Words To Ponder and Great Quotes part 2
"Without courage none of the virtues exist." Anonymous
"Women are aliens!" Yours truly in a flash of inspiration.
"Men begin with acts not with thoughts." William Sumner
"He who would live must fight. He who does not wish to fight in this world where permanent struggle is the law of life has not the right to exist." Adolf Hitler
"Every idea that comes your way is an opportunity for you to try on a new perspective." Joyce and River Higginbotham from their book Paganism
"All freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my ownness." Max Stirner
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Grant mystery its eternal validity and rather than solving it, look for ways to comtemplate it and give it honor." Thomas Moore
"I do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; I seek the things they sought." Basho
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." Francis Bacon
"Care of the soul not Cure of the soul." Thomas Moore
"No one has ever talked himself (or anyone else) out of an undesired emotion by hurling insults or by delivering a moral lecture." Nathaniel Branden
"Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious." Herbert Spencer
"Poke any saint deeply enough, and you touch self-interest." Irving Wallace
"Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone." Rudyard Kipling
"When you are not emotionally bound to a belief, you are able to explore the direct relationship between it and the type of world that has been or can be built from it. Armed with this insight, you can then choose the beliefs that best work for you and the kind of reality you want to experience. Your objectivity will also allow you to examine your beliefs whenever you wish to see if they are meeting your expectations, and if not, to begin to change them." Joyce and River Higginbotham from their book Paganism
"Yin and Yang are as old as the universe itself, and are its primary constituents. They aren't elements, but energies that inhere in the world. Traditionally, Yang has been equated with the hot, dry, masculine, bright side of the world. Yin is the cool, moist, feminine, dark element. Yang is above; Yin is below. Yang is the sky; Yin is earth. Yang is logic; Yin is intuition. These are relative terms only, complements or polarities rather than opposites. One isn't "good" or the other "evil." They define each other...duality without dualism. Taoists understand that the world is...a flowing of Yin and Yang, whose ceaseless ripples make up the universal River we call Tao. It flows through our inner being as well, for we humans are both Yang and Yin. If Yin and Yang are out of balance, sickness results. While the Yang drives our actions and ambitions, the Yin is the secret, hidden, responsive part of every one of us. That's why the Taoists say the deepest Tao is Yin." Diane Morgan from her excellent book Magical Tarot, Mystical Tao
"If I tell you the answer I'll cheat you of a learning experience." Some Zen master somewhere
"Some look at things that are and ask 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and ask 'Why not?' " George Bernard Shaw
"You really must be careful, you're in grave danger of becoming rich." from the movie Wilde
"Like the sharp edge of a razor is that path, so the wise say - hard to tread and difficult to cross." from the Katha Upanishad
"Memories are the only true real estate." Vladamir Nabakov
"Writing is like exorcism." from the movie Behind the Lines
"To thine own self be true." Shakespeare
"Give light and the darkness will disappear of itself." Erasmus
"Wisdom, however, is a curious being. She doesn't reside in one mind, in one time, or in one place. She's capricious, whimsical, and full of humor. She's freakish. Sometimes she hides so deeply that only years of serious study can ferret her out. At other times, she appears unbidden, like a wayward child, when you least expect her. Sometimes you glimpse her from far off, shining in the stars. In more domestic moods, she reposes in a card layout on your kitchen table, in a swirl of water, in your daughter's eyes. Sometimes she vanishes altogether, and makes you curse the day you sought her out. She may reappear, however, an hour later, in the chance remark of your next-door neighbor. She doesn't prefer one people, one climate, or one direction to another." Diane Morgan from her excellent book Magical Tarot, Mystical Tao
"You can often measure a person by the size of his dreams." Robert Schuller
"We all need love but which of us can give it?" from the movie Wilde
"Every great story involves death." Ernest Hemingway
"It's not whether there is anything wrong it's whether or not there appears to be, that's all people care about." from the movie Wilde
"You're an artist, artists are always children at heart." from the movie Wilde
"And I want beauty in my life. I have seen beauty in a sunset and in the spring woods and in the eyes of divers women, but now these happy accidents of light and color no longer thrill me. And I want beauty in my life itself, rather than in such chances as befall it." James Cabell
"It's not exciting if the end is known." Anonymous
"There is a difference between the ego and the self. When the self seeks power it is always power from within, never power over others...and the goal of everyone is to be empowered with knowledge and self-esteem." Laurie Cabot from her excellent book Power of the Witch
"Since Taoism understands the world as a duality, in Yin and Yang, it shouldn't come as a surprise that we can think about the Tao in two different ways - a Yang way and a Yin way. The Yang Tao is the Manifest Tao, the Tao-that-can-be-spoken. It characterizes the whole world of becoming. Day and night, male and female, sund and moon are all features of the Manifest Tao, the visible, pulsating, ever-changing, glorious, miraculous world we live in. But there's another deeper Tao. This is the Unmanifest Tao, the deep Yin Tao beneath what we see and know, the Tao-that-cannot-be-spoken. The distinction between the Manifest and the Unmanifest Tao is so crucial to understanding Taoism that it comprises the very first chapter of the Tao Te Ching (q.v.)." Diane Morgan from her excellent book Magical Tarot, Mystical Tao
"The fool tries to control his mind. How can he ever succeed? Mastery always comes naturally to the man who is wise and who loves himself." from the Ashtavakra Gita
"Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything. Let come what comes, and accomodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens. Don't fight with what you experience, just observe it mindfully." Bhante Hemepola Gunaratana
"Mysticism is the basis of all true science and the person who can no longer stand rapt in awe is as good as dead." Albert Einstein
"Absolutely every government regulations is enforced by violence. If you've never seen the violence, it's because you've been careful, obedient, or lucky. Would regulations still be obeyed if the police, courts, and jails were dissolved?" Harry Browne
"Governments don't rule; they overrule." Harry Browne
Slowdance
"Have you ever watched kids on a merry go round
Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last
Do you run through each day on the fly?
When you ask how are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done, do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last
Ever told your child
We'll do it tomorrow
And in your haste, not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch
Let a good friendship die
'Cause you never had time to call and say Hi?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift thrown away
Life is not a race
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over."
Anonymous
"The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is motivated, discipline will take care of itself." Alexander Patterson
"The secret of motiviation is willpower and action. Emotion has nothing to do with it. In fact, emotions usually keep us unmotivated." Anonymous
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