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timeless humanitarian quotes

torrid_wind — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:06:37 GMT

"It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." – Unknown (credited to Robert Fulghum in a 1982 book, but I doubt this)

"When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist." -- Archbishop Helder Camara

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Buddhist Quotes

The Passenger — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:13:35 GMT

Buddhist Quotes

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

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sayings

chilambalam2013 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:06:38 GMT

When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced.
Live your life in such a way that when you die
the world cries while you rejoice

(Ancient Sanskrit saying)

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not famous, but true nonetheless...

torrid_wind — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:33:28 GMT

"God gave man a brain and a penis, but not enough blood to use both at the same time." – unknown

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richard brautigan

Leelen — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:00:12 GMT

~"Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?"

~"If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows."

"Comets"

There are comets
that flash through
our mouths wearing
the grace
of oceans and galaxies.

God knows,
we try to do the best
we can.

There are comets
connected to chemicals
that telescope
down out tongues
to burn out against
the air.

I know
we do.

There are comets
that laugh at us
from behind our teeth
wearing the clothes
of fish and birds.

We try.

Richard Brautigan

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aaron kramer

Leelen — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:40:51 GMT

Come, all of you who are not satisfied
as ruler in a lone, wallpapered room
full of mute birds, and flowers that falsely bloom,
and closets choked with dreams that long ago died!

Come, let us sweep the old streets---like a bride:
sweep out dead leaves with a relentless broom;
prepare for Spring, as though he were our groom
for whose light footstep eagerly we bide.

We'll sweep out shadows, where the rats long fed;
sweep out our shame---and in its place we'll make
a bower for love, a splendid marriage-bed
fragrant with flowers aquiver for the Spring.
And when he comes, our murdered dreams shall wake;
and when he comes, all the mute birds shall sing.

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Transcending Karma

The Passenger — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:26:39 GMT

Transcending Karma

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there were 2 holy men traveling together through the countryside. They came upon a beautiful young woman sitting and sobbing by the side of a stream. She said she was afraid of drowning and asked them if they would help her cross to the other side of the water. Without saying a word, one of the monks picked up the girl and carried her to the other side of the stream where he gently put her down. She thanked him and went on her way. The two men then continued their journey. After a while, the monk said to the one who had carried the young woman, "How could you do such a thing? We have taken vows of chastity. It is forbidden to even talk to a woman let alone touch one." The other monk lovingly replied, "When I came to the other side of the stream, I put her down. Why are you still carrying her?"

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Cheer Up

The Passenger — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:13:34 GMT

The sun rises
every morning but why are we so low, im looking
outside my window and i sill rise and fall
.....A tribe friend.......Meeko

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On Love (for Valentine's Day)

eweissbuch — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:37:44 GMT

A Valentine's Day quote from Thich Nhat Hanh

"Nothing is more beautiful than true love. In true love we don't make
each other worry, suffer, or get angry. On the contrary, we have the
ability to offer joy and reduce suffering in our loved one. Because
of understanding, we know how to love, and we don't rob the joy, the
appreciation, the inspiration of our loved one; we don't force our
loved one to think like we think, to act like we act, to like the
things that we like, but we let our loved one maintain herself. In
true love there is no discrimination. In true love we always think of
ways to help our loved one to carry out their dream, their
aspiration. And the other person will equally support us in that way.
Our love will not be limited or prohibited by any religion or
theology. When we have happiness in our love, we have the ability to
create happiness for other people. That love can be developed to
embrace all human beings, it can keep growing endlessly so that one
day it can embrace the whole universe. In Buddhism this love is
called love without boundaries.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Leelen — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:08:02 GMT

How surely gravity's law,
strong as an ocean current,
takes hold of even the strongest thing
and pulls it toward the heart of the world.

If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

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Welcome

The Passenger — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:42:01 GMT

Welcome to all new arrivels.

The Passenger is away for now, and will return in October.

This is one of his Moderators, posting this, on his behalf.

Welcome

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Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

torrid_wind — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:06:59 GMT

“Racism: The belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance.

Sexism: The belief in the inherent superiority of one sex and thereby the right to dominance.

Heterosexism: The belief in the inherent superiority of one pattern of loving and thereby its right to dominance.

Homophobia: The fear of feelings of love for members of one’s own sex and therefore the hatred of those feelings in others.

THE ABOVE FORMS of human blindness stem from the same root – an inability to recognize the notion of difference as a dynamic human force, one that is enriching rather than threatening to the defined self, when there are shared goals.” – Audre Lorde (“Sister Outsider”, p.45 [1984]).

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charles bukowski

Leelen — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:01:26 GMT

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

~Charles Bukowski

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henry vaughan

Leelen — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:37:22 GMT

"I SAW Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright;
And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years
Driv'n by the spheres
Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world
And all her train were hurl'd"

~Henry Vaughan

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one from Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi

torrid_wind — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:15:52 GMT

"God has no religion." - Mahatma Gandhi

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quotes on Sufism

torrid_wind — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:33:39 GMT

“The principal teaching of Sufism is that the heart of man is the shrine of God, to recognize God in one's own heart, to feel His existence, presence, virtue, goodness, all manner of beauty. It must be remembered that the whole life around us is a life of falsehood. The more you see and experience the more you see how very false it is, how much disillusionment there is. The only way of getting over it is to light the lamp in the darkness of night, and all will be cleared. The secret of life is this: to produce beauty in ourselves. When beauty is produced in the heart, then all that breaks the heart vanishes and the whole universe becomes one single vision of the sublimity of God.” ~~~ "Religious Gatheka 13, The Message of Christ", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)

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edward abbey

justblaze — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:14:38 GMT

"a patriot should always be prepared the defend his country against the government."
this was on a bumper sticker on an old millitary jeep with a kayak sitting in the back at a music festival after seeing it i found the owner shook his hand and thought of this tribe. id like to see somemore quotes from him, ive read a couple books he wrote but passed them on after finishing them.

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Proverbs from all cultures

torrid_wind — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:35:59 GMT

We had a separate discussion thread devoted to African proverbs. I presently have a few translanted Arabic proverbs to share. It doesn't make sense to devote separate discussion threads to proverbs of each culture on earth. Let's just share proverbs here regardless of origin.

"Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more evil (or knows more about what harms you).” - Arabic proverb

"Your brother is who's honest with you, not who believes you." - Arabic proverb

"If you reach for the highest of ideals, you shouldn't settle for less than the stars." - Arabic proverb

"If talk is silver then silence is gold." - Arabic proverb

"The hardest fight is fighting your anger." - Arabic proverb

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Gratitude

eweissbuch — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:35:55 GMT

*If we perceived Life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical Life and walk the Earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.
Gary Zukav, author
Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul

* No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
Elie Wiesel, author

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Dali Lama

The Passenger — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:04:06 GMT

The use of force is out of date. – The Dali Lama - 2006

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Don Miguel Ruiz

Leelen — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:57:46 GMT

“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.”

“Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.”

“Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”

~Don Miguel Ruiz

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Jose Arguelles

Leelen — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:07:58 GMT

"Who owns your time owns your mind. Change your time and you change your mind. Change your mind and you change your world."

~Jose Arguelles

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George Carlin

ssballs — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:38:11 GMT

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

George Carlin
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

George Carlin
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

George Carlin
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

George Carlin
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

George Carlin
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.

George Carlin
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

George Carlin
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

George Carlin
It's never just a game when you're winning.

George Carlin
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

George Carlin
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."

George Carlin
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin
- More quotations on: [Fear]
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

George Carlin
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

George Carlin
- More quotations on: [Weather]
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

George Carlin
When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

George Carlin
I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

George Carlin, George Carlin: You Are All Diseased
Life.....is a series of dogs.

George Carlin (1937 - )
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

George Carlin (1937 - )
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

George Carlin (1937 - )
Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?

George Carlin (1937 - )
When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

George Carlin (1937 - )
When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

George Carlin (1937 - )
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

George Carlin (1937 - )
Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

George Carlin (1937 - )
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

George Carlin
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin
Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?

George Carlin (1937 - )
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.

George Carlin (1937 - ), Napalm and Silly Putty
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

George Carlin (1937 - )
I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.

George Carlin (1937 - )
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show.
When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

George Carlin (1937 - ), PBS, Travis Smiley Interview
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

George Carlin (1937 - ), You Are All Diseased
Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

George Carlin (1937 - ), From his book - Brain Droppings
Its never just a game when you're winning.

George Carlin (1937 - )
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

George Carlin (1937 - )
Keep thy religion to thyself.

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African proverbs

torrid_wind — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:24:59 GMT

"Before you get married, keep both eyes open, and after you marry, close one eye." - African proverb

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Mark Twain...

eweissbuch — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:35:36 GMT

"Loyalty to country, always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain

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Quotes by musicians about music....

eweissbuch — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:55:55 GMT

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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History teaches us

The Passenger — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:23:45 GMT

History teaches us that a man learns nothing from History.

-Hegel-

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Bad Taiste: Jailhouse Jokes

The Passenger — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:30:15 GMT

Q. What is the difference between a drug dealer and a hooker?

A. A hooker can wash her crack and sell it again.

Q. What's a mixed feeling?

A. When you see your mother-in-law backing off a cliff in your new car.

Q. What's the height of conceit?

A. Having an orgasm and calling out your own name.

Q. What's the definition of macho?

A. Jogging home from your vasectomy.

Q. What's the difference between a G-spot and a golf ball?

A. A guy will actually search for a golf ball

Q. Do you know how New Zealanders practice safe sex?

A. They spray paint X's on the back of the sheep that kick!

Q. Why is divorce so expensive?

A. Because it's worth it!

Q. What is a Yankee?

A. The same as a quickie, but a guy can do it alone.

Q. What do Tupperware and a walrus have in common?

A. They both like a tight seal.

Q. W hat do a Christmas tree and priest have in common?

A. Their balls are just for decoration.

Q.What is the difference between ' ooooooh'and 'aaaaaaah'?

A. About three inches.

Q. Why do gay men wear ribbed condoms?

A. For traction in the mud.

Q: What's the difference between purple and pink?

A. The grip.

Q. How do you find a blind man in a nudist colony?

A. It's not hard.

Q: How do you circumcise a hillbilly?

A: Kick his sister in the jaw.

Q: What's the difference between a girlfriend and a wife?

A: 45 pounds.

Q: What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband?

A: 45 minutes.

Q: Why do men find it difficult to make eye contact?

A: Breasts don't have eyes.

Q: If the dove is the bird of peace, what is the bird of true love?

A. The swallow.

Q: What is the difference between medium and rare?

A: Six inches is medium, eight inches is rare.

Q. Why do women rub their eyes when they get up in the morning?

A. They don't have balls to scratch!

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Have Americans lost America?

torrid_wind — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:46:42 GMT

"When the people fear their government, there is Tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is Liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"You only have the freedoms you are willing to fight and die for." - Thomas Jefferson

"It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it." - Patrick Henry

"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril." - Harry S. Truman

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt

"We the People are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts -- not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln

"Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." - Frederick Douglass, American patriot, Aug. 4, 1857

"...the high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight." - John F. Kennedy (November 12, 1963, Columbia U, 10 days before his assassination)

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Joseph Campbell

Leelen — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:33:21 GMT

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”

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Malcolm X

torrid_wind — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:09:43 GMT

"Anytime you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something you have to do for yourself." - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"Don't struggle only within the ground rules that the people you are struggling against have laid down; why, this is insane.” - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"Policies change, programs change, according to time. But objectives never change. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary." - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner." - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time." - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"If you're not ready to die for it, take the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary." - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"I want Dr. King to know that I didn't come to Selma to make his job difficult. I really did come thinking I could make it easier. If the white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr. King." - El-Hajj Malik El Shabazz, in conversation with Coretta Scott King (February 1965), as quoted in My life with MLK, Jr. (1969), page 256

"Did the Zionists have the legal or moral right to invade Arab Palestine, uproot its Arab citizens from their homes and seize all Arab property for themselves just based on the "religious" claim that their forefathers lived there thousands of years ago? Only a thousand years ago the Moors lived in Spain. Would this give the Moors of today the legal and moral right to invade the Iberian Peninsula, drive out its Spanish citizens, and then set up a new Moroccan nation ... where Spain used to be, as the European zionists have done to our Arab brothers and sisters in Palestine?..." - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it's more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody's blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It's only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely…." - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"I do believe that there will be a clash between East and West. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think that it will be based upon the color of the skin…." - El-Hajj Malik El Shabazz (1925-1965), January 1965

"You can't have capitalism without racism." - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else." - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence." - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"I've had enough of someone else's propaganda. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole." - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community." - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"You can't drive a knife into a man's back nine inches, pull it out six inches, and call it progress." - Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind. I totally reject Elijah Muhammad's racist philosophy, which he has labeled 'Islam' only to fool and misuse gullible people as he fooled and misused me. But I blame only myself, and no one else for the fool that I was, and the harm that my evangelical foolishness on his behalf has done to others." - El-Hajj Malik El Shabazz (1925-1965)

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change." - Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." - Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

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The Beast

AverageAmerican — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:46:52 GMT

"The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." --Ray Bradbury, (1920- )

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May '68 . Paris,France . Not so famous slogans . It did matter .

ssballs — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:17:27 GMT

MAY 1968 GRAFFITI

In the decor of the spectacle, the eye meets only things and their prices.

Commute, work, commute, sleep . . .

Meanwhile everyone wants to breathe and nobody can and many say, “We will breathe later.”
And most of them don’t die because they are already dead.

Boredom is counterrevolutionary.

We don’t want a world where the guarantee of not dying
of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom.

We want to live.

Don’t beg for the right to live — take it.

In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure
the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.

The liberation of humanity is all or nothing.

Those who make revolutions half way only dig their own graves.

No replastering, the structure is rotten.

Masochism today takes the form of reformism.

Reform my ass.

The revolution is incredible because it’s really happening.

I came, I saw, I was won over.

Run, comrade, the old world is behind you!

Quick!

If we only have enough time . . .

In any case, no regrets!

Already ten days of happiness.

Live in the moment.

Comrades, if everyone did like us . . .

We will ask nothing. We will demand nothing. We will take, occupy.

Down with the state.

When the National Assembly becomes a bourgeois theater,
all the bourgeois theaters should be turned into national assemblies.
[Written above the entrance of the occupied Odéon Theater]

Referendum: whether we vote yes or no, it turns us into suckers.

It’s painful to submit to our bosses; it’s even more stupid to choose them.

Let’s not change bosses, let’s change life.

Don’t liberate me — I’ll take care of that.

I’m not a servant of the people (much less of their self-appointed leaders).
Let the people serve themselves.

Abolish class society.

Nature created neither servants nor masters. I want neither to rule nor to be ruled.

We will have good masters as soon as everyone is their own.

“In revolution there are two types of people:
those who make it and those who profit from it.”
(Napoleon)

Warning: ambitious careerists may now be disguised as “progressives.”

Don’t be taken in by the politicos and their filthy demagogy. We must rely on ourselves.
Socialism without freedom is a barracks.

All power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We want structures that serve people, not people serving structures.

The revolution doesn’t belong to the committees, it’s yours.

Politics is in the streets.

Barricades close the streets but open the way.

Our hope can come only from the hopeless.

A proletarian is someone who has no power over his life and knows it.

Never work.

People who work get bored when they don’t work.
People who don’t work never get bored.

Workers of all countries, enjoy!

Since 1936 I have fought for wage increases.
My father before me fought for wage increases.
Now I have a TV, a fridge, a Volkswagen.
Yet my whole life has been a drag.
Don’t negotiate with the bosses. Abolish them.

The boss needs you, you don’t need the boss.

By stopping our machines together we will demonstrate their weakness.

Occupy the factories.

Power to the workers councils.
(an enragé)

Power to the enragés councils.
(a worker)

Worker: You may be only 25 years old, but your union dates from the last century.

Labor unions are whorehouses.

Comrades, let’s lynch Séguy!
[Georges Séguy: head bureaucrat of the Communist Party-dominated labor union]

Please leave the Communist Party as clean on leaving it as you would like to find it on entering.

Stalinists, your children are with us!

Man is neither Rousseau’s noble savage nor the Church’s or La Rochefoucauld’s depraved sinner.
He is violent when oppressed, gentle when free.

Conflict is the origin of everything.
(Heraclitus)

If we have to resort to force, don’t sit on the fence.

Be cruel.

Humanity won’t be happy till the last capitalist is hung
with the guts of the last bureaucrat.

When the last sociologist has been hung with the guts of
the last bureaucrat, will we still have “problems”?

The passion of destruction is a creative joy.
(Bakunin)

A single nonrevolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of total revolution.

The tears of philistines are the nectar of the gods.

This concerns everyone.

We are all German Jews.

We refuse to be highrised, diplomaed, licensed, inventoried, registered, indoctrinated,
suburbanized, sermonized, beaten, telemanipulated, gassed, booked.

We are all “undesirables.”

We must remain “unadapted.”

The forest precedes man, the desert follows him.

Under the paving stones, the beach.

Concrete breeds apathy.

Coming soon to this location: charming ruins.

Beautiful, maybe not, but O how charming: life versus survival.

“My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I’m not selling bread, I’m selling yeast.”
(Unamuno)

Conservatism is a synonym for rottenness and ugliness.

You are hollow.

You will end up dying of comfort.

Hide yourself, object!

No to coat-and-tie revolution.

A revolution that requires us to sacrifice ourselves for it is Papa’s revolution.

Revolution ceases to be the moment it calls for self-sacrifice.

The prospect of finding pleasure tomorrow will never compensate for today’s boredom.

When people notice they are bored, they stop being bored.

Happiness is a new idea.

Live without dead time.

Those who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring
to everyday reality have a corpse in their mouth.

Culture is an inversion of life.

Poetry is in the streets.

The most beautiful sculpture is a paving stone thrown at a cop’s head.

Art is dead, don’t consume its corpse.

Art is dead, let’s liberate our everyday life.

Art is dead, Godard can’t change that.

Godard: the supreme Swiss Maoist jerk.

Permanent cultural vibration.

We want a wild and ephemeral music.
We propose a fundamental regeneration:
concert strikes,
sound gatherings with collective investigation.
Abolish copyrights: sound structures belong to everyone.

Anarchy is me.

Revolution, I love you.

Down with the abstract, long live the ephemeral.
(Marxist-Pessimist Youth)

Don’t consume Marx, live him.

I’m a Groucho Marxist.

I take my desires for reality because I believe in the reality of my desires.

Desiring reality is great! Realizing your desires is even better!

Practice wishful thinking.

I declare a permanent state of happiness.

Be realistic, demand the impossible.

Power to the imagination.

Those who lack imagination cannot imagine what is lacking.

Imagination is not a gift, it must be conquered.
(Breton)

Action must not be a reaction, but a creation.

Action enables us to overcome divisions and find solutions.

Exaggeration is the beginning of invention.

The enemy of movement is skepticism. Everything that has been realized
comes from dynamism, which comes from spontaneity.

Here, we spontane.

“You must bear a chaos inside you to give birth to a dancing star.”
(Nietzsche)

Chance must be systematically explored.

Alcohol kills. Take LSD.

Unbutton your mind as often as your fly.

“Every view of things that is not strange is false.”
(Valéry)

Life is elsewhere.

Forget everything you’ve been taught. Start by dreaming.

Form dream committees.

Dare! This word contains all the politics of the present moment.
(Saint-Just)

Arise, ye wretched of the university.

Students are jerks.

The student’s susceptibility to recruitment as a militant for
any cause is a sufficient demonstration of his real impotence.
(enragé women)

Professors, you make us grow old.

Terminate the university.

Rape your Alma Mater.

What if we burned the Sorbonne?

Professors, you are as senile as your culture, your modernism
is nothing but the modernization of the police.

We refuse the role assigned to us: we will not be trained as police dogs.

We don’t want to be the watchdogs or servants of capitalism.

Exams = servility, social promotion, hierarchical society.

When examined, answer with questions.

Insolence is the new revolutionary weapon.

Every teacher is taught, everyone taught teaches.

The Old Mole of history seems to be splendidly undermining the Sorbonne.
(telegram from Marx, 13 May 1968)

Thought that stagnates rots.

To call in question the society you “live” in, you must first
be capable of calling yourself in question.

Take revolution seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously.

The walls have ears. Your ears have walls.

Making revolution also means breaking our internal chains.

A cop sleeps inside each one of us. We must kill him.

Drive the cop out of your head.

Religion is the ultimate con.

Neither God nor master.

If God existed it would be necessary to abolish him.

Can you believe that some people are still Christians?

Down with the toad of Nazareth.

How can you think freely in the shadow of a chapel?

We want a place to piss, not a place to pray.

I suspect God of being a leftist intellectual.

The bourgeoisie has no other pleasure than to degrade all pleasures.

Going through the motions kills the emotions.

Struggle against the emotional fixations that paralyze our potentials.
(Committee of Women on the Path of Liberation)

Constraints imposed on pleasure incite the pleasure of living without constraints.

The more I make love, the more I want to make revolution.
The more I make revolution, the more I want to make love.

SEX: It’s okay, says Mao, as long as you don’t do it too often.

Comrades, 5 hours of sleep a day is indispensable:
we need you for the revolution.

Embrace your love without dropping your guard.

I love you!!! Oh, say it with paving stones!!!

I’m coming in the paving stones.

Total orgasm.

Comrades, people are making love in the Poli Sci classrooms, not only in the fields.

Revolutionary women are more beautiful.

Zelda, I love you! Down with work!

The young make love, the old make obscene gestures.

Make love, not war.

Whoever speaks of love destroys love.

Down with consumer society.

The more you consume, the less you live.

Commodities are the opium of the people.

Burn commodities.

You can’t buy happiness. Steal it.

See Nanterre and live. Die in Naples with Club Med.

Are you a consumer or a participant?

To be free in 1968 means to participate.

I participate.
You participate.
He participates.
We participate.
They profit.

The golden age was the age when gold didn’t reign.

“The cause of all wars, riots and injustices is the existence of property.”
(St. Augustine)

Happiness is hanging your landlord.

Millionaires of the world unite. The wind is turning.

The economy is wounded — I hope it dies!

How sad to love money.

You too can steal.

“Amnesty: An act in which the rulers pardon the injustices they have committed.”
(Ambrose Bierce)
[The definition in Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary is actually: “Amnesty: The state’s
magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.”]

Abolish alienation.

Obedience begins with consciousness;
consciousness begins with disobedience.

First, disobey; then write on the walls.
(Law of 10 May 1968)

I don’t like to write on walls.

Write everywhere.

Before writing, learn to think.

I don’t know how to write but I would like to say beautiful things and I don’t know how.

I don’t have time to write!!!

I have something to say but I don’t know what.

Freedom is the right to silence.

Long live communication, down with telecommunication.

You, my comrade, you whom I was unaware of amid the tumult,
you who are throttled, afraid, suffocated — come, talk to us.

Talk to your neighbors.

Yell.

Create.

Look in front of you!!!

Help with cleanup, there are no maids here.

Revolution is an INITIATIVE.

Speechmaking is counterrevolutionary.

Comrades, stop applauding, the spectacle is everywhere.

Don’t get caught up in the spectacle of opposition. Oppose the spectacle.

Down with spectacle-commodity society.

Down with journalists and those who cater to them.

Only the truth is revolutionary.

No forbidding allowed.

Freedom is the crime that contains all crimes. It is our ultimate weapon.

The freedom of others extends mine infinitely.

No freedom for the enemies of freedom.

Free our comrades.

Open the gates of the asylums, prisons and other faculties.

Open the windows of your heart.

To hell with boundaries.

You can no longer sleep quietly once you’ve suddenly opened your eyes.

The future will only contain what we put into it now.

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Socrates

Trance — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:52:15 GMT

An unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates

An Unlived Life Isn't Worth Examining! -Trance Plant

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In honor of the imminent betrothal of Ln & Señor Pájaro (7 quotes -- with love...)

torrid_wind — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:45:15 GMT

"We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited." - Alfred Adler

"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle." - Amy Bloom

"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest--never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership." - Ann Landers (from "Ann Landers Says Truth Is Stranger...", 1968)

"A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." - Kahlil Gibran

"Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate." - Barnett Brickner

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov

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Cherokee Wisdom

The Passenger — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:49:49 GMT

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed

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Honorary Sufi....

eweissbuch — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:01:04 GMT

I almost put this in the Sufi thread, but decided to start a new thread...

There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.
And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.
The world will not have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work.
You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you.
Keep the channel open.

>- Martha Graham

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Flowers

The Passenger — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:12:45 GMT

Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.

If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.

...Well, I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.

- Georgia O'Keeffe

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Oscar Wilde - (some )

chilambalam2013 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:45:02 GMT

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Everything popular is wrong.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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Sex

torrid_wind — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:44:40 GMT

"There is never anything safe about sex. There never will be." - Norman Mailer (1923-2007)

"A really hard laugh is like sex—one of the ultimate diversions of existence." - Jerry Seinfeld

"Anyone who says that gratuitous sex is no substitute for gratuitous violence obviously hasn't had enough gratuitous sex." - Geoff Spear

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Testing your Guides

The Passenger — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:02:50 GMT

Testing your Guides.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Winston Churchill

A parasite can not live alone.

African (Ovambo) Proverb

A half-truth is a whole lie.

Jewish Proverb

If you get side tracked listening to entities it will slow your progress. The oldest and wisest sages say to pay no attention to the phenomena along the path. This is sage, safe advice, but often difficult for westerners to take. We are too curious. If you choose to pay attention to the entities, results could be embarrassing at the least, and disastrous at the worst. How many times have you heard of the homicidal psycho who says, the voices or God told them to do it?

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Criminal Mind

The Passenger — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:33:25 GMT

someone who can think, who has an intellect, either becomes an intelectual or artits, or a criminal

-Albert Camus

"Law is mind without reason. -Aristotle

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My most recent favourite quote

geminifairy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:21:50 GMT

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics
are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

This quote sure makes me realize how much in the growth process I'm in, when I doubt myself, my beliefs or life. I haven't settled for anything, I'm always open to something more, something different, something new. This naturally opens the door to doubt/questioning. What a great place to be, constantly exploring. I may not have all the answers, but at least I'm not a fool! Yes, I am certain of many things, and these are ideas that support my life of joy.

So when you're in doubt, remember that it's a sign you're continuing to develop yourself. If you didn't have doubts, you'd be an arrogant ninny. In other words, use EVERYTHING for your upliftment and growth. Use any doubts that might come up to celebrate your expanding wisdom - and hug yourself for continuing to take the path that is not the easiest: the path of TRUTH

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Guess who?

AverageAmerican — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:42:38 GMT

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
- Bill Gates

LoL
Not so famous I suppose....
well, not yet!

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anti-globalization

torrid_wind — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:10:18 GMT

“In the twenty-first century the connection between religious fundamentalism, nuclear nationalism, and the pauperization of whole populations because of corporate globalization is becoming impossible to ignore.” - Arundhati Roy

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The late Anne Richards on George Bush

Coach — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:20:37 GMT

"He was born on third base and he thinks he hit a triple"

Anne Richards

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My quote to republicans

Coach — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:27:35 GMT

"The facts arent out to get you, reality Is."

--me

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SPIRIT TREE QUOTES

The Passenger — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:17:24 GMT

~~~***~~~***~~~*** SPIRIT TREE QUOTES ***~~~***~~~***~~~

I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

- Dr. Suess

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multi-dimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.

- M. Scott Peck

I have come to terms with the future. From this day onward I will walk easy on the earth. Plant trees. Kill no living things. Live in harmony with all creatures. I will restore the earth where I am. Use no more of its resources than I need. And listen, listen to what it is telling me.

- M.J. Slim Hooey

Dare to be naive.

- Buckminster Fuller

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

- Chinese proverb

When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

- Stephen Mitchell, Four Watercolors by Tao-chi

Live simply, so others may simply live.

- Gandhi

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

- Elise Boulding

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter. . .to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

- John Burroughs

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

- Johannes Keppler

The forests are the flags of nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that some time an immortal pine will be the flag of a united peaceful world.

- Enos A. Mills

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

- Jack Handey

The groves were God's first temples.

- William Cullen Bryant, A Forest Hymn

A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.

- Author Unknown

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness.

- Kahlil Gibran

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

- John Fowles

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

- Greek Proverb

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

- Hermann Hesse, Wandering

And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.

- Ezekiel 47:12

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.

- Henry Van Dyke

Happy is the man ... his delights is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither.

- Psalms 1: 1-3

Other holidays repose on the past. Arbor Day proposes the future.

- J. Sterling Morton

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

- Bill Vaughan

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

- Hal Borland, Countryman: A Summary of Belief

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

- James G. Watt

As the poet said, "only God can make a tree," probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

- Woody Allen

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

- Pablo Neruda

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

- John Muir

A well maintained landscape with mature trees can increase property values up to 25 percent. Trees can cool houses in the summer. A city lot with 30 percent plant cover provides the equivalent cooling necessary to air condition two moderately sized houses 12 hours a day in the summer.

Trees can reduce utility bills (air conditioning in summer, heating in winter) when planted properly: Heating: Using trees as windbreaks allows savings of 10% - 20%. Cooling: Shading windows and walls can lower AC costs by 25% - 50%.

They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum And they charged all the people A dollar and a half just to see'em. Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone. They paved paradise And put up a parking lot. - Joni Mitchell,

~~~~~~~~~ Big Yellow Taxi

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

- John Fowles

The forest is not merely an expression or representation of sacredness, nor a place to invoke the sacred; the forest is sacredness itself. Nature is not merely created by God, nature is God. Whoever moves within the forest can partake directly of sacredness, experience sacredness with his entire body, breath sacredness and contain it within himself, drink the sacred water as a living communion, bury his feet in sacredness, open his eyes and witness the burning beauty of sacredness. - Richard Nelson

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

- James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers, 1823

I am the heat of your hearth, the shade screening you from the sun; I am the beam that holds your house, the board of your table; I am the handle of your hoe, the door of your homestead; the wood of your cradle, and the shell of your coffin. I am the gift of God and the friend of man.

- Author Unknown

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

- John Muir

Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.

- Sandra Postel and Lori Heise

The forests are dying, the rivers are dying, and we are called to act. To return Earth to harmony is to restore the harmonious principles within ourselves and to act as responsible caretakers - to save the forests and the waters for future generations.

- Dhyani Ywahoo

If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree.

- W.. B . Yeats

By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting them back into their original landscapes, we can all make a living link between this millennium and the next, a natural bridge from the past to the future.

- Chris Baines

Approaching a tree we approach a sacred being who can teach us about love and about endless giving. She is one of millions of beings who provide our air, our homes, our fuel, our books. Working with the spirit of the tree can bring us renewed energy, powerful inspiration, deep communion.

- Author Unknown

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

- Winston Churchill

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

- George Nakashima, woodworker

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

- Henry David Thoreau

Whoever does not love trees, does not love God.

- Elder Amphilochios of Patmos (1888-1970)

Her upon whom the trees, Lords of the Forest, stand firm, unshakable, in every place, this long-enduring Earth we now invoke, the giver of all manner of delights.

- Atharva Veda 12.1.27

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Lost teachings

The Passenger — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:38:48 GMT

The above information was retrieved in 1945 by Egyptian fellahin in the cliffs of the Nile River in Upper Egypt. The collection of ancient manuscripts is now called the Nag Hammadi library.

The Parable of the Wise Fisher

"A person is like a wise fisher who cast a net into the sea, and drew it up from the sea full of little fish. Among them the wise fisher discovered a fine big fish. So the fisher threw all the little fish back into the sea, and with no hesitation kept the big fish. Whoever has ears to hear ought to listen."

The Parable of the Jar of Flour

"The kingdom of the Father is like a woman who was carrying a jar full of flour. While she was walking on a road far from home, the handle of the jar broke and the flour spilled behind her on the road. She did not know it: she had not noticed the problem. When she reached her house, she put the jar down and discovered that it was empty."

The Parable of the Palm Shoot

"Do not let the kingdom of heaven waste away. For it is like a plam shoot that dropped its dates all around. It produced buds, and after they had grown, the stalk dried up. This is what happened with the fruit that came from this single root. After it was harvested, more dates were produced by many new shoots. It certainly would be good if this new growth could be produced now, so that you might find the kingdom."

The Parable of the Head of Grain

"For the kingdom of heaven is like a head of grain growing in a field. When it was ripe, it scattered its seed, and filled the field with the heads of grain for another year. So also with you: hasten to harvest of yourselves a living head of grain, that you may be filled with the kingdom."

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Hoof in Mouth?

(Dragonfly) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:54:35 GMT

Hi Guys I'm new here. :) Just a Question? IS there any quotes for the good old Hoof in mouth Disease??
Witch for some reason I seem to have lately.
Cheers

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"Top 15 Spiritually Conscious Bumper Stickers"

eweissbuch — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:30:00 GMT

I just found this little article I cut out of some free new agey magazine from California. Some of them are pretty entertaining....

1. God is coming and she is pissed.
2. Well, at least the war on the environment is going well.
3. Just say NO to negativity.
4. The winner of the rat race is still a rat.
5. In case of the rapture, can I have your car?
6. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
7. I didn't believe in reincarnation in my last life, either.
8. I plan to live forever. So far, so good.
9. Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble wrap is cheap. You choose.
10. The more you complain the longer God makes you live.
11. Consciousness:That annoying time between naps.
12. Never knock on Death's door. Ring the bell and run, he hates that.
13. Keep the dream alive. Hit the snooze button.
14. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
15. Procrastinate now.

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Dzogchen Quotes

The Passenger — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:17:36 GMT

Dzogchen Quotes

If you really manage to empty out past, present and future, the body no longer exists, and is merged with emptiness. This is true freedom

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Pope St. Gregory

sylwia — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:45:40 GMT

Hello all!

I'm new here and thought I'd share my favorite quote. It's by Pope St. Gregory (540-604), who's Wiki article I stumbled upon while researching my name, Sylwia, since his mother was St. Silvia.

Pro cuius amore in eius eloquio nec mihi parco

It's Latin, and translates to:

For the love of it, I do not spare myself from communicating it.

For me, 'it' is love.

~Sylwia

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