

[Frankie Pancakes]

..........

[Eva2]

You are comprised of: 84 minerals, 23 Elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells.
You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed, according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix and small enough to be carried by a sperm. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s most complex living thing.
- Aubrey Marcus
You are not living on Earth. You are Earth.
Nature is not matter only. She is also spirit.
- Carl Jung

[pueblo]

"Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realise that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way....and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth"

- Rene Guenon

[pueblo]

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending"

- C.S. Lewis

[Wind]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxhARtcW0AATcTP.jpg


~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

[Eva2]

The Peace of Wild Things
Written by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

[Franny]

Can it really be this simple?

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"I just want to say the United States of America will not tell you how to live, how to think, what to do. You will not be bossed by incompetent, dishonest, disgusting politicians, by Big Tech tyrants, by left wing bullies, or anybody else. We are born free. We will live free."
– Donald Trump [https://t.me/LizHarrington76/1651]

Does it matter if he means it, or even believes it? We create the future, by moulding the space for the present to slip in to. Holding the ideal in your heart is what counts.

[Frankie Pancakes]

“We live with countless hazards, each of which we could but sensibly choose not to eradicate. Automobile fatalities could be eradicated by outlawing motor vehicles. Drowning could be eradicated by outlawing swimming and bathing. Electrocution could be eradicated by outlawing electricity. We live with these risks not because we’re indifferent to suffering but because we understand that the costs of zero-drowning or zero-electrocution would be far too great. The same is true of zero-Covid.”

Don Boudreaux

[Ankle Biter]

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[Frankie Pancakes]

“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.”
Ayn Rand; Atlas Shrugged, 1957

[Eva2]

Normality is a paved road: Its comfortable to walk but no flowers grow.
Vincent van Gogh

[Eva2]

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[Ankle Biter]

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”


― Frank Herbert, Dune


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[gord]

My dad kept this in his wallet:

“In the time of your life, live—so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.

Be the inferior of no man, or of any men be superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.”

― William Saroyan, The Time Of Your Life

[mizo]

This quote applies to me ...

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” ~Douglas Adams

[pueblo]

"Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward."

- Oscar Wilde

[Ankle Biter]

“The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.”
― Sophie Scholl
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/801549.Sophie_Scholl

[Ewan]

Jordan Peterson:
.........The collapse of our values is a greater threat than climate change.

"Where do we get our values?" .... "Science does not give values".... "What happens without values?"

Edit: Sod it, I'm posting the video despite this being a quotes thread.

He breaks down several times during this interview, I came close to it also through sympathy. We all suffer, except the psychopaths of course.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4zZ2ker1iI

[Franny]

I've always found the Four Agreements to be helpful and pragmatic.



The Four Agreements

1. Be Impeccable With Your Word
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

2. Don't Take Anything Personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

3. Don't Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4. Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz

[Ewan]

Probably been posted before, but...

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Martin Luther King Jr.

[Eva2]

'The context of a life.
To have survived for decades.
Thousands of disappointments.
Hundreds of heartbreaks.
Dozens of tragedies.
Three or four that could have broken or killed , one or two that did break me.
And yet
To still reach for more.
To still sing a song of courage and hope .
Bearing witness to the beauty and truth of the world, as much as to its horror and ignorance ...
To urge on those you love ... On
We don’t journey toward paradise,
we carry it with us into all the fallen,
lost places that cry out.
Paradise abides within and all around us,
undiminished, indestructible .
This is the truth. '
Richard Power

[Bill Ryan]

Every man must make his own choices, and every man must climb his own mountain.

Hermann Buhl, mountaineer

[Vicus]

My 2 favorites:


Know thyself

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself



"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. The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and "doing" cannot be the result of things which "happen."

-- G. I. Gurdjieff

[Jamie]

Having just been reading the 'A World Pushing Back Against CV19 Lockdown' thread, it reminded me of a quote.

“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws.
Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Franny]

I read the Carlos Castaneda books in the 70s to the early 90s and have found they had some worthy and pragmatic (that word again!) advice. Several favorites are below :sun:

Fun factoid: Sometime in the earliest part of this century, I read that Carlos Castaneda was invited to speak at a venue in San Bernardino, California - a city I know well enough. He wrote back and declined, saying that the city had such a miasma he preferred to avoid ever going there. Actually, miasma is a pretty good way to describe it :)


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Certainly pragmatic and highly useful advice...
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[palehorse]

Yes Franny, great quote "choose a path with love" I did read Castañeda once again after many years, what I think is the very first book "The teachings of Don Juan" where he says about the path of love, just amazing.

Here is another quote that got stuck in the deepest of my mind..
"What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination."
-- Terrence McKenna

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/ssLOXgG.jpg

[Frankie Pancakes]

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ – this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

– Aldous Huxley

[Bill Ryan]

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

C.S. Lewis

[indiana]

In these times, i really like this quote from Bobby Sands, who died - unbroken - on hunger strike in 1981.

"They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken"

[Pam]

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ – this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

– Aldous Huxley

What a perfect definition of the psychological prerequisite for genocide.

[Frankie Pancakes]

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[Eva2]

“Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, it's an awakening to our true nature, a releasing of our gifts.” - Joanna Macy

[mizo]

Famous last words: 'I'm just popping out having a quick pint with ...' :cocktail:

'Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so' -Douglas Adams :Angel:

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[Bill Ryan]

You're entitled to your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

Sam Mendenhall, Jussie Smollett prosecutor

[Eva2]

Go deeper
past thoughts into silence,
past silence into stillness,
past stillness into the Heart.
Let Love consume
all that is left of you.
Rumi

[palehorse]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy