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Oct 14, 2023 23:02:54 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 14, 2023 23:02:54 GMT
The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself, not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths. What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light? Or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle? One of the psychological problems in growing old is the fear of death. People resist the door of death. But this body is a vehicle of consciousness, and if you can identify with the consciousness, you can watch this body go like an old car. There goes the fender, there goes the tire, one thing after another— but it’s predictable. And then, gradually, the whole thing drops off, and consciousness, rejoins consciousness. It is no longer in this particular environment. ~Joseph Campbell (Book: The Power of Myth amzn.to/48BdZnz)
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Oct 17, 2023 10:07:59 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 17, 2023 10:07:59 GMT
"We Indians know about silence. We are not afraid of it. In fact, for us, silence is more powerful than words. Our elders were trained in the ways of silence, and they handed over this knowledge to us. Observe, listen, and then act, they would tell us. That was the manner of living. With you, it is just the opposite. You learn by talking. You reward the children that talk the most at school. In your parties, you all try to talk at the same time. In your work, you are always having meetings in which everybody interrupts everybody and all talk five, ten or a hundred times. And you call that ‘solving a problem’. When you are in a room and there is silence, you get nervous. You must fill the space with sounds. So you talk compulsorily, even before you know what you are going to say. White people love to discuss. They don’t even allow the other person to finish a sentence. They always interrupt. For us Indians, this looks like bad manners or even stupidity. If you start talking, I’m not going to interrupt you. I will listen. Maybe I’ll stop listening if I don’t like what you are saying, but I won’t interrupt you. When you finish speaking, I’ll make up my mind about what you said, but I will not tell you I don’t agree unless it is important. Otherwise, I’ll just keep quiet and I’ll go away. You have told me all I need to know. There is no more to be said. But this is not enough for the majority of white people. People should regard their words as seeds. They should sow them, and then allow them to grow in silence. Our elders taught us that the earth is always talking to us, but we should keep silent in order to hear her. There are many voices besides ours. Many voices…” -Ella Deloria
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Oct 20, 2023 20:46:50 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 20, 2023 20:46:50 GMT
“See simplicity in the complicated, seek greatness in small things. In the Universe, the difficult things are done ss if they were easy.” ~Lao Tsu “It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti “People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one’s perception of reality.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. “In this world, hate never dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible.” ~The Buddha
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Oct 21, 2023 22:00:35 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 21, 2023 22:00:35 GMT
' I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics." Albert Schweitzer
"By compassion we mean the deep feeling that comes when we recognize our soul's reflection in another person, when that other person's pain or joy becomes our own.” Cindy Spring
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”Albert Camus (2012).
"Things that...are not true become true in the public mind simply through endless repetition." Lenny Bloom
"Let us form a new religion, that which would be called 'humanity', with 'peace' as its prophet." Nima Shirali
"I hope....that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats..." Benjamin Franklin
"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." John Hay 1838-1905
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Oct 23, 2023 20:55:27 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 23, 2023 20:55:27 GMT
“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.” Carl Jung
“The media is the most powerful entity on earth. Because they control the minds of the masses, they have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power…If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” Malcolm X
"You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic." Robert A. Heinlein
"Don't just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything." George Carlin
"Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it, they don't believe it because it's not the truth they want to hear." Helena Cassadine
"Nobody's free until everybody's free." Fannie Lou Hamer - Civil rights leader "Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone." Suzy Kassem
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Oct 24, 2023 21:51:14 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 24, 2023 21:51:14 GMT
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.” Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”
"The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." Albert Einstein
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." Bertrand Russell
"The fundamental political question is why do people obey a government. The answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be governed by tyrants. Freedom from servitude comes not from violent action, but from the refusal to serve. Tyrants fall when the people withdraw their support."Étienne De La Boétie
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”Ayn Rand
“A ‘Neocon’ is neither new or conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.”Edward Abbey
“Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything."Suzy Kassem
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Oct 25, 2023 20:58:54 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 25, 2023 20:58:54 GMT
““Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.” - Thomas Jefferson
“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.” Rick Warren
"To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long." - Chinese Proverb
"Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it." - Shakti Gawain
"The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man." — Albert Einstein
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” Terry Pratchett
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Oct 30, 2023 17:23:41 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2023 17:23:41 GMT
"No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed." —Sigmund Freud
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Nov 1, 2023 22:19:40 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 1, 2023 22:19:40 GMT
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." John F. Kennedy
"If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." David Nicholls, One Day
"Try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them." Julian Assange, 2007
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." Oscar Wilde
"Truth is not determined by majority vote." Doug Gwyn
“Once you realize that corporate power is America’s real government, it becomes clear that corporate media is state media. It’s just a tyrannical regime brainwashing its populace with propaganda, brutalizing protesters, and attacking anyone in the world who disobeys its dictates.” Caitlin Johnstone
"If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." David Nicholls, One Day
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Nov 3, 2023 1:53:42 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 3, 2023 1:53:42 GMT
“In this war between the opposites, there is only one battleground - the human heart. And somehow, in a compassionate embrace of the dark side of reality, we become bearers of the light. We open to the other - the strange, the weak, the sinful, the despised - and simply through including it, we transmute it. In doing so, we move ourselves toward wholeness.” — Connie Zweig
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Nov 4, 2023 13:43:08 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 4, 2023 13:43:08 GMT
"In our tenure on this planet we've accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage - propensities for aggression and ritual, submission to leaders, hostility to outsiders, all of which puts our survival in some doubt. But we've also acquired compassion for others, love for our children and desire to learn from history and experience, and a great soaring passionate intelligence - the clear tools for our continued survival and prosperity. Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the immensity of the Cosmos, an inescapable perspective awaits us." ~Carl Sagan
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Nov 6, 2023 21:31:27 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 6, 2023 21:31:27 GMT
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." Bertrand Russell
"The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitab-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too" Voltaire
“Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.” William E. Borah
"I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, or napalm on Vietnam, or wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our time, are always wars against children, indeed our children." Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
"Cherish... the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them." Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:58
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”Alice Walker
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Nov 7, 2023 23:37:08 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 7, 2023 23:37:08 GMT
"You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act." -Mohandas K. Gandhi
"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate." - Isaiah Berlin
"Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions." - -- Sir Leslie Stephen
"You can almost predict (US) policy by that simple principle: Does it help rich people or does it help the general population? And from that you can virtually deduce what's going to happen." Noam Chomsky
"The dissenter is every human being at those times of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself." -- Archibald Macleish -
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Nov 9, 2023 8:22:26 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 9, 2023 8:22:26 GMT
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men." Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"When they put bombs in cars and kill people, they're uncivilized killers. When we put bombs on missiles and kill people, we're upholding civilized values. When they kill, they're terrorists. When we kill, we're striking against terror". Norman Solomon
"We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." - Booker T. Washington
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Nov 11, 2023 12:33:08 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 11, 2023 12:33:08 GMT
'Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." Dalai Lama
"I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism." Stanley Hauerwas
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." Confucius
"Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. Nelson Mandela
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