The Great Quotes thread

[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 9Jul21

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Ron Mauer Sr (here)
"Jesus was a Jedi. He just wanted us to know that all of WE/US are as well."
Chip 9Jul21

Chip's "Jesus was a Jedi" post is here.

[Eva2]

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

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

[Eva2]

Posted by Jill (here)
We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom.
Author Unknown

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

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]

~ 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