"Perhaps all that is left of the world is a wasteland covered with rubbish heaps,
and the hanging gardens of the Great Khan's palace. It is our eyelids that separate them,
but we cannot know which is inside and which is outside."

-Marco Polo, in Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

"Once upon a time I fell down a rabbit hole...
I'm still trying to get to the bottom of it."

-Tek-

So are you still falling lol.

"If you all had to face one another naked, you would have a hard time slaughtering. The murderous uniform."

Elias Canetti, THE HUMAN PROVINCE

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Kahlil Gibran, THE PROPHET

This is one of my favorites

And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves.
Stevie Ray Vaughan




You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.
Stevie Ray Vaughan

“When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country’s rivers and streams that country is no longer fit to live in. Time to move on and find a new country or - in the name of Jefferson - to make a new country”
___Edward Abbey

"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened" - Dr. Seuss

"Life's a garden. Dig it." - Joe Dirt

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts." -Jim Morrison

"Me got no education, me got inspiration. If I was educated I'd be a damn fool." -Bob Marley

"Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors." -Hunter S. Thompson

"I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex." -Jack Handey

"In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first." - Muhammad Ali

"I don't run 'cause I get tired, and I don't lift weights 'cause they're heavy." -Charles Barkley

"The mushrooms said to me once, 'Nature loves courage. Nature LOVES courage.' And I said 'What's the payoff on that?' And it said 'It shows you that it loves courage because it will remove obstacles.' You make the commitment, and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream, and the world will not grind you under; it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical goal, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. It's done by hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering that it's a feather bed."... "To the people who say adventure has fled; it's all humdrum. I just know, you know, that they have forgotten the five grams of psilocybin sitting in their refrigerator. I mean, Magellan may have had excitement rounding the horn, but you in your living room later tonight can put him in the shade if you have the courage to do the things that are necessary to do, and we know what they are. And of course the first think to do is to tell society to fuck off because they don't know what's going on." -Terence Mckenna

I admit I didn't go thru 11 pages. Sorry if this is a double. And I don't know who penned it.

-The guilty man flees when none pursues

"If ye realize the Emptiness of All Things, Compassion
will arise within your hearts;
If ye lose all differentiation between yourselves and others, fit
to serve others ye will be;
And when in serving others ye shall win success, then shall ye
meet with me;
And finding me, ye shall attain to buddhahood"

the man who is envious does not know what he has.
the man who is jealous does not know who he is.

"You are precisely as big as what you love,
and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you." - Robert Anton Wilson

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Zhuangzi



Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Citium Zeno



Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Dogen Zenji

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Alan Watts

"The structure of belief is essential, but the content must always be provisional. Think metaphorically, think hypothetically, but never fall into the trap of dogma." - Jim DeKorne

“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. If you go to Bosnia or Somalia or Peru or much of the third-world then it appears that the apocalypse has already arrived.” — Terence McKenna

"We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." ~ Tombstone epitaph of two amateur astronomers