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  Essential tidbits of wisdom

  What little gems of inspirational wisdom have you read recently that you'd like to share with everyone? Please keep your quotes short. We should be able to remember them easily in the future.

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  Bibliomancer 

  "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
  
  - From "The Call of Cthulhu" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft

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    pampe 

    hmmm, not sure I could remember that one if I wanted to.....
    
    
    

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    Bibliomancer 

    It depends on how much it resonates. Once I read it, I couldn't forget it.

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  NighEve 

  "You need chaos to give birth to a dancing star."
  ~Friedrich Nietzche~
  
  

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  pampe 

  “God has no religion”
  
  ~~~~Mahatma Gandhi

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  PaigeTurner 

  Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. -Henry Ford (I think)

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  Michael L 

  "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln

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  CDXY 

  "Condemnation without investigation is the highest form of ignorance."
  (Attributed to A. Einstein)

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    PaigeTurner 

    I like this one!

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  CDXY 

  "The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to experience"
  (No author given)

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    PaigeTurner 

    and this one too! ...a lot!

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    Nour 

    That would be 'OSHO' ! :D
    He said: "Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved."

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  pampe 

  “God's love doesn't seek value; it creates it. It's not because we have value that we are loved, but because we're loved that we have value. So you don't have to prove yourself -- ever. That's taken care of.”
  ~~~~William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
  

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  CDXY 

  It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
  ~ Oscar Wilde
  Dedicated to Watchman, a.k.a Jesus Freak

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    PaigeTurner 

    wow. so true. so true.

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  uplandpoet (edited)

  You lose yourself, you reappear
  You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
  Alone you stand with nobody near
  When a trembling distant voice, unclear
  Startles your sleeping ears to hear
  That somebody thinks
  They really found you.
  
  A question in your nerves is lit
  Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
  Insure you not to quit
  To keep it in your mind and not fergit
  That it is not he or she or them or it
  That you belong to.
  
  Although the masters make the rules
  For the wise men and the fools
  I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
  
  Bob Dylan (Its Alright Ma)
  
  ....sorry a bit long, but fining it hard to cut off the set up, the key for me is the closing three lines:
  
  Although the masters make the rules
  For the wise men and the fools
  I got nothing, Ma, to live up

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  PaigeTurner (edited)

  if you are not willing to leave the one you're with,
  then staying with them is not a choice made in love but fear (from my Angels/Spirit guides)

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  CDXY 

  "The question I always ask when someone is proposing "freedom" is "Freedom to do what?"
  ~David Icke

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    uplandpoet 

    Freedom's just another word for nothing left to loose. Kris Kristofferson

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  Karen 

  This one is short but not recent, from the 1969 song Everyday People by Sly and the Family Stone:
  "Different strokes for differnt folks."

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    Michael L 

    "And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo"

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  CDXY 

  At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty five they are caves in which we hide.
  ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  She 

  We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
  Plato

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  She 

  INSIDE THE ENTANGLED MIND
  To see the world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower,
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
  And eternity in an hour.
  ---William Blake

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    CDXY 

    I love William Blake. This is a beautiful quote, extremely popular nowadays because it seems to illustrate a lot of of the principles so dear to the "new age" such as the interconnectedness of everything, "the power of now," "the holographic universe," etc... I regret others of Blake's poems are far less often quoted, particularly those reflecting his very peculiar, idiosyncratic gnostic beliefs.
    
    Here are a few additional verses from the same poem but less known. They are among my favorites and I heard them for the first time quoted in the movie "Dead Man." A great movie by the way.
    
    " Some are born to sweet delight,
    Some are born to endless night.
    We are led to believe a lie
    When we see not through the eye
    Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
    When the soul slept in beams of light.
    God appears, and God is light
    To those poor souls who dwell in night,
    But does a human form display
    To those who dwell in realms of day.
    - William Blake. “Auguries Of Innocence”
    
    
    
    

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  CDXY 

  Do I contradict myself?
  Very well then I contradict myself.
  (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
  ~Walt Whitman

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    Peach 

    Another quote from Whitman that I like is:
    
    And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

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    NighEve (edited)

    From the same epic poem, Song of Myself by Walt Whitman,
    
    I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God
    not in the least,
    Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than
    myself.
    Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
    I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and
    each moment then,
    In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own
    face in the glass,
    I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one
    is signed by God's name,
    And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er
    I go
    Others will punctually come for ever and ever.
    

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  Jonas D 

  “Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything”
  - Henri Poincare

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  Karen 

  Buddha was not a Buddhist and Christ was not a Christian.

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    pampe 

    amen...and in following either PERSON's example and NOT the ensuing organizations, I would do well

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    uplandpoet 

    and abraham was not a jew:)

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    Nour 

    Funny enough, Mohammed was a moslem !!! Where Islam in Arabic means linguistically ( to surrender to ... whatever also made peace with..) He said " I surrender my will to God " .
    Then people called his followers the ones who surrender to God. Then it became the name for the religion !
    In the Quran it is stated that all men are born moslem, until the parents make a jew or a christian out of him. it means that they are in a state of surrender to their creator. Some understand it literally and start to judge each other. :D
    

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  pampe 

  If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work but rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
  
  
  
  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  

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    Karen 

    If you want to teach a child to read, don't robotically teach him what the system expects you to in order to get constantly improving marks for NCLB funding and waste his time constantly testing and recording scores but rather, show him the love of reading and math for all the wonderful, interesting, and even practical things those subjects can reward him with.

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  CDXY 

  "The eye through which I see god is the same eye through which god sees me."
  ~Meister Eckhart
  

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  uplandpoet 

  man created god in his own image.
  - dont remember the first time i thought of that, but i bet i wasnt the fisrt....

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    Nour 

    That would be the Quran my dear :D

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  NighEve (edited)

  Late Lament by Graeme Edge
  (Last song on the album of The Moody Blues, Days of Future Passed)
  
  
  Breathe deep the gathering gloom
  Watch lights fade from every room
  Bedsitter people look back and lament
  Another day's useless energy spent
  
  Impassioned lovers wrestle as one
  Lonely man cries for love and has none
  New mother picks up and suckles her son
  Senior citizens wish they were young
  
  Cold hearted orb that rules the night
  Removes the colours from our sight
  Red is grey and yellow, white
  But we decide which is right
  And which is an illusion
  

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    Nour 

    When I was at college or high school can't remember ... and this album came out, I kept hearing it over and over and over until the needle damaged the record... ; )

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  Karen 

  "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
  Mark Twain

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  NighEve (edited)

  "Solidify your thoughts though your voice. Speak!"
  
  My friend the poet and playwrite, Ron Allen

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  NighEve 

  "Moments live in forever, once they live."
  ~Kurt Elling~

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  CDXY (edited)

  Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, he also believes to be true.
  ~Demosthemes (384-322 B.C.)

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  Jonas D 

  "Don't believe in yourself,
  Don't deceive with belief.
  Knowledge comes with deaths release"
  
  - David Bowie

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  CDXY (edited)

  "If one regards oneself as a skeptic, it is a good plan to have occasional doubts about one's skepticism."
  Attributed to Sigmund Freud

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    Jonas D 

    "To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
    
    - Henri Poincare

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  Karen 

  EGO = Edge God Out
  
  Are you a host to spriit or a hostage to ego?
  
  

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  CDXY 

  "The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new lands but in seeking with new eyes"
  ~ Marcel Proust

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  pampe 

  Suffering is the sandpaper of our life. It does its work of shaping us. Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
  
  
  
  Ram Dass
  

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  NighEve (edited)

  
  Harvest for the World!
  
  All babies together
  Everyone a seed
  Half of us are satisfied
  Half of us in need
  
  Love’s bountiful in us
  Tarnished by our greed
  Oh, when will there be
  A harvest for the world?
  
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
  Hey
  
  A nation planted
  So concerned with gain
  As the seasons come and go
  Greater grows the pain
  
  And far too many
  Feelin’ the strain
  Oh, when will there be
  A harvest for the world????
  
  Yeah, yeah
  
  Gather every man
  Gather every woman
  Celebrate your lives
  Give thanks for your children] (No)
  
  Gather everyone (Gather everyone)
  Gather all together (Gather all together)
  Overlookin’ none (Overlookin’ none)
  Hopin’ life gets better for the world
  
  Yeah, yeah, yeah
  Oh
  
  Dress me up for battle
  When all I want is peace
  Those of us who pay the price
  Come home with the least
  
  And nation after nation
  Turnin’ into beasts
  Oh, when will there be
  A harvest for the world
  
  Yeah, hey
  When will there be
  I wanna know now, now
  When will there be a harvest {Harvest for the world}
  When will there be a harvest {Harvest for the world}
  When will there be a harvest {Harvest for the world}
  When will there be a harvest {Harvest for the world}
  When will there be a harvest {Harvest for the world}
  When will there be a harvest {Harvest for the world}
  When will there be {Harvest for the world}
  When will there be {Harvest for the world}
  Everybody {Harvest for the world}
  Oh, talkin’ bout the children {Harvest for the world}
  When will there be a harvest {Harvest for the world}
  When will there be {Harvest for the world}

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    NighEve (edited)

    This is an Isley Brothers song. I have looked, bot I am not certain who wrote the lyrics.

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    Michael L 

    HARVEST FOR THE WORLD
    Album : Harvest For The World - T-Neck
    (Writers : Chris Jasper / Ernie, Marvin, Ronald, O’Kelly, Rudolph Isley)
    The Isley Brothers - 1976
    

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    NighEve 

    Thanks! LOL!

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  CDXY 

  Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment;
  Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition."
  ~ jalal-uddin Rum (A Sufi mystic)
  

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  NighEve 

  "Get It Together" by my main man SEAL!!! LOL!
  
  Now's the time for stepping out of place
  Get up on your feet and give account of your faith
  Pray to god or something or whatever you do
  What I see can make me stop and stare
  But who am I to judge the color of your hair (metaphor!!LOL!)
  Surely all you're feeling much the same as I do
  
  We got to keep this world together, got to keep it moving straight
  Love like we need forever, so that people can relate
  If you're rolling to your left, don't forget I'm on the right
  Trust and forgive each other
  A little love and we just might
  
  (We gotta do something, we gotta do something, we gotta do something)
  Thinking of the troubles of today is it easier to put that gun away
  Or is it difficult to stop the world to show you care
  Everything, everyone we know is beautiful
  Surely you will be the guide in light to see us all
  Maybe we can be the vision of a perfect man's dream
  
  We got to keep this world together, got to keep it moving straight
  Love like we need forever, so that people can relate
  If you're rolling to your left, don't forget I'm on the right
  Trust and forgive each other
  A little love and we just might
  
  (I have something, do you have something 'cause I have something for you)
  (I have something, do you have something 'cause I have something for you)
  (I have something, do you have something 'cause I have something for you)
  (I have something for you)
  
  We got to keep this world together, got to keep it moving straight
  Love like we need forever, so that people can relate
  If you're rolling to your left, don't forget I'm on the right
  Trust and forgive each other
  A little love and we just might
  
  We got to keep this world together, got to keep it moving straight
  Love like we need each other, so that people can relate
  If you're rolling to your left, don't forget I'm on the right
  Trust and forgive each other
  A little love and we just might
  
  

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  NighEve (edited)

  A poem on communication (directed to NTs) by Dave Spicer
  
  
  So I'm supposed to think like you
  in order to relate to you -
  my words have got to be just right
  to save your precious mind some work.
  
  Instead of seeing where I am,
  you're only looking where I'm not,
  expecting me to scurry over
  Right to where your gaze is fixed.
  
  But I don't want to live in that place,
  all pretending, imitating,
  guessing what's expected of me
  jumping hoops relentlessly
  
  So here's the deal: listen to me,
  Try to stretch your minds a little,
  Break the mold I can't fit into,
  Set communication free.
  *********************
  Dave Spicer is a writer whose autism was not diagnosed until he was 40!
  
  "NTs= normal thinkers" Mr. Spicer's idea not mine! LOL!

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  Michael L 

  There is a lot of real wisdom in the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. Ever noticed?

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  Nour 

  " Age is mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
  Mark Twain-

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