posted October 02, 2004 03:00 PM              

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"Your friends don't really like you. If you lived in another country they'd be happy to see you bombed."--Unknown source

"Point of view? Are we no more than sensory windows on our universe, each with only a point of view?

Instincts and memories of all types . . . even Archives -- none of these things spoke for themselves except by compelling intrusions. None carried weight until formulated in a living consciousness. But whoever produced the formulation tipped the scales. All order is arbitrary! Why this datum rather than some other? Any Reverend Mother knew events occurred in their own flux, their own relative environment."
--Frank Herbert, ChapterHouse une

"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."
--Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

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posted October 02, 2004 04:20 PM              

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"there is no escape-we pay for the violence of our ancestors"

-from "the collected sayings of Muad'Dib" by the princess Irulan

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posted October 02, 2004 05:07 PM              

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Indeed, Sir, indeed. And oftimes continue to perpetrate that violence. Blind to the lessons of that historical violence..

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posted October 02, 2004 05:46 PM              

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"Uproot your questions from their ground and the dangling roots will be seen. More questions!"

-Mentat Zensufi

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posted October 02, 2004 07:09 PM              

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:-)
And may we always be Blessed with another question for it is this that permits the entry of Grace...

Or as it has been put elsewhere and elsewhen:

"The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. "I already know the important things!" we say. Then Changer comes and throws our old ideas away."
--The Zensufi Master

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posted October 02, 2004 09:01 PM              

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"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him"

-"The collected sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

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posted October 03, 2004 01:53 AM              

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They say Mother Superior can disregard nothing -- a meaningless aphorism until you grasp its other significance: I am the servant of all my Sisters. They watch their servant with critical eyes. I cannot spend too much time on generalities nor on trivia. Mother Superior must display insightful action else a sense of disquiet penetrates to the farthest corners of our order.

-Darwi Odrade

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posted October 03, 2004 03:32 PM              

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"The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannunsbogen"---which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing."

---from "The Wisdom of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

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posted October 03, 2004 04:05 PM              

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Yes... establishing the Gap, turning the Light around in order to permit the entry of the vertical element (Grace).

"Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary."

--Mentat Fixe (adacto)

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posted October 03, 2004 06:54 PM              

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"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation.It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual."

--Words of Muad'Dib
by Princess Irulan

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posted October 03, 2004 08:26 PM              

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Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security.

--Alma Mavis Taraza

"Almost all people interested in metaphysics have at some point been studied for responsiveness to teaching by those who can teach them. Frequently, such would be students are unaware that such a study has been made. They continue to seek higher knowledge through attempts to contact crude forms of what they imagine to be real teaching."
--Idries Shah, Knowing How to Know

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posted October 04, 2004 11:24 PM            

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This resonates as a current Way to Global Unity

"Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary."

--Mentat Fixe (adacto

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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot

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posted October 04, 2004 11:42 PM              

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Hmm, I like these .

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"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon

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posted October 05, 2004 01:59 AM              

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"There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe.It has symmetry, elegance, and grace-those qualities you always find in that which the true artist captures.You can find it in the turning of the seasons,in the way sand trails along the ridge,in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves.We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort.Yet,it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection.It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity.In such perfection,all things move toward death."

-from "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

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posted October 05, 2004 11:20 AM              

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"The Classic of Invisible Correspondences says, "Observe the course of Nature; hold to the conduct of Nature." Spiritual alchemy certainly takes its laws from Creation, but not by practicing imitation of each individual particular. The ancients were mentally meshed with Nature and acted in concert with its course, the Way. Thus does the energetic operation of the body spontaneously conform to Nature. If you seek the elixir by obsessively trying to imitate the traces of Nature with the secular attitude so commonplace today, that's not it." -- Thomas Cleary, Practical Taoism

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posted October 06, 2004 04:02 PM              

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"Today,thanks to this rather lopsided cultural foundation,we live in what is commonly described as a materialistic society.But that description is in error.Ours is in reality an Abstract Value society-one in which things are not appreciated for what they are so much as for what they represent.If western industrial society appreciated the material world,there would be no junkyards, no clearcut forests, no shoddily designed and manufactured products, no poisoned water sources,no obese, fuel-guzzling automobiles, nor any of the other horrors and eyesores that haunt us at every turn.If ours were a materialistic society,we would love the physical world-and we would know our limits within it.
In truth, western industrial society does not even notice the the material world.It quickly discards it, leaves it to rust in the rain."

-from "The Te of Piglet"
by Benjamin Hoff
author of "The Tao of Pooh"

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posted October 07, 2004 11:27 AM              

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"I don't get no respect!" ...
"Last week I saw my psychiatrist. I told him, "Doc, I keep thinking I'm a dog." He told me to get off his couch."
-Rodney Dangerfield

and Rodney

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posted October 07, 2004 11:36 AM              

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"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? "
-George Carlin

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posted October 07, 2004 03:52 PM              

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"When the going gets wierd, the wierd turn pro"
--Hunter S. Thompson

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posted October 07, 2004 04:04 PM            

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"It ain't easy being green" - Kermit the Frog

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posted October 19, 2004 11:00 PM            

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Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).

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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot

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