Monday, August 29, 2016
Anthony de Mello
“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”
John O'Donohue
“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment.”
Friday, August 19, 2016
Navajo Prayer
"Happily may I walk.
May it be beautiful before me.
May it be beautiful behind me.
May it be beautiful below me.
May it be beautiful above me.
May it be beautiful all around me.
In beauty it is finished."
May Sarton
"She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome."
Emily Dickinson
"Hope, is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul...
And sings the tune without words
And never stops... At all"
That perches in the soul...
And sings the tune without words
And never stops... At all"
Tuesday, August 09, 2016
plato
"one of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics, is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
sing
~Lennon~ "Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people, Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too, Imagine all the people, Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one, I hope someday you'll join us, And the world will be as one...
Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people, Sharing all the world...
~Osbourne~ "Gazing through the window at the world outside, Wondering will mother earth survive, Hoping that mankind will stop abusing her sometime...
After all there's only just the two of us, And here we are still fighting for our lives, Watching all of history repeat itself, Time after time...
I'm just a dreamer, I dream my life away, I'm just a dreamer, Who dreams of better days...
I watch the sun go down like everyone of us, I'm hoping that the dawn will bring a sign, A better place for those Who will come after us, This time...
Your higher power may be God or Jesus Christ, It doesn't really matter much to me, Without each others help there ain't no hope for us, I'm living in a dream of fantasy...
If only we could all just find serenity, It would be nice if we could live as one, When will all this anger, hate and bigotry, Be gone?"
Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too, Imagine all the people, Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one, I hope someday you'll join us, And the world will be as one...
Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people, Sharing all the world...
~Osbourne~ "Gazing through the window at the world outside, Wondering will mother earth survive, Hoping that mankind will stop abusing her sometime...
After all there's only just the two of us, And here we are still fighting for our lives, Watching all of history repeat itself, Time after time...
I'm just a dreamer, I dream my life away, I'm just a dreamer, Who dreams of better days...
I watch the sun go down like everyone of us, I'm hoping that the dawn will bring a sign, A better place for those Who will come after us, This time...
Your higher power may be God or Jesus Christ, It doesn't really matter much to me, Without each others help there ain't no hope for us, I'm living in a dream of fantasy...
If only we could all just find serenity, It would be nice if we could live as one, When will all this anger, hate and bigotry, Be gone?"
22 October 1982
~ed abbey~
"Once again we citizens of America confront the farce of another make believe election. Tweedledum, tweedledee and tweedledoo - the bad, the worse, the ridiculous. Once again we are supposed to try to figure out which is the lesser evil. In truth there is no choice, all of the major candidates are financed by corporate money, all of them support and promote the industrial expansion and commercial greed which is gradually destroying this country. Politics has become a game for millionaires or the cronies of millionaires; no wonder that our quisling officials work for the interest of the rich and powerful. As Will Rogers once said, 'We have the best politicians that money can buy.'
To vote in such a rigged scheme amounts to tacit consent. If it were not for the presence on the ballot of some propositions deserving our support (placed there by the citizens, of course, not by our cowardly politicians), one would be tempted to ignore the whole sick comedy. But there is one more rule worth considering: when in doubt, when there is little choice, always vote against the incumbent. Keep the rascals rotating. The one thing worse than a hack politician is a hack politician entrenched in power. Power corrupts, and the longer in power, the more corrupt they become."
"Once again we citizens of America confront the farce of another make believe election. Tweedledum, tweedledee and tweedledoo - the bad, the worse, the ridiculous. Once again we are supposed to try to figure out which is the lesser evil. In truth there is no choice, all of the major candidates are financed by corporate money, all of them support and promote the industrial expansion and commercial greed which is gradually destroying this country. Politics has become a game for millionaires or the cronies of millionaires; no wonder that our quisling officials work for the interest of the rich and powerful. As Will Rogers once said, 'We have the best politicians that money can buy.'
To vote in such a rigged scheme amounts to tacit consent. If it were not for the presence on the ballot of some propositions deserving our support (placed there by the citizens, of course, not by our cowardly politicians), one would be tempted to ignore the whole sick comedy. But there is one more rule worth considering: when in doubt, when there is little choice, always vote against the incumbent. Keep the rascals rotating. The one thing worse than a hack politician is a hack politician entrenched in power. Power corrupts, and the longer in power, the more corrupt they become."
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