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Kätzchen · 08-09-2010, 11:58 PM

Frühling

-Hermann Hesse

In dämmrigen Grüften
träumte ich lang
von dein Bäumen und blauen Lüften,
von deinem Duft und Vogelsang.

Nun liegst du erschlossen
in Gleiss und Zier
von Licht übergossen
wie ein Wunder vor mir.

Du kennst mich wieder,
du lockst mich zart,
es zittert durch all meine Glieder
deine selige Gegenwart!

(translation)

Spring

In dusky graveyards
I dreamed long
of your trees and blue skies,
of your scent and your birdsong.

Now you lie uncovered
glittering and ornamented
bathed in light
like a jewel before me.

You recognize me,
you entice me gently,
A shudder runs through my body
your blissful presence.

Link ~>> Hopkins Symphony Orchestra | 2010-2011 Season

Fancy · 08-10-2010, 01:51 AM

” A new journey to be started.
A new promise to be fulfilled.
A new page to be written.
Go forth unto this waiting world with pen in hand, all you young scribes,
the open book awaits.
Be creative.
Be adventurous.
Be original.
And above all else, be young.
For youth is your greatest weapon, your greatest tool.
Use it wisely.”

–Wonder Woman # 62

jenny · 08-10-2010, 06:04 AM

“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.” ~ Marianne Williamson

always2late · 08-10-2010, 06:05 AM

Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer. -Norwegian proverb

Diva · 08-10-2010, 06:08 AM

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

~Edward de Bono

Spirit Dancer · 08-10-2010, 06:39 AM

You know, we can't get out of life alive. We can either
die in the bleachers or die on the field. We might as well
come down on the field and go for it!

Les Brown

Spirit Dancer · 08-10-2010, 06:40 AM

A little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human
toil. . . is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if
there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Albert Schweitzer

Spirit Dancer · 08-10-2010, 06:41 AM

Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day throughout the years.
Every new lesson we learn lays a block on the edifice, which is rising
silently within us. Every experience, every touch of another life on ours,
every influence that impresses us, every book we read,
every conversation we hear, every act of our commonest days,
adds something to the invisible building.

James R. Miller

JakeTulane · 08-10-2010, 06:57 AM

“We take a risk when we open our hearts because the truth is, if we open our hearts, we will get hurt. You can’t open your heart and not have some hurt because you’re in a human experience. Even if it’s the love of your life and you have many wonderful, deepening, growing, powerful years together, it’s a human experience and that person will pass over. Love takes courage. Be courageous.” - Mary Manin Morrissey

JakeTulane · 08-10-2010, 06:58 AM

“Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.” - Gael Greene

JakeTulane · 08-10-2010, 07:02 AM

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." - Joseph Campbell

Fancy · 08-10-2010, 07:45 AM

"Yeah, you know it's me. I'm all about the porn."

-Me (work conversation taken out of context)

Diva · 08-10-2010, 08:02 AM

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

~Barbara de Angelis

jenny · 08-10-2010, 08:13 AM

"Sometimes the only thing to do is to start looking at everything again until you forget what you're supposed to see & actually see what's there." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

Janstevie · 08-10-2010, 11:16 AM

Love is fire, but whether it's gonna warm your heart or burn your house down you can never tell.

BestButchBoy · 08-10-2010, 01:34 PM

“ Sergeant, from now on, I don't want anyone to come in and see me while I'm in my office. Is that clear?

Maj. Major Major Major.

dixie · 08-10-2010, 08:25 PM

Your journey has molded you for greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to here. And now is right on time.
~Asha Tysen

dixie · 08-10-2010, 08:26 PM

If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.
~Bernice Johnson Reagon

dixie · 08-10-2010, 08:27 PM

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

2myladyblue · 08-10-2010, 09:41 PM

There are hundreds of hidden assumptions, things we take for granted that may or may not be true. In the vast majority of these cases, historically, these things aren’t true. If history is any guide, much about what we take for granted about the world simply isn’t true. But we’re locked into these precepts without even knowing it oftentimes, that’s a paradigm.

Have you ever thought about what thoughts are made of?

Modern materialism strips people of the need to be responsible and often enough so does religion.

Why do we keep creating the same reality?
Is it possible that we’re so conditioned to our daily lives, so conditioned to the way we create our lives, that we buy the idea that we have no control at all We’ve been conditioned to believe that the external world is more real than the internal world. Quantum physics says the opposite. It says what happens within us will create what is happening outside of us.

All of us have a habit of thinking that everything around us is already a thing, existing without my input, without my choice. You have to banish that kind of thinking. Instead, recognise that the material world around us (chairs, tables, rooms, carpet – are nothing but possible movements of consciousness. I'm choosing moment to moment out of those movements to bring my actual experience into manifestation. Our tendency is to believe that the world is already out there, independent of our experience.

The deepest level of truth uncovered by science and by philosophy is the fundamental truth of unity. At that deepest sub-nuclear level of our reality, you and I are literally one.

08-10-2010, 06:04 AM	#3503
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.” ~ Marianne Williamson __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

08-10-2010, 06:05 AM	#3504
always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer. -Norwegian proverb __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

08-10-2010, 06:39 AM	#3506
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	You know, we can't get out of life alive. We can either die in the bleachers or die on the field. We might as well come down on the field and go for it! Les Brown __________________ “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

08-10-2010, 06:40 AM	#3507
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	A little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil. . . is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity. Albert Schweitzer __________________ “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

08-10-2010, 06:41 AM	#3508
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	Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day throughout the years. Every new lesson we learn lays a block on the edifice, which is rising silently within us. Every experience, every touch of another life on ours, every influence that impresses us, every book we read, every conversation we hear, every act of our commonest days, adds something to the invisible building. James R. Miller __________________ “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

08-09-2010, 11:58 PM	#3501
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, please. Join Date: May 2010 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow ツ Posts: 16,056 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,111 Thanked 33,515 Times in 10,641 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	Frühling -Hermann Hesse In dämmrigen Grüften träumte ich lang von dein Bäumen und blauen Lüften, von deinem Duft und Vogelsang. Nun liegst du erschlossen in Gleiss und Zier von Licht übergossen wie ein Wunder vor mir. Du kennst mich wieder, du lockst mich zart, es zittert durch all meine Glieder deine selige Gegenwart! (translation) Spring In dusky graveyards I dreamed long of your trees and blue skies, of your scent and your birdsong. Now you lie uncovered glittering and ornamented bathed in light like a jewel before me. You recognize me, you entice me gently, A shudder runs through my body your blissful presence. Link ~>> Hopkins Symphony Orchestra \| 2010-2011 Season

08-10-2010, 01:51 AM	#3502
Fancy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: N/A Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NY Posts: 3,742 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,696 Thanked 7,076 Times in 2,316 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	” A new journey to be started. A new promise to be fulfilled. A new page to be written. Go forth unto this waiting world with pen in hand, all you young scribes, the open book awaits. Be creative. Be adventurous. Be original. And above all else, be young. For youth is your greatest weapon, your greatest tool. Use it wisely.” –Wonder Woman # 62

08-10-2010, 06:08 AM	#3505
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	A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. ~Edward de Bono

08-10-2010, 06:57 AM	#3509
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	“We take a risk when we open our hearts because the truth is, if we open our hearts, we will get hurt. You can’t open your heart and not have some hurt because you’re in a human experience. Even if it’s the love of your life and you have many wonderful, deepening, growing, powerful years together, it’s a human experience and that person will pass over. Love takes courage. Be courageous.” - Mary Manin Morrissey

08-10-2010, 06:58 AM	#3510
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	“Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.” - Gael Greene

08-10-2010, 07:02 AM	#3511
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	"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." - Joseph Campbell

08-10-2010, 07:45 AM	#3512
Fancy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: N/A Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NY Posts: 3,742 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,696 Thanked 7,076 Times in 2,316 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"Yeah, you know it's me. I'm all about the porn." -Me (work conversation taken out of context)

08-10-2010, 08:02 AM	#3513
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	When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship. ~Barbara de Angelis

08-10-2010, 08:13 AM	#3514
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	"Sometimes the only thing to do is to start looking at everything again until you forget what you're supposed to see & actually see what's there." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople" __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

08-10-2010, 11:16 AM	#3515
Janstevie Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Soft Butch Relationship Status: single Join Date: May 2010 Location: England Posts: 1,814 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 112 Thanked 1,331 Times in 411 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Love is fire, but whether it's gonna warm your heart or burn your house down you can never tell.

08-10-2010, 01:34 PM	#3516
BestButchBoy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Male ID Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,925 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 406 Thanked 5,450 Times in 2,037 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	“ Sergeant, from now on, I don't want anyone to come in and see me while I'm in my office. Is that clear? Maj. Major Major Major.

08-10-2010, 08:25 PM	#3517
dixie Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: I usually just poke it with a stick. Preferred Pronoun?: Bitch Relationship Status: Intertwined deeply Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: We're all a little mad here. Posts: 6,627 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 10,972 Thanked 21,383 Times in 4,808 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Your journey has molded you for greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to here. And now is right on time. ~Asha Tysen

08-10-2010, 08:26 PM	#3518
dixie Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: I usually just poke it with a stick. Preferred Pronoun?: Bitch Relationship Status: Intertwined deeply Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: We're all a little mad here. Posts: 6,627 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 10,972 Thanked 21,383 Times in 4,808 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there. ~Bernice Johnson Reagon

08-10-2010, 08:27 PM	#3519
dixie Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: I usually just poke it with a stick. Preferred Pronoun?: Bitch Relationship Status: Intertwined deeply Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: We're all a little mad here. Posts: 6,627 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 10,972 Thanked 21,383 Times in 4,808 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

08-10-2010, 09:41 PM	#3520
2myladyblue Member How Do You Identify?: Goddess Preferred Pronoun?: ...oui? Relationship Status: Worshipped Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Winterpeg, Manisnowba, The Great White North Posts: 430 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,255 Thanked 455 Times in 186 Posts Rep Power: 90765	*thoughts to ponder from What the BLEEP* Do We Know?!?** There are hundreds of hidden assumptions, things we take for granted that may or may not be true. In the vast majority of these cases, historically, these things aren’t true. If history is any guide, much about what we take for granted about the world simply isn’t true. But we’re locked into these precepts without even knowing it oftentimes, that’s a paradigm. Have you ever thought about what thoughts are made of? Modern materialism strips people of the need to be responsible and often enough so does religion. Why do we keep creating the same reality? Is it possible that we’re so conditioned to our daily lives, so conditioned to the way we create our lives, that we buy the idea that we have no control at all We’ve been conditioned to believe that the external world is more real than the internal world. Quantum physics says the opposite. It says what happens within us will create what is happening outside of us. All of us have a habit of thinking that everything around us is already a thing, existing without my input, without my choice. You have to banish that kind of thinking. Instead, recognise that the material world around us (chairs, tables, rooms, carpet – are nothing but possible movements of consciousness. I'm choosing moment to moment out of those movements to bring my actual experience into manifestation. Our tendency is to believe that the world is already out there, independent of our experience. The deepest level of truth uncovered by science and by philosophy is the fundamental truth of unity. At that deepest sub-nuclear level of our reality, you and I are literally one. __________________ "i believe people are see-through if you hold em up to the light i believe people are enlightening if you plug em in right" ~ alix olson "All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for." ~Clarissa Pinkola Estes