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Jul 14, 2021 11:10:48 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 14, 2021 11:10:48 GMT
"When the European first came here, Columbus, we could drink out of any river. If the Europeans had lived the Indian way when they came we'd still be drinking out of the water. Cause the water is sacred. The air is sacred. Our DNA is made of the same DNA as the tree. The tree breathes what we exhale. When the tree exhales we need what the tree exhales, so we have a common destiny with the tree… We are all from the Earth. And when the Earth & atmosphere is corrupted, then it will create its own reaction. Our mother is reacting…"
~Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
"The world has become a market, and its this market we have to deal with, this idea of boundless and endless resources. When you say resources you are talking about our relatives, talking about our family. Fish are not a resource, they are our family and require respect… The structure of the world itself, it functions on natural law, and the natural law is a powerful regenerative process. Its a process of regeneration that continues and grows and is endless. Its absolutely endless if everyone agrees to the law and follows the law. But if you challenge the law, and you think you are going to change the law, then you are bound to failure…"
~John Trudell (American Indian Movement)
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Jul 16, 2021 3:08:36 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 16, 2021 3:08:36 GMT
"There is no need to be upset about whether or not you have money. Even with money, you could waste away your days. The world deceives us completely. It makes us think we are constantly gaining but we end up with nothing. People spend years working to make money, but in the end, when they come to the final reckoning, they are left with nothing in their hands. Even when someone becomes rich, in the end he is taken from his money.
Man and wealth cannot remain together. Either the money is taken from the man or the man from his money. No- one has ever stayed with his money. Where is all the money people have been making since the beginning of time? People have always been busy making money - so where is all the money? It has all become absolutely nothing!"
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov - (Sichot Haran #51)
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Jul 16, 2021 18:14:16 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 16, 2021 18:14:16 GMT
The computer is going to take charge of all the drudgery of man, in the office and also politically; it is going to do all the work for human beings in the factories. And so man will have a great deal of leisure. That is a fact. You may not see it in the immediate, but it is there, coming. There is a tremendous wave, and you are going to have a choice to make: what you will do with your time. We said 'choice' - to choose between various forms of amusement, entertainment; in which is included all the religious phenomena - temples, Mass, reading scriptures. All these are forms of entertainment! Please don't laugh; what we are talking about is much too serious. You have no time to laugh when the house is burning. Only we refuse to think of what is actually taking place.
- Krishnamurti
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Jul 17, 2021 16:57:14 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2021 16:57:14 GMT
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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Jul 17, 2021 21:09:56 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2021 21:09:56 GMT
““I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” - Charlotte Bronte
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“From every mountainside, let freedom ring.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.” - Aung San Suu Kyi
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” - Herbert Hoover
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Jul 18, 2021 11:51:54 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2021 11:51:54 GMT
What the impending ecological crisis forces us to confront is that we have sacrificed meaning, morality, and almost all higher values for the ‘sordid boon’ of material wealth and wordly power. To keep drinking from this poisoned chalice will bring only sickness and death.
William Ophuls
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Jul 18, 2021 21:36:55 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2021 21:36:55 GMT
“At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Happiness cannot be traveled to owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” – Alfred North Whitehead
“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
” – William James
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Jul 20, 2021 9:40:16 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2021 9:40:16 GMT
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.”
― Gustave Le Bon
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Jul 21, 2021 2:02:07 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2021 2:02:07 GMT
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” -- Ernest Hemingway
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?” Mahatma Gandhi
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” - Bertrand Russell
“All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.” - John Steinbeck
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” - Plato
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Jul 21, 2021 16:58:48 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2021 16:58:48 GMT
The Laughing Heart
Your life is your life Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. There are ways out. There is a light somewhere. It may not be much light but It beats the darkness. Be on the watch. The gods will offer you chances. Know them. Take them. You can’t beat death but You can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, The more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it. You are marvelous The gods wait to delight In you.
Charles Bukowski
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Jul 21, 2021 18:53:11 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2021 18:53:11 GMT
" I tell you , we are here on Earth to fart around..And don't let anybody tell you different...."
- Vonnegut.
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Jul 21, 2021 19:57:40 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2021 19:57:40 GMT
"462-6014" I get many phone calls now. They are all alike. "Are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?" "Yes," I tell them. And they tell me that they understand my writing, and some of them are writers or want to be writers and they have dull and horrible jobs and they can't face the room, the apartment, the walls that night... they want somebody to talk to, and they can't believe that I can't help them, that I don't know the words. They can't believe that often now I double up in my room, grab my gut and say, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, not again!" They can't believe that the loveless people, the streets, the loneliness, the walls are mine too. And when I hang up the phone they think I have held back my secret. I don't write out of knowledge. When the phone rings, I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this. That's why my number's listed.
Charles Bukowski, 1977
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Jul 21, 2021 19:58:26 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2021 19:58:26 GMT
“Do you hate people?” “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
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Jul 21, 2021 20:21:47 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2021 20:21:47 GMT
“One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend only a little of this mystery every day.”
– Albert Einstein
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Jul 21, 2021 20:56:31 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2021 20:56:31 GMT
"I think sometimes that the two symbols of our present kind of technological culture are the rocket ship and the bulldozer. The rocket as a very, very phallic symbol of compensation for the sexually inadequate male, and the bulldozer which ruthlessly pushes down hills and forests and alters the shape of the landscape. These are two symbols of the negative aspect of our technology. I’m not going to take the position that technology is a mistake. I think that there could be a new kind of technology, using a new attitude. But the trouble is that a great deal of our power is wielded by men who I would call “two o’clock types.”" Full text here: www.organism.earth/library/document/self-and-other
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