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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."
~~(Toni Morrison / The Bluest Eye) |
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 |
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