- “Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.” - Mark Twain
- “An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”
- “Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” - Matt Groening
- “Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.” - Lily Tomlin
- “Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” - Kahlil Gibran
- “When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for . If reward is the goal of religion, if patriotism serves self-interest, and if education is pursued for advancement, then I would prefer to be a non-believer, a non-patriot, and a humbly ignorant man.” - Kahlil Gibran
- “Is not the dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?” - Kahlil Gibran
- “Work is Love made visible!” - Kahlil Gibran
- “Learn to live without self concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone.” - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- “Just realise you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs to be done.” - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponenets and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up familiar with it.” - Niels Bohr
- “I am passing this onto you because it definitely worked for me and we all could do with a little calm.
By following the simple advice I read in an article, I have finally found inner peace.
The article read: "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish off all the things you have started."
I looked around the house to see all the things I had started and hadn't finished. So before leaving the house this morning I finished off a bottle of red wine, a bottle of white wine, the Baileys, three Bacardi Breezers, the Jack Daniels, the Prozac, some Valium, some cheesecake and a box of chocolates.
You have no idea how bloody good I feel. You must pass this onto those you feel are in need of inner peace.” - “One basic truth can be used as the 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 reveberate, and continue to reveberate throughout the Earth for generations to follow, awakening even those people who had no desire to be awakened to the truth.
Delamar Duvaris, preface to "Behold the Pale Horse by William Cooper.” - Delamar Duvaris - “The Student's Prayer
Don't impose on me what you know,
I want to explore the unknown
and be the source of my own discoveries.
Let the known be my liberation, not my slavery.
The world of your truth can be my limitation;
your wisdom my negation.
Don't instruct me; let's walk together.
Let my richness begin where yours ends.
Show me so that I can stand
on your shoulders.
Reveal yourself so that I can be
something different.
You believe that every human being
can love and create.
I understand, then, your fear
when I ask you to live according to your wisdom.
You will not know who I am
by listening to yourself.
Don't instruct me; let me be.
Your failure is that I be identical to you.” - “Political slogans which featured in the Washington DC anti war
protest
Evolve! Work For A Non-violent Future
If War Is The Answer, We're Asking The Wrong Question
Killing Innocent People Is The Problem, Not The Solution
Bush does for Christianity what Bin Laden does for Islam
War Is A Dick Thing, Peace Is A Heart Thing
When Bush Comes To Shove
Brains Not Bombs
Goddess Bless the Whole Wide World
George Dubya: Weapon Of Mass Distraction
Beat The Bushes For Peace
If You Are Not Outraged You Are Not Paying Attention
Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Look Under The Bushes
Drop Bush, Not Bombs
Save America, Spare Iraq, Make Texas Take Him Back
Small Print For Peace (on a teensy card held aloft on a stick like any
large sign)
Drop Names, Not Bombs
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Stop Mad Cowboy Disease
Bush Is A Servant Of Sauron. We Hates Him!
Make Love, Not War
There Is No Path To Peace - Peace IS The Path
Justice Or Just Us?
Sorry Dubya - Have A Pretzel Instead
Tame The Tyrant In The Mirror, Then The One In Iraq
Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld: Axis Of Weasel
Go Solar, Not Ballistic
Nonviolence, Not Nonexistence
A Village In Texas Has Lost Its Idiot
How Many Lives Per Gallon?
Make Alternative Energy Not War
How Did Our Oil Get Under Their Soil?
Regime Change Begins At Home
Put The Peace Back In
No Hitting (held by young girl) - I reckon she might have been at the wrong rally
No Oilgarchy (Oilgarchy in circle with slash across it)
God Does Not Bless Only America
Rich Man's War Poor Man's Blood
Has Anyone Seen Our Constitution Lately?
What If God Blesses Iraq?
Born To Kill, Born To Drill
Let's Try Preemptive Peace
Bush Is A Moron Don't Let Him Get His War On
Honk If You're A Terrorist
Smart Bombs Don't Justify Dumb Leaders
We Have Guided Missiles And Misguided Men
Who's The Unelected Tyrant With The Bomb?
Peaceful Solution Not Daddy's Retribution
My President Is A Psychopath
Relax, George
Fight Plaque, not Iraq (and the guy was carrying a toothbrush)” - “We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.”
- “All Generalizations are false!”
- “Then said a teacher, speak to us of Teaching. And he said:
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your own knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.” - Kahlil Gibran The Prophet - “Time itself is a great teacher, although it does end up killing all its students.”
- “The only reason “here” is no good is because the mind says “there” is better.”
- “There is more than one way to climb to the top of the tree and that does not include sitting on an acorn and waiting for it to grow.”
- “We are taught to be nice, not to be true!”
- “Don't stand at my grave and weep,
For I am not there
I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamonds glint on snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain
I am the gentle autumns rain
In the soft hush of the morning light
I am the swift bird in flight
Don't stand at my grave and weep
I am not there
I did not die.
unknown Native American Poet” - “Whomsoever tries to enslave you, think, speak or act for you is not for you.” - Grant Day
- “Educate, not dictate, medicate. How can we educate instead of dictate (dick-tate) or medicate.” - Grant Day
- “Calvin & Hobbes
c: Look at all the stars!
The universe just goes out forever and ever!
h: It kind of makes you wonder why man considers himself such a big screaming deal.
c: That's why we stay inside with our appliances.” - Calvin & Hobbes - “The purpose of the doctor is to entertain the patient while the disease takes its course.” - Voltaire
- “Most of what is claimed to be learning is actually conditioning!”
- “The function of the child is to live life to the full, not to live the life of their anxious parents. Nor the life their anxious parents think they should live.”
- “We teach order and structure and abhor change and the unknown and then we ask the student to go into the unknown and change.”
- “The people who are educating your child said that the 4 minute mile was humanly impossible.”
- “The fundamental question is, "Has your education brought you happiness?". If not, then why would you want to feed your children the same unhappiness.”
- “Which would you prefer to pay for? Words about chocolate or chocolate.”
- “Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”
- “In spite of its perpetual promises to you, ego does not know what you need.”
- “It is not true that nobody loves you. The truth is that you don't feel loved.”
- “AND a woman who held a baby against her bosom said,
Speak to us of children.
And he said:
Your Children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backwards nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and he bends you with His might that His arrow may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.” - Kahlil Gibran The Prophet - “Where you feel secure is your jail.”
- “A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over 30 years.
One day a stranger walked by. "Spare some change?" mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old hat. "I have nothing to give you," said the stranger. Then he asked: "What's that you are sitting on?"
"Nothing," replied the beggar. "Just an old box.’ I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember."
"Ever looked inside?" asked the stranger.
"No," said the beggar. "What's the point? there's nothing in there."
"Have a look inside," insisted the stranger.
The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw the box was filled with gold.
I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer: inside yourself.
"But I am not a beggar," I can hear you say.
We are all beggars until we have found our true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep peace that comes with it.” - “Woman. Everything I am I owe to Her. All the good and the bad in my life. All the sorcery and mystery. All the wisdom and madness. Even in the very beginning, before there could be space, or time either, when every point of each of us touched every point of each of the others, She was there. She was Herself the one point out of which everything has come. And she was the coming, too. Why do you think we left but to follow Her?
In the very, very beginning, before there was a beginning, when all was one point, Woman was all the incomprehensible meaning we needed. She held us all together. She made us one. Wholly promiscuous, for we were all together with Her - yet wholly chaste, for she was as utterly alone as we were - one whole and single point. What greater happiness could there be?
That was the question that doomed us. That we could think it at all bespeaks a terrible flaw in an otherwise perfect wholeness. But, of course, it was our perfection that inspired the question in the first place. How much happier could we be if we were to be a part of Her yet apart from Her? How much more happiness would there be if we could see Her and be seen?
And with that question came the necessity for the space to see and the time in which to be seen, the space a hug needs, the time a kiss requires, a space and time vast enough to make room for all of us that wanted to see and hold Her.
There were many more of us than any of us could have imagined. Each of us had thought we were the one and only one until we fell apart. Our clamouring for Her drove Her away from us - and naturally we followed, out into space and into time, wanting to be with Her as we have always been with Her. But in a new way. And so space and time came into being. Only none of us, except perhaps Her, could have known how cold and dark it was going to be.
And none of us, surely not even She, could have anticipated all the woe that was to follow - and all the joy that woe would require to make itself whole again. And none suspected the sorcery and wisdom that we would have to learn and possess to match the mystery and madness of losing Her. Nor did we realise the vast distances, the expanding light-years of space and what great aeonial spans of time it would take to begin to even approximate the generous and true wholeness we had enjoyed when we were all at one point.
Little did any of us foresee our bizarre fate. How strange that, out here in space and time, each of us so wholly separate from others. How strange that She is everywhere and yet nowhere. How much stranger yet that She has become woman - and out of woman's diminishment, out of the exile from the body of the ovaries to become testicles, out of the stunting of her nourishing breasts to useless nipples, out of the maiming of the fullness and symmetry of her chromosomes to a genetic mutation has come the distortion that is man.
Is there any wonder that we men suffer and in our suffering we rage? We are the immortal points that broke apart from the one point to follow Her here. We are the eternal wanderers. And where is She now? She is everywhere and nowhere. She is the embrace of the great emptiness that is the universe. She is the long lingering kiss of time. She is everything She always was - and everything we always wanted Her to be. Now we serve Her or we rail against Her, because we can never escape Her or really find Her. She is nameless and She is the very breath of all names - for She is the truth that finally embraces us all. She is God.” - “REASONS WHY THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS HARD TO LEARN
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a! sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its oxymorons, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who
was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible. However, when the lights are out, they are invisible. Why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.” - “An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one
fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.
The Mexican replied, only a little while.
The American then asked why didn't he stay out longer and catch more fish?
The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs.
The American then asked, "but what do you do with the rest of your time?"
The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria,
stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life."
The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the
processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise."
The Mexican fisherman asked, "But, how long will this all take?"
To which the American replied, "15-20 years."
"But what then?"
The American laughed and said that's the best part. "When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions."
"Millions.. Then what?"
The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."” - “When I am in fear, I am in control.”
- “Peter McLaren, a professor at the University of California Los Angeles, Who seeks to bring home the dangers of corporate interests vested in education: “Capitalism creates an ethos of competitiveness, of winners and losers. The losers live in informal settlements. They have no health provisions. They get Aids and they die.”” - Peter McLaren
- “Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a mystery, to be lived.”
- “External things have value, only in what they awaken in us.” - Grant Day
- “The pain that you create now is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of thought.”
- “Reason is powerless in the expression of love.”
- “I have no time to be in a hurry.” - Thoreau
- “If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not for you!”
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