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

~If it uplifts and inspires you, do it.~

Possessiveness is rooted in scarcity thinking, which undermines the natural tendency to expand joy through sharing. -Scott Noelle

~If it uplifts and inspires you, do it.~

Final judgement bell rang already.

Tracy Montrose Blair: "Why do people have to die?"

Nate Fisher: "To make life important. None of us know how long we've got. Which is why we have to make each day matter."

~Six Feet Under

~If it uplifts and inspires you, do it.~

I saw a sign outside a Baptist church this morning:

"Those who walk with God will reach their destination."

I thought that was nice...

These aren't quotes but they are still so awesome.

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~If it uplifts and inspires you, do it.~

It’s one of my theories that when people give advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
Austin Kleon

~If it uplifts and inspires you, do it.~

"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."

~If it uplifts and inspires you, do it.~

I don't know why this website is so screwy about copy and paste, sigh.

Here is a link to a wonderful Walt Whitman quote.

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~If it uplifts and inspires you, do it.~

Sometimes I wish I could reach back into the ethers and give ol' Uncle Walt a big hug

According to "field of application":

(personal): You see Kitty, it must have been either me or the Red King. He was part of my dream, of course - but then, I was part of his dream too. -Alice

(work): I didn't invent the time machine to win at gambling. I invented the time machine to travel through time! -Doc

(life otherwise): This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time. -Narrator

>Banana ice-cream rocks!<

"By logic and reason we die hourly. By imagination we live." - John Butler Yeats

"If your philosophy doesn't grow Corn, I don't want to hear about it."......Sun Bear

"Although someone may say there is Buddhism, Cristianity, Islam, ect;
when he has penetrated to the essential nature of his religion, he will regard all
religions as being the same".

Venerable Buddhadasa

"lOVE YOURSELF so OTHERS Will Love You as Are"

On page 1 of this thread, riverhousebill wrote,

“It is more important to spend more time on your vision than developing a marketing plan. If you are open to change, to connecting, to transformation; you will need a new plan every day.” -Anonymous

“No one with a purpose and vision knows how it will be achieved. One has to be willing to follow an unknown path allowing the road to take you where it will. Surprise, serendipity, uncertainty and the unexpected are guaranteed on the way to the future.” -Marsha Sinetar

“When you are on purpose and vision there is a natural pull to the future. Allow yourself to feel this energy. When you have trusted in the past, did you allow yourself to allow the road to take you there? Why have you resisted? Are you willing to step into the place of ‘the I do no know’ when you are clear on purpose and vision?”

Thanks riverhousebill...I can really relate to these...thanks for sharing.

Peace and Love..........John

"Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary.
This question is one that only a very old man asks. Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long long paths, but I am not anywhere. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Before you embark on any path ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path. A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it.

I have told you that to choose a path you must be free from fear and ambition. The desire to learn is not ambition. It is our lot as men to want to know. The path without a heart will turn against men and destroy them. It does not take much to die, and to seek death is to seek nothing.

For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have a heart, on any path that may have a heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I travel--looking, looking, breathlessly."

The Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda

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"When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough.
When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much"......Fen-Yang

The best quotes, to me, are Pithy....short, and packing a punch......WY

The famous Henry Thoreau essay - Civil Disobedience - grew out of a night in July 1846 when he was jailed for nonpayment of the poll tax. Henry had refused to pay the tax because of its association with the institution of slavery. Behind his back, a family member paid the tax in service of his release. Henry, wanting to continue his protest, was furious. Ralph Waldo Emerson is reported to have visited Thoreau in his jail cell, asking...

Emerson: "Why are you in there, Henry?"
Thoreau: "Ralph, why are you OUT THERE??

“Own our physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.” ~ Henry Miller

Every living thing is dedicated to survival, to prolonging its life to the maximum. Each organism will do it’s best to adjust to any change in the environment in order to survive. This miracle has been called “The Universal Law of Vital Adjustment”. This law has always existed, and it always will. We can see vast evidence of this law in every blade of grass striving to emerge through the concrete, in every rabbit changing the colour of its fur with the seasons, and in every human being surviving in today’s challenging and constantly changing world.


12 Steps To Raw ~ Victoria Boutenko

~If it uplifts and inspires you, do it.~

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of
all our exploring will be to arrive where we started...
and to know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot



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"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"......
Phyllis Diller (July 17, 1917-August 20, 2012) RIP.

I came across some interesting tid-bits about these philosophers.
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I have tried, too, in my time, to be a philosopher; but I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
Oliver Edwards in Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson”
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Epicurus (341-270BC) wasn’t what we now think of as an Epicurean. Far from indulging in orgies and banquets, he lived on barley bread and fruit, with cheese as a special treat only on feast days. Celibate himself, he discouraged sexual relations among his followers, and his students were allowed no more than a pint of wine a day. His philosophy was based on the Tetrapharmakos, or “Four Cures”: don’t fear God; don’t worry about death; what is good is easy to get; what is terrible is easy to endure.
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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), who wrote his great work Leviathan in 1651, always claimed that he was born prematurely when his mother was struck with fear at the thought of the Spanish Armada. He said: “My mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear.”
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Love,
Prism

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'Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.'
-BENJAMIN DISRAELI

The U.S. Constitution guarantees citizens right to pursue happiness. "It's up to you to catch it". Benjamin Franklin
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On that theme, happiness, I just watched a movie on Netflix called 'Happy' which is about what makes people feel happiness. It was enlightening for me.

Love,
Prism

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Quotation by Anna Elizabeth Dickinson


We are told to maintain constitutions because they are constitutions, and what is laid down in those constitutions?... Certain great fundamental ideas of right are common to the world, and ... all laws of man's making which trample on these ideas, are null and void—wrong to obey, right to disobey. The Constitution of the United States recognizes human slavery; and makes the souls of men articles of purchase and of sale.

The Genetically Modified Poem
by Dave Bonta

iron flowerThe genetically modified poem is critic-ready, designed for the sanitized fields of modern mass production. It is the trademarked property of its creator. Its lines have been engineered not to reproduce themselves in anyone’s imagination.

The genetically modified poem produces its own growth hormones, easily outstripping its unmodified competitors. It’s the ration of choice at the poetry feedlots of Iowa, where so many manuscripts are fattened up for publishing.

The genetically modified poem has much higher nutritional value. Its every syllable is packed with nuance, assonance, and B vitamins. You hardly need to read anything else.

The genetically modified poem is a wonder of nature, containing the line-breaks of William Carlos Williams, the sudden insights of Basho, and the easy surrealism of late Neruda, not to mention the genes of a flounder.

The genetically modified poem has been stripped of idioms and idiosyncracies to maximize its shelf-life, which more than makes up for its inability to reproduce. Light-weight and modular, smelling ever so faintly of an autumn sunrise, it will outlast us all.

Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.

-Nick Fury

>Banana ice-cream rocks!<

“The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.”
William blumm


“The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing”

Damon Knight

“there is no way to peace, peace is the way.”

a.j. muste