I like the work of Dr. John Diamond, who was the father of behavioral kinesiology. He found that there's only one thing that prevents people from being weakened by negative thoughts, and that is what he calls the "homing thought," which is the sense of what you were put on this earth to do. It's the thing you do that transcends everything. If you keep that in mind when you're bombarded by someone's negative thoughts, that makes you strong.
--Lynn McTaggart

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Hmm.. I don't know Kwan. I think it may just the cyclic learning curve of existence. Have you read her book called the Intention Experiment ?

"There is nothing stable in the world:
upror's your only music." letters of John Keates

>Hmm.. I don't know Kwan. I think it may just the cyclic learning curve of existence. Have you read her book called the Intention Experiment?<

I haven't read the book yet, but I get e-mails from her about the various intention experiments they are doing to heal the planet. I find it extremely interesting.

Yes, perhaps you're right about the cyclic learning curve. We humans like to come up with 'formulas' for dealing efficiently with negativity so that we can always win out over it, but really, it seems sometimes we just have to carry on. If anyone ever has a voodoo priest put a hex on you (I have), you will find out pretty quickly just how much a well-trained negative mind can affect you. But love wins in the end, always. And even when we have painful experiences in dealing with negativity, they are often invaluable lessons.

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"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." - Unknown

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

All quotes by Henry David Thoreau:


"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step in the music he hears, however measured or far away."


"The greatest gains and values are the farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality."


"Most luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only indispensible, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."


"Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only."


"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of the evil to one who is striking at the root."



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Great quotes, Omega! I love Thoreau!

Hito wo yume to ya
omoishiruramu;
sumi suteshi,
sono wa kochou no
yadori nite

That man's life is but a dream -
is what we now come to know.

Its house abandoned,
the garden has become home
to butterflies
Monk Sogi 1421-1502

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything
we run away from, everything we deny,
denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us
in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil,can
become a source of beauty,joy,and strenght, if
faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden
one for him who has the vision to recognize it."
- Henry Miller

Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.

Hub,Secondhand Lions.

There is another reason to love our enemies: They force us to become smarter.
The riddles they thrust in front of us sharpen our wits and sculpt our souls.

try this: Act as if your adversaries are great teachers. Thank them for
how crucial they've been in your education.
Brezsny-Pronoia



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People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self centered.

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies.

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.

Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.

Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.

Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God.

It was never between you and them...anyway.



(Poem found in Mother Theresa's room after her death)

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

Hi everyone

just wanted people here to know that these quotes really mean a lot to me
especially since i had just gone through a really challenging time
and then to come here and read these quotes
they are very affirming to me
thanks so much
esp. to riverhousebill cuz u always pick the least recognized ones LOL
and they are really cool !

aww sorry to hear it LaV I hope things get better for you soon !

Man on Pedestal falls harder then Man with both feet grounded - Confucius

thanks jay gun!
actually, this challenge was phenomenal for me
because a very profound and positive transformation took place
but everything of value has a cost

In Maldoror and Poems, the French poet Lautreamont wrote about holy yern-
ing disquised as mournful complaint. "Whenever you hear the dogs howling
in the fields,"his mother told him as a child, "dont deride what they
do: They thirst insatiably for the infinite, like you, and me, and the
rest of us humans. I even allow you to stand at the window and gaze
upon this exalted spectacle."

"God has desires. since I want to be close to God and
to model after God, I therefore dont aspire to
exinguish my desires, but rather to make my desires
more God-like:i.e., imbued with an inexorable ambi-
tion to create the greatest and most interesting bless-
ings for everyone and everything."

"Man would do no better than to write his own Bible".....
Henry P. Barksdale (1914-1999)
....My father....when asked to explain
Organized Religion. He had a Life Book of all the
major religions.
I kind of like it applied to Diet also....WY

Sorry to be such a Pig, but I just received this
quote in an email from Melissa Zwanger....a Love Coach....
and thought everyone would enjoy it......WY

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection."......The Buddha

The body and the mind are closely inter-related and both derive sustenance from food. Therefore, food has considerable impact on the character and destiny of the individual. As the food, so the mind; as the mind, so the thought; as the thought, so the act.

All that is perceived by the senses constitute 'food'. For the Sadhaka (spiritual aspirant), the intake must always be Sathwic, i.e., pure and moderate. The sounds, the sights, the impressions, the ideas, the lessons, the contacts - all must promote reverence, humility, balance, equanimity and simplicity. It is only the Sathwic 'food' that will keep the mind on an even keel, fully concentrated on the Atma on which one must contemplate in order to attain peace.

- BABA

People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace. - Sathya Sai Baba

I find it interesting how when people become reflective, or accumulate a wealth of life experience, they all tend to assume a truth of love, forgiveness and virtuous conduct. Like it seems to me that these quotes are all generally simple aknowledgements of the value of these things, and they come from some of the brightest minds in history.
Light.

Just because you CAN doesnt always mean you SHOULD



...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

Lightform --
NICE!!!

my dad sent me this , this morning

"Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater.
If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby.
If you give her a house, she'll give you a home.
If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of @#$%&."

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

Fighting the ego, the mind, is precisely what the ego wants. You
cannot fight the mind. You cannot suppress the ego. Fighting,
resisting, controlling it is and impossible action. What is really
needed is a negative or feminine action. That is to yield, to allow
things to be as they are.

Ramesh S. Balsekar

goodness gracious jaygun

did yer dad write that?

almost as good as those sanitary slippers that he made for christmas LOL

"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil
people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and
it were necessary to separate them from the rest of us
and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil
cuts through the heart of every human being. And who
is willing to detroy a piece of his own heart?
_Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

riverhousebill Wrote:
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> "If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil
> people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and
> it were necessary to separate them from the rest of us
> and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil
> cuts through the heart of every human being. And who
> is willing to detroy a piece of his own heart?
> _Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

IMO we should aim higher than that. The mind and heart can be purified of evil; that is one of the spiritual elements of fasting and raw foods.

"Everyone has to find their own niche".....Dr. Fred Bisci