"Being sacredly pissed off can lead to liberation."


"Maturity is gauged by the ability to elegantly surrender to life's unpredictability." Malidoma Somé

"September 11 was one of those rare times. When the event happened, while it happened, we knew we were watching history unfold. We saw a line – a shadow – fall over the newsreel of our lives, one that would forever mark the days after as separate from the days before. We understood that we would remember, would someday tell our grandchildren, where we had been and what we had been doing when we heard the news." ~ Dan Rather

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. Plato

Peace has so much to do with warm-heartedness and respect for the lives of others. Dalai Lama

When I am on a pedestal,
you did not raise me there.
Your laws do not compel me
to kneel grotesque and bare.

- Leonard Cohen

In the depth of winter,I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus

To err is human, but it feels divine.
Mae West

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer

A Turn to the Right
A Little White Light

Let there be a season when no one rakes,
when all tha has ever fallen can drift
with ordinary wings. Mithras, I hear you
out in the open, humming our favorite tune,
through a leaf and a comb.

Lead us as if we were righteous
into the blue light of heaven
where no one will forgive anyone
just in case it's condescending,
and we wil love each other
to the withered toes.

Carolyn Reynolds Miller
(2001: Lynx House Press)

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson

This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams


I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Everybody's nice when you meet them.

~ my mom.com

The Awesome
 

This made my day:

Waking up full of Awesome

Especially this part:

There was a time when you were five years old,
and you woke up full of awesome.

You knew you were awesome.

You loved yourself.

You thought you were beautiful,
even with missing teeth and messy hair and mismatched socks inside your grubby sneakers.

You loved your body, and the things it could do.

You thought you were strong.

You knew you were smart.

Do you still have it?
The awesome.

Did someone take it from you?
Did you let them?
Did you hand it over, because someone told you weren’t beautiful enough, thin enough, smart enough, good enough?
Why the hell would you listen to them?
Did you consider they might be full of shit?

Wouldn’t that be nuts, to tell my little girl below that in another five or ten years she might hate herself because she doesn’t look like a starving and Photoshopped fashion model?
Or even more bizarre, that she should be sexy over smart, beautiful over bold?
Are you freaking kidding me?

Look at her. She is full of awesome.

You were, once. Maybe you still are. Maybe you are in the process of getting it back.

All I know is that if you aren’t waking up feeling like this about yourself, you are really missing out.

Do what makes you happy and sets you free but be careful and know that everything that makes you happy may not set you free. However whatever sets you free, will most certainly make you happy. (f) ~Crash~

"There are no jokes."-Freud
"Show me a sane man and I'll cure him for you."-Jung

Either you deal with what is the reality or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. Alex Haley

If someone tells you they're going to do their best...it ain't happenin'.
 

Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen. (delivered by Sean Connery in "The Rock")

The Holiday (2006)
 

Iris (Cameron Diaz):

"...then you go somewhere new, and surround yourself with people who make you feel worth while, and pieces of your soul begin to comeback..."

Amanda (Kate Winslet):

"You know Graham, I just broke up with someone and considering you just showed up and you're insanely good-looking and probably won't remember me anyway, I'm thinking we should have sex..."

Graham (Jude Law):

"Is that a trick question?"

Miles (Jack Black):

"The wind...It's what makes it so warm at this time of the year. Legend has it, when Santa Anas blow, all bets are off, anything can happen..."

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

-Walt Whitman

Ride a draft it makes your butt look smaller (bumper sticker)

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't the guts to bite people themselves. (?)

Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley. (?)

imposed
 

Do not impose on others, what you yourself do not desire.

"Meaning well is useless unless you do well." - Plautus

"It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else’s point of view without the proper training." -Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless