Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 109

JakeTulane · 05-14-2010, 11:24 AM

“Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kätzchen · 05-14-2010, 12:02 PM

From:
The Collected Poems (1988)
New York, NY: The Echo Press.

How it Was

Stalking a deer I wandered into the mountains and from there I saw.

Or perhaps it was for some other reason that I rose about the setting sun.

Above the hills of blackwood and a slab of ocean and the steps of a glacier, carmine-colored in the dusk.

I saw absence; the mighty power of counter-fulfillment; the penalty of a promise lost forever.

If, in tepees of plywood, tire shreds, and grimy sheet iron, ancient inhabitants of this land shook their rattles, it was all in vain.

No eagle-creator circled in the air from which the thunderbolt of its glory had been cast out.

Protective spirits hid themselves in subterranean beds of bubbling ore, jolting the surface from time to time so that the fabric of freeways was bursting asunder.

God the Father didn't walk about any longer tending the new shoots of cedar, no longer did man hear his rushing spirit.

His son did not know his sonship and turned his eyes away when passing a neon cross flat as a movie screen showing a striptease.

This time it was really the end of the Old and New Testament.

No one implored, everyone picked up a nodule of agate or diorite to whisper in loneliness; I cannot live any longer.

Bearded messengers in bead necklaces founded clandestine communes in imperial cities and ports overseas.

But none of them announced the birth of a child-savior.

Soldiers from expeditions sent to punish nations would go disguised and masked to take part in forbidden rites, not looking for any hope.

They inhaled smoke soothing all memory and, rocking from side to side, shared with each other a word of nameless union.

Carved in black wood the Wheel of Eternal Return stood before the tents of wandering monastic orders.

And those who longed for the Kingdom took refuge like me in the mountains to become the last heirs of a dishonored myth.

Czeslaw Milosz (1968)

The_Lady_Snow · 05-14-2010, 12:27 PM

Desperate times call for desperate measures. It´s time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air!

Lillie · 05-14-2010, 12:52 PM

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

George Carlin

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
George Carlin

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin

BestButchBoy · 05-14-2010, 03:04 PM

Cool is effortless. Cool is soulful, an inner peace and calm within that’s radiated outward. Cool isn’t afraid to say or do anything. The uncool is. Cool is magnetic.

Cool is… (who wants to step up to the mic?)

from Mark VV

tuffboi29 · 05-14-2010, 04:17 PM

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

-Oscar Wilde

Spirit Dancer · 05-14-2010, 10:56 PM

By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release
and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine
the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life.

Gary Zukav

Spirit Dancer · 05-14-2010, 10:57 PM

Mindfulness of oneself cultivates wisdom.
Mindfulness of others cultivates compassion.

Stonepeace

Spirit Dancer · 05-14-2010, 10:59 PM

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated,
means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

Nell Newman

nycfem · 05-14-2010, 11:25 PM

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”

Ambrose Redmoon

chefhottie25 · 05-14-2010, 11:55 PM

I love this poem and wanted to share it.

The Forgiveness Parade

There's nothing like a full moon reflected in the eyes of a blind man
using a telescope to stir a bowl of Russian alphabet soup
for the cosmonauts who orbited the shadow of Jupiter
and are landing in an ocean of tears
shed by cold blooded murderers who miss their mothers convulsively
in their prison cells being wheeled caravan-style down Oswald Boulevard
as part of the Forgiveness Parade where relatives of the victims
stand quietly holding banners like 'Apology Accepted' as the vandals
stumble past in shackles followed by the hijackers and the pickpockets who
march single file up the fire escape of a skyscraper built by arsonists.

Jeffrey McDaniel

Toofrufru · 05-15-2010, 06:53 AM

“Comedy is acting out optimism.”
Robin Williams

JakeTulane · 05-15-2010, 08:21 AM

“Everything happens for a reason. Every action has a reaction. Always remember that whats meant to be will always find a way to come about." - Author Unknown

JakeTulane · 05-15-2010, 08:23 AM

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” - Jim Morrison

JakeTulane · 05-15-2010, 08:25 AM

“Some roads aren't meant to be travelled alone” - Proverb

Diva · 05-15-2010, 08:29 AM

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

~Will Rogers

Diva · 05-15-2010, 08:33 AM

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

~Ralph Steadman

nycfem · 05-15-2010, 04:49 PM

"We are where our thoughts are; be sure your thoughts are where you want to be."

-Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav

Massive · 05-15-2010, 04:57 PM

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Lao Tzu

"I love you - those three words have my life in them." - by Alexandrea to Nicholas III

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is to love and be loved in return." - From "Unforgettable with Love" by Natalie Cole

"My love for you is a journey;
Starting at forever,
And ending at never." - anonymous quotation

"All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love." - Marquis de Lafayette

"She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes."
- Byron

Diva · 05-15-2010, 05:20 PM

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

~Jean Houston

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05-14-2010, 12:52 PM	#2164
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05-14-2010, 10:56 PM	#2167
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Spirit Dancer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Complex but Tender Preferred Pronoun?: ~Ma`am~ Relationship Status: Shotgun Rider Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Following the red road Posts: 4,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,304 Thanked 12,912 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Mindfulness of oneself cultivates wisdom. Mindfulness of others cultivates compassion. Stonepeace __________________ “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland

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05-14-2010, 12:02 PM	#2162
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, please. Relationship Status: Attached to my granddaughter and chosen family. Join Date: May 2010 Location: ツ Posts: 16,066 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,111 Thanked 33,522 Times in 10,647 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	From: The Collected Poems (1988) New York, NY: The Echo Press. How it Was Stalking a deer I wandered into the mountains and from there I saw. Or perhaps it was for some other reason that I rose about the setting sun. Above the hills of blackwood and a slab of ocean and the steps of a glacier, carmine-colored in the dusk. I saw absence; the mighty power of counter-fulfillment; the penalty of a promise lost forever. If, in tepees of plywood, tire shreds, and grimy sheet iron, ancient inhabitants of this land shook their rattles, it was all in vain. No eagle-creator circled in the air from which the thunderbolt of its glory had been cast out. Protective spirits hid themselves in subterranean beds of bubbling ore, jolting the surface from time to time so that the fabric of freeways was bursting asunder. God the Father didn't walk about any longer tending the new shoots of cedar, no longer did man hear his rushing spirit. His son did not know his sonship and turned his eyes away when passing a neon cross flat as a movie screen showing a striptease. This time it was really the end of the Old and New Testament. No one implored, everyone picked up a nodule of agate or diorite to whisper in loneliness; I cannot live any longer. Bearded messengers in bead necklaces founded clandestine communes in imperial cities and ports overseas. But none of them announced the birth of a child-savior. Soldiers from expeditions sent to punish nations would go disguised and masked to take part in forbidden rites, not looking for any hope. They inhaled smoke soothing all memory and, rocking from side to side, shared with each other a word of nameless union. Carved in black wood the Wheel of Eternal Return stood before the tents of wandering monastic orders. And those who longed for the Kingdom took refuge like me in the mountains to become the last heirs of a dishonored myth. Czeslaw Milosz (1968)

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Spirit Dancer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Complex but Tender Preferred Pronoun?: ~Ma`am~ Relationship Status: Shotgun Rider Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Following the red road Posts: 4,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,304 Thanked 12,912 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on. Nell Newman __________________ “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland

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JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” - Jim Morrison

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Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side. ~Ralph Steadman

05-15-2010, 04:49 PM	#2178
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05-15-2010, 05:20 PM	#2180
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~Jean Houston