When we try to pick out anything by itself
we find it hitched to everything in the universe.
John Muir
You'll see it when you believe it.
Wayne Dyer
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your
smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical_Essays"
If you have time to chatter,
Read a book.
If you have time to read,
Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.
If you have time to walk,
sing songs and dance.
If you have time to dance,
Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot.
Nanao Sakaki, Kyoto 1966
Second from the right and straight on 'til morning.
Peter Pan
You can observe a lot by just watching.
Yogi Berra
Specialization is for Insects.
Robert A. Heinlein
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Maslow
Heaven is exactly like where you are now, only much, much better.
Laurie Anderson
Is not the sky a father and the earth a mother and
are not all living things with feet and roots their children?
Black Elk
We are four dimensional beings in three dimensional bodies,
looking out two-dimensional windshields.
Cowboy Neal at the Wheel
I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect, had intended for us to forgo their use.
Galileo
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Santayana
That the birds of worry and care fly above your head,
This you cannot change;
But that they build nests in your hair,
This you can prevent.
Chinese proverb
Transcend, Motherfucker, Transcend!
Cindy Lou Cosgrove
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Introduction to A Course In Miracles
Mathematics is the music of the mind.
Music is the mathematics of the soul.
Moe Zimmerberg channeling for Sarah...
Anything is possible, if you don't care who gets the credit.
Harry Truman
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors.
Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
Music is the timeless experience of constant change.
Jerry Garcia
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
If only I had known, I would have been a locksmith.
Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler!
Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not
sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
If science always insists that a new order must be immediately
fruitful, or that it has some new predictive power, then
creativity will be blocked. New thoughts generally arise with a
play of the mind, and the failure to appreciate this is
actually one of the major blocks to creativity. Thought is
generally considered to be a sober and weighty business. But
here it is being suggested that creative play is an essential
element in forming new hypotheses and ideas. Indeed, thought
which tries to avoid play is in fact playing false with
itself. Play, it appears, is the very essence of thought.
This notion of falseness that can creep into play of thought is shown in
the etymology of the words illusion, delusion, and collusion, all of
which have as their Latin root ludere, "to play." So illusion implies
playing false with perception; delusion, playing false with thought;
collusion, playing false together in order to support each other's
illusions and delusions. When thought plays false, the thinker may
occasionally recognize this fact, and express it in the above
words. Unfortunately, however, our English language does not have a
word for thought which plays true. Perhaps this is a reflection of a
work ethic which does not consider the importance of play and suggests
that work itself is noble while play is, at best, recreational and, at
worst, frivolous and nonserious. However, to observe children at play
is to realize the serious intensity of their energy and concentration.
David Bohm and F. David Peat,
Science, Order, and Creativity
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
George Bernard Shaw
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence
and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our
gross national product ... if we should judge America by that - counts
air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our
highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the
jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our
redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It
counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for
police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and
Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in
order to sell toys to our children.
Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our
children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It
does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our
marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our
public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither
our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to
our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes
life worthwhile.
Robert F. Kennedy,
in an address at the University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas, March 18, 1968
Be ashamed to die till you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to
consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
I'm glad you asked, son. Being popular
is the most important thing in the world.
Homer Simpson
It is possible to commit no mistakes, and still lose.
That is not weakness, that is life.
Jean-Luc Picard
You gave your life to become the person you are right now.
Was it worth it?
Richard Bach, One
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no substitute for a good
blaster at your side.
Han Solo
The lion and the calf shall lie down together,
but the calf won't get much sleep.
Woody Allen
Trust in Allah,
and tie your camel!
Sufi saying
You can believe anything you want. The universe is not obliged to keep a
straight face.
Solomon Short
Man plans, God laughs.
John Perry Barlow
We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming;
soaked in blood. But if you live your life right,
that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there.
Dana Gould
ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life.
2. life in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating.
5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.
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