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"There is really nothing more to say -- except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
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The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide. (f) ~Michael Rivero |
Live in Joy Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way. ~ There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way. (f) from the Dhammapada, Words of the Buddha |
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle - |
"What you risk reveals what you value"--Winterdon
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"Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity" Sammy Davis. Jr.
"The Designated Driver program, it's not a desirable job. But If you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house." Jeff Foxworthy:rofl: :danceparty: |
Some words are worth repeating.
"As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break. Now is not the time for you to be strong, Julia, or you, too, will break." -- Julia Butterfly Hill |
"The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them." -- John Seely Brown |
“You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived. You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back, or you can open your eyes and see all she's left. Your heart can be empty because you can't see her, or you can be full of the love you shared. You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. You can remember her only that she is gone, or you can cherish her memory and let it live on. You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back. Or you can do what she'd want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.” - David Harkins |
Patience is power. With time and
patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk. Chinese proverb |
Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you will but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
James Allen |
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
~Ray Bradbury |
"I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough." - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar - |
"I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night."
When Harry Met Sally |
I have seen women like you before, baby. You're double-tough and you are sharp as a razor, and you get what you want or else;
but you don't make it work forever. Sooner or later the lightning hits, and I'm not gonna be around when it hits you. From The Grifters |
"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway." ~ Mother Theresa |
It occurred to her that despite the failure of her marriage, the failure of her career, despite her hangover and chronic horniness, she suddenly was feeling rather light and giddy. She couldn't understand it. Was she simply too shallow to suffer indefinitely, or was she too wise to become attached to her suffering, too feisty to permit it to rule her life? She voted for wise and feisty, and walked on, kicking leaves.
- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs And All |
Isaac Asimov
"If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul."
"Hell is the drooling dream of the sadist, crudelly affixed to an all-merciful God, if even human governments are willing to curtail cruel and unusual punishments, why would punishment in the afterlife not be restricted to a limited term? Human belief or action should not merit Infinite punishment. If an afterlife of just deserts exists ,the longest and most severe punishment would be reserved for those who "slandered God by inventing Hell" |
Love without fight grows mold
Amore senza baruffa fa la muffa. |
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
~bell hooks |
"Any step in individuation is experienced as a crime against the collective because it challenges the individual's identification with some representative of the collective - whether it be a family, party, church or nation. At the same time, each step - since it is truly an inflated act - is not only accompanied by guilt but also runs the very real risk that one will get caught in an inflation that carries the consequences of a fall." - Edward F. Edinger
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"There are still a few men who love desperately." ~ J.D. Salinger
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"My idea of feminism is self-determination,
and it´s very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do." -- Ani DiFranco |
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy... ~Rumi :stillheart: |
"I the Woman" Sandra Cisneros I am she of your stories the notorious one leg wrapped around the door bare heart sticking like a burr the fault the back street the weakness that's me I'm the Thursday night the poor excuse I am she I'm dark in the veins I'm intoxicant I'm hip and good skin brass and sharp tooth hard lip pushed against the air I'm lightbeam no stopping me I am your temporary thing your own mad dancing I am a live wildness left behind one earring in the car a finger- on skin the black smoke in your clothes and in your mouth |
" If you don't like how things are , Change it!
Your not a tree." Jim Rohn quote :vigil: |
If You don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you ?Not much.
Jim Rohn |
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it." - Douglas Adams |
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe; is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein |
"I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there." - Alex Haley |
Try it.
"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."
George Steiner |
“And opening my eyes I am afraid of course
to look--this inward look that society scorns-- Still I search in these woods and find nothing worse than myself, caught between the grapes and the thorns.” ~Anne Sexton |
“Do not fight with anyone, nor retaliate, nor slander anyone.”
~Sri Sathya Sai Baba :vigil: |
"New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive."
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain
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Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
~Oprah Winfrey |
Begin and end each day with an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving. Every morning when you awake you have been given the gift of a sunrise and twenty-four hours to live. This is a precious gift. You have the wonderful opportunity to take this day and live joyously, with appreciation for everything that you encounter. Take a deep breath and be grateful for this exhilarating experience of breathing in life and love. Similarly, end your day with an expression of love, and a repetition of the word for peace, “Shalom.”
Wayne Dyer |
Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly!
~Author Unknown |
In an email this morning from an old and dear friend:
As we continue our journey of letting-go, let us also bring back to Mind of what has really given us peace and added to our happiness this past year. Let us embrace the "beauty" and "unique expressions" of all of humanity. As we do this let us embrace the Powerful Knowingness of "Our Oneness" with All now and forevermore. |
Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer,
With never a thought of sorrow; The old goes out, but the glad young year Comes merrily in tomorrow. Emily Miller |
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