Inspiring Quotes

[feranaja]

Put your favourites here ----


"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
Winston Churchill



"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction."
Antoine de Saint Exupery





"Living with integrity means:

Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships.
Asking for what you want and need from others.
Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension.
Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe. "Barbara de Angelis


Justa few from my favourites... feranaja

[Naomi]

"only teach 50% of what you know" - Masaaki Hatsumi

"We're here to make coffee...metal...we will make everything metal. Blacker than the blackest black, times infinity!" - Nathan Explosion, Metalocalypse.

"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state." - Thomas Jefferson

"Never fear, Gordon, she's de-beaked and completely harmless. The worst
she might do is attempt to couple with your head. Fruitlessly!" - Dr. Isaac Kleiner, Half-Life 2

[Naomi]

"It is very difficult to take on the responsibilities of a teacher. Without being given the authority from God, it is very difficult to teach. If you begin to give instruction without authority from God, people will not listen to you. Such teachings have no power. First you do sadhana. In some way you have to attain to God. When you get the authority from God, then you may lecture."

- Ramakrishna




"A voice spoke to me and it slowly started sayin
Bring your lifestyle to me Ill make it better
How long will I live?
Eternal life and forever
And will I be, the g that I was?
Ill make your life better than you can imagine or even dreamed of
So relax your soul, let me take control
Close your eyes my son
My eyes are closed"



- Snoop Dogg, Murder Was the Case[Deathaftervisualizingeternity]

[Okazaki Castle]

Do not do anything useless.

- Musashi.

Okazaki Castle.

[Naomi]

"There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnake's tail." Navajo

[feranaja]

We are filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame for such a desire. We grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings. But the shadow of Wild Woman still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights. No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed." ~Clarissa Pinkola Estes~

[Zaii]

"Courage is the price that life demands for granting peace"

[fr.novumorganum]

"oh, there is no emoticon for the way I feel"

comic book guy

[Aodh]

"Most women are into bondage, it's just that instead of allowing themselves to be slaves freely, they make the man buy them with a pretty rock."
Anonymous

[fr.novumorganum]

"energy and persistence conqour all things" ben franklin

[Radiant Star]

"energy and persistence conqour all things" ben franklin

What a very magickal saying, I like that a lot :sunny:

[Naomi]

si vis pacern, para bellum
- Latin

[Anibis]

si vis pacern, para bellum
- Latin

Translates as?
-Ib

[Naomi]

If you want peace it's a must you prepare to bust caps in these fools who ain't havin that.

[Anibis]

Lol. If you want Peace, carry a Piece.
-Ib

[Son of Mr. Gordo]

Whether I become a Buddha
or not and go to hell,
hell itself is blissful.
-- Kotalipa

[Phoenix]

"We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth and both have helped us in the finding of it."
--ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

And That´s That...

[Naomi]

Hah that's a great one Gordo...and so true!

"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back to this bitch reincarnated."

- Tupac Shakur


Not inspiring at all, but :

"Hell is a place where the motorists are French, the policeman are German, and the cooks are English."

[fr.novumorganum]

" I gotta letter from the government the other day/ I opened and read it, it said they were suckas/ They wanted me for their army or whatever/ Picture me givin a damn/ I said never"

Chuck D. "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"

[Pagan39]

You thought,as a girl,that a mage is one who can do anything.So I thought,once.So did we all.And the truth is that as a woman's real power grows and her knowledge widens,ever the way she can follow grows narrower:until at last she chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what she must do.

Ursula Le Guin

[Pagan39]

This is a quote from the autobiography of the american revolutionary,Emmett Grogan.
'Emmett knew who they were by now and he thought of them as eagles.Individuals,families,communes,gangs,who are bound together by the blues life.The ones that throw it all away.Theyre everything everyone wants to be.They're the cream of the streets and their frame of reference is a style of life and death that has been censored from history and condemned to hearsay since man learned to read and write.They are the ones to survive the plagues,the ones in this country who are not in an illusory bag and the ones who get more than the oakey-doke without asking.
The only ones were those that had reached their own rock bottom and got up.They always got up.They searched for brothers and sisters,not friends.They did not play the part of crowd in the Law and order vs Riot movie.They didnt sell their vision-to sell their vision would have been to pretend it was theirs.They didnt put themselves on,fall guy.They were wise to the educated fools who look to confront fake situations where pretensions can be made to self defense.
They killed who had to be killed.They were sick and tired of being sick and tired.They dug that the going up better be worth the coming down.They deceived deception with truth.They were spreading the cheeks and kissing the little brown asshole of democracy.They dealt with all things in all moments of agony and joy.They didnt waste their efforts in games which kill time,deaden awareness and brutalize feeling.
They did not let themselves be suicided by a Judas-goat society.They were no longer lonesome for their heroes.They took care of business.They did not nickle dime bomb make-believe numbers.They did what was necessary(not unnecessary) to end the desperation of illness,hunger,nakedness,addiction,poverty,evictio n,jail,oppression and the money conspiracy which decimated the streets and backwoods.They were all innocent.They were felons.They were good at it.
They did not intend to spend anymore time in penitentiaries.They did not use the courts for redress.They were silent about almost everything.They remembered Michael Collins and what his comrades had done to him.
They did not own it.They loved.They were the offspring of mid-twentieth century broken conciousness.They were beyond the possibility of defeat.
They,that unnamed 'they'

[m1thr0s]

Terence McKenna was one of my favorite Modern Day Gurus...here's a few quotes from literally hundreds of his quotable passages...

• Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

• Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

• We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

• For monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking-monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

• When something is controversial it is discussed. When it is revolutionary it is ignored.

• DMT is a pseudo-neurotransmitter that when ingested and allowed to come to rest in the synapses of the brain, allows one to see sound, so that one can use the voice to produce not musical compositions, but pictoral and visual compositions. This, to my mind, indicates that we're on the cusp of some kind of evolutionary transition in the language-forming area, so that we are going to go from a language that is heard to a language that is seen, through a shift in interior processing. The language will still be made of sound but it will be processed as the carrier of the visual impression. This is actually being done by shamans in the Amazon. The songs they sing sound as they do in order to look a certain way. They are not musical compositions as we're used to thinking of them. They are pictoral art that is caused by audio signals.

m1thr0s

[Naomi]

'I am the devil....and I am here to do the devil's work.'

- Otis, The Devil's Rejects

[m1thr0s]

A few Frank Zappa ditties...

• Tax the FUCK out of the churches!
• Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
• It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right...Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?
• There is no hell. There is only France.
• Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
• The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil.
• If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll gonna murder you in your sleep.
• There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.
• Information doesn't kill you.
• May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
• If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT
• The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.
• Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.


:laugh: m1thr0s

[m1thr0s]

Woody Allen:

• If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

• How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

• To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

• I don't want to achieve immortality through my work ... I want to achieve it through not dying.

m1thr0s

[m1thr0s]

George Carlin:

• I've begun worshipping the Sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the Sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to God are all answered at about the same 50-percent rate.

• In the Bullshit Department, a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. 'Cause I gotta tell you the truth, folks. When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion. No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told.

Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you.
He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!

• I finally accepted Jesus -- not as my personal savior, but as a man I intend to borrow money from.

• I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my instincts. They gave me the tools to reject my faith. They taught me to question and think for myself and to believe in my instincts to such an extent that I just said, "This is a wonderful fairy tale they have going here, but it's not for me."

• I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

m1thr0s

[Pagan39]

There is a principle which is a bar against all information,which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Herbert Spencer

[Pagan39]

learn to live without self concern.For this you must know your own true being as indomitable,fearless,ever victorious.Once you know with absolute uncertainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination,you come to disregard your desires,fears,concepts and ideas and live by truth alone.

Just realise you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out.The dream is not your problem.Your problem is that you like part of the dream and not another.Love all or none of it and stop complaining.When you have seen the dream as dream,you have done all that needs to be done.

Nisargadatta

[m1thr0s]

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Stanley Kubrick

morbidly true.

m1thr0s

[feranaja]

"Blessed Ones (angels, saints and bodhisattvas) may take on the appearance of animals in order to share in the suffering of those who cannot tell the story of their own pain."
Manly P. Hall


"Because kindness benefits all living creatures, it is sacred in its own right as a universal quality . . .One of the secrets of psychological health - to be happy we must respect and serve all creatures great and small. To be healthy we must be kind."
Manly P. Hall

[Nyghtfall]

Try to be true. Because with each lie, you murder some part of the world, as you murder some part of yourself.

- Anna Varney

[The White Pearl]

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body,but rather to skid in sideways,thoroughly used up,totally worn out,and loudly proclaiming 'WOW-what a ride'--Peter Sage

Dont go around saying the world owes you a living.The world owes you nothing.It was here first.--Mark Twain

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be,but be such.--Marcus Aurelius

Pearl

[The White Pearl]

All men dream but not equally.Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity;but the dreamers of the day are the dangerous men, for thay may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible--T.E. Lawrence


Pearl

[Kuroyagi]

"Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work." (Gurney Halleck from DUNE).

[Naomi]

"Behold, as a demon alien from outerspace on the Tharsis of Mars, I go forth to my work."

- Naomi Chan

btwei, great quotes pearl!!!

[Nalyd Khezr Bey]

"We have been subjected to a sort of mental mimicry which has stopped us going deeply into anything and has made us look with hostility at anything we held dear." - Andre Breton, Drop Everything

[Kuroyagi]

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

[MythMath]

That's a good one, K (and AS)... :yes:

[m1thr0s]

that one's so true it's almost depressing...
but affirming nonetheless...

m1thr0s

[niranjan]

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

-----Thomas Paine

[Kain]

Nice one niranjan...

Kain

[baenheh]

'No one knows until he is on the inside, there are no visible barriers. Those on the outside have no secrets. The composites receive suitable advantages, there's nothing for them to desire unless its wisdom.
Those of the inner ring alone must know who the others are, that they may know what to hide or disclose. For out techniques and sciences hold certain secrets that are not to be given to the ambitious who would profane them, to the undisciplined who would distort them, to the wicked who would abuse them.'

' a man who is seeking the real can't say ''I dont like, I reject'' without leaving the path'

'true magick is the science of the right gesture, the right word, at the right moment, any departure from this principle makes it ineffective.'

'One who aquires consciousness of it can mitigate certain inharmonious events, it is too easy to slide into superstitions that bring on, through imagination, the very evil they claim to exorcise.'

above quotes from Isha Schawaller De Lubicz.

and here is a good one from Lao Tzu

''Any universe is a machine of death,
a proliferator of bodies,
that doesn't give a damn about you and me.
Recognize the competition for life
inside the universal machine

Be wise, and discover how the machine works.
Discover all natural laws,
and redirect the machine as you will.
Use it to fulfill needs and expand life
as much as possible.
Discover your essence,
and you expand beyond all limits.
You are not essentially bound by the machine.

Realize it,
and you can depart the machine,
slowly or quickly,
and emerge into the Divine Domain,
blissful centrepoint of truth.''


this is Lao Tzu also

''One who understands others has knowledge.
One who understands himself has wisdom.
One who overcomes others has force.
One who overcomes himself has true strength.
One who has contentment is rich.
One who forces the issue may win the day but will lose in the end.
Only one who knows his own heart can endure.
When he dies, he does not perish.''

:yes:

[fr.novumorganum]

"Life really is too short to be constantly creating false problems just to justify ignoring the real ones..."
-M1thr0s

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
- Albert Einstein

[fr.novumorganum]

Om Namah Shivaaya
Shivaaya namaha, Shivaaya namah om
Shivaaya namaha, namaha Shivaaya
Shambhu Shankara namah Shivaaya, Girijaa Shankara namah Shivaaya
(Arunaachala Shiva namah Shivaaya)

[m1thr0s]

'No one knows until he is on the inside, there are no visible barriers. Those on the outside have no secrets. The composites receive suitable advantages, there's nothing for them to desire unless its wisdom.
Those of the inner ring alone must know who the others are, that they may know what to hide or disclose. For out techniques and sciences hold certain secrets that are not to be given to the ambitious who would profane them, to the undisciplined who would distort them, to the wicked who would abuse them.' This one would make for a pretty good discussion topic I think...there's a bit of a problem with this position in that the elite have not done an especially good job of informing future generations when and where they most needed to be informed. They have dropped the ball plain and simple. Thus all this high sounding morality comes to ashes and dust. It does no good to protect birds against the hazards of flight...we have to trust to nature to sort out the odds in its own way. Sure, there will be abuses...there are abuses to everything under the sun...

m1thr0s

[Anibis]

Our lives are bubbles,
decades wide.
Suspended in eternity,
each hour immortal.

Promethea/Alan Moore

-A-

[Kuroyagi]

"Personally I would not be able to take seriously any self-proclaimed Shiva-avatar who didn't know how to party." (Phil Hine)

[This is also funny:]

"The adept should drink, drink and drink again until he falls to the ground. if he gets up and drinks again, he will be freed from rebirth. His happiness enchants the goddess, Lord Bhairava delights in his swooning, his vomiting pleases all the gods." (Kulanarva Tantra)


Both can be found here: http://occultebooks.com/Portals/0/pdfs/aott.pdf

Any universe is a machine of death,
a proliferator of bodies,
that doesn't give a damn about you and me.
Recognize the competition for life
inside the universal machine

shit :laugh: what translation is that? its fun! got any bibliographical info, baenheh?

[Naomi]

Those ARE inspiring Kuroyagi. :D

A pair by my third beloved philosophical mentor, Musashi. :rolleyes: (Aesop and Saint Exupery were first)

“Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.”

- Miyamoto Musashi

“Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death”

- Miyamoto

[baenheh]

Kuroyagi these quotes are from a book of translations of Lao Tzu
'A warrior blends with life' by Michael La Torra.

here is more that I like
quote

Throughout the ages,
the most wise practitioners of the 'Way'
have not encouraged uninformed debate.
Instead, they have discarded preconceived ideas
so they could observe as pure witness.

Why does government arise,
yet people are still unruly?
because the lives of people have become too complicated.
Some leaders try outsmarting the people
by thinking up ever more complicated schemes,
but end up bringing on calamities.

Wise leaders take things simply,
constructing solutions of bare elegance,
and delivering real benefits.

Be wise, recognise the power of observation
and the strength of simplicity.
Measure what you observe and what you do
Simplify for sure success.

This principle applies on many levels.
It leads ultimately against entropic decay
and home to the original ONE

Successful warriors control their violence.
Succussful fighters dont rush offensives.
The best victory comes by allowing the enemy
to fall of his own weight
The best commander has humility,
and is not contentious.
This unites the efforts of others.
Follow this and you follow the subtle law.

Lao Tzu.

'when people lose their sense of wonder,
it is no wonder they lose their good sense'

:cool:

[Radiant Star]

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

Abraham Maslow

[baenheh]

some humour

'I would never do crack. I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass okay!'

'I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it 'Irate'. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with'.

both by Dennis Leary.

'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires!'

Oh I could spend my life having this conversation, look please try to understand before one of us dies!'

both by John Cleese.

'They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety!' Ben Franklin

[baenheh]

Here is a quote I made which came into my head this morning upon awakening from the abyss.

'Ego is a master of limit and exaggeration, but once gaining wisdom as witness through the peaks and troughs of life, its raised above what it feared was inevitable, its death.' 'to be empty is to be full' :laugh:

[Anibis]

Religion is a magickal device for transforming unanswerable questions into unquestionable answers.

Floyd Gecko, Church of MOO

-A-

[MythMath]

"When in doubt, breathe deeply and say nothing..."

anonymous, just now

[The Tengu]

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
-George Orwell

[Radiant Star]

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolfe

[fr.novumorganum]

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. " Thoreau

"The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles" Thoreau

[niranjan]

TRIBUTE TO THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN REBEL WITH A CAUSE
*note: this is called "shouting" niranjan.
It is against the rules around here and you have been warned about it already - m1thr0s

Let them call me rebel, and welcome; I feel no concern from it. For I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

---Thomas Paine

[niranjan]

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

---Albert Einstein

[Talkingfox]

" It is said it is better to be a live jackal than a dead lion. I've always prefered to be a live lion"
Robert Heinlein

[baenheh]

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Jung.

[m1thr0s]

Jung said that?

kinda dark for him...great coin though...

m1thr0s

[niranjan]

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

[deviadah]

kinda dark for him...great coin though...
m1thr0s
To understand the quote in question read Jung's The Philosophical Tree or this:

"Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

/.../

"A man who is unconscious of himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour."

[niranjan]

If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organised religion. They do a hundred times more evil than good, because they stop the growth of each one's individual development.... Religion is only between you and your God, and no third person must come between you. Think what these organised religions have done! What Napoleon was more terrible than those religious persecutions? If you and I organise, we begin to hate every person . It is better not to love, if loving only means hating others. That is no love. That is hell! If loving your own people means hating everybody else, it is the quintessence of selfishness and brutality, and the effect is that it will make you brutes.

---Swami Vivekananda

[niranjan]

“As fragrance abides in the flower
As reflection is within the mirror,
So does your Lord abide within you,
Why search for him without?”

--- Guru Nanak

[niranjan]

"There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now."

-- Buddha

[niranjan]

"Where love reigns the impossible may be attained"

-- Indian Proverb

[baenheh]

The light welcomes those who stand beyond the stricture of ritual.

The truth shall never fail to be revealed to you, for ignorance cannot stand the scrutiny of inspection.

The energies of inner awakening must be channeled productively, and not dissipated through purposeless thoughts and emotional indulgence.

The key to your freedom is the acceptance of your heritage of Perfection. Would that you were as ready to admit your Perfection as you are to identify with your flaws. Your Perfection is your salvation, there is no middle ground between limitation and perfection.

We can live up to our potential now, sometimes our calling is as simple as a smile :)

All above quotes by Alan Cohen.

[MythMath]

Thanks, baenheh...

I'm inspired... :)

[m1thr0s]

sweet...looks like I need to check out more of Cohen's work...

I especially like the Perfection quote...the smile one's a bit of a time-bomb I have seen turn south all too easily...can't win 'em all...

m1thr0s

[baenheh]

Here is a couple more from Cohen that I appreciate

Strive to keep yourself. Be unrelenting in your quest to discover what belongs to you, and to distinguish your True Self from that which has been taught to be yours.

That which is yours can never be taken from you, and that which is not yours can never have belonged to you. Know this distinction - the only true distinction - and you free yourself of the tyranny of reflections.

THE INCONVENIENCE IS TEMPORARY
THE IMPROVEMENT IS PERMANENT
THANKYOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

[Naomi]

"Now you can go on to be mankind's great lost savior.. and have a lovely pardy, healing all the horribly diseased folks who hound you day and night... Digging in your trash.. chewing, sniffing, and sucking on, your disposed kleenex's and your disposed old socks and underware.. hiding in your trees and behind fences with digital-cameras.. peeing on your lawns and roses.. peaking in your windows.. offering you their extremely diseased infectious crotches to play in.. stealing everything and anything not totally secured.. and issuing you death threats for those you wouldn't or couldn't assist... Then they'll murder you for love, and devour your muscles as burgers... and save your bones in a museum.. and they'll fashion little plastic and putty statues of you to place on their mantles to worship and beg to whenever they have problems they can't get out of.. and they'll include your name in a couple history books and comic books.. and they will use your name as cuss words.. and they will pretend eating your skin and bones on worship days, for centuries.. and you will be famous.. and everybody will love your grave, and kiss your headstone a lot, and leave cheap flowers on your grave for a couple years, till someone finds a little dirt on you.. and publishes it.. then they will take you out of their history books, and make scary movies about your life.. and your legacy will be that a sick-friend is now breathing easier... and CMM will interview your easy breathing friend and your brothers and sisters, and make them all look like silly hillbillies on der teevee...

Goodluck on your little miracle... but I doubt you want to be telling anybody that it actually worked, in this absolutely insane culture full of mindless nutcases, all making their blind-bid for hell and extinction, all waiting for their fictitious god to do something impossible to make their crappy lives fun and safe, and forever..."

- Cosmicbrat

Man that guy was so crazy.

[m1thr0s]

yeah...it's a little too easy to spend your whole damn life bitching about the obvious.
Nobody ever starts out in life as an asshole...that's something to keep in mind at least...

m1thr0s

[niranjan]

Imagine the sun rising in your heart. Imagine all the flower buds blossoming into beautiful flowers. There are many butterflies blissfully flying about, drinking the nectar of the flowers. Now, imagine the hearts of all beings in the world becoming filled with love, peace and happiness.

-- Mata Amritanandamayi

[deviadah]

Nobody ever starts out in life as an asshole...
I was actually born ass first (not head or feet)... proud of this fact and has led me to coin a personal maxim:

"Born ass first, finger at the world!"

:cool:

[Anibis]

'Our lives are bubbles, decades wide, suspended in eternity, each hour immortal.'
Promethea, Alan Moore.

[fr.novumorganum]

"If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall"

"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."

Ahab, Moby Dick, Herman Melville

[niranjan]

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment desire, and when desire is obstructed anger grows. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion loss of memory . From loss of memory comes the ruin of discrimination, and from the ruin of discrimination he perishes.

--- Krishna (Bhagavad Gita )

[MythMath]

Bummer... :(

[niranjan]

Bummer... :(


Is that a compliment for me..... :cool:

[Ci Celli Ddu]

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
-Terry Pratchett

[niranjan]

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
-Terry Pratchett

Thats the spirit, passion can accomplish a lot , but so too can dispassion as well.


The mind, O Arjuna, is indeed hard to master. But through practice and dispassion, it can be controlled.
--- Krishna ( Bhagavad Gita )

[Ci Celli Ddu]

Thats the spirit, passion can accomplish a lot , but so too can dispassion as well.

Heh? What relevance does this statement of the obvious have to my choice of quote?

[niranjan]

Heh?


Dispassion is good for the control of the mind. Understand now!!!


The mind , if controlled, will never lead to regret.

--- Mahabharatha.

[Ci Celli Ddu]

Dispassion is good for the control of the mind. Understand now!!!


The mind , if controlled, will never lead to regret.

--- Mahabharatha.

Nope...still not getting the context here...more statements-of-the-obvious with no apparent bearing whatsoever on my Terry Pratchett quote

[niranjan]

Nope...still not getting the context here...more statements-of-the-obvious with no apparent bearing whatsoever on my Terry Pratchett quote


I said passion is good, but dispassion has greater merit.

Both has their value at the appropriate times.


However I must say, it is the calm man who is more potent than the passionate man, and accomplishes more.

[Ci Celli Ddu]

I said passion is good, but dispassion has greater merit.

Both has their value at the appropriate times.


However I must say, it is the calm man who is more potent than the passionate man, and accomplishes more.

Yes. It may surprise you to learn that I can actually read. However your statements do not have any relevance to the quote that I posted, and repeating those statements does not make them any more relevant to that quote. This 'conversation' is pointless. The end.

[niranjan]

Yes. It may surprise you to learn that I can actually read..

Thats great indeed.



However your statements do not have any relevance to the quote that I posted, and repeating those statements does not make them any more relevant to that quote. This 'conversation' is pointless. The end.


And how is that possible.

You yourself have quoted ,"Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. "

Setting a man on fire possibly ( and hopefully ) means to create a passion in him for something.

I have stated that passion is great, and so also is dispassion.

Both are needed, as both complement each other.

[Ci Celli Ddu]

You yourself have quoted ,"Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. "

Setting a man on fire possibly ( and hopefully ) means to create a passion in him for something.

No. It means setting them actually on fire. It's a h-u-m-o-u-r-o-u-s quote, an example of the Anglo-Celtic style of Black Humour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy) which mimics intellectual or spiritual thought in order to laugh at man's attempts to objectively understand being, "inverted intellectualism" if you like. Ancient druids were famous for it.

I have stated that passion is great, and so also is dispassion.

Both are needed, as both complement each other.

Grass is green. Sky is blue. Ice is cold. Fire is hot. Water is wet (etc etc)

[niranjan]

No. It means setting them actually on fire. It's a h-u-m-o-u-r-o-u-s quote, an example of the Anglo-Celtic style of Black Humour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy) which mimics intellectual or spiritual thought in order to laugh at man's attempts to objectively understand being, "inverted intellectualism" if you like. Ancient druids were famous for it.


Indeed Being is understood subjectively, as emphasized by the Indian enlightened masters.


<<<Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. >>>

Hmmm,and how does setting a man on fire, in a metaphorical sense, mean that one ought to stop objectively understand Being.



Grass is green. Sky is blue. Ice is cold. Fire is hot. Water is wet (etc etc)


I do know that , and the symbolic colour for passion in Hinduism and Buddhism, as emphasized by rajas, is red, and for sattva as emphasized by dispassion, is white. ;)

[Ci Celli Ddu]

<<<Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. >>>

Hmmm,and how does setting a man on fire, in a metaphorical sense, mean that one ought to stop objectively understand Being.
The point is that trying to find the 'metaphorical sense' is an act to objectively understand Being.

[niranjan]

The point is that trying to find the 'metaphorical sense' is an act to objectively understand Being.

Well, then I can say i pissed on my plants.

Would that also mean that it is impossible to ' understand the Being objectively.'

[fr.novumorganum]

How can you know what things are worth if you're hands won't move to do a day's work?

---The Editors

[fr.novumorganum]

Ritual is to the science of consciousness what experiment is to external science

dr. timothy leary

[Naomi]

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun.

Will Durant