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Jul 21, 2021 22:49:57 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2021 22:49:57 GMT
"It's madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn, to give up all dreams because one of them didn't come true, to give up all attempts because one of them failed. It's folly to condemn all your friends because one has betrayed you, to no longer believe in love just because someone was unfaithful or didn't love you back, to throw away all your chances to be happy because something went wrong. There will always be another opportunity, another friend, another love, a new strength. For every end, there is always a new beginning..... And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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Jul 22, 2021 11:44:04 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 22, 2021 11:44:04 GMT
A critical analysis of the present global constellation-one which offers no clear solution, no “practical” advice on what to do, and provides no light at the end of the tunnel, since one is well aware that this light might belong to a train crashing towards us-usually meets with reproach: “Do you mean we should do nothing? Just sit and wait?” One should gather the courage to answer: “YES, precisely that!” There are situations when the only true “practical” thing to do is to resist the temptation to engage immediately and to “wait and see” by means of a patient, critical analysis. ~Slavoj Žižek (Book: Violence: Six Sideways Reflections amzn.to/3zeOS7o)
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Jul 24, 2021 12:13:09 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2021 12:13:09 GMT
“Well, you wonder why I always dress in black Why you never see bright colors on my back And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down Living in the hopeless, hungry side of town I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime But is there because he's a victim of the time I wear the black for those who've never read Or listened to the words that Jesus said About the road to happiness through love and charity Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me Well, we're doing mighty fine, I do suppose In our streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back Up front there ought to be a man in black I wear it for the sick and lonely old For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold I wear the black in mourning for the lives that could have been Each week we lose a hundred fine young men And I wear it for the thousands who have died Believing that the Lord was on their side I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died Believing that we all were on their side Well, there's things that never will be right I know And things need changing everywhere you go But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right You'll never see me wear a suit of white Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day And tell the world that everything's okay But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back 'Til things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black”
~Johnny Cash
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Jul 24, 2021 12:20:19 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2021 12:20:19 GMT
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical human forces. ~Hannah Arendt (Book: The Human Condition amzn.to/3ydRWkl)
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Jul 24, 2021 12:22:43 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2021 12:22:43 GMT
“All Laws, all Systems, all Customs, all Ideals and Standards which tend to produce Uniformity, being in direct Opposition to Nature's Will to change and to develop through Variety, are accursèd.”
— Aleister Crowley
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Jul 24, 2021 12:27:32 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2021 12:27:32 GMT
MOTTO OF THE DAY: THE SO-CALLED ‘UNCONSCIOUS’ DOES NOT EXIST Helena Blavatsky wrote: “…Occultism, unlike modern Science, maintains that every atom of matter, when once differentiated, becomes endowed with its own kind of Consciousness. Every cell in the human body (as in every animal) is endowed with its own peculiar discrimination, instinct, and, speaking relatively, with intelligence.” (Collected Writings, HPB. TPH-USA, volume X, p. 322) On another occasion she made this statement: “Occultism tells us that every atom, like the monad of Leibnitz, is a little universe in itself; and that every organ and cell in the human body is endowed with a brain of its own, with memory, therefore, experience and discriminative powers.” (Collected Writings, TPH, vol. XII, p. 134) Nothing in the universe is, therefore, devoid of consciousness. The term “unconscious” is technically inappropriate. There is no unconscious: there are but forms of consciousness that may be unknown to us and especially to our thinking minds. There are levels of human, planetary and cosmic consciousness that are involuntary, non-verbal, non-“mental” and little known. (Carlos Cardoso Aveline) 000 Image: H.P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) 000
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Jul 25, 2021 19:09:34 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 25, 2021 19:09:34 GMT
“In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus
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Jul 28, 2021 13:45:02 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 28, 2021 13:45:02 GMT
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
― Hafiz of Shiraz
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Jul 30, 2021 18:56:52 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 30, 2021 18:56:52 GMT
“Pain doesn’t make anything, nor does poverty. The artist is there first. What becomes of him depends upon his luck. If his luck is good (worldly-speaking) he becomes a bad artist. If his luck is bad, he becomes a good one.”
~ Charles Bukowski, from “Portions From a Wine-Stained Notebook”
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Jul 30, 2021 19:45:47 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 30, 2021 19:45:47 GMT
“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
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Jul 31, 2021 23:13:50 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 31, 2021 23:13:50 GMT
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““Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?” - Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.” - Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.” - Robert A. Heinlein
“War is over ... If you want it.” - John Lennon
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Aug 1, 2021 10:09:18 GMT
Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2021 10:09:18 GMT
“Most people do not see their beliefs. Instead, their beliefs tell them what they see. This is the simple difference between clarity and confusion.”
― Matt Kahn
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Aug 1, 2021 20:59:02 GMT
Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2021 20:59:02 GMT
“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.” - Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“In times of war, the law falls silent. ---Silent enim leges inter arma” - Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.” -- joseph heller, Catch-22
“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes” - Robert Jordan, To the Blight
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Aug 2, 2021 20:46:39 GMT
Post by Admin on Aug 2, 2021 20:46:39 GMT
Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious -- whether all that is profound -- does not spring from disease of thought -- from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however rudderless or compassless, into the vast ocean of the light ineffable...
🔘 Edgar Allen Poe
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Aug 4, 2021 21:04:34 GMT
Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2021 21:04:34 GMT
“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?” -- Howard Zinn
“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.” -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. -- Haile Selassie
“The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.
“If we don't end war, war will end us.” -- ― H.G. Wells
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