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May 2008 
Sharing some thoughts and prayers
Posted on Mar 11th, 2007
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JOURNEY, EXPLORE, TRANSCEND...B INSPIRED...EXPERIENCE JIVAMUKTI (LIVING LIBERATION)
Quotes from the movie "What the bleep do we know"
www.whatthebleep.com
There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Gustav Jung
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
- Carl Jung
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler.
- H.D. Thoreau
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.
- - Jelauddin Rumi
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend upon the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot
Celtic Prayer by Starhawk
Earth mother, star mother,
You who are called by
A thousand names,
May all remember
We are cells in your body
And dance together.
You are the grain
And the loaf
That sustains us each day,
And as you are patient
With our struggles to learn
So shall we be patient
With ourselves and each other
We are radiant light
And sacred dark-
-the balance-
You are the embrace that heartens
And the freedom beyond fear.
Within you we are born
We grow, live, and die-
You bring us around the circle
To rebirth,
Within us you dance
Forever.
STARHAWK
Entry for November 26, 2006
William Shakespeare - All the world's a stage (from As You Like It 2/7)
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Entry for November 23, 2006
The most precious day – today.
The biggest difficulty – fear.
The easiest thing – to deceive yourself.
The biggest mistake – to sink low.
The root of all evil – egoism.
The best way of entertainment – working.
The worst defeat – desperation.
The best teachers – children.
The happiest thing – to be of service to people.
The most unpleasant disadvantage – low spirits.
The most beautiful present – forgiveness.
The most effective medicine – optimism.
The strongest power around the world – faith.
The most stimulating gift – hope.
The only reality – love.
Mother Teresa
Entry for November 18, 2006
MUSH (or Meditate.Until.Something.Happens :)
even Kafka confirms it with the brilliant quote bellow.
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. "
~Franz Kafka
Entry for November 18, 2006
"To see the world in a grain of sand,
and to see heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hands,
and eternity in an hour... "
~ William Blake
Entry for November 18, 2006
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. "
~ Albert Einstein
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable
superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to
perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"If the possibility of the spiritual development of all individuals is to be secured, a second kind of outward freedom is necessary. The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit in general requires still another kind of freedom, which may be characterised as inward freedom. It is this freedom of the spirit which consists in the interdependence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudices as well as from unphilosophical routinizing and habit in general. This inward freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual."
~ A.Einstein
Entry for November 18, 2006
"...On the meridian of time there's no justice,
only the poetry of motion creating the illusion
of truth and drama. "
~ Henry Miller
Entry for November 18, 2006
"Our whole business in this life
is to restore to health the eye of the heart
whereby God may be seen."
~ St.Augustine
Entry for November 14, 2006
Peaceguy's Prayer
May the people on this planet be changed.
Changed from hatred to love,
Changed from greed to giving,
Changed from selfishness to selflessness,
Changed from apathy to action,
Changed from jealousy to joy over some one's accomplishments,
Changed from intolerance to acceptance,
Changed from being destructive to being constructive,
Changed from fighting to peace,
Changed from killing to protecting life,
Changed from censorship to freedom,
Changed from ignorance to education,
Changed from fearing our differences to rejoicing our variety.
May we each take it upon ourselves to feed the hungry, cure the sick,
house the homeless, educate the illiterate, love the unloved,
compete to do the right thing instead of winning at any cost,
be heroes that teach our children to
make the world a better place instead of glorifying violence and war,
stand up and speak out against things that are wrong
instead of sitting back and waiting for someone else,
demand honesty from our governments,
demand honesty from ourselves.
May we each take responsibility for our own actions
and realize that by refusing to change ourselves,
we condone all the evils in the world.
If one person changes, they teach others by example,
who in turn change and teach more,
one person becomes as a pebble rolling down a mountain,
picking up more pebbles as it continues,
becoming an avalanche of change.
It can happen, it must happen, it will happen.
To make this prayer work, you have to change yourself.
Copyright 1997 Don Morris (aka The Peaceguy).
Feel free to use this anywhere and any place.
All I ask is to reference this website if you do.
http://www.peaceday .org/
JOURNEY, EXPLORE, TRANSCEND...B INSPIRED...EXPERIENCE JIVAMUKTI (LIVING LIBERATION)
Quotes from the movie "What the bleep do we know"
www.whatthebleep.com
There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Gustav Jung
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
- Carl Jung
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler.
- H.D. Thoreau
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.
- - Jelauddin Rumi
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend upon the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot
Celtic Prayer by Starhawk
Earth mother, star mother,
You who are called by
A thousand names,
May all remember
We are cells in your body
And dance together.
You are the grain
And the loaf
That sustains us each day,
And as you are patient
With our struggles to learn
So shall we be patient
With ourselves and each other
We are radiant light
And sacred dark-
-the balance-
You are the embrace that heartens
And the freedom beyond fear.
Within you we are born
We grow, live, and die-
You bring us around the circle
To rebirth,
Within us you dance
Forever.
STARHAWK
Entry for November 26, 2006
William Shakespeare - All the world's a stage (from As You Like It 2/7)
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Entry for November 23, 2006
The most precious day – today.
The biggest difficulty – fear.
The easiest thing – to deceive yourself.
The biggest mistake – to sink low.
The root of all evil – egoism.
The best way of entertainment – working.
The worst defeat – desperation.
The best teachers – children.
The happiest thing – to be of service to people.
The most unpleasant disadvantage – low spirits.
The most beautiful present – forgiveness.
The most effective medicine – optimism.
The strongest power around the world – faith.
The most stimulating gift – hope.
The only reality – love.
Mother Teresa
Entry for November 18, 2006
MUSH (or Meditate.Until.Something.Happens :)
even Kafka confirms it with the brilliant quote bellow.
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. "
~Franz Kafka
Entry for November 18, 2006
"To see the world in a grain of sand,
and to see heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hands,
and eternity in an hour... "
~ William Blake
Entry for November 18, 2006
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. "
~ Albert Einstein
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable
superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to
perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"If the possibility of the spiritual development of all individuals is to be secured, a second kind of outward freedom is necessary. The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit in general requires still another kind of freedom, which may be characterised as inward freedom. It is this freedom of the spirit which consists in the interdependence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudices as well as from unphilosophical routinizing and habit in general. This inward freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual."
~ A.Einstein
Entry for November 18, 2006
"...On the meridian of time there's no justice,
only the poetry of motion creating the illusion
of truth and drama. "
~ Henry Miller
Entry for November 18, 2006
"Our whole business in this life
is to restore to health the eye of the heart
whereby God may be seen."
~ St.Augustine
Entry for November 14, 2006
Peaceguy's Prayer
May the people on this planet be changed.
Changed from hatred to love,
Changed from greed to giving,
Changed from selfishness to selflessness,
Changed from apathy to action,
Changed from jealousy to joy over some one's accomplishments,
Changed from intolerance to acceptance,
Changed from being destructive to being constructive,
Changed from fighting to peace,
Changed from killing to protecting life,
Changed from censorship to freedom,
Changed from ignorance to education,
Changed from fearing our differences to rejoicing our variety.
May we each take it upon ourselves to feed the hungry, cure the sick,
house the homeless, educate the illiterate, love the unloved,
compete to do the right thing instead of winning at any cost,
be heroes that teach our children to
make the world a better place instead of glorifying violence and war,
stand up and speak out against things that are wrong
instead of sitting back and waiting for someone else,
demand honesty from our governments,
demand honesty from ourselves.
May we each take responsibility for our own actions
and realize that by refusing to change ourselves,
we condone all the evils in the world.
If one person changes, they teach others by example,
who in turn change and teach more,
one person becomes as a pebble rolling down a mountain,
picking up more pebbles as it continues,
becoming an avalanche of change.
It can happen, it must happen, it will happen.
To make this prayer work, you have to change yourself.
Copyright 1997 Don Morris (aka The Peaceguy).
Feel free to use this anywhere and any place.
All I ask is to reference this website if you do.
http://www.peaceday .org/
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