. . Thanks for quoting me Ant. I had forgotten about that  one of my favorites: "you cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into."-author unknown Espiridion p.s. "There is no spoon." and of course the one in my signature below.... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. Carl Jung
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No one ever said it would be easy, they just said it would be worth it! - Unknown The tragedy of life isn't that it's too short, it's that we take too long to begin it...
-NO TURN UNSTONED-
"Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in !!!"
"Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity" - Pema Chodron
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"I like turtles." - Zombie Kid
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''To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic." - Humphry Osmond
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Jesus Christ when asked by his disciples when the kingdom of God will come: "It is already here."
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Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top with direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up the acces and passage to remorse that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between the effect and it. come to my womens breast and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, wherever in your sightless substances you wait on nature's mischief!
Come thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry 'hold, hold'.
Lady macbeth.
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The universe is not merely a mathematical formula for working out the relation of certain mental abstractions called numbers and principles to arrive in the end at a zero or a void unit, neither is it merely a physical operation embodying certain equations of forces. It is the delight of a Self-lover, the play of a Child, the endless self-multiplication of a Poet intoxicated with the rapture of His own power of endless creation.
We may speak of the Supreme as if He were a mathematician working out a cosmic sum in numbers or a thinker resolving by experiment a problem in relations of principles and the balance of forces: but also we should speak of Him as if He were a lover, a musician of universal and particular harmonies, a child, a poet. The side of thought is not enough; the side of delight too must be entirely grasped: Ideas, Forces, Existences, Principles are hollow moulds unless they are filled with the breath of God's delight.
Sri Aurobindo
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Eden wrote: the endless self-multiplication of a Poet intoxicated with the rapture of His own power of endless creation.
Sri Aurobindo Only lately have I begun to write poetry and I have found it a most intoxicating drug. I think everyone should try it. The orgasmic power of words poured into form that shapes your thoughts and captures them in time. There's nothing quite like it. If you don't sin, Jesus died for nothing.
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We can only judge something that we don't fully understand. When one understands, judgment vanishes.
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Quote:Everything possible to be believ'd is an image of the truth Quote:Truth can never be told as to be understood, and not believ'd William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" JBArk is a Mandelthought; a non-fiction character in a drama of his own design he calls "LIFE" who partakes in consciousness expanding activities and substances; he should in no way be confused with SWIM, who is an eminently data-mineable and prolific character who has somehow convinced himself the target he wears on his forehead is actually a shield.
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I hight Don Quixote, i live on peyote marijauna, morphine, and cocaine, i never know sadness but only a madness that burns at the heart and the brain. I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman, angelic, demonic, divine. Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon that brims with ambrosial wine. -Jack Parsons in the 1940s
<Ringworm>hehehe, it's all fun and games till someone loses an "I"
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Apoc wrote:I had a vision of a Pegasus like unicorn that sprayed red jewels of love from its horn. The unicorn and its red orbs had a message for me. It said, ....
"You don't need intelligence for love, nor physical strength, nor anything else. You don't need anything to experience this beauty. It is already given, and always present. You need only allow love in to your life, and it will be given. Any striving on your part will only push unconditional love away. Your striving will diminish love in to a narrow mental realm, which either qualifies your preconceived notions of good, or not. To allow this love is a non doing, an allowing of the pure heart of the universe to shine in to your own. But can you take it?" "Within your heart is a lotus, and within this lotus is a diamond. This diamond is the source of creation, and in all the creation, there is only one lotus."
"Only from the Heart can you touch the sky." ~ Rumi
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'Life is an illusion designed to keep your mind occupied while you are digested by God.''Life is an illusion designed to keep your mind occupied while you are digested by God.'
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"Do you believe in ghosts?" "No, they are unscientific. They have no matter or energy & therefore, according to the laws of science, exist only in people's minds. Of course, the laws of science have no matter or energy & exist only in peoples minds, so I don't believe in them either. It's best to be scientific about these things." ~Robert M Pirsig (cackle  ) Some things will come easy, some will be a test
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"There is a transcendental dimension beyond language. It's just hard as hell to talk about it."
-Terence McKenna to Ram Dass
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blue_velvet wrote:"There is a transcendental dimension beyond language. It's just hard as hell to talk about it."
-Terence McKenna to Ram Dass I was given strange looks from the people around me when I laughed out loud at this quote. Thanks Blue_Velvet, and McKenna  Do not listen to anything, "Steely" says. He is a made up character that his owner likes to role play with. His owner is very delusional and everything he says is completely untrue and ridiculous.
Hate is the choice of a clouded mind.
-"It takes humility to remember who we are"-
"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it." - Buddha
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This one would not just aply to washington but to politic's all over the world and i realy love this line because it just gives the essence of politic's in a nutshell. It's from a frank zappa song.
" what they do in washington, they just take care of number one.
And number one aint you.....
you aint even number two...."
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Let's hope this hasn't turned up already!
"We have a language that posits objects as if they were really out there, as if there were some way of proving their existence under circumstances where you can't. The whole domain of perception sits under a giant question mark." - Neurobiologist Humberto Maturana
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Rereading Dune... The Preacher wrote:"Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain." The Preacher wrote:"To exist is to stand out, away from the background. You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence." -Children of Dune
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Albert Camus In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus Much Peace and Understanding
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