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    W.C., that is one of my favorites. Anais Nin, what a very clever woman. she is definitely one fantastic authoress. thanks, i love it.
    warmest regards, corson

    which brings me too the fact that it's april 2, somewhere in this world. so today

    April 2, 2011

    "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

    -Malcolm X (1925-1965)
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    In that case, one more from Nin for the road:

    'You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers — you're bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance.'
    Anaïs Nin, 1932

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    Quote Posted by W.C. (here)
    In that case, one more from Nin for the road:

    'You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers — you're bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance.'
    Anaïs Nin, 1932
    beautiful. how bout: "We do not see people as they are, we see them as we are."

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    Perception is reality.
    W.C.
    The Lion strode through the halls of Hell;
    Across his path grim shadows fell
    Of many a mowing, nameless shape—
    Monsters with dripping jaws agape.
    The darkness shuddered with scream and yell
    When the Lion stalked through the halls of Hell.

    OLD BALLAD

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    I dont know wot John died from. But is wasnt anything dangerous.

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    Quote Whilst crossing open territory, bother no-one.
    If someone bothers you, ask them to stop.
    If they do not stop,
    destroy them.
    ~ Anton Szandor LaVey.

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    Here is a truckload of cheery quotes:

    The Eschatological Laundry List
    From Sheldon Kopp's book
    "If you Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him":

    1. This is it.
    2. There are no hidden meanings.
    3. You can't get there from here, and besides there is no place to go.
    4. We are already dying, and we'll be dead a long time.
    5. Nothing lasts!
    6. There is no way of getting all you want.
    7. You can't have anything unless you let go of it.
    8. You only get to keep what you give away.
    9. There is no particular reason why you lost out on some things.
    10. The world is not necessarily just. Being good often does not pay off and there's no compensation for misfortune.
    11. You have the responsibility to do your best nonetheless.
    12. It's a random universe to which we bring meaning.
    13. You really don't control anything.
    14. You can't make anyone love you.
    15. No one is any stronger or any weaker than anyone else.
    16. Everyone is, in his own way, vulnerable.
    17. There are no great men.
    18. If you have a hero, look again; you have diminished yourself in some way.
    19. Everyone lies, cheats, pretends. (yes, you too, and most certainly myself.)
    20. All evil is potentially vitality in need of transformation.
    21. All of you is worth something if you will only own it.
    22. Progress is an illusion.
    23. Evil can be displaced but never eradicated, as all solutions breed new problems.
    24. Yet it is necessary to keep struggling toward solution.
    25. Childhood is a nightmare.
    26. But it is so very hard to be an on-your-own, take-care-of-yourself-cause-there-is-no-one-else-to-do-it-for-you grown-up.
    27. Each of us is ultimately alone.
    28. The most important things each man must do for himself.
    29. Love is not enough, but it sure helps.
    30. We have only ourselves, and one another. That may not be much, but that's all there is.
    31. How strange, that so often, it all seems worth it.
    32. We must live within the ambiguity of partial freedom, partial power, and partial knowledge.
    33. All important decisions must be made on the basis of insufficient data.
    34. Yet we are responsible for everything we do.
    35. No excuses will be accepted.
    36. You can run, but you can't hide.
    37. It is most important to run out of scapegoats.
    38. We must learn the power of living with our helplessness.
    39. The only victory lies is in surrender to oneself.
    40. All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
    41. You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.
    42. What do you know for sure...anyway?
    43. Learn to forgive yourself, again and again and again and again.

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    Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
    Oscar Wilde

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    "alway's trust the one who's looking for the truth: never trust the one who claim's to have found it." JORDAN -MAXWELL
    Chris....... Free your mind

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    ULLI, wow those are really positive what a waste you must be the half empty type.
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    Quote Posted by slipknotted (here)
    ULLI, wow those are really positive what a waste you must be the half empty type.
    maybe I should have mentioned that I came across his book in the seventies, nearly 40 years ago...so I must have been a 1/2 empty type to even manifest it on the screen of my life.
    But let me tell you something: I have never, ever come across anything that compares.
    If you want truth there you have it.

    Once that list is faced in all it's implications, you can experience something new.
    Which makes being a 1/2 empty type all worthwhile.
    Now I'm 100 % empty and feel lighter than a feather

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    Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid............John Keats

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    Merci !!!
    Merci Benevolentcrow good quote from the heart

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    ...We have to create culture. Don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR; create your own roadshow! The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y.

    This is sh**-brained, this kind of thinking. It is all cultural diversion -- and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, and you don't want to even play in that game. You want to 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...

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    "Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." Tori Amos

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    Quote Just do your best son, give it your all, and I will be proud of you no matter what.
    ~ My Father.


    Quote A lifetime,
    is your chance to express the Is
    in the most adventurous creative way you can imagine.
    Quote The creative, loving-something life
    is also the healthy one.
    There is healing and protection
    in doing what makes you happy.
    Quote You adjust your perceptions
    to a certain frequency,
    and call what you see "this world".
    You can tune yourself to other frequencies whenever you wish.
    ~ (that good old) Messiah's Handbook (again).
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    i've got to say that Gaia and Benevolentcrow's quotes really struck a chord with me for yesterday's quotes. very nice and true to the qualities of human nature. thank you, and here is the quote for today:

    Sunday, April 3, 2011

    "Hatred comes from the heart, contempt from the head, and neither feeling is quite within our control."
    -Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860)

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    Don't let the nuggets grind you down, but keep a lightsabre handy.

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    I came from the air. I came from the moon. I just landed. Traveling, it's a constant in my life. Sometimes I feel like I'm naturally high because of this lifestyle. Sometimes I really feel like I'm the air or on the moon, and that's that. Of course, I originally came from China. Bai Ling






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    Quote Posted by Lord Sidious (here)
    Don't let the nuggets grind you down, but keep a lightsabre handy.
    Tread softly, but carry a big stick.
    W.C.
    The Lion strode through the halls of Hell;
    Across his path grim shadows fell
    Of many a mowing, nameless shape—
    Monsters with dripping jaws agape.
    The darkness shuddered with scream and yell
    When the Lion stalked through the halls of Hell.

    OLD BALLAD

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