"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society"......Mark Twain
Now that I can understand......WY

Twain was obviously not alive long enough to live in these the nearly-naked times. Sigh.

“Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.”

Robert Anton Wilson quotes (American sci-fi Author, b.1932)

something like: "That which we criticize in others is often what we're most guilty of ourselves."

"I can do it!" - Rob Schneider

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
Jules Michelet

"The most certain sign of Wisdom is cheerfulness."....Michel de Montaigne

“When you have dropped all the tension about the future – that I should become this and I should become that – the ego evaporates. The ego lives on a base of the past and the future. Understand this a little. The claims of the ego are of the past, “I did this, I did that" – it is all in the past. And the ego says, “I will definitely accomplish this, I will definitely show you that I can accomplish that." That is all in the future. The ego simply does not exist in the present. If you come to the present, then the ego disappears. That is death to the ego.Coming to the present is the death of the ego."

--Osho--

This is another one I love by Osho:

“You are in love with a woman or a man and immediately you start thinking of getting married. Make it a legal contract. Why? How does the law come into love? The law comes into love because love is not there. It is only a fantasy, and you know the fantasy will disappear. Before it disappears settle down, before it disappears do something so it becomes impossible to separate."

I just LOVE Osho!

"If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against."

And...

"Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor."

This is great, also:

"The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself."

Namaste!



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Thanks Banana Who. Here's an Osho favorite of mine:

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra
Meditation
Technique No. 75

WAKING

SLEEPING,

DREAMING,

KNOW YOU AS LIGHT.

If you can carry this image of flame and light through the doors of sleep, you will never sleep again, only the body will rest. And while the body is sleeping, you will know it. Once this happens, you have become the fourth. Now the waking and the dreaming and the sleeping are parts of the mind. They are parts, and you have become the fourth -- one who goes through all of them and is none of them.

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I Love my country
But I think we shoud start seeing other people

on a bumper sticker yesterday in Garberville Ca.

i know how that bumper sticker feels lol

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

Wow Brome, thanks for that link! I never saw that site before and it's chockfull of stuff I would like.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.

Michael Altshule

Diogenes was knee deep in a stream washing vegetables. Coming up to him, Plato said, "My good Diogenes, if you knew how to pay court to kings, you wouldn't have to wash vegetables."

"And," replied Diogenes, "If you knew how to wash vegetables, you wouldn't have to pay court to kings."



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Some strangers to Athens once asked Diogenes if he would point out to them the great philosopher [meaning Plato]. Diogenes looked around and then led them to the most deserted part of the city and, gesturing to the empty air as one would in formal introduction, said, "May I present to you the great philosopher Plato."

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Passing a stream, Diogenes saw a boy drinking out of his hands. "A child has beaten me in simplicity," he said, throwing away his cup.


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Diogenes was asked why he always begged. "To teach people," replied Diogenes. "Oh yes, and what do you teach?" people would ask him scornfully. "Generosity", he replied.

life vs lifelessness



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Excuse me Diogenes, but I'm pretty sure the great philosopher was Socrates,ot Plato.

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coco Wrote:
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> The bad news is time flies. The good news is
> you're the pilot.
That's a good one Coco, and it's later than we all think.
Diogenez also posted some good ones of Diogenes'. I especially liked the one on him throwing away his Cup......WY

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. ~John Steinbeck

“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
William Somerset Maugham


Heh.

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"Stupid is as stupid does." Forrest Gump

"I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing."......John Cage

WheatgrassYogi Wrote:
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> riverhousebill Wrote:
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> > The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly
> > observed, will set off a revolution.
> > Paul Cezanne
> Bill...it's too deep for me. Explain
> please......WY


Maybe it's the way the U.S. government looks at it's people. Like donkeys with fresh carrots dangling in front of them, dangle the lastest goods and perhaps the people will work to buy them, then they'll rake in the taxes.

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> Maybe it's the way the U.S. government looks at it's people. Like donkeys with fresh carrots dangling in front of them

That's good Alice. I didn't see it at all...at least you came up with something plausible......WY

Remember that learning to walk is the process of "failing" one's way to mastery.
Alex J. Packer

"the Moment of Change is the only poem"......Adrienne Rich

Hail random, full of pattern, the meanings are with thee.