The Great Quotes thread

[Icare]

"Some are influenced by the love of wealth while others are blindly led on by the mad fever for power and domination, but the finest type of man gives himself up to discovering the meaning and purpose of life itself. He seeks to uncover the secrets of nature."


Pythagoras

[Icare]

"Remember, YOU are immortal with all the abilities of an immortal being (despite ALL the limitations religion and society would like to place on you).
You WILL come to your full potential after your Final lncarnation is complete. Then you will look back on much of your incarnational experiences and smile at how there was so much opposition to you discovering your True Self.
Your Higher Self will NEVER abandon you. Your Higher Self is the only being you can fully trust, not some non-existent mythological beings created to keep you from regaining your power.
Push away the noise and the external.
Know that you are loved and watched over by you, your Higher Self. Look within for who you REALLY are."

From: The author, Matrix 5, Gold Edition, published by V. Valerian

[Ewan]

Can't find a source for this...

The law should be the lowest bar for your morality and your ethics.

(leaving aside the law is frequently an ass and recently written ones are probably corrupt)

[Kryztian]

Your rulers do not care what race you are. They do not care if you are gay, transgendered or nonbinary. They do not care how many bullets you are allowed to have in your gun. They do not care if you are allowed to have an abortion or not. They do not care whether you are racist, sexist, ageist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic or fatphobic. They do not care about diverse representation in politics or media, and they do not care about any lack thereof. All they care about is that we all keep thinking, speaking, working, consuming and voting in ways which keep them rich and powerful and keep us poor and powerless. And they will happily keep us arguing as intensely as possible about the things they do not care about so that we don't turn our attention to the things they do care about.

--- Caitlin Johnstone

[Isserley]

“When evil comes disguised as progress, celebrated in ignorance as righteous, when the truth triggers vitriol and disgust, as the good are slandered and silenced, and when the sick are hailed as heroes, while our the natural state of things is ridiculed, then truly we are in dangerous times.”

– Maajid Nawaz

[Paul D.]

"Nature loves courage. You make the commitment
and nature will respond to that commitment by
removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible
dream and the world will not grind you under, it will
lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these
teachers and philosophers who really mattered,
who touched the alchemical gold, this is what
they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the
waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself
into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed."
Terence McKenna

[Icare]

"Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking - and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority."


Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

[Matthew]

Life is precious, and tomorrow isn't guaranteed. Today, I want to thank all the amazing, beautiful people in my life for always being there for me, I'm so very grateful to know you.

Giles Paley-Phillips
source: the internet (https://twitter.com/eliistender10/status/1657513886302576641)





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[Ewan]

Here’s a toast to Alan Turing
born in harsher, darker times
who thought outside the container
and loved outside the lines
and so the code-breaker was broken
and we’re sorry
yes now the s-word has been spoken
the official conscience woken
– very carefully scripted but at least it’s not encrypted –
and the story does suggest
a part 2 to the Turing Test:
1. can machines behave like humans?
2. can we?”

― Matt Harvey (No idea who he is).

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“A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.”
― George Orwell

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What I was actually hunting for, and failing to find as per usual, was a quote by, I believe, an American General that went roughly like this....

"We fought WWI in Europe, we fought WWII in Europe, and if you suckers let us we will fight WWIII in Europe too!"

(In response to Alexander Mercouris suggesting Europe is terrified America pulls out of the Ukraine backing leaving them to it.)

[Bill Ryan]

The world is made up of three kinds of people: wise men, knaves, and fools. Wise men aim to do what is right and do it. Knaves mean to do what is wrong, and do it. And the fools are willing to do either right or wrong depending upon which is the more popular.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1970

[Tintin]

"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

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"I'm accident-prone. I've been in shipwrecks, car crashes, fires, floods and tornadoes. I've had every disaster but bubonic plague and a husband."
~ Edith Russel (Titanic survivor)

[Icare]

''Through this ever evolving consciousness over ages and aeons in the Omniverse, we learn that our beliefs are but relative explanations to satisfy our limited understanding to which we are emotionally
attached.

In the bigger picture of the Multiverse and the greater equation of eternity, our beliefs are only altered versions of the reality, partially filtered by our limited perceptions and conceptions.

Beliefs are thus, only relevant in the measure they influence our behaviors, attitudes and actions, and their results."


from chapter 46 of "The Sasquatch Message to Humanity: Conversation With Elder Kamooh"

[Tintin]

"If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell."

- Thomas Merton

[Matthew]

❝The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.
One word of truth outweighs the world.❞

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.

[Michi]

I learned, the best way to teach is to let her/him do it ...

50992

[grapevine]

https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-man-is-a-hybrid-from-a-lower-order-we-have-been-genetically-manipulated-by-advanced-robert-dean-72-37-23.jpg

Inspired by Exomatrix post https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?88775-Our-great-friend-Bob-Dean-has-passed-11-October-2018&p=1561123#post1561123 #55

[Tintin]

"The reporter’s task, is to find a way of weaving these threads of unreality into a fabric that the reader will not recognize as entirely unreal.” - Daniel J. Boorstin: from The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America published 1962

[Eva2]

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.

Sun Tzu

[norman]

"We're Going To Do A Mass Experiment & See What Happens When You Tell People The Truth"


RFKjr (2023)

[grapevine]

"The transformation of human consciousness is no longer a luxury, so to speak, available only to a few isolated individuals, but a necessity if humankind is not to destroy itself. At the present time, the dysfunction of the old consciousness and the rising of the new are both accelerating. Paradoxically, things are getting worse and better at the same time, although the worse is more apparent because it makes so much noise"".

Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

[Tintin]

On Fred Astaire, often misattributed to Ginger Rogers herself - it's still wonderful though.

More on this here (https://oupacademic.tumblr.com/post/74326381160/misquotation-ginger-rogers), quote: Years after the near-fall she described, a friend sent her a cartoon by Bob Thaves, in his 'Frank and Ernest’ series, from a Los Angeles newspaper. In the cartoon (which certainly popularized if it did not originate the saying), Frank and Ernest are shown gazing at a billboard announcing a Fred Astaire film festival. The caption reads:



"'Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did…backwards and in high heels.’"

[Kryztian]

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

Carl Sagan

[Perdido]

“I don’t pray for The Rapture, I pray for another Passover.” D Kettles

FREEDOM !

[Matthew]

This will not be the first time this has been quoted and it will not be the last.


First they ignore you,

Then they laugh at you,

Then they fight you,

Then you win.


Mahatma Gandhi

[Eva2]

“… anyone who speaks of the ideals of race and nation…today is speaking of impulses which are part of the decline of humanity. If anyone now considers them to be progressive ideals to present to humanity, they speak untruth. Nothing is more designed to take humanity into its decline than the propagation of ideals of race, nationhood and blood.”

- Rudolf Steiner
Oct 26, 1917; GA 177

[Icare]

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."

Woodrow Wilson, American president from 1913 to 1921


He knew.

[Sue (Ayt)]

"Honour biological humanity. Honour Source. It will seem we are all doomed, it will seem utterly unstoppable in a moment of realisation. Hold strong in that moment because that's when Source will happen.

Stay true, all the best."
-------

(quote from our own Innocent Warrior)
:shooting star:

[Icare]

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed.
If you do read it, you're misinformed."

Denzel Washington

[Eva2]

'"The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence.
To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people."

~ Carl Jung

https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/355844539_817832316359605_6550216627350424453_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=XgqHQDxoBNIAX942bJe&_nc_oc=AQn2RObR0qcF-XVCj2Dbxx2r4GpdqcnvEUFt2m-mKY-irCJJZPWatNIV8SVbTfJBccBkLOSSFktBHm-n7LvADdY3&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=00_AfAIkxa3DyMQX_r3TgGKlRKicYaQJ6nFz2bwerq2kSETMA&oe=64A74347

[grapevine]

"Walk tall, walk straight and look the world right in the eye"
(Don Wayne, sung by Val Doonican)

[Mari]

" Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I'm possible!' "

-Audrey Hepburn

[Michi]

lift-up
51187

[Icare]

"It's a wonderful thing to realize you'be been fooled. It's a great gift because from that point you'll not be fooled any longer."

David Icke

[Bill Ryan]

The West is mistaken about Russia. It thinks that we are so weakened by the war that all our power has already dried up. That's a mistake. A nation of a hundred million people capable of sacrificing themselves for an idea is not so easily wiped out. Russia is alive, and if the known limits are crossed, she will decide to fight... And then any foreigner will be unfortunate.
General Mikhail Skobelev (1843—1882)

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"They want you to be godless, sexless, genderless, childless, depressed, anxious, afraid, fat, drug addicted, lonely, physically weak, mentally weak, in debt, isolated, living in a pod, eating bugs, and dependent on the state for everything."
- someone





From Bill:
This is from AussiegirlAnna, here (https://gettr.com/post/p1axo9404df). :heart:

[rgray222]

"I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent." - Luciano Pavarotti.

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/358127119_9518533438216658_6768578980457112414_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&cb=99be929b-59f725be&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=qzdSxxK4Yn0AX_ZSGDc&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&oh=00_AfArtI65hUpVx44sECNt0oiwJo9DmBouPNt48oSXkG9pOw&oe=64B395E0

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"They want you to be godless, sexless, genderless, childless, depressed, anxious, afraid, fat, drug addicted, lonely, physically weak, mentally weak, in debt, isolated, living in a pod, eating bugs, and dependent on the state for everything."
- someone





From Bill:
This is from AussiegirlAnna, here (https://gettr.com/post/p1axo9404df). :heart:

I'd seen this quoted elsewhere without the source being cited. Thanks for the heads up!

[Raskolnikov]

"The medicine of the future will be music and sound." Edgar Cayce

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Nikola Tesla

[Tintin]

“What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? How do we get rid of you? And if you can’t get rid of the people who govern you, you don’t live in a democratic system.” ~ Tony Benn, former British Politician speaking in the House of Commons, March 2001

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/Tony_Benn_HoC_What_power_have_you_got_address_in_British_Parliament_Mar_2001.mp4

Audio:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/Tony_Benn_HoC_What_power_have_you_got_address_in_British_Parliament_Mar_2001.mp3

[Raskolnikov]

https://stoicquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Hecato-Copy-3.png

https://www.alcoholsayings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/alcoholsayings-2574-600x399.jpg

[Mari]

I confess.


51283

[Raskolnikov]

This one came to me the moment I figured it out:

Suffering ends when you change lonely when not alone to alone but not lonely.

[rgray222]

Our life is a constant journey. The landscape changes, the people change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station.
Paulo Coelho

https://i.imgur.com/Yg4LM3c.mp4

[Ewan]

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."

Kris Kristofferson (from the song 'Me and Bobby McGee')

[Raskolnikov]

“Pain and pleasure are swings in the arc of a pendulum, to the degree the pendulum swings into pleasure it will swing into the same degree of pain.” Unknown

[Vicus]

“Pain and pleasure are swings in the arc of a pendulum, to the degree the pendulum swings into pleasure it will swing into the same degree of pain.” Unknown

Marquis de Sade, perhaps ? :sherlock:

[Raskolnikov]

“Pain and pleasure are swings in the arc of a pendulum, to the degree the pendulum swings into pleasure it will swing into the same degree of pain.” Unknown

Marquis de Sade, perhaps ? :sherlock:

That's hilarious, he did equate pleasure with pain didn't he? Supposedly it's from some lost scrolls from Atlantis. I found it in The Children of The Law of One & the Lost Teachings of Atlantis by Jon Peniel.

[Raskolnikov]

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Diderot

I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. W.C. Fields

[Vicus]

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”

Charles Bukowski :cheers:

[Raskolnikov]

https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/13109-Pablo-Picasso-Quote-The-meaning-of-life-is-to-find-your-gift-The.jpg

[Alecs]

If I may stretch the limit of a "quote" ...

f9A_qFM9IAk


[Mentioned in the trailer of "Money & Markets" of July 20th at solari.com (https://home.solari.com/).]

[Matthew]

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Dr John Campbell, quoting Bob Dylan, about vaccine truths.

https://i.postimg.cc/rpTWYM2D/image.png

"Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see" - Bob Dylan

[palehorse]

"Insecure societies are the most intolerant of those who are NON-JOINERS. They are so unsure of the validity of their game rules, that they say everyone must play. " -- Alan Watts

[Ewan]

I don't have any heroes here anymore but what does a man have to do, accomplish, and endure before his character has been made clear? -Innocent-Warrior (-https://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?24844)

Entire post here (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106596-Julian-Assange-arrested-after-Ecuador-tears-up-asylum-deal&p=1568526&viewfull=1#post1568526).

[gord]

I'm sure this is already posted here somewhere, but it does need to be pointed out occasionally:

from "the matrix deciphered" by Robert Duncan


Methods of discrediting – Gas Lighting

We naturally use a philosophy of "Occam's Razor" which states that the simplest explanation is usually the best. So to make someone sound paranoid, all you have to do is come up with a sufficiently complex plan of harassment and the majority of people's disbelief of that event will be sufficient not to act or care about it. If you study the psychology of people like psychological operations and the CIA do, you can predict with a certain degree of accuracy what that person will believe giving certain facts.

[Eva2]

"There is no other reality than the one we have inside." That's why most humans live so unrealistically; because they believe the outer images are reality and don't allow their own inner world to manifest. "

Hermann Hesse

[palehorse]

"There is no other reality than the one we have inside." That's why most humans live so unrealistically; because they believe the outer images are reality and don't allow their own inner world to manifest. "

Hermann Hesse

That's exactly and precise quote. Like in the movie InterReflections by Peter Joseph.

[Eva2]

Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

Terence McKenna

[Kryztian]

They tried to bury me.
They didn't know I was a seed.



--- Sinead O'Connor

[grapevine]

Rob: “Has earth been visited by alien life?”
Seth: “Constantly. Not strange that this is so."
- Seth/Jane Roberts: Session 5 December 9, 1963

[Perdido]

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29a79633-3fdb-45e8-b506-a703190d3892_640x608.jpeg

They just use the TV to do it these days.

[norman]

"Socialism, especially international socialism, is only possible as a stable system if the population is stationary or nearly so"

Bertrand Russell, 1923, Prospects of Industrial Civilisation


15 minute cities ?

[Lilyofthestars]

They tried to bury me.
They didn't know I was a seed.



--- Sinead O'Connor

I have been listening to her old 80's and early 90's albums all day in honor of her soul.. :heart2: So glad that you quoted her here... :flower: The album "universal mother" in particular is so very special as was her beautiful insight and gift of purity to the world.

[grapevine]

“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.”
- Albert Einstein

[Eva2]

There is mud at the bottom of their souls

Nietzsche

[Bill Ryan]

Make peace, you fools! What else can you do?
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (Germany's most senior, most respected, and highest ranking field commander), when asked for his military advice by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel in June 1944. For this, he was removed from his command the next day.

[Eva2]

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

Confucius

[Raskolnikov]

You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

[Eva2]

What we call reality is nothing more than culturally approved and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
Terence McKenna

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Worth quoting, from Russell Brand (this post (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?103634-Discoveries-that-have-transformed-our-understanding-of-human-history&p=1570959&viewfull=1#post1570959))

If you imagine consciousness to be like a signal, and the brain to be like a radio, then the brain is the recipient of consciousness rather than the generator of consciousness.


https://media.tenor.com/tuhiu9GQXhEAAAAM/bingo-kenan-thompson.gif

[Matthew]

The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.


- Julian Assange

[Raskolnikov]

https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-we-do-not-have-to-visit-a-madhouse-to-find-disordered-minds-our-planet-is-the-mental-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-34-73-04.jpg

[Bill Ryan]

The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two sideposts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on; he takes his victims from the castle of the noble, the mansion of the wealthy, and the cottage of the poor and the lowly, and it is on behalf of all these classes that I make this solemn appeal.

I tell the noble Lord, that if he be ready honestly and frankly to endeavour, by the negotiations to be opened at Vienna, to put an end to this war, no word of mine, no vote of mine, will be given to shake his power for one single moment, or to change his position in this House.


John Bright, British Member of Parliament, on 23 February 1855, referring to the war against Russia in Crimea. The above is a small part of a long speech to the British House of Commons which was delivered entirely unscripted, regarded by many as one of the most moving and eloquent anti-war speeches of all time.
Almost everything he said applies today, 168 years later.

[Vicus]

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”

​

Joseph Campbell

[Eva2]

“Acceptance is kind of a choice. We say, I accept this. That's the way they are.
Surrender feels different. It feels like, we're not just distancing ourself from something, but we're expanding around the thing that was giving us trouble.
So it doesn't have such a stranglehold on us, in a way.
And with acceptance, comes a gateway to something appreciably deeper, which is the possibility of transformation,
the possibility of using the situation that we find ourself in, as if it’s a step in our growth and our further discovery of who we are.”
- Frank Ostaseski

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
~ Proverbs 18:2

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"I would rather questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned."
~ Richard Feynman

[Eva2]

Be patient where you sit in the dark, the dawn is coming.

I said: what about my eyes?
He said: Keep them on the road.
I said: What about my passion?
He said: Keep it burning.
I said: What about my heart?
He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: Pain and sorrow.
He said: Stay with it.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Rumi

[Eva2]

This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.

Rod Serling, Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man

[Mari]

Well, not a quote, but a poem...


What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.



William Henry Davies

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
~ Marcus Aurelius

[Eva2]

THE EDGE YOU CARRY WITH YOU
You know
so very well
the edge
of darkness
you have
always
carried with you.
You know
so very well,
your childhood legacy:
that particular,
inherited
sense of hurt,
given to you
so freely
by the world
you entered.
And you know
too well
by now
the body’s
hesitation
at the invitation
to undo
everything
others seemed
to want to
make you learn.
But your edge
of darkness
has always
made
its own definition
secretly
as an edge of light
and the door
you closed
might,
by its very nature
be
one just waiting
to be leant against
and opened.
And happiness
might just
be a single step away,
on the other side
of that next
unhelpful
and undeserving
thought.
Your way home,
understood now,
not as an achievement,
but as a giving up,
a blessed undoing,
an arrival
in the body
and a full rest
in the give
and take
of the breath.
This living
breathing body
always waiting
to greet you
at the door,
always prepared
to give you
the rest you need,
always,
no matter the long
years away,
still wanting you,
to come home.
David Whyte

[Ewan]

THE EDGE YOU CARRY WITH YOU

You know so very well the edge of darkness you have always carried with you.

You know so very well, your childhood legacy:

- that particular, inherited sense of hurt, given to you so freely by the world you entered.

And you know too well by now the body’s hesitation at the invitation to undo everything others seemed to want to make you learn.

But your edge of darkness has always made its own definition secretly as an edge of light and the door you closed might, by its very nature be one just waiting to be leant against and opened.

And happiness might just be a single step away, on the other side of that next unhelpful and undeserving thought.

Your way home, understood now, not as an achievement, but as a giving up, a blessed undoing, an arrival in the body and a full rest in the give and take of the breath.

This living breathing body always waiting to greet you at the door, always prepared to give you the rest you need, always, no matter the long years away, still wanting you, to come home.

David Whyte


Forgive me, I did this for my own benefit.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Forgive me, I did this for my own benefit.

And mine. Thanks Ewan! (no offence Eva2) :heart2:

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
~ Marcus Aurelius

[Eva2]

Forgive me, I did this for my own benefit.

And mine. Thanks Ewan! (no offence Eva2) :heart2:

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
~ Marcus Aurelius

Agree - an easier read. I was reading it like prose/poetry but it doesn't "fit". Thanks.

[Icare]

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.


C.G. Jung

[Ewan]

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
― Thomas Jefferson

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalised version of the first.
― Thomas Jefferson

He also said that banks were more dangerous than standing armies, unfortunately nobody listened and the banks shattered the chains of the constitution and the Government became the criminals. Revolution is long overdue, unfortunately it is always mindless and bloody replacing the old with the new. The King is dead, long live the King.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."
~ Marcus Aurelius

[Tintin]

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/Understanding_and_salary_dependence_Upton_Sinclair.jpg

[Jamie]

I recently heard this quote, and really like the truth of it.
I'm now wondering if I heard it here, on PA... so apologies if it's already been posted.

"Procrastination Is the Thief Of Time"

https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-procrastination-is-the-thief-of-time-year-after-year-it-steals-till-all-are-fled-edward-young-132-52-38.jpg

[grapevine]

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUXluCpweqHgt1n9fTuXHW-V9xmfE7MQIRiQ&usqp=CAU

[Matthew]

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.




It was their final, most essential command.”


George Orwell, 1984

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~ Sholom Aleichem

[Ewan]

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~ Sholom Aleichem

Jeez, that is GOOD!

:focus:

[Jamie]

I'm sure this quote has been posted before, but here again, as a gentle reminder of the time some feel we are in.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/duJnm.jpg

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"
~ Muhammad Ali

[Eva2]

As a general rule, novelty is obviously increasing. It has been since the very beginning of the universe. Immediately following the Big Bang there was only the possibility of nuclear interaction, and then, as temperatures fell below the bond strength of the nucleus, atomic systems could be formed. Still later, as temperatures fell further, molecular systems appeared. Then much later, life became possible; then very complex life forms evolved, thought became possible, culture was invented. The invention of printing and electronic information transfer occurred.
What is happening to our world is ingression of novelty toward what Whitehead called "concrescence," a tightening gyre. Everything is flowing together. The "autopoetic lapis," the alchemical stone at the end of time, coalesces when everything flows together. When the laws of physics are obviated, the universe disappears, and what is left is the tightly bound plenum, the monad, able to express itself for itself, rather than only able to cast a shadow into physis as its reflection. I come very close here to classical millenarian and apocalyptic thought in my view of the rate at which change is accelerating. From the way the gyre is tightening, I predict that concrescence will occur soon and it will be the entry of our species into hyperspace, but it will appear to be the end of physical laws accompanied by the release of the mind into the imagination.'
Terence McKenna

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."
~ Swami Vivekananda

[Bill Ryan]

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead — his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

[mr.white]

Love is to be happy with, someone or something.
Serge Kahili King

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

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

[Kryztian]

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

[Icare]

Listen to the wind, it talks.

Listen to the silence, it speaks.

Listen to the heart, it knows.


Native American proverb

[grapevine]

"It's life Jim, but not as we know it"

Wrongly attributed to Spock in Star Trek, but quoted in the song Star Trekkin, which is odd as I'm sure I remember Dr Leonard "Bones" McCoy saying it on more than one occasion. Another Mandela Effect contender maybe . . . ?

[Innocent Warrior]

“It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.”

― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

[Icare]

Beware of worshipping ‘heroes’ and ‘saviours’ whoever they are – YOU are the ‘hero’ and YOU are the ‘saviour’. It’s called becoming consciousness beyond the illusion and ‘heroes’ and ‘saviours’ are part of the illusion however famous they may be.

David Icke

[Icare]

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

[Bill Ryan]

We liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.

Soviet General Georgy Zhukov (1896—1974)

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
~ Marcus Aurelius

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbpJns1BLnIu-5EwadtBgok3b0aZCwHxWU1XUHaBbECCXIvWxDbMv1ymOUOrdbZDglAyM&usqp=CAU

[Icare]

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde (from "Lady Windermere's Fan")

[Icare]

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even by people
who should and do know better.

George Orwell

[Ewan]

Not entirely sure this qualifies as a great quote given the nature of the comment.

C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre; c'est de la folie! ("It is magnificent, but it is not war; it is madness!") ~ Pierre François Joseph Bosquet (8 November 1810 – 5 February 1861)

In reference of course to The Charge of the Light Brigade, all brought about by a miscommunication..

The Charge of the Light Brigade
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death (The version I learnt was 'INTO the valley of death')
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

II
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

III
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.

IV
Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered.
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

V
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell.
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

VI
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!

[Frankie Pancakes]

Klaus Schwab muse Yuval Noah Harari

“COVID is critical because this is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize, total biometric surveillance. If we want to stop this epidemic, we need not just to monitor people, we need monitor what’s happening under their skin, their body temperature …

“Yes, now they’re using it to see whether you have the coronavirus, but exactly the same technology can determine what you think about the government. You know, anger is a biological phenomenon, just like disease. It’s not some spiritual thing out there, it’s a biological pattern in your body. With this kind of surveillance, I mean you watch the big president, a big leader give a speech on television, the television could be monitoring you and knowing whether you’re angry or not just by analyzing the cues, the biological cues coming from your body.…

“This is the kind of power that Stalin didn’t have. When Stalin gave a speech, everybody of course clapped their hands and smiled. Now how do you know what they really think about Stalin? It’s very difficult. You can’t have a KGB agent following everybody all the time. And even if you do it, he’s just watching your outside behavior. He doesn’t really know what’s happening in your mind. But in ten years, the future Stalins of the twenty-first century, they could be watching the minds, the brains, of all the population all the time and also, they will have the computing power to analyze all it.…

“Now you don’t need human agents, you don’t need human analyzers. You just have a lot of sensors and an AI which analyzes it, and that’s it, you have the worst totalitarian regime in history. And COVID is important because COVID legitimizes some of the crucial steps even in democratic countries.”

[grapevine]

"One for all and all for one"
Musketeers: Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan

[Tintin]

Found via Truthstream Media (https://twitter.com/truthstreamnews/status/1709834055108215082) earlier:

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Thomas Jefferson

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This line is usually quoted by itself, but it's more interesting with its surrounding context. It was in a letter Jefferson wrote to William Stephens Smith on 13 November 1787. (Spelling errors left as they were originally written, but I did italicize a few points.)

-------------------------

"I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying.

The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves.

Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion.

The people can not 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 a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13 states independant 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted."

[grapevine]

"One for all and all for one"
Musketeers: Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan

and

"Every man for himself . . ."
Chaucer's Knight's Tale, c. 1386 but inspired by fraught underground journey in rush hour today.

STO and STS :bigsmile:

[Pam]

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

I loved the fact that you quoted Dale Carnegie. I picked up a couple of his books at garage sales and wow,did he help someone who was very messed up at the time. I love the quote and I'm glad he has been brought to attention.

[Pam]

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


This is hugely powerful ! I have never heard of Hildegard of Bingen. We are currently being asked to live the life of the interpretations of others. That or be punished. I admit, at first I held the fear of being punished. Now I know if it must happen than it does. We are each given an experience to do with as we may. I choose to do what I came here for and if it comes to ugliness, so be it. I am actually quite weak to pain, but one can learn.I believe we can draw on the collective strength of others. This is way the way that the "hive mind" is used" Power in numbers. We are not having this experience to stagnate and avoid trouble with narcissists. So I guess it time to muster up the strength of the beauty of truth.

[Kryztian]

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


This is hugely powerful ! I have never heard of Hildegard of Bingen. We are currently being asked to live the life of the interpretations of others. That or be punished. I admit, at first I held the fear of being punished. Now I know if it must happen than it does. We are each given an experience to do with as we may. I choose to do what I came here for and if it comes to ugliness, so be it. I am actually quite weak to pain, but one can learn.I believe we can draw on the collective strength of others. This is way the way that the "hive mind" is used" Power in numbers. We are not having this experience to stagnate and avoid trouble with narcissists. So I guess it time to muster up the strength of the beauty of truth.

Well Pam, Avalon already has a thread on Hildegard of Bingen ready for your perusal.

Hildegard von Bingen (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117281-Hildegard-von-Bingen&highlight=Hildegard)

Yes, it is a phenomenal quote and quite relevant in the 21st century, where our world is always being interpreted for us, telling us to live our lives in fear and anger. I have to wonder what inspired this quote in the 12th century, up in a convent over looking the Rhine. Hildegard was quite an independent thinker, a woman speaking her truth to power, both to bishops and to royalty.

[edina]

Recall that lending is how money is generated in our current monetary system ... money is not so much "printed", as it is lent into existence. (our own Paul, aka ThePythonicCow, in this post (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?116122-The-Money-Masters-Crises-of-war-plague-and-hunger-Total-central-real-time-control-of-all-money.&p=1577602&viewfull=1#post1577602))

And also this:


When the Fed raises the rate payed by newly issued bonds, that lowers the value of bonds previously issued that pay a lower rate.

Hence, the Fed's interest rate increases since early 2022 have already been forcing a hair cut on bonds already held by corporations and nations.

Who wants an older bond that pays say 1%, when new bonds pay 5%?

Same post (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?116122-The-Money-Masters-Crises-of-war-plague-and-hunger-Total-central-real-time-control-of-all-money.&p=1577602&viewfull=1#post1577602).

[Johnnycomelately]

“Whether a particular glass is half full or half empty, depends entirely on whether it is being either filled or emptied.” - me.

[Raskolnikov]

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
-Samuel Adams

[grapevine]

"November 2nd, 1917

Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely,

Arthur James Balfour

[norman]

"Hillary has Campaign Hair" - Karen Kwiatkowski, in conversation with Judge Napolitano 2 weeks ago.

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/RMxM8hG.jpg

[Eva2]

America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up and sell it off, piece by piece, until there is nothing left but the world's biggest welfare state that we will create and control.

This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them, very slowly.

Benjamin Netanyahu
Recorded at Finks Bar
Jerusalem 1990

[Tintin]

"When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to be a progressive." –-G.K. Chesterton

[grapevine]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1pq-MhXMAEhShY.jpg

[Bill Ryan]

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Otto von Bismarck (1815—1898)

[Bill Ryan]

Humanity is apparently incapable of living without war, such is the fallen nature of man. The task of believers is to at least minimize the harm.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow

[Tintin]

"Really, men are equal in two ways only: before the judgment-seat of God (who, remember, doesn’t assign them all to the same place), and in the eyes of the law. But human beings are not equal otherwise; and because they are unequal, they are not entitled to identical things. Every man is entitled to what is his own; but he has no right to take away from another who has more by his talents or inheritance.

For the slothful man is not equal to the diligent man. The brute is not equal to the saint. The fool is not equal to the sage. The traitor is not equal to the loyal man. The selfish is not equal to the loving. The coward is not equal to the hero. The rogue is not equal to the just judge. And nothing could be more unjust than to treat all these, under the lunatic pretext of natural equality, as if they ought to live one life and enjoy the same rewards."

—Russell Kirk, CONFESSIONS OF A BOHEMIAN TORY, 1963, pg. 280

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/Russell%20Kirk%20quote%20on%20equality%20-%201963.jpg

[Kryztian]

“Does man only possess immortality? The great words: ‘Behold, I make all things new’ are certainly related not to man only, but to all creation, to every creature. We have already said that the spirit of animals, even the smallest part of it, cannot be mortal, for it is from the Holy Spirit….In the new Jerusalem, the new universe, there will be a place for the animals, too….Eternal life for [non-human] creatures will be only quiet happiness and enjoyment of the new radiant nature full of light, in communication with man, who will no longer torture and exterminate it.”
- - - Saint Luke the Surgeon of Simferopol (1877 – 1961)

https://i.imgur.com/e1E1aj3.jpg

[norman]

https://i.redd.it/zw0w07drbss71.png

[Kryztian]

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

- Carl Sagan

[kfm27917]

Here is a quote from the now retired number one law enforcement representative in the USA, from an article in 2015:
“Why is it such a serious matter to get these signers of the AIPAC Loyalty Oath out of Congress?
The reason is obvious, without these Traitors who are sellouts to AIPAC and Israel, America could not have been transformed into a virtual province of Israel”.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
~ Marcus Aurelius

[kfm27917]

The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison. They do not even realize that there is something outside of where they exist.
You have been controlled like sheep in a pen by those who think they own you — from the government to the World Management Team to those in space. You have been deprived of knowledge by frequency control. Think of frequency as individual broadcasting and receiving through which you dial into the station of your choice. It is the broadcasting of carrier waves of intelligence. The range of frequency is unlimited, and the range of intelligent matter transmitted is unlimited.

Pleiadians

https://www.pleiadians.com/dawn.html

[Frankie Pancakes]

Freedom is not free, as many veterans have said. I never understood what that meant except superficially. But you don’t get freedom back so easily if you yourself committed massive crimes. Freedom is not free. You don’t get to take away the freedom of others and enjoy it, without penalty for yourselves. The people you harmed, the parents of the children you burned—they are coming. Not violently, not vengefully, but with the righteous sword of justice in hand. Don’t rest too easy, leaders who did wrong, in this bright American sunlight. You don’t get America back as if nothing had happened.

Naomi Wolf

[Tintin]

“Very shortly, after when one will have written the year 2000, there will come from America not a direct prohibition, but a kind of prohibition against all thinking, a sort of law which will have the aim of suppressing all individual thinking. On the other hand there is the beginning achieved in this direction of suppressing all individual thinking into pure materialistic thinking where one does not need to work upon the soul on the basis of external experiments, in which the human being is handled as if he were a machine."

"For if the world continues in its development as it is strives for in the sense of these materialistic impulses, then we will gradually enter into a development through which not only someone who unlicensed is forbidden from doing anything for human health, but also one in which relating to science, there is a prohibition against anyone saying anything other than that which is approved by those who have taken a kind of vow under the materialist world order.

Today many things are forbidden, of which people do not feel any coercion from prohibition. But we are approaching times when, like any unlicensed concern for healing of human beings, every word will be banned, except in an institution guaranteed and approved by the materialistically developed powers."
- Rudolf Steiner, April 1916, Dornach

Passage from the full lecture, THINGS IN PAST AND PRESENT IN THE SPIRIT OF MAN, GA 167 - IV. Secrets of Freemasonry here: https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA167/English/TS19xx/19160404p01.html

[Tintin]

“You will see that in life you receive exactly what you give. Your life is the mirror of what you are. It is in your image. You are passive, blind, demanding. You take all, you accept all, without feeling any obligation.

Your attitude toward the world and toward life is the attitude of one who has the right to make demands and to take, who has no need to pay or to earn.

You believe that all things are your due, simply because it is you! All your blindness is there! None of this strikes your attention. And yet this is what keeps one world separate from another world.” - Jeanne De Salzmann, First Initiation

The full initiation from the Gurdjieff International Review. here: https://www.gurdjieff.org/salzmann3.htm

[kfm27917]

"We are proud to be able infiltrating our YGLs into governments around the world."

Klaus Schwab

(YGL=Young Global Leaders)

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

This is a quote from an author unknown. I've seen it before, and read it again recently in a comment on Youtube. It's perhaps now more pertinent than any other time before. Do you not feel the undercurrent of these words everywhere you look, bubbling under the surface? I can. So many people have had enough -- just enough, and that's for those living in the relatively peaceful West. One can only imagine what it's like for people living in places like the Middle East right now.

This is a powerful quote. How accurate it will prove to be, time will tell.


"The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people's door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy... but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone."
~ Author Unknown

[kfm27917]

“What is death?
It is the glass of life broken into a thousand pieces where the soul disperses like perfume from a flask into the silence of an eternal night.”

—Author, unknown.

[Bill Ryan]

When you're in a hole, stop digging.
First quoted in The Washington Post on 25 October, 1911.

[Kryztian]

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

~ Flannery O'Connor

[Eva2]

https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/120091864_10223965231943892_3806984042090667425_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=dd63ad&_nc_ohc=DwuLHK_j1cYAX9RM2XK&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=00_AfD2-3GWHbHv68kKljn_aIroIyRk8pGegCpD7Ts-ShwANA&oe=656DF462

"The promise of a medicine woman
If you come to me as a victim I will not support you.
But I will have the courage to walk with you through the pain that you are suffering.
I will put you in the fire, I will undress you, and I will sit you on the earth.
I will bathe you with herbs, I will purge you, and you will vomit the rage and the darkness inside you.
I'll bang your body with good herbs, and I'll put you to lay in the grass, face up to the sky.
Then I will blow your crown to clean the old memories that make you repeat the same behavior.
I will blow your forehead to scare away the thoughts that cloud your vision.
I will blow your throat to release the knot that won't let you talk.
I will blow your heart to scare fear, so that it goes far away where it cannot find you.
I will blow your solar plexus to extinguish the fire of the hell you carry inside, and you will know peace.
I will blow with fire your belly to burn the attachments, and the love that was not.
I will blow away the lovers that left you, the children that never came.
I will blow your heart to make you warm, to rekindle your desire to feel, create and start again.
I will blow with force your vagina or your penis, to clean the sexual door to your soul.
I will blow away the garbage that you collected trying to love what did not wanted to be loved.
I will use the broom, and the sponge, and the rag, and safely clean all the bitterness inside you.
I will blow your hands to destroy the ties that prevent you from creating.
I will blow your feet to dust and erase the footprints memories, so you can never return to that bad place.
I will turn your body, so your face will kiss the earth.
I'll blow your spine from the root to the neck to increase your strength and help you walk upright.
And I will let you rest.
After this you will cry, and after crying you will sleep,
And you will dream beautiful and meaningful dreams,
and when you wake up I'll be waiting for you.
I will smile at you, and you will smile back
I will offer you food that you will eat with pleasure, tasting life, and I will thank you.
Because what I’m offering today, was offered to me before when darkness lived within me.
And after I was healed, I felt the darkness leaving, and I cried.
Then we will walk together, and I will show you my garden, and my plants, and I will take you to the fire again.
And will talk together in a single voice with the blessing of the earth.
And we will shout to the forest the desires of your heart.
And the fire will listen and whisper the echo, and we will create hope together.
And the mountains will listen and whisper the echo, and we will create hope together.
And the rivers will listen and whisper the echo, and we will create hope together.
And the wind will listen and whisper the echo, and we will create hope together.
And then we will bow before the fire, and we will call upon all the visible and invisible guardians.
And you will say thank you to all of them.
And you will say thank you to yourself.
And you will say thank you to yourself.
And you will say thank you to yourself."
-Unknown
repost Ciewantu CrowBear

[Eva2]

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ~Haruki Murakami

[TargeT]

Every major conflicts starting point is only ever found through the lens of history. ~me

[Frankie Pancakes]

not sure either great quotes or laugh once a day...hmmm.

[kfm27917]

I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

[onawah]

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
C.G. JUNG

[Matthew]

"Almost everyone wants to get even with the ppl who wronged them. Hardly anyone wants to get even with the ones who helped them."
source: internet

https://i.postimg.cc/2S7Q2yVV/image.png

[kfm27917]

In all ages, in all lands, there have been those who seek truth. This seeking is an individual's search for something more than self, and much more than the confines of this worldly system. It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.

Alan Watt

[kfm27917]

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

- Bertrand Russell

[Ewan]

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

- Bertrand Russell

And...

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

~Bertrand Russell

My goodness, this guy has some great quotes (https://www.azquotes.com/author/12791-Bertrand_Russell).

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

~Bertrand Russell

By the way, the full quote you posted is...

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

~Bertrand Russell

Not being a smarta**, just saw it at the link above. :)

[Kryztian]

"If you understand what's going on and didn't take the poison, you have survived the greatest psychological warfare in human history. Do you realize how much time, resources, money and effort they put into this? They have tried to manipulate, brainwash and force you. They have been trying to scare you. Attempted to make you feel guilty. They tried to bribe you with gifts. They tried to confuse you, to question your reality, and also your sanity. They tried to make you abandon your principles, your morals and your values. They even managed to turn your loved ones and friends against you. Almost everyone fell for it, but not you. You never gave up on yourself. You stood up for yourself against all odds and persevered. Stay that way."

~ Lee Walters

[kfm27917]

Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights?

Tony Robbins

[TargeT]

"Ensure the people you are friends with are people that inspire you or match your goals, your friends should be people that you want to be like" - cw4 ostrawski, my supervisor

[Eva2]

“If you don’t watch out, language will be telling you what and who you are and what is to be done with or to you. And if you do watch out, you’re in for an experience that will render the wildest science fiction into scribbles. With the right lens? Language leads directly to its origins. Unprepared, that encounter could destroy your mind. But with a compass and a skill or three? You can find and ascend the Ladder. From there, dear Eternity will trade intimacies with you as her own.”
— infraheard

[Bill Ryan]

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.


Emilia, in Shakespeare's Othello, published in 1603.

[Tintin]

"The four fundamental powers are Understanding, Grace, Perception, and Consideration." - from a conversation between the Christ (in supernatural form) and his disciple 'John' translated from the Nag Hammadi scrolls, and specifically from The Apocryphon of John

[Tintin]

“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, 1945

[kfm27917]

"The US is like a Pidgeon that struts around the chessboard, knocking all the pieces over and then claims it won as it ****s on the board and flies off."

- Putin

[Ewan]

"The US is like a Pidgeon that struts around the chessboard, knocking all the pieces over and then claims it won as it ****s on the board and flies off."

- Putin

OMG that's brilliant. Did he really say that, when and is there perchance a link?

[Lunesoleil]

Stop scaring yourselves, you'd think it'd become the human stock-in-trade. You create low energies with this kind of discussion, you really don't understand anything ❓ I'm putting this here, my rant of the moment, everyone can take from it what they want

:Avalon:

[kfm27917]

Dera Ewan
i don;t know.
I picked it up from another website
K

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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

[kfm27917]

An Ideal is merely an escape, an avoidance of what is, a contradiction of what is. An ideal prevents direct action upon what is. To have peace, we will have to love, we will have to begin not to live an ideal life but to see things as they are and act upon them, transform them.

- J. Krishnamurti

[onawah]

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[Ewan]

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

[Frankie Pancakes]

..........

[Bill Ryan]

We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border, while denying it any employment in our country. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.
Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, 1895

[kfm27917]

"It is not death that a man should fear,

but he should fear never beginning to live."

Marcus Aurelius

[Bill Ryan]

I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn:
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
W.H. Auden, 1 September 1939

[norman]

Why did Winston Churchill say "perverted science" ?


The Battle of France is over: the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: This was their finest hour.

[Kryztian]

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

[Ewan]

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Edmund Burke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke)
Born: January 12, 1729
Died: July 9, 1797


Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

From: Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Liberty and Equality"

George Bernard Shaw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_bernard_shaw)
Born: July 26, 1856
Died: November 2, 1950

[kfm27917]

In the end, we return to the question, just how much do you love truth? Do you really love truth or are you just curious? Do you love it enough to rebuild your understanding to conform to a reality that doesn't fit your current beliefs, and doesn't feel 120% happy? Do you love truth enough to continue seeking even when it hurts, when it reveals aspects of yourself (or human society, or the universe) that are shocking, complex and disturbing, or humbling, glorious and amazing - or even, when truth is far beyond human mind itself? Just how much do we love truth? It's a good question to ask ourselves, I think.

- Scott Mandelker

https://www.sott.net/

[edina]

Before children speak, they sing
Before they write, they paint.
As soon as they stand, they dance.
Art is the basis of human expression.

From a meme, posted by a friend on FB. No author attributed, but it's something worth thinking about. :sun:

[Bill Ryan]

Before children speak, they sing
Before they write, they paint.
As soon as they stand, they dance.
Art is the basis of human expression.

From a meme, posted by a friend on FB. No author attributed, but it's something worth thinking about. :sun:It was from Phylicia Rashad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylicia_Rashad), American actress (now aged 75) and Dean of the Chadwick Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University.

:heart:

[Paul D.]

"The deep critical thinker has become the...
misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence. To
maintain order and control you must isolate
the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the
savant before their ideas awaken people.'
Carl Jung

[Bill Ryan]

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Mark Twain

:)

[kfm27917]

"We are bleeding at the roots,

because we are cut off

from the earth and sun and stars,

and love is a grinning mockery,

because, poor blossom,

we plucked it from its stem

on the tree of Life and expected it

to keep on blooming

in our civilized vase on the table"

D.H. Lawrence

[kfm27917]

“Philosophical thinking that doesn’t do violence to one’s settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.” ~Rebecca Goldstein

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“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” ~Carl Sagan

[kfm27917]

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~J. Krishnamurti

[kfm27917]

“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.” ~Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe.

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“Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.” ~Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World

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“Science places itself on a pedestal and assures everyone it has dispassionately arrived at its conclusions. Meanwhile, however, it is full of assumptions, denials and limitations, and makes the serious mistake of presenting its theories as facts. The errors of mainstream science are gladly seized upon by technocrats, eager to use science and technology to further their own ambitions of control… ~Makia Freeman

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“It’s much easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled — such is the nature of confirmation bias and other psychological tools of manipulation. Breaking free of the ancient, historical ‘constant’ of mind control is an ongoing process of waking up out of a state of denial. Spiritual emergence and awakening involves a physiological break from the consensus social agreements of our planetary cultures.” ~Karlos Kukuburra

[Bill Ryan]

Time flies.

Virgil, 29 BC.
"Fugit irreparabile tempus" ("Irretrievable time flies.)

[mr.white]

What we do in Life, echoes in Eternity.
Maximus - Gladiator

[Bill Ryan]

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

Voltaire
(A little interpretation may be helpful. He was stating that murder is clearly an evil thing — UNLESS it's in warfare and sanctioned by governments.)

[kfm27917]

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others.

~ John C. Maxwell.

[grapevine]

"Whenever the people need a hero we shall supply him" - Albert Pike

Above quoted by Whitney Webb referring to Elon Musk in a YT interview with What Bitcoin Did channel, linked below so's not to hijack the thread, but worth viewing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYyTyXpdQRI&t=3702s (1:23:5 mins)

[Bill Ryan]

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Mark Twain

[Eva2]

'The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish. The job of the artist is always to push language beyond the boundaries previously defined. The narrative novel form has become very confining. Nonetheless people like Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Steve Erickson seem to work fairly comfortably within that. Art is going to become more interactive, three-dimensional, multimedia-driven, and much more seamlessly part of ordinary reality. The bedrock of all of this lies in the observation that the world is made of information. It’s all code. Your genetic heritage is code, your neurological processing of the moment is code, the machines around you are processed code. All levels of this code production are ruled by the rules of symbolic logic whether inside machines or inside organisms, and this is a very large paradigm shift. It will take awhile for western science and institutions to bring the canoe around to the new setting. The technologies that lie beyond the millennium are going to make confronting all of this inevitable. Distributed processing power on the net with very large bands of connection for everyone, interactivity, all kinds of things that are in the pipeline are going to converge. The internet as we possess it in any given moment is not the internet of the next moment. It’s changing in very fundamental ways, not simply the interface seen by the user, but in very fundamental ways the internet will be evolving and growing.'
Terence McKenna

[mr.white]

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

Guy Ritchie

[Bill Ryan]

You cannot wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

An old Navajo proverb

[Alekahn2]

"There is a sea not far from us.
It is invisible
but it is not hidden.
It is forbidden to speak of it.
Yet it is a sin and a sign
of ingratitude not to."
~Rumi

"I am only a child
playing on the beach,
while vast oceans of truth
lie undiscovered before me."
~Sir Isaac Newton


"One has been endowed with just enough intelligence
to be able to see clearly, how utterly inadequate that
intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
If such humility could be conveyed to everybody,
the world of human activities would be much
more appealing."
;) ~A. Einstein

Blessed New Year Avalon! :heart2:

[kfm27917]

"The desire for more positive experience

is itself a negative experience.

And, paradoxically,

the acceptance of one's negative experience

is itself a positive experience."

Mark Manson

[Bill Ryan]

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Otto von Bismarck (1815—1898)

[Tintin]

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

[Spirithorse]

"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more?"

~Roy T. Bennett

[Bill Ryan]

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.
Eliezer 'Elie' Wiesel
Writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. Author of 57 books, including 'Night', based on his experience in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

[Kryztian]

“If you had dared to suggest one hundred years ago that God and the devil were in cahoots, you would he invited to attend a barbecue in the public square, and you would be the barbecuee. But today it is apparent that the same force that answers some prayers also causes it to rain anchovies and is behind everything from sea serpents to flying saucers. It distorts our reality whimsically, perhaps out of boredom, or perhaps because it is a little crazy.

God may be a crackpot.”

― John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

[Bill Ryan]

I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back.
Isaac Asimov
People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.
Noam Chomsky
Humans killed billions of people in the name of religion. Bigotry is pride. Hypocrisy is moral. Human character is in its own deep abyss.
Mohammed Zaki Ansari

[Docim369]

There is no such thing as sanity and that is the sanest fact.
Mark Knpfler, Dire Straits.

[Lunesoleil]

"Woe to you, land whose king is a child." Ecclesiastes 10:16

[norman]

"We are depopulating in a civil and silent manner" - Dennis Meadows (Club of Rome)





If they can extinguish nations and their laws and rights before we get our hands on them, what laws can they be charged against . . . . . ?

Winner takes all, and writes the book.

[Bill Ryan]

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
Martin Luther King

[Bill Ryan]

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
Nicholas Kristof
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
Simon Wiesenthal
All cultures are different. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. Some commit genocide.
Casey Affleck

[Franny]

Christian Zionists who have forsaken Christ for Israel find themselves fully aligned with [Palestinian] Genocide. ~ Unknown

[TargeT]

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do".

John Seldon, in Table-Talk (1654)

[Tintin]

"I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder." - Harry Patch, some-time last surviving soldier of World War One (b: 17 June 1898 – d: 25 July 2009)

[Tintin]

“As they used to say on Stingray: 'Anything can happen in the next half-hour'. I've always tried to live with that thought in mind.” - John Cooper Clark (The Bard of Salford)

[Tintin]

I'm assuming Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge is having a little bit of a laugh here :laughs:

Headline:


Reid Hoffman Pulls Out Of Nikki Haley After New Hampshire Pounding

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/reid-hoffman-pulls-out-nikki-haley-after-new-hampshire-pounding

[ExomatrixTV]

When Exposing A Crime Is Treated As "Committing A Crime", You Are Being Ruled By Criminals!

#EdwardSnowden (https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/edwardsnowden?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZXTf-kLgvslmrlTCmXNLLoDbHChytdQ0mu3pV6uQS0VHD2dQ0cEmdr5pbOP9GHAIXfBO7WYGQzajOfECcVGSkmNgxwXKzvbu6tVm1Hstu X5nAJq_bwfkqi-hUShgSETt3MhG7XBAIgABMoyj3XOENs7&__tn__=*NK-R)

When Exposing Corruption is labeled as: "Dangerous Misinformation" You Are Being Ruled by Liars Complicit in Crime”

#JohnKuhles (https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/johnkuhles?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZXbcnnvK2FZv9mcVS2MS67WF26soyqJlIZAz2_iG2HtdNGV4Ip3S_rHIgdcZUA9tq5w14e3xN_UKnYfbIgyyzK06qV1AQJDQoL XzpWrxhfOE_iHmWzKg4vwMdcZKx2XrbAFCL49lDcuTRn3cf48VyOr&__tn__=*NK-R) 🦜🦋🌳

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/6CmnxN0.jpg


Perhaps we need another thread called the "Not-so-great" quotes for some of the quotes here, including this one.

[pueblo]

"Love is infallible, it has no errors, for all errors are the want of love."
- William Law

"He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love."
- i John iv

"The astrolabe of the mysteries of God is love."
- Jalal-uddin Rumi

"By love may He be gotten and holden , but by thought never."
- The Cloud of the Unknowing


From The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley

[Tintin]

“Do not hope that once you take advantage of Russia’s weakness, you will receive dividends forever. The Russians always come for their money. And when they come, do not rely on the Jesuit agreements you signed that supposedly justify you. They are not worth the paper they are written on. Therefore, you should either play fairly with the Russians, or not play at all." - Otto von Bismarck

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."
~ Marcus Aurelius

[Ewan]

More of a speech than a quote but...

Robert F. Kennedy, New York Senator.

On March 2nd, 1967, he spoke on the senate floor...



We have sent more than four hundred thousand men into battle. Fleets of extraordinarily complex planes pour their devastation upon paths and villages which divide an ancient jungle. The most powerful country the world has ever known now turns its strength and will upon a small and primitive land. And still there is no peace.

... All we say and all we do must be informed by our awareness that this horror is partly our responsibility; not just a nation's responsibility, but yours and mine. It is we who live in abundance and send our young men out to die. It is our chemicals that scorch the children and our bombs that level the villages. We are all participants.

... The war has also made far more difficult the hopeful pursuit of fresh understanding and diminishing tension between the two great nuclear powers: the United States and the Soviet Union. It is diverting resources which might have been used to help eliminate American poverty, to improve the education of our children and enhance the quality of our national life.

[kfm27917]

"The problem with quotations on the Internet is that you never know if they are genuine." --- Abraham Lincoln

[Kryztian]

"I think we are property. I should say we belong to something; that once upon a time this Earth was no-man's land, that other worlds explored and colonised here and fought among themselves for possession, but now it's owned by something; that something owns this Earth. All others warned off." --Charles Fort, 1931

[Franny]

🌟For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
~ Vincent Van Gogh

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"Old age - the only disease you don't look forward to being cured of."
— from Citizen Kane

[pueblo]

"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."

- Gustave Le Bon

[grapevine]

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” - Mike Tyson

[Eva2]

“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan

Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found everyone, myself as well.
- Rumi

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anäis Nin
Catrin Welz Stein - The Bouquet.

The truth will always come out. You can try to suppress truth, you can threaten, punish, enslave, crucify those who dare speak it, you can run from it, try to numb it, silence it, smother it, shame it, ridicule it, throw all manner of lies and half-truths against it.
But in the end, truth will always come out.
Because truth is Life. And it takes courage to speak truth. You may risk losing your livelihood, your relationships, your reputation, your worldly possessions, your friends, your family, even your life. You may be quaking as you speak it, dripping with sweat, nauseous and dry-mouthed and on the verge of fleeing. But in the end you cannot hold it back.
It is more powerful than you. It will outlast you. Outlive you. You were born from it and will return to it. It speaks through you. You are a vessel for truth. And when you know truth and declare it to the Universe and to all who will listen, you may feel the doubt and the guilt and the shame of it too, the terror of abandonment, old thoughts warning you to shut the **** up. But you may feel so alive, too. So on your path. So aligned with your calling. So willing to face the consequences, moment by moment, breath by breath. There is no greater power on Earth No more potent agent for change Than you, awake.
~ Leopold Molensky

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

[Eva2]

Reality outruns apprehension. Our role is not to understand but to appreciate. We have an outstanding ability for resonance of beauty, aesthetic awareness, intuition of truth. The notion that by creating these models of reality which are not acknowledged as models, we betray ourselves down the primrose path to a dreary, dusty death. We take the poetry out of being by the assumption of the mundane, the banality of modernity. The steady flattening of values so that nothing means much, the sense of outrage as a society shifts towards the abyss is muted. This is the heresy of the bad little boys of the 19th century. Nietche, Darwin and Hegel, Schopenhauer. These guys were on a bad trip, they give us a universe devoid of soul out of which fascism is an outcome. Nature is something from which we torment her secrets. The world is created for man to remake in his image not the other way round. Man is in the abyss. We seem abandoned. This is permission for a pathology which ignores the centrality of nature. And this is what we must redeem. A thundering recognition of the symbiotic relationship we have with nature. Nature is full of affection for humanity. Our relationship with the world demands a restoration of natures dominion above and beyond any inflated egotism. We are on the brink, peering into the vast abyss and we are required to shift our core understanding with as much rapidity as our minds can facilitate. The hour is late, the die is cast. Nature wins because it must. Redemption draws near.'
Terence McKenna

[kfm27917]

When you start on the road, the road finds you.
Rumi

[kfm27917]

"Do not compare, do not measure.

No other way is like yours.

All other ways deceive and tempt you.

You must fulfill the way that is in you."

Carl Jung

[kfm27917]

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”

​

Joseph Campbell

[norman]

Dr Lee Merritt had this on her green-screen background during the Dangerous Dames chat about the Carlson/Putin interview.

"This is not the end of the world, it's the end of the illusion" - Humberto Braga


( a tad optimistic, maybe )

[kfm27917]

The being of two people can differ from one another more than the being of a mineral and of an animal. This is exactly what people do not understand. And they do not understand that knowledge depends on being. Not only do they not understand this latter but they definitely do not wish to understand it.

- G. I. Gurdjieff

[kfm27917]

Better an inconclusive but profitable Forever War than any other kind.

US Military Industrial Congressional Complex

[Eva2]

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world."
~ Terence McKenna

[Rosencross]

https://i.postimg.cc/rydPdtSz/Trust-1.jpg

[kfm27917]

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

William Casey, CIA Director, 1981, when asked what the goal of the agency was

[Kryztian]

"I'm not clever enough to solve the UFO puzzle. There's almost no topic where I can't generate multiple explanations. This is the only topic I've ever met where I can't generate a single explanation for what the hell's going on. Nothing I can think of makes sense."

- Eric Weinstein


from this great interview:


Eric Weinstein On UFOs - “There Is Way More To This Story Than We Know”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufrqdRO7Lj4 (13:33)
"Chris Williamson and Eric Weinstein discuss the latest information leaks on UFOs. What does Eric Weinstein think the UFO phenomenon is? Why does Eric Weinstein believe there is more than what is being told to the public? Has the United States lost control of its airspace according to Eric Weinstein? "

[Kryztian]

A government is never more dangerous than when embarking on a self-defeating or downright suicidal course. —William S. Burroughs

[kfm27917]

Take the right to vote. In principle it is a great privilege. In practice as recent history has repeatedly shown the right to vote by itself is no guarantee of liberty. Therefore if you wish to avoid dictatorship by referendum break up modern society’s merely func­tional collectives into self-governing voluntarily cooperating groups capable of functioning outside the bureaucratic systems of Big Business and Big Govern­ment.

– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, 1958

[kfm27917]

A’ohe pau ka ‘ike i ka halau ho’okahi
– Not all knowledge is learned in one school

https://www.urbanhuna.org/about-urban-huna/

[grapevine]

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” ― George Orwell, 1984

[kfm27917]

"Do not fear those who can kill the body but not soul.
Rather be afraid of him who can destroy both
soul and body in the life after death."

Gospel of Matthew 10-28

[kfm27917]

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

- The Borg

[Jamie]

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

- The Borg

https://imgs.search.brave.com/wjkqFVBNu-HrY8KulBNWO91s5rRiuot46tFDZZgoQ-M/rs:fit:500:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9wcmV2/aWV3LnJlZGQuaXQv/c3Rhci10cmVrLWts/YXVzLXNjaHdhYi12/MC1jNXp4NTdjenB6/Y2ExLmpwZz93aWR0/aD02NDAmY3JvcD1z/bWFydCZhdXRvPXdl/YnAmcz1hZTliMTJl/OThkNDhiODUzODFl/YjIwNGI5YmYyMDQ2/NDk2ZDhmZWQw

Not a quote, but couldn't help myself. Had to add this image.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"Controlling the bureaucracy is like nailing Jell-O to the wall"
~ John F. Kennedy

[Bill Ryan]

First we overlook evil. Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil.

Father Dwight Longenecker



(https://twitter.com/dlongenecker1)

[kfm27917]

as the monkey said while eating a box of prunes: this too shall pass.
(anonymous)

[kfm27917]

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal".

- Aristotle

[kfm27917]

Where there is bright light,
there are deep shadows.

Old Saying

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia4/consciousreality53.htm

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/AGUWZG2.jpeg