"Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms - up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested - probably once belonged to Shakespeare.

A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.

So we are all reincarnations - though short lived ones. When we die our atoms will disassemble and move off to find new uses elsewhere - as part of a leaf or other human being or drop of dew."

- Bill Bryson, in A Short History of Nearly Everything

Love the LI(f)E
-Sage Francis

"I couldn't have gotten so stinking rich without George Bush, George Bush Jr., Ronald Reagan, even El Presidente Obama, none of them have the cajones to stand up to all the big money that wants to keep this stuff illegal. From the bottom of my heart, I want to say, Gracias amigos, I owe my whole empire to you." - Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera (Mexico Sinaloa Cartel)

Reporter: "So, what do you think of Western civilization?"
Ghandi: "I think it would be a good idea."




"Oh wow..... Oh, wow."

-Steve Jobs' last words, as reported by his sister

"The neural pathways have to be trained by experience to process what is being seen."

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal." - Macre
Peace

Macre

I agree with this, I'm completely certain.

Peace

Macre

Who stole this quote from who?...igor strawinsky also said this

Good point. T.S. Eliot is also supposed to have said it

Peace

Macre

"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"

Captain Oveur

Well, then it increasingly seems this quote holds some truth, as many great artists have used it.

Ironically, that would mean that the first person actually saying this would be less of a great artist then

Or they were just stealing their stuff from an unknown.

"those who want, find a way. Those who dont, find excuses" - unknown

I'll get the ball rolling ...

"don't they know you can't make somebody on the verge of such self discovery feel uncomfortable" - cLOUDDEAD (dose one and why?) from the song This About The City

"The conclusion that I'm coming to is that the universe manifests organization of life where ever it can as a medium in which consciousness can immerse itself, and that this can take many different forms and shapes but the key and whats driving it, is consciousness" - Graham Hancock

"There can be no more intimate and elemental part of the individual than his or her own consciousness. At the deepest level, our consciousness is what we are - to the extent that if we are not sovereign over our own consciousness then we cannot in any meaningful sense be sovereign over anything else either." Graham Hancock

"Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control" - Terence Mckenna

The poor, those Karl Marx dismissed as the Lumpenproletariat, do not mount revolutions, although they join them and often become cannon fodder. The real danger to the elite comes from déclassé intellectuals, those educated middle-class men and women who are barred by a calcified system from advancement. Artists without studios or theaters, teachers without classrooms, lawyers without clients, doctors without patients and journalists without newspapers descend economically. They become, as they mingle with the underclass, a bridge between the worlds of the elite and the oppressed. And they are the dynamite that triggers revolt.-chris hedges

You have to put aside all the programming that has been done on you. And you are capable of doing it, you just need guts. You have to rebel – if you really want to live, you have to rebel. You have to rebel against all kinds of superstitions, against all kinds of stupidities.You have to rebel against your parents, against your society, against your church. Unless you do that you will not know anything of the ecstasy that this life contains. osho


The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation.-T. Mckenna

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
Stanislav Grof

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind. - Allen Ginsburg

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye. -Carlos Castaneda

"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but in the way that those atoms are put together". - Carl Sagan