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Valus
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posted August 18, 2010 02:29 PM
 
"It is possible to earn an honest fortune, but not to keep one.
There is no such thing as a charitable millionaire.""Anyone who isn't seeking attention for their ideas,
has no faith in the significance of their ideas." "It is better to be self-absorbed than absorbed in trivialities." "Well said is well done."
~ Valus
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posted August 18, 2010 02:46 PM
"The longer I live, the more I see
that I am never wrong about anything,
and that all the pains that I have so
humbly taken to verify my notions
have only wasted my time."~ George Bernard Shaw
"The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another must wait
till that other is ready."
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posted August 19, 2010 06:01 AM
"Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace." ~ Marianne WilliamsonIP: Logged |
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posted August 20, 2010 07:16 AM
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.
Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."~ Barry Goldwater
[I don't agree with Goldwater's notions of "liberty" and "justice"
(ultra-conservative that he was), but I certainly agree with the spirit of the quote.]
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posted August 20, 2010 07:20 AM
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."~ Martin Luther King Jr.
"In a man like Hitler, persistence is no virtue."
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mermaid26
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posted September 16, 2010 08:07 AM
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
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posted September 19, 2010 08:37 AM
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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posted September 27, 2010 01:35 PM
“Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.”“We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.” ~ Sarah Bernhardt IP: Logged |
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posted September 28, 2010 09:52 AM
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posted October 01, 2010 09:12 AM
"The spirit of this time would like to hear of use and value. I also thought this way, and my humanity still thinks this way. But that other spirit forces me nevertheless to speak, beyond justification, use, and meaning. Filled with human pride and blinded by the presumptuous spirit of the times, I long sought to hold that other spirit away from me. But I did not consider that the spirit of the depths from time immemorial and for all the future possesses a greater power than the spirit of this time, who changes with the generations. The spirit of the depths has subjugated all pride and arrogance to the power of judgment. He took away my belief in science, he robbed me of the joy of explaining and ordering things, and he let devotion to the ideals of this time die out in me. He forced me down to the last and simplest things."
~ C.G. Jung, THE RED BOOK"It was not my intention in this study to pass judgment on the truth of their claim to have received revelation, nor to solve the enigma of prophecy by means of psychological or sociological explanations, nor yet to discover the conditions of its possibility or suggest means of its verification. The intention was to illuminate the prophet's claim; not to explain their consciousness, but to understand it... What I have aimed at is an understanding of what it means to think, feel, respond, and act as a prophet. It was not part of the task to go beyond his consciousness in order to explore the subconscious or reach out to the antecedent conditionings and experiences within the inner life of the individual. A surmise of what lies beyond and below the threshold of the prophet's consciousness can never be a substitute for the understanding of what is displayed in consciousness itself."
~ Abraham Heschel, THE PROPHETS
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posted October 01, 2010 10:28 PM
By making the right use of these things remembered from the former life, by constantly perfecting itself in the Mysteries, a soul becomes truly perfect--an initiate into the diviner Wisdom. ~ PLATO
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posted October 02, 2010 11:15 PM
Love, if it is love, never goes away.
It is embedded in us,
like seams of gold in the earth,
Waiting for light,
Waiting to be struck.Alice Walker IP: Logged |
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posted October 05, 2010 09:56 AM
"All sunshine makes a desert." ~ Arabian Proverb"It might well be said that sorrow is the source of the great discoveries in life. It is in sorrow that a man discovers the things that matter and the things that do not matter. It is in sorrow that a man discovers the meaning of friendship, and the meaning of love. It is in sorrow that a man discovers whether his faith is a merely superficial ornament of life or the essential foundation on which his whole life depends. It is in sorrow that a man discovers God... Those whose names are written in gold letters in the honor roll of humanity are not those who looked at their fellow men with a conscious and a contemptuous superiority, nor are they those who regarded the struggles of mankind with a cool detachment; they are those who cared so much, and who sorrowed so much, that the sorrow of their hearts drove them to spend their lives in the service of mankind. The world would be a poorer place without those who sorrowed dynamically for their fellow men." ~ William Barclay IP: Logged |
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posted October 05, 2010 11:49 PM
"As I go on in this life, day by day, I become more of a bewildered child; I cannot get used to this world, to procreation, to heredity, to sight, to hearing; the commonest things are a burden. The prim, obliterated, polite surface of life, and the broad, bawdy, and orgiastic -- or maenadic -- foundations, form a spectacle to which no habit reconciles me."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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MysticMelody
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posted October 06, 2010 09:07 AM
Love this quote... (first time reading it)
I have to steal it."As I go on in this life, day by day, I become more of a bewildered child; I cannot get used to this world, to procreation, to heredity, to sight, to hearing; the commonest things are a burden. The prim, obliterated, polite surface of life, and the broad, bawdy, and orgiastic -- or maenadic -- foundations, form a spectacle to which no habit reconciles me."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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posted October 06, 2010 10:42 AM
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mermaid26
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posted October 07, 2010 11:36 AM
Friend, whatever you are, you must not stand still:
One must from one light into the other spill~ Angelus Silesius
*** Especially for Sunchild and Baby Angelica
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posted October 13, 2010 11:50 AM
The mind of a fool is like a hive of many insects. These insects are the foolish opinions and arguments which he spews, and which seek to accost the thinking man in the midst of his journey. It doesn't matter to the fool when his arguments and opinions are swatted and squashed, because he cares very little about the individual insects, and a great deal for the species as a whole. Prove to him a thousand times that he is wrong -- it makes no difference; his mind will continue to swarm, his views will continue to multiply, and to creep and bite and suck at the blood of a thoughtful man. There is no reasoning with a fool.
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posted October 14, 2010 11:32 AM
"[If] our theory of revelation-value were to affirm that any book, to possess it, must have been composed automatically or not by the free caprice of the writer, or that it must exhibit no scientific and historic errors and express no local or personal passions, the Bible would probably fare ill at our hands. But if, on the other hand, our theory should allow that a book may well be a revelation in spite of errors and passions and deliberate human composition, if only it be a true record of the inner experiences of great-souled persons wrestling with the crises of their fate, then the verdict would be much more favorable." ~ William James
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posted October 15, 2010 02:48 PM
"Whatever your reason for being there, the outdoors is a world apart, a creation unique with its own colors, its special music, and its matchless variety of fragrance. No human paint brush could ever duplicate its beauty, no musical instrument its blended symphonies, and there is no way to match its fragrance with chemicals."-Charlie Elliott IP: Logged |
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posted October 16, 2010 12:16 AM
"[If] our theory of revelation-value were to affirm that any book, to possess it, must have been composed automatically or not by the free caprice of the writer, or that it must exhibit no scientific and historic errors and express no local or personal passions, the Bible would probably fare ill at our hands. But if, on the other hand, our theory should allow that a book may well be a revelation in spite of errors and passions and deliberate human composition, if only it be a true record of the inner experiences of great-souled persons wrestling with the crises of their fate, then the verdict would be much more favorable." ~ William James"Like" IP: Logged |
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posted October 16, 2010 12:17 AM
"Whatever your reason for being there, the outdoors is a world apart, a creation unique with its own colors, its special music, and its matchless variety of fragrance. No human paint brush could ever duplicate its beauty, no musical instrument its blended symphonies, and there is no way to match its fragrance with chemicals."-Charlie Elliott Also "Like"  IP: Logged |
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posted October 18, 2010 11:44 PM
"There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby, and invisible. And there it is where God lives, where the dead live, the spirits and the saints, a world where everything has already happened and everything is known. That world talks. It has a language of its own. I report what it says. The sacred mushroom takes me by the hand and brings me to the world where everything is known. It is they, the sacred mushrooms, that speak in a way I can understand. I ask them and they answer me. When I return from the trip that I have taken with them, I tell what they have told me and what they have shown me."
~ Maria Sabina, Mazatec Wise Woman
"There is no difference in principle between sharpening perception with an external instrument, such as a microscope, and sharpening it with an internal instrument such as one of these... If they are an affront to the dignity of the mind, the microscope is an affront to the dignity of the eye and the telephone to the dignity of the ear."
~ Alan Watts, Joyous Cosmology
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posted October 21, 2010 03:23 PM
The only thing more humble than a mushroom,is finding God in a mushroom.
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posted October 23, 2010 04:29 PM
Just came across these:"The more spiritual you become the harder times you experience; the more spiritual you become, the more slandered you are." Yogi Bhajan
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