In the pursuit of learning, every day something is aquired.
In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
~ Lao Tsu - Tao Te Ching
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1. Every man, woman, and child on this planet is God. Every man, woman, and child lives forever, through countless physical lives.
2. The purpose of life is enlightenment. The purpose of life is that God should meet God and, in that meeting, taste His (Her, Its) own bliss. For that purpose was all of life made.
3. All of us have journeyed out from God, by His command, and will be liberated from the cycle of physical birth and death the moment we know that everything in this world, including us, is God. Hindu sages call this level of enlightenment vijnana (perfect wisdom) and sahaja (or permanent) nirvikalpa samadhi.
4. The Father created the domain of the Mother (mater, matter) as the setting for our spiritual journey and education. We wander in this material realm lifetime after lifetime, constantly learning.
5. The Father made the material domain lawful. The most important law for us to know is the law of karma, which requires that what we do unto others shall be done unto us.
6. The form of our total journey is a sacred arc, like Jacob's Ladder, away from and back to God. But, day by day, we also follow a spiritual spiral, returning to the same karmic lessons repeatedly until we learn them.
7. From one day to the next, we may expand or contract, but all the while we are cosmically drawn back to Him by a sub-sensible, eternal longing, planted there by Him, for Him: a longing for liberation.
8. In the cosmic Drama, there are three Actors we must realize: God the Father, God the Mother, and God the Child. These are the Transcendental, the Phenomenal, and the Transcendental in the Phenomenal. Christians call them (note the change in order) the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Hindus call them Brahman, Atman, and Shakti. The Formless became two Forms. The Formless made trillions of forms through the agency of the Two and then mysteriously entered them. We are required to know the Trinity.
9. Everyone will reach Him – some in the morning; some in the afternoon; and some in the evening. Experiences will vary, but all will eventually know God.
10. Every genuine path will work. God plays all roles and observes all actions. He has become many; next to Him, there is none.
11. In His love, He is universal, impartial, and supreme. What He wills must happen. He decreed this Drama for His own Pleasure. Each time someone knows its Self -- "Oh Thou I!" -- God meets God!
-- The Essays of Brother Anonymous - www.angelfire.com
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To become truly immortal , a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
--Giorgio de Chirico
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"Whenever I have to choose between two evils,
I always like to try the one I haven't tried before."
--Mae West
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"Stop thinking and talking about it and
there is nothing
you will not be able to know."
--ZEN Paradigm
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"At
the center of the Universe is a loving heart
that continues to beat and that
wants the best
for every person. Anything that we can do
to help foster
the intellect and spirit and
emotional growth of our fellow human beings,
that is our job. Those of us who have this
particular vision must continue
against all odds.
Life is for service."
-- Fred Rogers -1928-2003
a.k.a., "Mister Rogers'"
from the
children's tv show of that name
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"The way up and the way down are one and the same."
--Heraclitus
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"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness; the other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
- Woody Allen
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"All things into one are woven
Each in each doth act & dwell.
As cosmic forces, rising falling,
charging up this golden bell.
With heaven-scented undulations
Piercing earth from power Sublime.
Harmonious all and all resounding,
Fill the universe and time!
Amidst life's tides in raging motion, I ebb and flood-
Waft to and fro!
Birth and grave, eternal ocean, ever moving,
transient flow.
A changing vibrant animation, the very stuff
of life is mine.
Thus
at the loom of time I sit and weave this living cloth divine."
"There is nothing worse
than aggressive stupidity."
"The important thing in this world
is not where we stand,
but in
what direction we move."
"The older I grow,
the more I trust in the law
by which the
rose and the lily bloom."
"One ought,
every day at least,
to hear a little song,
read a
good poem,
see a fine picture and,
if it were possible,
speak a few
reasonable words."
"Treat people as if they were what they should be,
and you help
them become
what they are capable of becoming."
"As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live."
"One can be instructed in society,
one is inspired only in solitude."
"Kindness is the golden chain
by which society is bound together."
"There
is nothing more frightful
than ignorance in action. "
"To think is easy.
To act is difficult.
To act as one thinks
is the most difficult of all."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
~Khalil Gibran
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"So you can walk on water? You are no better than a twig floating on a puddle.
You can fly through the air? You are no better than this gnat buzzing around my head. Master your own heart then maybe you can be somebody."
~Arabic wisdom from 500BC
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"I’ve learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different. I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved ." Anon
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth - we are all crew."
~Marshall McLuan
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." Anon
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."
"The pioneers of peace are the young people who refuse to take up arms." ~Albert Einstein
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"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship.
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment,
it will not be created for years or even generations." ~ Khalil Gibran
" Live by the 3 R's
R espect for self
R espect for others
R esponsibility for all your actions
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson
Remember that not getting what you want in life can be a wonderful stroke of luck.
Judge your success by what you had to give in order to get it
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon ." ~ Dalai Lama
"The measure of love is to love without measure." Saint Augustine
"There is more to life than increasing it's speed." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." ~Dom Helder Camara
"Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching." ~ Satchel Paige
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"The earth on which we live silently remembers the catastrophies of our history; but if we listen to the silence of the earth it will remind us of the fate of those who lived before us, and from whose suffering we may yet learn." Anon
"Knows but doesn't know he knows... asleep, wake him up.
Knows he doesn't know... teach him, good man.
Doesn't know he doesn't know... a fool, avoid him.
Knows he knows... wise, follow him... " Anon
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." Chinese Proverb
"To be great, be whole; exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are into the smallest thing you do.
The whole moon gleams in every pool, it rides so high." ~ Ricardo Reis, Fernando Pessoa
"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we must all be aware of changes in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness" Justice William O. Douglas
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles overcome whilst trying to succeed" ~ Booker T Washington
"To Speak or NOT to Speak
If it is not truthful and not helpful don't say it
If it is Truthful and not helpful don't say it.
If it is Not truthful and helpful don't say it
If it is both Truthful and Helpful ...Wait for the right time" Buddhist Quote
"Roots are the branches down in the earth. Branches are roots in the air."
"The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful."
Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore
"However great the hardship
Pursue with firmness the happy ending " ~ The Tirukkural
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong " ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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"Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward "
~ Soren Kierkegaard
"The greatest freedom of all - is not having the fear of losing" Unknown
"Failure is not in falling down, it's in not getting up again" Unknown
"If you’re going through hell, keep going!" Winston Churchill
"Peace will come when we replace the love of power with the power of love."
~ Sri Chinmoy
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph.....is for good men to do nothing." Winston Churchill
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"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him learn it within himself." Galileo
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"People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest persons with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest persons with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them. Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.."
The Paradoxical Commandments! by Kent M. Keith
"Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously." Chief Luther Standing Bear, (Teton Sioux)
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde
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"I am not afraid of storms, for I have learned how to sail my ship." Louisa May Alcott
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities,
But to know someone who thinks and feels with us,
And who, though distant, is close to us in spirit,
This makes the earth for us, an inhabited garden." Goethe
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." Louisa May Alcott
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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." Harold Wilson
"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states." Mahatma Gandhi
"Press On!
Nothing can take the place of perseverance.
Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistance and determination alone are omnipotent.
This slogan "Press On" has solved, always will solve, the problems of the human race." Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. President
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"Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen." Sheryl Crow
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." W. B. Yeats
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler
"I will be walking in the middle of your soul." Oklahoma Cherokee love incantation
"Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
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"Remember you were not put on this earth because you deserved to be here. You were put on this earth to smell the roses." Anon
"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either." Jack Benny
"Let the beauty we love be what we do." Rumi
"The past is fascinating but it's where to learn from, the future is where we want to live." Unknown
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift."
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." Albert Einstein
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." Mahatma Gandhi
"When elephants fight, ants get killed." Cambodian Proverb
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"War - what is it good for? It's good for business." Billy Bragg
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway." Mother Theresa
“Many things in life will catch your eye but few will catch your heart... Pursue those” Anon
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." Aesop
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"Nothing is worth more than this day." Goethe
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
Kahlil Gibran
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
"Driving ambition is the last refuge of the failure." Oscar Wilde
"Words have wings... so speak good things." Anon
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"May you live a thousand years, and I a thousand less one day, that I might never know the world without you." Hungarian Proverb
"People only get lost in thought because it is unfamiliar territory." Paul Fix
"Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking." J. C. Watts
"Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all." G. K. Chesterton
"Sometimes nothing is so soothing as an uninterrupted whine, followed by a warm bath of sympathy." Unknown
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"It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, than you are indeed a man of true wisdom."
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"To revel in the wonders of life, to think, to remember, to dream - this is to know happiness." Giancarlo Di Gratsi
"This world is but a canvas to our imaginations." Henry David Thoreau
"I've dreamt dreams in my life that have stayed with me ever after." Emily Bronte
"Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever 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." Elie Wiesel (holocaust survivor)
"The only thing I know, is that I know nothing." Socrates
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" Robert Browning
"Do or do not there is no try." Yoda, Star Wars
"Life is a cycle, always in motion, if good times have moved on so will times of trouble!" Indian Proverb
"If you see someone without a smile... give them one of yours!" Author unknown
"I love friends, I want more friends. I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial - diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come."
The Dalai Lama
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"When you've seen beyond yourself - then you may find peace of mind, is waiting there - And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you." George Harrison
"Peace is not a season... it is a way of life. When the spirit of Peace becomes a part of our lives, everyday will be Christmas and every night will hold the promise of dawn." An old Christmas card
"Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and stars; you have a right to be here, and whether or not it is clear to you; no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." 'Desiderata', Max Ehrmann
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." The Dalai Lama
"If you cannot be kind, at least have the decency to be vague." Unknown
"To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal than to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves." Lewis Carroll
"Life is like a finger, pointing to the Moon. If you look at the finger... you will miss all the heavenly glory." Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee tells his pupil
"Humility is not a punishment. It is a Virtue." Anon
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"Accept me as I am, so that I may learn what I become." Anonymous
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"Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth. And hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way from here. Hold on to life, even when it is easier to let go. Hold on to my hand, even when I have gone away from you." Pueblo Verse
"It is a brave and honest person who can stand apart from the masses and openly challenge its most treasured beliefs." Donna Evans
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS." Mahatma Gandhi
"Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful." Confucius
"It's OK to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation." Helen Keller
"Be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others; even the dull and ignorant. They, too, have their story." Author unknown - dated 1692.
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"The possibility that we may fail in the struggle should not deter us from supporting a cause we believe to be just." Abraham Lincoln
"The man who moved a mountain is the one who started taking away the small stones." Old Chinese Proverb
"Mistrust all in whom the desire to punish is imperative." Goethe
"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." Carl Jung
"And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, evolve some distant day into the answer."
Rainer Maria Rilke
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"If you can't be a good example, you'll have to be a terrible warning." Catherine Aird
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." Susan Jeffries
"Laugh, share some happiness with the world. God knows we all have problems, believe that sometimes it pays to act like a fool to make someone else happy!" Anon
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it. This you have the power to revoke." Marcus Aurelius
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." Unknown
"Into every life a little rain must fall." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue." Mike Murdock
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot
"We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented." James Martineau
"Don't chase your dreams, catch them." Unknown
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"To live at all is miracle enough." Mervyn Peake
"The caterpillar does not understand the butterfly." Unknown
"I always knew that one day I would take this road but yesterday I did not know today would be the day." Nagarjuna
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." Margaret Young
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"I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it." Sidney Poitier
"You can tell a great deal about a society by the way they treat their elderly, their prisoners and their pets." Unknown
"These are muddy water days, but upstream the brook runs clear and sparkles in the sunlight. So give me my oars and I shall paddle us there." Melanie Porter
"People only get lost in thought because it is unfamiliar territory." Paul Fix
"Now is a rushing river. There are those who would hug the shore, but there is no shore. Push off into the stream. Hold your head above the frey. See who else is in the midst of things, and celebrate." Native American saying
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"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward." Jim Rohn
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still" Lao-Tzu
"Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy." Sonia Johnson
"Think of all the beauty still left around us and be happy." Anne Frank
"History is dedicated to those who went before us, so that, upon reflection, we can learn from them, without repeating their mistakes, experiencing or inflicting their pain." Anon
"All of us are stars and deserve the right to twinkle." Marilyn Monroe
"Man needs a little madness - Or else he never dare cut the rope and be free." Unknown
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far they can really go." T.S. Eliot
"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we appear to be." Socrates
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"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."
Stephen R Covey
"A hundred years from now it will not matter the sort of house I lived in, what my bank account was, or the car I drove...but the world may be a better place because I was important in the life of a child or one of God's creatures on this earth." Anon
"It takes a special kind of person to fight back." Terry Pratchett
"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." J K Rowling
"Teach love, for that is what you are." George Eliot
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"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?" George Eliot
"Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion." Martha Graham
"The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away." Joy J. Golliver
"The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out" Rollo May
"Now I become myself, it's taken many years and places, I have been dissolved and shaken, worn other peoples faces ..." Mary Sarton
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"To be young, really young, takes a very long time." Pablo Picasso
"If you live your life out of memory, you live out of your history. That's what once was. If you live out of your imagination, you live out of your potential. That's what can be." Unknown
"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of others, but from doing something worthwhile." Wilfred Grenfell
"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just leave it in the cupboard and think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it, to really look after it and nurture it." John Lennon
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." Victor Hugo
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." Isaac Asimov
"The way to love anything is to realise it might be lost." G K Chesterton
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter arises was often-times filled with your tears." Kahlil Gibran
"Disappointment is simply a dream that doesn’t want to become a reality." Richard Wilkins
"Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears." Richard Wilkins
"Were it not better to forget, than to remember and regret." Author unknown
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A very practical statement from a committed civil rights activist. When asked if he wasn't discouraged after thrity years of activism to make social change and nothing had yet changed he answered:
"What else should I have been doing, playing golf? Social activism is a way of life, not a project." Ralph Kricker
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"You cannot always be torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do." J R Tolkien
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." Douglas Adams
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"A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes." Mohandas K. Gandhi
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." Eden Phillpotts
"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground." Author unknown
"I ask God: 'How much time do I have left?' and God replies: 'Enough to make a difference'." Author unknown
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"You should not worry about whether you are going to live or die; you should worry about whether you are doing right or wrong." Ernest Hemingway
"Happiness is a way of traveling, not a destination." Author unknown
"According to recognised aerotechnical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. But the bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway." Anon
"We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other." Luciano de Crescenzo
"Learn to bend. It's better than breaking." Leo Buscaglia
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"We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other." Teilhard de Chardin
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"Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take." Willis Harman, President, The Institute of Noetic Sciences
"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, then you risk even more." Erica Jong
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If throughout the unguarded moment of the evening
Sadness has crept into your heart,
Let it sail away with the setting sun,
Because tonight is gods night for peacemaking. Anon
Give me a firm place to stand and I will move the earth. Archimedes
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself. Seneca
The fox condemns the trap, not himself. ~William Blake
"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance and trust that in this love there is a strength and a blessing, out beyond which you do not have to step in order to go very far." Rilke
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"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one that you are living. Wherever you are - if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment that life within you all the time." Joseph Campbell
"The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humour or irony pitched in exactly the same key." Edith Wharton
"Creativity is seeing what everyone sees and thinking what no one else has thought of before." Anon
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"Elephants are nice but chocolate is better." Antonia aged 4
"Act mindfully. Accept entirely. Move strongly. Think softly. Speak beautifully. Live simply. Love completely." Anon
"Love just doesn't sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, re-made all the time, made new." Ursula Le Guin
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." Groucho Marx
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"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." William James
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another." George Eliot
"I grumbled at having no boots until I met a man with no feet." Unknown
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." Voltaire (1694-1778)
"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it." Confucius (551-479 BC)
"Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." Epicurus (341-270 BC)
"If we lose kindness and affection from our life, we have lost all that gives it charm." Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-53 BC)
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"Be patient toward everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.. Do not search for the answers which could not be given to you now because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything... Live the questions now." Rainer Maria Rilke
"Don't ask ourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Harold Whitman
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"The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours." Ayn Rand
"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever." Henry Van Dyke
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." Cherokee saying
"Love is the difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real."
Iris Murdoch
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"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside can't hurt you."
African proverb
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"It's no good running a pig farm for 30 years while saying 'I was meant to be a dancer.' By that time, pigs are your style." Quentin Crisp
"Why are we born? Why do we die? And why do we spend so much time in between wearing digital watches?" The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." Mark Twain
"If we look at the path, we do not see the sky." Native American saying
"What is unseen, is not necessarily unknown." Wendelessen
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"What we want most is a secret that no one can tell us." Anonymous
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of those of old - seek what they sought." Matsuo Basho
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"Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances." Jane Siberry
"Some see the glass as half full, others see the glass as half empty. Me, I see the glass as too big." George Carlin
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"Growing old is a privilege denied to many." Unknown
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." Oscar Wilde
"We love only that which we do not own entirely." M. Proust
"What is pleasure if not an extraordinarily sweet pain?" H. Heine
"It is one thing to live 'for' love. It is quite another to live 'with' love." Unknown
"Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco." Horace; 56-8 BC
Which translates as: Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment.
"Your 'yes' answers determine the direction of your life. 'No' answers don't get you anywhere." Unknown
"The grape passes through the press to yield wine. Your life must pass through the press of passion and pain to yield the wine of wisdom." Unknown
"If I had my life to live over I'd dare to make more mistakes next time."~ Nadine Stair
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is." ~ Jorge Luis Borges
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." ~George Washington
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." ~Albert Einstein
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"A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time." When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, 'The one I feed the most'." George Bernard Shaw
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"As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think." Native American Initiation Rite
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~Mark Twain
"Careful. We don't want to learn from this." Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes)
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner
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"In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another." Tom Robbins
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"You either kiss the future or the past goodbye." Ringo Starr
"That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time." John Stuart Mill
"He who knows that enough is enough will have enough." Lao-Tzu
"Good sense, in a sense, crippled mankind." Strawberry Alarm Clock
"Better recognize your brother's every one you meet." John Lennon
"The deeper that sorrow carves into us, the more joy we can contain." Kahlil Gibran
"If you weep because the sun has set, your own tears will never let you see the stars." Hindu Proverb
"No eternal reward can forgive us for wasting the dawn." Jim Morrison
"What we need are more people who specialise in the impossible." Theodore Roethke
"Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon." Anon
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"No matter how hard the past,you can always begin again." Buddha
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"This above all: to thine own self be true. It must follow that you cannot then be false to any man." Shakespeare
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"It's not the message in your life that counts...it's the life in your message." Mae West
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"Doing nothing in fear of making a mistake, is the greatest mistake you'll make." Anonymous
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"Pain does not mean feel no joy." Anonymous
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".....Don't try to keep up with the Joneses, bring them down to your level - it's much cheaper ..."~ Quentin Crisp
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."~ Teilhard de Chardin
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"We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time."~ T. S. Eliot
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"Be kind to your friends, without them you'd be a stranger."~ Al Shock
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"If you want to make God laugh tell him your plans." Folk Proverb
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"The reward of patience is patience."~ St. Augustine
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"Life's most precious gift is uncertainty." ~Yoshida Kenko
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"Dreams do come true, as long as the wishing well is working."
~ India Askem aged 6
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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."~ Closing Time by Semisonic
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"You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." ~ Quentin Crisp
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"Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object."~ Hermann Hesse
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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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"There are some people that if they don’t know, you cant tell them."~ Louis Armstrong
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"We all may have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now."
~Martin Luther King. Jr.
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"Listen, for words can not describe the sound of silence." Unknown
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"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."~ David Viscott
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"Arise! Awake! Stop not till your goal is reached!" Swami Vivekananda
"Let your Life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf." ~Rabindranath Tagore
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"The soul would have no rainbow, had the eye no tears." Unknown
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"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
~David Lloyd George
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"Do not be dismayed at good-byes. A good-bye is necessary before meeting again and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends."
~ Richard Bach
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"Reality is just an imagination; Imagination is the true reality." Unknown
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"When you run out of red, use blue!"~ Pablo Picasso on flexibility and imagination
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"Whatever with the past is gone, the best is always yet to come."~ Lucy Larcom
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." ~Goethe
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"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." ~Gail Sheehy
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"Live with great expectations and great things will happen." ~Art Fettig
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"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."~ Buddha
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"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." ~Bob Dylan
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"The shell must break before the bird can fly." ~ Tennyson
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"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." ~Vici Derrick
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"There are two things to aim at in life: First, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."~ Logan Pearsall Smith
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"A person who has not passed through the inferno of their passions has never overcome them." "If there is anything we wish to change in a child, we should first see if it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves." ~ Carl Jung
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Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
"At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.” "For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business". “The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I” "Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire".
- Karl Liebknecht
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"Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.” “Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”
- Che Guevara
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Poly=many Tics=blood sucking parasites
poli tics= many blood sucking parasites
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
- John Lennon
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"Rise like Lions after slumber; In unvanquishable number; Shake your chains to earth like dew; Which in sleep had fallen on you; Ye are many; They are few."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Mask of Anarchy
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In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty. The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis . . . discovering Marxism . . . was like finding a map in the forest.
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
~ Fidel Castro
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In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died from starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant and animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. And all this just since yesterday.” - ~Thom Hartmann
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"Our great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of our nation, therefore, and all of our activities are in the hands of a few men...who necessarily, by very reason of their limitations, chill and check and destroy economic freedom."
- Woodrow Wilson
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The world we live in: "Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys spirituality."
- Michael Ellner
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"A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support."
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1792
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"I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet".
- Prince Charles
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“Every generation needs a new revolution.”- Thomas Jefferson
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution”
- Abraham Lincoln
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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“Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”
- Abbie Hoffman
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“The seed of revolution is repression.”- Woodrow T. Wilson
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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell
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"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man".
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Our race (speaking of the Jews) is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best.
Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves".
- Menachem Begin
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"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks".
~Karl Marx
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"You will unite or you will fall.” ~ Lord Elrond (Lord of The Rings)
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"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws".
~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild
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"One basic truth can be used as a foundation for a mountain of lies, and if we dig down deep enough in the mountain of lies, and bring out that truth, to set it on top of the mountain of lies; the entire mountain of ...lies will crumble under the weight of that one truth, and there is nothing more devastating to a structure of lies than the revelation of the truth upon which the structure of lies was built, because the shock waves of the revelation of the truth reverberate, and continue to reverberate throughout the Earth for generations to follow, awakening even those people who had no desire to be awakened to the truth."
from 'Behold a pale Horse' by William Cooper
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"Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development".
~ Johann Most
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“Stay together, friends. Don't scatter and sleep. Our friendship is made of being awake”
–Rumi
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"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality."
"A mighty flame follows a tiny spark."
"He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it."
"The devil is not as black as he is painted."
"Don't be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift"
~ Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
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"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind"
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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They got the guns
But we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah
We're takin' over
Come on!
~ Jim Morrison
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Mirror Image
Look in the mirror.
What's there
is not you,
but an image projected
by the ego.
Like a movie.
Know that,
apply it to
your whole life,
and things will begin
to look different.
Very different
~ by Stefan Nadzo
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“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth”
" The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
~ Albert Einstein
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"World bankers, by pulling a few simple levers that control the flow of money, can make or break entire economies. By controlling press releases of economic strategies that shape national trends, the power elite are able to not only tighten their stranglehold on this nation's economic structure, but can extend that control world wide. Those possessing such power would logically want to remain in the background, invisible to the average citizen."
~ Aldous Huxley
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
~Thomas Paine
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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
~ Galileo Galilei
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“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.” ~ Mark Twain
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“You never find yourself until you face the truth” ~ Pearl Bailey
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“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
~ Albert Einstein
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'Ralph Nader calls Washington corporate-occupied territory - "every department agency controlled by the overwhelming presence of corporate lobbyists, corporate executives in high government positions, turning the government against its own people."
Nader also said corporations don't just control government, they are the government. "The corporation IS the government!" They bought and own it at the federal, state and local levels, running it like their private fiefdom at the expense of working Americans, systematically stripping them of hard-won rights.
They have 10,000 Political Action Committees and 35,000 full-time lobbyists. "Just imagine," says Nader, "even the Labor Department is not controlled by trade unions - it's (owned and) controlled by corporations".'
In 1938, Franklin Roosevelt defined the problem, saying:
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power."
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"Time is short, but our course of action should be clear. Resistance to illegal and unconstitutional usurpation of our rights is required. Each of us must choose which course of action we should take. But let it not be said that we did nothing." ~ Ron Paul
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'In addition to under reporting the fires at Fukushima, the Japanese government has not told the people about the ominous fact that the nuclear plant site is a hellish repository where a staggering number of spent fuel rods have accumulated for 40 years.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant has seven pools dedicated to spent fuel rods. These are located at the top of six reactor buildings – or were until explosions and fires ravaged the plant. On the ground level there is a common pool in a separate building that was critical damaged by the tsunami. Each reactor building pool holds 3,450 fuel rod assemblies and the common pool holds 6,291 fuel rod assemblies. Each assembly holds sixty-three fuel rods. In short, the Fukushima Daiichi plant contains over 600,000 spent fuel rods – a massive amount of radiation that will soon be released into the atmosphere.'
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"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
~Warren Buffett to The New York Times, November 26, 2006
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The Paris Commune of 1871 was one of the greatest and most inspiring episodes in the history of the working class. In a tremendous revolutionary movement, the working people of Paris replaced the capitalist state with their own organs of government and held political power until their downfall in the last week of May. The Parisian workers strove, in extremely difficult circumstances, to put an end to exploitation and oppression, and to reorganise society on an entirely new foundation. The lessons of these events are of fundamental importance for socialists today
~By Greg Oxley
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"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.
To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."
General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, translated by John Beverly Robinson (London: Freedom Press, 1923), pp. 293-294."
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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'I am writing this in the last days of 2008 as I watch with dismay as vast numbers of people across the world, including many who should know better, have been duped by the mind-game called Operation Obama.
Even people with some understanding of the conspiracy have said things like: 'Well, at least he's not Bush' and 'Well, at least it's great to see such a new spirit of hope'. No, he's not Bush - he's potentially far more dangerous; and what is the use of a spirit of 'hope' if it's based on a lie? ...
... Obama isn't against war at all and, if his controllers have their way, he will engage the US in even more foreign conflicts with the troops sent to their deaths, and the deaths of their targets ...
... It could take two years, maybe much more, before cognitive dissonance (lying to yourself) loses it current grip on the minds of the Obama faithful. Until then they will make endless excuses for him (lie to themselves) to keep the 'dream' alive.
But one day they will have to admit, by the power of the evidence before them, that they bought a dream and got a nightmare. What a pity they can't see the obvious now and save themselves such painful disappointment.'
~ David Icke
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"We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent."
~ Paul Warburg :: Council on Foreign Relations & Architect of the Federal Reserve System in an address to the Senate 2/17/1950
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"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e., an "extraterrestrial" invasion], whether real or *promulgated* [emphasis mine], that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this *scenario*, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government."
~ Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991
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"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."
~ David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.
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"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 something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
~ Woodrow Wilson,The New Freedom (1913)
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"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included".
~ Karl Marx
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In the first 24 hours of the Libyan attack, US B-2s dropped forty-five 2,000-pound bombs. These massive bombs, along with the Cruise missiles launched from British and French planes and ships, all contained depleted uranium (DU) warheads.
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“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.” ---We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
If all records told the same tale… then, the lie passed into history and became truth.
Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.
~ George Orwell (1984)
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Let us embrace love. Without it, you will find a path that is more lonely and stressful then it was ever intended to be. Love does not always have to be in the form of romance, although we always, in all ways, would love for each of you to experience it. The love we speak of is multi-faceted. It is love of yourself, your partner, family, friends, the environment, animals and more….
~ Jim Fargiano
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Morpheus: I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?
Neo: You could say that.
Morpheus: I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No.
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus: I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Neo: The Matrix.
Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?
Neo: Yes.
Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.
I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
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"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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If you have a dream, some thing that you wish to accomplish do not give up , keep on going until you achieve what it is you set out to do..... it is like climbing a mountain when you have climbed that mountain and reached that goal, the view from the top is spectacular. believe in yourself.
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The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
- Robert Vallett
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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it".
"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system".
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune".
"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state".
"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history".
"The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself".
"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people".
"The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert".
"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public".
"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it".
~ Noam Chomsky
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'Cabal'
The All-Seeing Eye
surveys without fatigue
irradiating every opportunity
open and aware since eternity
While common minds
slip into the sleep of ages
it haunts the soul
corrupts one and all
unto absolute control.
Within the insatiable emptiness
the Song of the Moon
distorts all that is seen into
the Grand Illusion.
While the truth remains hidden
behind the most convincing masks of
terrifying power
the Dark is ever-patient
and inevitable-
The Deluge will come.
Despair whispers poison promises
with every unconscious breath
and they are all of them
irresistible...
So we sleep
because it is the only comfort we can be certain of
yet that is when the Spell is at its most potent
and our minds most receptive to the Lie.
And there,
just there
behind the fading curtain of
flesh and vision
there is a secret unity
between opposite extremes
where the duality
and partisan fury of the world
is nothing but the silent sanctity
of the Brethrens' black fantasy
convincing everyone
that love and will
can be fulfilled
despite the abyss of destiny-
This is our only oasis:
A mirage of false hope
in a vast desert of slavery.
The Enemy is most diligently served
by those in whom we must seek protection.
There is only this One Mind behind
the multitude of worldly directions.
In this lonely space
the choices taste bland, grim and tragic:
will we accept the gift of sleep,
or awaken to a nightmare we feel powerless against?
Through the enlightenment of knowledge
we still remain impotent
only able to watch the hatchet fall
and wait for the death of birth to come.
So pray devoutly
and hammer stoutly
for these soulless spies of the
New World Order
they remould it all nearer and nearer
to their ashen hearts' primal Desire
And through the prism of divine deception
all light turns to
Unholy Shadow...
Here is the Great Secret they fear you will come to know:
It only takes a grain of hope
to ignite the Stars
and germinate the Ground of Universal Salvation.
The Soul is a flame which burns eternally
And our Heart
a womb of boundless fertility.
Love is what we are.
~ Jon Kary
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'Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of the government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers.
These truths are well known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance. It is thus, by discrete action, we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.'
- Montagu Norman, Governor of The Bank Of England, addressing the United States Bankers' Association, New York, 1924.
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"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind".
"You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all".
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress".
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance".
See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness"
~ Ramana Maharshi
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“…the Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough…Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes their marching orders from their campaign paymasters and future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust…The ‘democracy gap’ in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worse’ every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the ‘least worse’ gets worse.”
~ Ralph Nader
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"Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility." - William Jones, (English Philologist and Jurist)
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'Ten supporters of accused whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning paid at least $5,000 to attend a fundraiser with President Barack Obama Thursday and interrupted his speech with a song protesting soldier's treatment.
Obama was speaking at a San Francisco hotel to a room of about 200 donors -- some of whom paid as much as $35,800 to attend the event -- "when a woman in a white suit stood up and said, Mr. President we wrote you a song," according to a White House pool report.
The president tried to convince her to wait, but she and her table ignored him, all ten of them breaking out into a song that protested Manning's detention in a "6x12 cell" for "23 hours a day." They sang, "We paid our dues, where's our change?"'
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"If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value,” he explained. “There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life.
~ Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh in Jewish Week, the largest Jewish publication in the United States.
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As for the goyim…Zalman’s attitude (was): “Gentile souls are of a completely different and inferior order. They are totally evil, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.” …"If every simple cell in a Jewish body entails divinity, is a part of God, then every strand of DNA is a part of God. Therefore, something is special about Jewish DNA". …
~ Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh
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“Queen Elizabeth II the largest landowner on Earth.”
Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the earth's non ocean surface.
She is the only person on earth who owns whole countries, and who owns countries that are not her own domestic territory. This land ownership is separate from her role as head of state and is different from other monarchies where no such claim is made – Norway, Belgium, Denmark etc.
The value of her land holding. £17,600,000,000,000 (approx).
The Cost of Royal wedding(not taking into account the public holiday) can feed 168,000,000 children for a day, however that is only the cost of the wedding itself, the Royal family own roughly £17,600,000,000,000 (29.4096 trillion U.S. dollars), enough to give every person on earth, rich or poor; £2550, and still keep all their currency, shares, stocks, gold, silver, diamond, etc.... or that money divided between the 1.7 billion in absolute poverty they could each have £10,352.94, enough for a home, clean water and food, equipment and hence jobs to stop anyone on earth starving to death ever again.. still think the royals are charitable?
http://www.whoownstheworld.com/about-the-book/largest-landowner/
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The global elites have truly undone themselves. The world could have gone on forever believing that debt, issued on the back of gold (for example), was a legitimate form of currency. But the push by humanity for more opportunity, marrying the usurers' instinct to produce ever more debt, gave us the notion of fiat currencies; money based on nothing but the faith of those who use them. This extraordinary socio-evolutionary leap has, sadly, gone largely unrecognised; but we can be the first to reveal it for what it truly was. Money can be, and is, nothing more than a social construct; it does not need to be borrowed into existence and is a medium through which we can express our true social values; values of fairness and decency. Today, we have elite usurers enslaving entire nations, poverty/destitution en masse, bitter social divisions as the suffering many pass blame amongst themselves and an entire corporate system devoted to abusing our bodies and our minds for its own survival. These are not the values of the many, they are the values of the few.
This is it. This is the revolution. It's not politics, it's not accounting, it's the very basic nature of money itself. Let us be the first to understand this extraordinary tool; let us create an entirely new paradigm and justly put an end to needless human suffering everywhere on Earth.
~Peace Movement for Economic Sustainability (Global)
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The HAARP website was publishing very damaging evidence of US military weather modification and earthquake triggering operations against foreign states. HAARP’s waterfall charts and magnetometer charts gave evidence of an ongoing weather war between the United States government and foreign states. The magnetometer presented concrete evidence that HAARP triggered the Japan earthquake and ensuing tsunami.'
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Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.
~ Mary Austin (1868-1934)
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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. — Anne Frank
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"The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy America's freedom and before I leave this office, I must inform the citizens of their plight."
~ JFK [Statement purportedly made at Columbia University, November 12, 1963]
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“The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.”
"God has no religion". ~ Gandhi
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.”
~ Frederick Douglass
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"Our enemies never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and people, and neither do we." ~ George W. Bush
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~ He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. ~
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'A South African public hospital plans to tag babies electronically as one of several security measures to beat baby-snatching. If it goes ahead, Tygerberg Hospital would become the first public health facility in the Western Cape to use the tag.
The device is activated if a tagged baby is removed from a specific area. The infrastructure for the plan is expected to be completed next year.'
http://www.thestar.co.za/babies-barcoded-for-security-1.1067027
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"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." ~ J. Edgar Hoover, 1956
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“The best way to know God is to love many things". ~ Vincent Van Gogh
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"Nature is the embodiment of the
simplest conceivable mathematics."--Albert Einstein
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"Hoert Ihr fern zurueckgebliebenen Freunde
ich bin raus, gerettet wie es scheint.
Und ich bitt euch Stacheldrahtumzeunte
das Ihr mich beneidet nicht beweint.
Halb hinausgeworfen, halb entflohen
suche ich, die Muetze in der Hand...
kommend aus dem Lande der Heroen
nun ein glueckliches Pygmaenland.
Freilich es gibt ueberall Erlaesse,
Ordnung, Willkuer, Polizeigewalt.
Und man fragt die Wolken:
Habt ihr Paesse?
Und den Baum:
Wo ist dein Aufenthalt?
Grosser Mangel herscht an leeren Welten
denn die unsrige ist leider voll,
voll von Hungerkuenstlern
und von Helden...
bebend vor der Diktatoren groll." --Berthold Brecht
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"If people only knew
the healing power of laughter and joy,
many of our fine doctors would be out
of business.
Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines.
Joy is always
healthy.
A pleasant state of mind
tends to bring abnormal conditions back
to normal."
-- Catherine Ponder
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Rows and flows of angel hair, And ice cream castles in the air, And feather canyons everywhere- I've looked at clouds that way. But now they only block the sun- They rain and snow on everyone! So many things I would have done, But clouds got in my way. I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still, somehow, It's clouds' illusions I recall; I really don't know clouds at all. Moons and junes and ferris wheels, The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real- I've looked at love that way. But now it's just another show- You leave 'em laughing when you go, And if you care, don't let them know; Don't give yourself away. I've looked at love from both sides now, From give and take, and still, somehow, It's love's illusions I recall; I really don't know love at all. Tears and fears and feeling proud, To say, "I love you," right out loud, Dreams and schemes and circus crowds- I've looked at life that way. But now old friends are acting strange. They shake their heads, they say, "I've changed." Well, something's lost, but something's gained In living every day. I've looked at life from both sides now, From win and lose, and still, somehow, It's life's illusions I recall; I really don't know life at all. I've looked at life from both sides now, From up and down, and still, somehow, It's life's illusions I recall; I really don't know life at all. ~ Joni Mitchell
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"When God is going to do something wonderful,
He or She always starts
with a hardship;
When God is going to do something amazing,
He or She
starts with an impossibility." -- Anne Lamott
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"Irrationally
held truths may be
more harmful than reasoned errors."-- Thomas H. Huxley, 1825 - 1895
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"Creativity is...
seeing something that doesn't exist already.
You need to find out how you can bring it into being
and that way be a playmate with God."--Michele Shea
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"Every
great advance in natural knowledge
has involved the absolute rejection of
authority."-- Thomas H. Huxley
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"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."
--Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Q.
What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A.
Honey
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"Make up your
mind to act decidedly
and take the consequences.
No good is ever done
in this world by hesitation."
-- Thomas H. Huxley
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In
Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by
ropes.
When
you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened,
making the bed firmer to
sleep on. Hence the phrase......... 'goodnight,
sleep tight.'
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"We live in
a moment of history
where change is so speeded up
that we begin to see
the present
only when it is already disappearing."
-- R. D. Laing, 1927-1989
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"Nothing
real can be threatened,
Nothing unreal exists,
Herein lies the Peace of
God."
-- from The Course in Miracles
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In
English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old
England , when
customers got
unruly, the bartender would yell at them 'Mind your pints and
quarts,
and settle down.'
It's where we get the phrase 'mind your P's and Q's'
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"Once you can accept the universe
as matter expanding into nothing that
is something,
wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
-- Albert Einstein
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"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those
who cannot attain it in anything."
-Eugene Delacroix
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"Our
faith must be alive. It cannot be just a set
of rigid beliefs and notions.
Our faith must evolve
every day and bring us joy, peace, freedom and love.
Faith implies practice, living our daily life in mindfulness.
Some people
think that prayer or meditation involves
only our minds or our hearts. But
we also have to pray
with our bodies, with our actions in the world.
And
our actions must be modeled after those
of the living Buddha or the living
Christ. If we live
as they did, we will have deep understanding
and pure
actions, and we will do our share to help create
a more peaceful world for
our children
and all of the children of God."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
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"In
my many years I have come to a conclusion
that one useless man is a shame,
two is a law firm,
and three or more is a congress."
-- John Adams, 1735 - 1826
2nd President of the United States
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"Take your life in your own hands and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame."
--Erica Jong
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"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening,
that is translated through you into action, and because
there is only one of you
in all time, this expression is unique.
And if you block it, it will never exist through
any other medium and will be lost."
--Martha Graham
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"Each
friend represents
a world in us,
a world possibly not born
until they
arrive."
-- Anais Nin
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"Creative work is play. It is free speculation using the
materials of one's chosen form."
--Stephen Nachmanovitch
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"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all,
there is only the
meaning we each give to our life,
an individual meaning, an individual plot,
like an individual novel, a book for each person."
-- Anais Nin, 1903 - 1977
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"In a dark time, te eye begins to see."
--Teodore Roethke
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25 Signs You've Grown Up
1. Your house plants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.
2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
5. You hear your favorite song on an elevator.
6. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of hook up and break up.
8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as "dressed up."
10. You're the one calling the police because those damn kids
next door won't turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
12. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
13. Your car insurance goes down and your payments go up.
14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonalds leftovers.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
16. You no longer take naps from noon to 6 PM.
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset,
rather than settle, your stomach.
19. You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.
20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer "pretty good stuff."
21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
22. "I just can't drink the way I used to," replaces, "I'm never going to drink that much again."
23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
24. You no longer drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
25. You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that this doesn't apply to you.
Author Unknown
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"Life
shrinks or expands
in proportion to one's courage."
-- Anais Nin, 1903 - 1977
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"Der Regen mit seiner Wasserschrift
sandte uns Luftpostkarten.
Der Himmel standt auf den Zweigen und lauschte,
ich lernte beim warten das warten. "
--Andre Heller [Austrian Poet]
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The
ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort,
but where he stands at moments of challenge
and controversy.
Martin Luther
King Jnr.
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Love
When we are capable of imagining the heights and depths to which human beings can rise and fall & have had sufficient experience of the worst to know its hurts, then developed a conscience which hones naturally towards the best, we are in a position to love. Love cares, not as an occasional remedial exercise or philosophical ideal, but as a way of relating to the world twenty four hours a day. Again it cannot be commanded or regulated in any way. It does not get doled out, either, to deserving cases only.
Nor is it schmaltz: sometimes indeed it swears fairly energetically & burns down evil & corruption... overturns the money-lenders' tables.
It is the greatest anarchic force of all.
--John Pepper
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"The true seeker of knowledge naturally strives for truth,
and is
not content with common opinion,
but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion
until he grasps the essential nature of things...."
-- Plato
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"When the soul wishes to experience something
she throws an image of the experience out before
her and enters into her own image."
--Meister
Eckhart
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"True peace is not merely the absence of war,
it is the presence
of justice."
-- Jane Addams, 1860-1935
Nobel Peace Prize (1931)
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"There
is a light that shines
beyond all things on earth,
beyond us all,
beyond the heavens,
beyond the highest,
the very highest heavens.
This is the light
that shines in our heart."
-- Chandogya Upanishad
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"Expect your every need to be met,
expect the answer to every problem,
expect abundance on every level,
expect to grow spiritually."
--Eileen
Caddy
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"The
minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you,
not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along."
-- Maulana Jelaluddin Rumi
Sufi mystic and poet, 1207-1273
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A blonde lady motorist was about two hours from the Gold Coast when she was flagged down by a man whose truck had broken down. The man walked up to the car and asked, 'Are you going to the Gold Coast?'
'Sure,' answered the blonde, 'do you need a lift ?'
'Not for me. I'll be spending the next three hours fixing my truck. My problem is I've got two chimpanzees in the back which have to be taken to the Gold Coast Zoo. They're a bit stressed already so I don't want to keep them on the road all day. Could you possibly take them to the zoo for me? I'll give you $100 for your trouble.'
'I'd be happy to,' said the blonde.
So the two chimpanzees were ushered into the back seat of the blonde's car and carefully strapped into their seat belts. Off they went.
Five hours later, the truck driver was driving through the heart of the Gold Coast when suddenly he was horrified!! There was the blonde walking down the street and holding hands with the two chimps, much to the amusement of a big crowd.
With a screech of brakes he pulled off the road and ran over to the blonde. 'What the heck are you doing here?'
he demanded, 'I gave you $100 to take these chimpanzees to the zoo.'
'Yes, I know you did,' said the blonde,' but we had money left over --- so now we're going to SeaWorld
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The faintest scrawl is better than the best memory.
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else.
Never compromise your integrity.
Happiness is the result of being too busy to be miserable.
The shortest distance between two people is a smile.
Put everything you got into everything you do.
Laugh a lot. Period. A good humour cures many of life's ills.
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"Look and you will find it---what is unsought
will go undetected."
--Sophocles
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"How far you go in life
depends on your being
tender with the
young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving,
and tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in life
you will
have been all of these."
-- George Washington Carver
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The
CODE.
Ten
intentions for a better life.
To have the code work in your life, say
it once a day.
The
first intent- Support Life.
I refrain from opposing or harming anyone.I allow
others to have their own experiences.
I see life in all things and honour
it as if it were my own. I support life.
The
second intent-Seek Truth.
I follow my inner compass and discard any beliefs
that are no longer serving me.
I go to source, I seek truth.
The
Third intent- Set Your Course.
I begin the creative process. I give direction
to my life. I set my course.
The
Forth Intent- Simplify.
I let go so there is room for something better to
come in. I intent that I am guided, guarded, protected, and lined up to my highest
good at all times. I trust and remain open to receive from both expected and unexpected
sources. I simplify.
The
Fifth Intent-Stay Positive.
I see good, say good, I accept the gifts from
all my experiences.
I am living in grace and gratitude. I stay positive.
The
Sixth Intent- Synchronise.
After intending and surrendering, I take action
by following the opportunities that are presented to me. I am in the flow where
great mystery and miracles abide, fulfilling my desires and doing what I came
here to do. I synchronise.
The
Seventh Intent- Serve Others.
I practice love in action. I always have enough
to spare and enough to share.
I am available to help those who need it. I
serve others.
The Eight
Intent- Shine Your Light.
I am a magnificent being, awakening to my highest
potential.
I express myself with joy, smiling easily and laughing often. I
shine my light.
The
Ninth Intent- Share Your Vision.
I create my world by envisioning it and telling
others about it.
I share my vision.
The
Tenth Intent-Synergise.
I see humanity as one. I enjoy gathering with light-hearted
people regularly.
When we come together, we set the stage for great oneness
to reveal itself.
We synergise.
--The
Intenders by Tony Burroughs. www.intenders.com.
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"I
am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything,
but I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do
the something
that I can do.
What I can do, I should do.
And what I should do,
by
the grace of God,
I will do."
-- Edward Everett Hale
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"If the only prayer you ever said was
'Thank You,' that would be enough!"
-- Meister Eckhart
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"Your
every thought, feeling, perception, spoken word,
and performed action reverberates
into the universe...."
-- Swami Muktananda
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"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, 1872-1970
philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate
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"If
you make people think they're thinking,
they'll love you;
But if you really
make them think,
they'll hate you."
-- Don Marquis
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The
Austrian philosopher and poet Franz Kafka once said: "You need not leave
your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen,
simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and
solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no
choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."!
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"If
you could get rid of yourself just once,
the secret of secrets would open
to you.
The face of the unknown,
hidden beyond the universe
would
appear on the mirror of your perception."
-- Maulana Jelaluddin
Rumi
Sufi mystic and poet, 1207-1273
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"Why didn't you fight back against the Chinese? The Dalai Lama looked down, swung his feet just a bit, then looked back up at us and said with a gentle smile, Well, war is obsolete, you know. Then, after a few moments, his face grave, he said, Of course the mind can rationalize fighting back... but the heart, the heart would never understand. Then you would be divided in yourself, the heart and the mind, and the war would be inside you."
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"Those who are awake live in a constant state of amazement."
- Buddha
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"When
you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody
will respect you."
-- Lao-Tzu
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" Reflect
upon your present blessings,
of which every man has many --
not on your
past misfortunes,
of which all men have some."
-- Charles Dickens
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" There can be no happiness
if the things we believe in
are
different from the things we do."
~ Freya Stark, English explorer
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"
In our daily lives, we must see
that it is not happiness that makes us grateful,
but the gratefulness that makes us happy."
~ Albert Clarke
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"
When one has nothing to lose,
one becomes courageous.
We are timid only
when there is
something we can still cling to...."
~ Carlos Castaneda
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" Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.
The minute it crops up,
all our irritations and resentments slip away
and a sunny spirit takes their
place."
~ Mark Twain
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"
You are more than you think.
You are not a personality.
You are not
your history.
You are not the sum of all that has happened to you.
You
are Spirit, having a human experience.
You are not merely someone who knows
about God.
You know God."~
Mary Manin Morrissey
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"
People who look for specific results from meditation
but do not get them,
become discouraged
and conclude that meditation has done them no good;
to them the Sage says:
'It does not matter at all whether these results
are attained or not.
The attainment of steadiness is the main thing;
it
is the great gain." -- Maharshi
" When you can't have what you want,
it's time to start wanting what
you have.'' ~ Kathleen A. Sutton
"
What we are today
comes from our thoughts of yesterday,
and our present
thoughts
build our life of tomorrow;
our life is the creation of our
mind."
~ Gautama Buddha
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" Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world
as gently as doves.
Perhaps then, if we listen attentively,
we shall hear amid the uproar of empires
and nations,
a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope.
Some will say that this hope lies in a nation;
others in a man.
I believe
rather that it is awakened, revived,
nourished by millions of solitary individuals
whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers
and the crudest implications
of history.
As a result, there shines forth fleetingly
the ever-threatened
truth that each and every man,
on the foundation of his own suffering and
joys,
builds for all."
~ Albert Camus, 1913-1960
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" There
are persons so radiant, so genial,
so kind, so pleasure-bearing,
that
you instinctively feel in their presence
that they do you good,
whose
coming into a room
is like bringing a lamp there."
~ Henry Ward Beecher, American preacher and author
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"
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,
but the parent of all others."
~ Cicero
" Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate or value into your life."
~ Christiane Northrup
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"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought,
and that
gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
" Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.
If we take
the time, no matter how crazy and troubled
we feel, we can find something
to be thankful for.
The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels
will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives." ~ Terry Lynn Taylor
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" Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It
turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order,
confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our
past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow."
~ Melody Beattie
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"All that we are... is the result of what we have thought." ~ Buddha
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" All that
we see or seem
is but a dream within a dream."
~ Edgar Allen Poe,
1809 - 1849, American author & poet
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" There
is no sin but lack of love."
~ Paulo Coelho
" It is through the imagination
that the formless takes form."
~ Darwin Gross
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The least movement is of importance to all nature.
The
entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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"Again and again in history
Some special people wake up
They
have no ground in the crowd
They move to broader laws
They carry strange
customs with them
And demand room for bold audacious actions
The future
speaks ruthlessly through them
They change the world."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "
-- Harold Thurman Whitman
"What we do in life echoes in eternity" --Maximus in "The Gladiator
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Grandpa Fools Crow used to say: "Walk with a Grateful heart and Grateful Abundance will grow like the grass on the prairies."
Mary Elizabeth Thunder
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The Great Mystery hears our thoughts and our words and truly loves us enough to manifest for us 'EXACTLY'
what WE ASK FOR! ~ Mary Elizabeth Thunder
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"Hold to the truth and make every day with your own body, don't turn your face away."
- David Whyte
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"The highest unity is one which respects differences as well as sameness, and regards both with equal respect." "Love has no opposites."
~ Jeshua through Glenda Green
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"It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny." - Caroline Myss.
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"All Humans who cross your path, or you cross theirs, regardless of their demeanor, are searching for Me (God) through you, hoping above hope that you are the one to deliver the key to their hearts. All Human souls are asking to be delivered to Me or I delivered to them. All their wandering is their search for Me. Be it in bar or church,the search is on." from www.heavenletters.org
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"The rest of creation is waiting, breathless, for you to take your place."
- David Whyte
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"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic." ~ Anais Nin
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If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one Drying in the colour of the evening sun Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away But something in our minds will always stay Perhaps this final act was meant To clinch a lifetime's argument That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could For all those born beneath an angry star Lest we forget how fragile we are On and on the rain will fall Like tears from a star Like tears from a star On and on the rain will say How fragile we are How fragile we are On and on the rain will fall Like tears from a star Like tears from a star On and on the rain will say How fragile we are How fragile we are How fragile we are How fragile we are
~ Sting
"God is Absolute Truth. I am human; I only understand relative truth. So, my understanding of truth can change from day to day and my committment must be to truth rather than consistency."
-- Mahatma Ghandi
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"A being's greatness is measured by his outreach, not by his containment. Not by how much he can hold but by how much he can give."
Jeshua through Glenda Green
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"You are meant to be a Lighthouse that leads others safely to shore. Your light is seen for miles. When passing ships behold your light, they are heartened. You help ships find their way. A lighthouse is for all ships. Its beacon light shines for all the same .A lighthouse is not a reactor. It is a giver. You merely pass light on. It is My light you pass on. You pass it on without fanfare."
from www.heavenletters.org
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"When you change your heart, you change your life."
Jeshua through Glenda Green
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'Ask and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall Find; Knock, and It shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh, receiveth. And he that seeketh, findeth. Into him that knocketh, it shall be opened.'
--Matthew
Chapter 7, Verse #7.
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"Wanting
to reform the world without discovering one's true self is
like trying to
cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on
stones and thorns.
It is much simpler to wear shoes."
-Sri Ramana Maharshi
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"People
who are willing to give up freedom
for the sake of short term security, deserve
neither freedom nor security."
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
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"I have no reason
to suppose that he,
who would take away my Liberty, would
not when he
had me in his Power,
take away everything else."
~ John Locke ~
"It does not require
a majority to prevail,
but rather an irate, tireless minority keen
to
set brush fires in people's minds."
~ Samuel Adams ~
"When the people fear
the government you have tyranny...
when the government fears the people you
have liberty."
~ Thomas Jefferson ~
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"As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
-- Carl Gustav Jung
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Es gibt kein Geheimnis, es gibt nur Uneingeweihte aller Grade.
~ Christian Morgenstern
(1871 - 1914)
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"Er blickte um sich, als sähe er zum ersten Male die Welt. Schön
war die Welt, bunt war die Welt, seltsam und rätselhaft war die Welt! Hier
war Blau, hier war Gelb, hier war Grün, Himmel floß und Fluß,
Wald starrte und Gebirg, alles schön, alles rätselvoll und magisch,
und inmitten er, Siddhartha, der Erwachende, auf dem Wege zu sich selbst. All
dieses, all dies Gelb und Blau, Fluß und Wald, ging zum erstenmal durchs
Auge in Siddhartha, war nicht mehr Zauber Maras, war nicht mehr der Schleier der
Maja, war nicht mehr sinnlose und zufällige Vielfalt der Erscheinungswelt,
verächtlich dem tiefdenkenden Brahmanen, der die Vielfalt verschmäht,
der die Einheit sucht. Blau war Blau, Fluß war Fluß, und wenn auch
im Blau und Fluß in Siddhartha das Eine und Göttliche verborgen lebte,
so war es doch eben des Göttliche Art und Sinn, hier Gelb, hier Blau, dort
Himmel, dort Wald und hier Siddhartha zu sein. Sinn und Wesen waren nicht irgendwo
hinter den Dingen, sie waren in ihnen, in allem."
-- Hermann Hesse
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"Der aber muss unweigerlich ungluecklich sein,
der den Regungen der eigenen Seele nicht nachgeht." --Marc Aurel
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Mit Andacht
lies, und dich wird jedes Buch erbauen;
mit Andacht schau, und du wirst lauter
Wunder schauen;
mit Andacht sprich nur, und man hoert dir zu andaechtig;
mit Andacht bist du stark, ohn Andacht ohnmaechtig. ~ Friedrich Rueckert
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Doch heute zu sein...
heisst,
weise sein, wenn auch vertraut mit der Torheit;
heisst, stark sein, aber nicht
zum Schaden des Schwachen; heisst, mit den Kindern spielen, aber nicht als ihre
Vaeter, sondern als ihre Kameraden, die ihre Spiele lernen wollen;
heisst,
einfach und offen sein mit den Alten und mit ihnen im Schatten betagter Eichen
sitzen, auch wenn ihr noch im Fruehling steht;
heisst, einen Dichter suchen,
auch wenn er hinter sieben Fluessen wohnt, und in seiner Gegenwart Frieden empfinden,
nichts wollen, ohne Zweifel sein und ohne Frage auf den Lippen;
heisst, wissen,
daß der Heilige und der Suendige Zwillingsbrueder sind, deren Vater unser
Barmherziger Koenig ist, und daß der eine nur kurz vor dem anderen geboren
wurde, weshalb wir ihn als Kronprinzen betrachten;
heisst, der Schoenheit
folgen, auch wenn sie zum Rande des Abgrunds fuehrt; und wenn sie Fluegel hat,
ihr aber ohne Fluegel seid, ihr folgen, auch wenn sie ueber den Abgrund geht,
denn wo keine Schoenheit ist, da gibt es nichts;
heisst, ein Garten sein ohne
Mauern, ein Weinberg ohne Waechter, eine Schatzkammer, immer offen stehend für
Besucher;heißt, ausgeraubt, betrogen, enttaeuscht, ja sogar irregefuehrt,
in die Falle geraten und dann verspottet sein, trotz alledem aber herabblicken
von der Hoehe eures groesseren Selbst und laecheln im Bewußtsein, daß
es einen Fruehling gibt, der in euren Garten kommt, um in euren Blaettern zu tanzen,
und einen Herbst, der eure Trauben reifen laesst;
heisst, wissen, daß
ihr nur ein Fenster nach Osten oeffnen muesst, um niemals allein zu sein, und
wissen, dass alle, die fuer Uebeltaeter und Raeuber gehalten werden, eure Brueder
sind, die ihr braucht, und daß ihr selbst all das seid in den Augen der
seligen Bewohner der Unsichtbaren Stadt jenseits von uns.
Khalil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
-- Clarence Darrow
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
-- Oscar Wilde
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts . . .
for support rather than illumination."
-- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
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"He
has Van Gogh's ear for music." -- Billy Wilder
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A HOPI ELDER SPEAKS:
"You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour,
now
you must go back and tell the people
that this is THE HOUR.
And
there are things to be considered...
Where are you living?
What are you
doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where
is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create
your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself
for the leader.
Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said,
"This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They
will feel they are being torn apart and
will suffer greatly. Know the river
has its destination. The elders
say we must let go of the shore, push off
into the middle of the
river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the
water.
And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time
in history, we are to take nothing personally. Least of all,
ourselves. For
the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and
journey comes to a halt. The
time of the lone wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
Banish
the word struggle from your attitude and
your vocabulary.
All
that we do now must be done in a sacred manner
and in celebration.
We
are the ones we've been waiting for.
Oraibi, Arizona
Hopi Nation
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Dan Katchongva (1865-1972), Hopi
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Der Mensch besitzt eine solche Leidenschaft für Systematik und abstrakte Folgerungen, daß er es fertigbringt, bewußt die Wahrheit zu verdrehen und mit sehenden Augen nicht zu sehen und mit hörenden Ohren nicht zu hören.
Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewskij (1821 - 1881)
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING in 2011 when...
1. You
accidentally enter
your PIN on the microwave.
2.
You haven't played solitaire with
real cards in years.
3.
You have a list of 15 phone numbers to
reach your family of three.
4.
You e-mail the person who works at
the desk next to you.
5.
Your reason for not staying in touch
with friends and family is that they
don't have e-mail
addresses.
6.
You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell
phone to see if anyone
is home to help you carry in the
groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen
8.
Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you
didn't even have the
first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a
cause for panic and you
turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
12.. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this website..
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.
~~~~~~~~~~~AND
FINALLY~~~~~~~~~~~~
NOW
U R LAUGHING at yourself.
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Fall in love with the Earth....Whisper sweet things to sunrises, sunsets, rainbows and clouds....Embrace trees...Swoosh through Autumn leaves....Sleep under the stars....Garden with bare hands - feel and smell the soil....Eat passionately....Caress leaves, bark and rocks.....Open your windows...Dance in the moonlight....Stand naked and be caressed by the summer breeze...Roll smooth river rocks across your tongue....Wear flowers and feathers in your hair, then cast them to the wind....Bathe naked in a cool stream...Run in open spaces...Lie on the bare Earth, relax and feel the ground hold you...Leave salt on your skin after swimming in the ocean....Stand humbly and be washed in the rain... Lie in long grass and see visions in the clouds...Revel in thunder and lightning...Look long for shooting stars...Have a nap in the afternoon sun...Stop to smell flowers overhanging fences in the street....Celebrate changing seasons...Learn about local wildlife and create a garden for them...Make love outside...Daydream magnificent wild places...Spend an hour watching insects....Listen to birds....Bless and thank life for the gift of living, and Care For The Earth as you would your Lover.
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Do for others with no desire for returned favours. We all should plant some trees we'll never sit under.
Carrying a grudge is like a run in a stocking - it can only get worse. Forgiveness is the answer.
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When you remember how hard it is to change yourself, you begin to understand what little chance we have of changing others.
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A friend is a person who knows all about you but likes you anyway.
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Friends are like a beautiful garden. They require regular care.
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The people on our planet are not standing in a line single file. Look closely. Everyone is really standing in a circle, holding hands. Whatever you give to the person standing next to you, it eventually comes back to you.
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Today give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
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As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.
-- E. Hillesum
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Happiness is merely wholeness
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Lets impregnate ourselves with love
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness
- Chuang Tzu
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Good guidance eventually throws you out on your ear
If we know we cannot lose - how can we?
In according freedom to what we observe, we free ourselves
Love is the greatest anarchic source of all.
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So long as others hurt, we shall.
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