Sunday, August 29, 2004
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"Life is what we make it, and the world is what we make it.
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed
upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects
which it bears to them." - Albert Pike
"Discontent may mean the stirrings of ambition, the desire to
spread out, to improve and grow. Discontent is a sign of life,
corresponding to growing pains in a healthy child." - Nellie McClung
"Every citizen has a moral obligation to object to bad laws." - Wayne
Cryts
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in the time of
great moral crisis maintain their neutrality." - Dante
"Justice and freedom do not depend so much on our willingness to
stand up and fight for ourselves as it does on our willingness to
stand up and fight for the rights of others."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing."x
"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of
ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid
being deceived by economists." - Joan Robinson
"They do not love that do not show their love." - John Heywood
"If you cling to nothing, you can handle anything." - Lama Surya Dasx
"How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect exactly as they
are!" - The Buddha
"How joyful to look upon the Awakened and to keep company with the
wise." - from the Dhammapadax
"Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as
pride of opinion; while nothing is so foolish and baseless." - J. G.
Hollandx
"The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So
watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love
born out of concern for all beings.... As the shadow follows the
body, as we think so we become." - from the Dhammapada
"His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a
profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living
had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of a man, as in
a rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and
these can never be destroyed." from the book "Les Miserables" by
Victor Hugo.
"The family pet isn't scheming to get into your purse to get his
share of the money in your pocket, he's trying to figure out a way to
get those pungent chicken bones out of the garbage pail. The value of
anything is always the value we invest in it. Both money and chicken
bones are essentially neutral; their value or lack of it is dependent
upon each being's desire system" - Lama Surya Das
"There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That
says enough." - Mother Teresa.
"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them." -
Benjamin Disreali.
"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I
awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfuly, or
am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?" - Chuang Tsu
"O Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations:
Thou art everywhere, but I worship you here;
Thou art without form, but I worship you in these forms;
Thou needest no praise, yet I offer you these prayers and salutations.
Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations."
- Hindu prayer.
"Truth comes as a conqueror only to those who have lost the art of
recieving it as friend." - Tagorex
"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live." - from the book
"Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." - Aristotlex
"Of those who say nothing, few are silent." - Thomas Neiel
"There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our
suspicions by finding what we suspect." - Thoreaux
"Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us." -
Thomas Browne
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom." -
from the Tao Te Ching.
"There is something pleasurable in the calm remembrance of a past
sorrow." - Cicero
"The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and
quietly to revere what is unknowable." - Goethe
"Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness." - Marabeth Madsen
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -
Albert Einstein
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will
pick himself up and carry on." - Winston Churchill
"Look within yourself. Within is a fountain of good, and it is always
ready to bubble up, if you always delve." - Marcus Aurelius
"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too
busy to take care of his tools." - Spanish ProverbX
"No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living." -
Marie Beynon Ray
"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here
and you are there." - Yasutani Roshix
"I don't know how much they tell you in schools these days, but Jesus
Christ was not a European." - Peter Mirejovsky
"At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a
period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time,
having a purpose, trending in a certain direction." - Aldous Huxley
"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then
beat you with experience."
"Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of
joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore." - Psalm 16:11
"If I say to you, you are God - where does that leave religion? If I
say to you, you are healed, where does that leave science, and
medicine? If I say to you, you shall live in peace, where does that
leave the peacemakers? If I say to you, the world is fixed - where
does that leave the world?" - Conversations with God, Book One. By
Neale Donald Walsch
"Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper
union with God. . An experience of God quenches this thirst for the
absolute but at the same time, paradoxiacally, whets it, because this
is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge
of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire
to love each other and every human being as God loves them." - Jean
Vanier.
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The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed
upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects
which it bears to them." - Albert Pike
"Discontent may mean the stirrings of ambition, the desire to
spread out, to improve and grow. Discontent is a sign of life,
corresponding to growing pains in a healthy child." - Nellie McClung
"Every citizen has a moral obligation to object to bad laws." - Wayne
Cryts
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in the time of
great moral crisis maintain their neutrality." - Dante
"Justice and freedom do not depend so much on our willingness to
stand up and fight for ourselves as it does on our willingness to
stand up and fight for the rights of others."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing."x
"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of
ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid
being deceived by economists." - Joan Robinson
"They do not love that do not show their love." - John Heywood
"If you cling to nothing, you can handle anything." - Lama Surya Dasx
"How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect exactly as they
are!" - The Buddha
"How joyful to look upon the Awakened and to keep company with the
wise." - from the Dhammapadax
"Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as
pride of opinion; while nothing is so foolish and baseless." - J. G.
Hollandx
"The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So
watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love
born out of concern for all beings.... As the shadow follows the
body, as we think so we become." - from the Dhammapada
"His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a
profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living
had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of a man, as in
a rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and
these can never be destroyed." from the book "Les Miserables" by
Victor Hugo.
"The family pet isn't scheming to get into your purse to get his
share of the money in your pocket, he's trying to figure out a way to
get those pungent chicken bones out of the garbage pail. The value of
anything is always the value we invest in it. Both money and chicken
bones are essentially neutral; their value or lack of it is dependent
upon each being's desire system" - Lama Surya Das
"There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That
says enough." - Mother Teresa.
"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them." -
Benjamin Disreali.
"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I
awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfuly, or
am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?" - Chuang Tsu
"O Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations:
Thou art everywhere, but I worship you here;
Thou art without form, but I worship you in these forms;
Thou needest no praise, yet I offer you these prayers and salutations.
Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations."
- Hindu prayer.
"Truth comes as a conqueror only to those who have lost the art of
recieving it as friend." - Tagorex
"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live." - from the book
"Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." - Aristotlex
"Of those who say nothing, few are silent." - Thomas Neiel
"There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our
suspicions by finding what we suspect." - Thoreaux
"Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us." -
Thomas Browne
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom." -
from the Tao Te Ching.
"There is something pleasurable in the calm remembrance of a past
sorrow." - Cicero
"The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and
quietly to revere what is unknowable." - Goethe
"Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness." - Marabeth Madsen
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -
Albert Einstein
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will
pick himself up and carry on." - Winston Churchill
"Look within yourself. Within is a fountain of good, and it is always
ready to bubble up, if you always delve." - Marcus Aurelius
"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too
busy to take care of his tools." - Spanish ProverbX
"No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living." -
Marie Beynon Ray
"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here
and you are there." - Yasutani Roshix
"I don't know how much they tell you in schools these days, but Jesus
Christ was not a European." - Peter Mirejovsky
"At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a
period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time,
having a purpose, trending in a certain direction." - Aldous Huxley
"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then
beat you with experience."
"Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of
joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore." - Psalm 16:11
"If I say to you, you are God - where does that leave religion? If I
say to you, you are healed, where does that leave science, and
medicine? If I say to you, you shall live in peace, where does that
leave the peacemakers? If I say to you, the world is fixed - where
does that leave the world?" - Conversations with God, Book One. By
Neale Donald Walsch
"Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper
union with God. . An experience of God quenches this thirst for the
absolute but at the same time, paradoxiacally, whets it, because this
is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge
of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire
to love each other and every human being as God loves them." - Jean
Vanier.
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