There is one thing in this world that you must never forget to do. If you forget
everything else and not this, there's nothing to worry about; but if you
remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in
your life. It is as if a king has sent you to some country do a task, and you
perform a hundred other services, but not the one he sent you to do. So human
beings come to this world to do particular work. The work is the purpose, and
each is specific to the person.

Rumi

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, 'cause that's what really happens.

(Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977), African American civil rights activist.

my exhusband once said to me :

the two happiest days in my life was our wedding night .. and the day the divorce papers were final

LOL

he was sucha weinerhead

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

Wienerhead almost sounds like a compliment. I'd have much better words for the likes of your ex! But they are impolite.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably everyday
for lack of what is found there."
William Carols Wiiiams,
Asphodel, that Greeny Flower


We're searching for the answers
so we can detroy them and dream up
better questions

i love life

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

What I've thought, what I've know,
Never shined through what I've shown.
Never free, never me,
So I dub thee unforgiven.

Metalica.

Here's one that a friend has on a bumper sticker:

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

And since Jodi brought up Exes, here's a short one from my Ex that I always liked:

"Now is the essence of is."

(Haha Kwan, that's a good one!)

:somethng unknown is doing we dont know what.
-Astrophysicist Arther Eddington, one of three
persons in the world who understood Einsteins
theory of general relativity.

i love these quotes
a lot

especially the ones bryan put up

jaygun's ex's quotes made me feel a tad bit sad

but then i got over that vicarious sadness
and feel happy again

riverhouse bill:


<<"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably everyday
for lack of what is found there."
William Carols Wiiiams,
Asphodel, that Greeny Flower >>>


thanx muchisimo for putting up this one

how gorgeous indeed

>somethng unknown is doing we dont know what.<

lol -- exactly!

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HA HA luv that quote too

something unknown is doing we don't know what

cooooooollllll

"You never change things by fighting the
existing reality. To change something, build
a new model that makes the existing model
obsolete. _Buckminster Fuller,


"Try with all your might and work very,
very hard to make the world a better place.
But if all your efforts are to no avail- no
hard feelings- The Dalai Lama.

"We should fell exicited about the problems we confront and our ability
to deal with them," says Robert Anton Wilson. Problems is one of
the highest and mostsensual of all our brain functions."

riverhousebill:


<<Problems is one of
the highest and mostsensual of all our brain functions.">>

i understand but can u elucidate?
i like reading other's articulations on this

maybe dealing with problems makes orgasm waves in our brain.like playing an instrument or speaking another language.

Bryan Wrote:
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> Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am
> everything. Between the two my life flows.
>
> Nisargadatta Maharaj


That is awesome Bryan
Very profound !

Here is a humorous one :
Cemeteries are filled with people who once believed they were indispensable - Sams & Carson



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“When you no longer believe in your own psychic shipwreck, you no longer believe in the permanent shipwreck of others. This creates a new relationship with others. Among other victories, you are no longer bothered by their unwise or irritating behavior. Having found inner liberty for yourself, you know it is possible for them also – if they want it deeply enough. You are like a man who makes it to shore after leaving a sinking ship. You sight others clinging to bits of the broken ship, knowing they can also reach the shore if only they will look in the right direction.”
--Vernon Howard

You are a divine elephant with amnesia trying to live in an ant hole.
--Sufi Poet Hafiz

The world is full of magical things patiently
waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
-Bertrand Russel

"Pollution is nothing but resources we're
not harvesting."-R Buckminster Fuller, critcal Parh

When enthusiasm dies, hopes fade with it and old age sets in. Love flies out the window when enthusiasm for the loved one dims, usually because of the daily intimate contacts that disillusion.

Enthusiasm is the very motive power of all life and must be kept alive within the heart if we are to advance. Without enthusiasm to give life meaning, progress slows, and all desire to conquer fades from heart and mind.

Do you start everything enthusiastically then lose interest? If you do, it leaves you with no energy to complete your project. The time comes in every phase of our affairs – love, marriage, friendship or business – when we reach this dull, drab place. We must call upon every reserve of strength and duty to push through, without regard to feelings or desires, paying no attention to discouragement or disillusion.

By looking up to the stars, by holding fast to the joy anchor deep in your heart, by lifting high all ideals and faith, by adding a new interest or doing things a different way, you cross this desert.

Prime your pump with hope, and enthusiasm will come bubbling up.
-- Edna Miriam Lister

Sharrhan:


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Oh, let go of the shadow and accept the reality, your divine heritage.
--A.K. Mozumdar

Sharrhan:


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"Do not be critics, you people I beg you. I was a critic
and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a
a smelly and ignorant place in me and spoke with a
voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book
until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie
until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person
untill you have met them. It is a fuckload of work to be
open-minded and generous and understanding and
forgiving and accepting, but crist, that is what
matters. What matters is saying yes."
Dave Eggers, rant in Harvard Advocate:

bill--

AMEN!!! A lesson I'm personally learning pretty late in life, but better late than never.

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Wow, Riverhouse -- great one!!!

A scholar being ferried by Nasrudin across a body of water chided Nasrudin for
his ungrammatical language, and hearing he did not learn in school said: "What?
half of your life has been wasted!"
Shortly afterwards, Nasrudin asked him: "Did you learn to swim?"

"No, I did not," replied the scholar.

"Well, in this case it seems all your life has been wasted ... we are sinking,"
said Nasrudin.

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.

John Wesley

"Always shoot for the moon.

Even if you miss, you will land among the stars."



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