"I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I shall never live for the sake of another man, nor ask him to do the same for me." - Ayn Rand

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

--Swedish proverb

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i don't know if this is posted already but the thread about mcain's 13 vehicles and 8 houses made me think of it. i found it on rawfoodtalk.com.

"There is sufficient in the world for man's need, but not for his greed."

Each molecule preaches perfect law,
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`Each moment chants true sutra:

The most fleeting thought is timeless,

A single hair's enough to stir the sea.

Shutaku

Our job now is to get over years of believing we are primarily objects, people or bodies. Though we temporarily have bodies, we have to now consciously realize we are peace, joy, love, and compassion. That is who we are literally. In this context those attributes are nouns. And the us of us is life eternal. Instead of thinking we have peace or joy we must be totally aware that we ARE peace and joy, not that we have them. That is a big leap but once made our mortality is swallowed up with immortality.
-- Walter Starcke

See if you can catch yourself complaining,
in either speech or thought, about a situation
you find yourself in, what other people do or
say, your surroundings, your life situation,
even the weather. To complain is always
nonacceptance of what is.

- Eckhart Tolle

With dew drops dripping,
I wih somehow I could wash
this perishing world
Basho 1644-1694 Jappanese Poet

I hope Im not overposting, just like these poems and quote's,

Life in this world
is as brief as time spent sheltered
from winter showers.

SOGI 1421-1502

... the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

--Alex Carey, Australian social scientist, quoted by Noam Chomsky in World Orders Old and New

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* Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree*.
Martin Luther

All effort at controlling thoughts, appetites and desires cannot but strengthen them along with the ego. Whatever has to go must fall off by itself. All that you are concerned with, all that you are, is the impersonal functioning of understanding. So let that understanding work through witnessing without judgment, knowing that there is nothing else that you can do.

Ramesh Balsekar

in an email to me tonight from my ex who is now a very good friend. he's talking about his new life on the organic tomato farm (he's a city boy through and through too so this Really makes me laugh!).

"a fox got in to the hen house and ate 2 of my furry chickens.
the duck sleeps in the house now."

ha ha, i'm laughing again as i read it back. hoo, he's a funny man!

Feel the consciousness of each person
as your own consciousness.
So, leaving aside concern for self,
become each being.
-- ancient Sanskrit manuscript
from 'Zen Dog'

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One more:

<Question: All human beings have struggles in their lives, as you say. What can we do to heal ourselves from a painful experience? How do we best move towards forgiveness and compassion?>

The main way to heal oneself is to cultivate compassion and loving kindness by remembering that we all want the exact same thing. Just like I want to be happy and free of all the things that hurt me, so does everybody else.

The next step is to develop the practice of forbearance and patience. This is one of the most important things. By that, I mean really contemplating how when people act negatively towards us, when people hurt us and inflict suffering upon us, they are not doing it out of a state of clarity and freedom, they are doing it because they don't have control over their actions. They are doing it under the control of something else -- their afflictive emotions -- whether
it's anger, hatred or whatever it might be.

When we can see that it's not the person who is actually doing the actions, but [that] the primary cause of this negative behavior is the anger or the negative mind-state fueling the actions, our hearts open up and we have a much stronger sense of tolerance and forbearance for any suffering that's inflicted upon us by people under the influence of these negative states.

--PHAGYAB RINPOCHE
a Tibetan Buddhist who was severely tortured by the Chinese

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some of my favorites hehe

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin (1935 - )

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish,
and when the fish are caught, the trap is
forgotten.
The purpose of a rabbit snare is to cacth
rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the
snare is forgotten.
The purpose of words is to convey ideas.
When the ideas are grasped, the words are
forgotten.
Where can I find a man who has forgtten
words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

CHUANG-TZU

I saw that my life long vision of ending duality by our honoring our humanity as well as and equally with our divinity has now come of age. It is not just alright to be human. It is a blessing, along with all of its ups and downs, because at last we can see that truly IT IS ALL GOD.
--Walter Starcke

"What you pay attention to you become conscious of"

and its obverse:

"What you do not pay attention to you are not conscious of and will eventually become the effect of rather than at cause over."

Ian Xel Lungold

How can you find true happiness? For happiness, no positive action is
necessary or even possible. Turn yourself inward as the pure,
impersonal witness, and you will rest in you true BEINGNESS in utter
peace and tranquility. Happiness will become irrelevant.

Ramesh S. Balsekar

"All THE GREAT MASTERFUL RACES HAVE BEEN FIGHTING RACES
NO TRIUMPH OF PEACE IS QUITE SO GREAT AS THE SURPREME TRIUMPH OF WAR!"
TEDDY ROOSEVELT
ASSISTANT SECRETARY U.S. Navy

AMERICAN FACTORIES ARE MAKING MORE THAN THE AMERICAN CAN USE;
AMERICAN SOIL IS PRODUCING MORE THAN THEY CAN CONSUME.
THE TRADE OF THE WORLD MUST AND SHALL BE OURS,"
ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE U.S. SENATOR INDIANA

THE GREAT NATIONS ARE RAPIDLY ABSORBING ALL THE WASTE PLACES ON EARTH.
IT IS A MOVEMENT WHICH MAKES FOR CIVILZATION AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE RACE."
HENRY CABOT LODGE U.S. SENATOR MASSACHUSETTS

"We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are." -Talmud

When knowledge is not applied it is not only useless,
it can cause serious spiritual indigestion.
--Soren Kierkegard

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I hope these have not been posted already:

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." Kahlil Gibran

"I have learned silence from the talkative,
tolerance from the intolerant
and kindness from the unkind.
I should not be ungrateful to those teachers." Kahlil Gibran

Contemporary culture is plagued by the passion to possess.
-- Richard J. Foster in 'Freedom of Simplicity'

There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
-- G.K. Chesterson

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I am interested in anything about
revolt, disorder, chaos-- especially
activity that seems to have no
meaning. It seems to me to be the
road toward freedom... Rather than
starting inside, I start outside and
reach the mental through the
physical." Jim Morrison


The spiritual and cultural
revolution that calls us
must begin with our food.
There is no way to over-
state the magnitude of the
collective spiritual trans-
formation that will occur
when we shift from food of
violent oppression to food
of gentleness and compassion."

Will Tuttle THE WORLD PEACFUL DIET



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Liberation is never of the person, it is always from the person.

Nisargadatta Maharaj



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A woman is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.



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Handle every stressful situation like a dog:
If you can't eat it or play with it,
just pee on it and walk away.

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Beckyann Wrote:
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> My favorite (and I don't know the source):
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> "God always gives His best to those who leave the
> choice with Him."

I believe that that is from The Weaver. The rest of it goes like this:

My life is but a weaving
between my Lord and me;
I cannot choose the colors
He worketh steadily.

Oft times God weaveth sorrow
And I, in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper
And I, the under side.

Not 'till the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Shall God unroll the canvas
And explain the reason why.

The dark threads are as needful
In the Weaver's skilful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He had planned.

He knows. He loves. He cares.
Nothing this truth can dim.
He gives His very best to those
Who leave the choice with Him.

The being
Of separate beings
Is non-separate being

Chuang-Tse