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Feb 10, 2024 21:34:03 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2024 21:34:03 GMT
"I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and only a minor love. now I'm waiting again and the years run thin. I have my radio and the kitchen walls are yellow. I keep dumping bottles and listening for footsteps. I hope that death contains less than this." ~ Bukowski
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Feb 13, 2024 23:55:29 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 13, 2024 23:55:29 GMT
“If you can’t help others, at least don’t hurt them.” -His Holiness Dalai Lama Without morality we can not live a happy life, however to live this life requires consistent effort. We must: Refrain from hurting others In our thoughts In our words In our deeds This is the meaning of the Golden Rule. The Law of Reciprocity. What Gandhi said is “anybody can learn nonviolence”. By applying the golden rule consistently we will have a very good human life, enriching all of our activities including occupation and citizen. But our actions must eventually extend further beyond “not harming” into selfless action on behalf of others. Then when these two levels have been achieved - our thoughts must radically transform and we thus attain the heart of pure and spontaneous altruism. I would be prepared to die for any cause, never to kill. -Gandhi
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Feb 14, 2024 17:17:33 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 14, 2024 17:17:33 GMT
We are not what we think we are. Underneath our opinions there is an innocent presence that has no name. It doesn’t belong to anyone, just this vast moment. - Pir Elias Amidon www.sufiway.org/
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Feb 14, 2024 23:48:32 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 14, 2024 23:48:32 GMT
What is reality? “What we have called matter is energy (light), whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.” - Albert Einstein . "Matter is a vibrational artifact."--
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Feb 15, 2024 23:01:10 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 15, 2024 23:01:10 GMT
"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
"Judging from the experience of the European War, imperialism renders no great benefit to any nation, whereas liberty for all nationalities is the only principle by which humanity will ever be saved." - Sun Yat-sen
"Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours." Alan Greenspan
"In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy." Fran Lebowitz
"Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse their office." Louise Slaughter
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Feb 15, 2024 23:34:17 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 15, 2024 23:34:17 GMT
““Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.” - Aldous Huxley
“History will remember this war on Palestinian civilians and their displacement as the moment the world woke up to the Zionist plans of occupation and expansion.” - Aysha Taryam
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." - Edward Said
"We have destroyed our democracy to an extent the terrorists never could have. We've changed our democracy into a semi-police state. William Binney"- Bill has nearly 30 years as a top executive in America's super-secret National Security Agency (NSA)
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Feb 16, 2024 17:53:59 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2024 17:53:59 GMT
"The truth is that many of us have become alienated from the Earth. We forget that we are alive, here, on a beautiful planet and that our body is a wonder given to us by the Earth and the whole cosmos. If the Earth has been able to offer life it is because she, too, has non-Earth elements in her, including the sun and stars. Humankind is made of stars. The Earth is not only the Earth but the whole cosmos. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
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Feb 18, 2024 21:27:35 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 18, 2024 21:27:35 GMT
"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
“The truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.”Steven Pressfield ‘The War of Art’
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality. T” H. L. Mencken
“A person who is demoralized is unable to accept true information.” Yuri Bezmenov
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.” Helen Keller
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Feb 20, 2024 0:07:46 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 20, 2024 0:07:46 GMT
“The power of government rests on ignorance of the people, and it knows this, and therefore will always resist enlightenment.” Leo Tolstoy
“Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? - Martin Luther King
"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
“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men.” Albert Einstein
"We are here to add what we can to, not what we can get from life.” Sir William Ossler
“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.” Author Unknown
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Mar 8, 2024 23:16:57 GMT
Post by Admin on Mar 8, 2024 23:16:57 GMT
“Do it! What are you waiting on? Do it! Stand up for what you believe in. The world needs your voice. Whoever you are, you have something to say. Say it.” - Kerry Washington
“I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.” - Dr. Maya Angelou
“When you see something that is not just, not fair, or not right, you have to do something. You have to say something. Make a little noise. It's time for us to get into good trouble, necessary trouble.” - John Lewis,
“I have a little different definition of evil than most people. When you have the opportunity and the ability to do good and you do nothing, that's evil. Evil doesn't always have to be an overt act, it can be merely the absence of good.” - Yvon Chouinard
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” - Arthur Ashe
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Mar 12, 2024 17:46:26 GMT
Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2024 17:46:26 GMT
“We're in a period, in terms of history, of the end of national and tribal consciousness. The only consciousness that is proper to contemporary life is global. Nevertheless, all popular thinking is in terms of loyalties to the local communities to which all are members. Such thinking is now out of date. What we face is a challenge to recognize one community on this earth, and what we find in the face of this challenge is everybody pulling back into his own in-group. I don't want to name the in-groups, but we all know pretty well what they are. In our country we call them pressure groups. They are racial groups, class groups, religious groups, economic groups, and they are all tangling with each other. For any people to say, 'We are it and the others are other'— these are dangerous people. And there are religions still doing this. The new thing that is very difficult for people to realize is our society is the human race. And our little suburb is the globe. Spaceship Earth.” - Joseph Campbell Myth and Meaning, 202
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Mar 13, 2024 17:43:20 GMT
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"If you aren’t moving forward in your life there is some idea, mode of action, or habit you’re so in love with you won’t let go of it.”
- Jordan Peterson
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Mar 27, 2024 0:13:43 GMT
Post by Admin on Mar 27, 2024 0:13:43 GMT
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” - Mark Twain
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.” - Albert Camus
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” - William Shakespeare
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” - Socrates
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” - Aristotle
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Apr 13, 2024 15:34:17 GMT
Post by Admin on Apr 13, 2024 15:34:17 GMT
"When a person acts insanely, they are offering you an opportunity to bless them. Their need is yours. You need the blessing you can offer them. There is no way for you to have it except by giving it. This is the law of God, and it has no exceptions."
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Apr 24, 2024 17:03:32 GMT
Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2024 17:03:32 GMT
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility. ~Neil Postman
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