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Your Favorite Quotes..............

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John Lily
Our only security is our ability to change
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Malcolm X
A mind is a terrible thing to waste
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Alexander Shulgin
“How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.”
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Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
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Jane Goodall
Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.
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Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
In actual laboratory experiments monkeys were forced to choose between electro-shocking other monkeys and doing without food themselves. Almost all of the monkeys went hungry for up to two weeks rather than shock others. These macaques, who have never gone to Sunday school, never heard of the Ten Commandments, never squirmed through a single junior high school civics lesson, seem courageous in their moral grounding and their resistance to evil. If the situation were reversed, and captive humans were offered the same deal by macaque scientists, would we do as well?"
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Albert Einstein
"Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty"
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Mahatma Gandhi
"Each of us must be the change agent we want to see in the world."
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Jill Robinson
"For too long we have let the animals down through ignoring their individuality and mercilessly exploiting them. It is our duty, as people who care, to help turn the tide."
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Albert Hoffman
"Of greatest significance to me has been the insight that I attained as a fundamental understanding from all of my LSD experiments: what one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous—that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego. One can also arrive at this insight through scientific reflections. The problem of reality is and has been from time immemorial a central concern of philosophy. It is, however, a fundamental distinction, whether one approaches the problem of reality rationally, with the logical methods of philosophy, or if one obtrudes upon this problem emotionally, through an existential experience. The first planned LSD experiment was therefore so deeply moving and alarming, because everyday reality and the ego experiencing it, which I had until then considered to be the only reality, dissolved, and an unfamiliar ego experienced another, unfamiliar reality. The problem concerning the innermost self also appeared, which, itself unmoved, was able to record these external and internal transformations. Reality is inconceivable without an experiencing subject, without an ego. It is the product of the exterior world, of the sender and of a receiver, an ego in whose deepest self the emanations of the exterior world, registered by the antennae of the sense organs, become conscious. If one of the two is lacking, no reality happens, no radio music plays, the picture screen remains blank."
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There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock people so tiredmutilated
either by love or no love.

People just are not good to each other
one on one. The rich are not good to the rich
The poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

Our educational system tells us
that we can all bebig-ass winners it hasn't told us
about the guttersor the suicides. or the terror of one person
aching in one place alone

untouched
unspoken to

-Charles Bukowski
 
^LOL I'm pretty sure if you go back a couple decades, that 10 year old was me. Stamped foot and all :D

herbavore said:
"We live on a beautiful planet"

Tyler McGeorge, age 5, on his way to his first day of kindergarten.
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This makes me smile and I love that you remember it. I love kids and the things they say. :) <3
 
Just when you think it can’t get no better then it does
Well it’s always so much better than it ever was
It seems like all the good things come at once, yes they do
Just when you think it can’t get no better then it does

John Hartford
 
herbavore said:
"We live on a beautiful planet"

Tyler McGeorge, age 5, on his way to his first day of kindergarten.
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That is absolutely true, but it can be nearly impossible to see or believe it when there is so much pain and darkness in the world.




TheStarOnIR said:
There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock people so tiredmutilated
either by love or no love.

People just are not good to each other
one on one. The rich are not good to the rich
The poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

Our educational system tells us
that we can all bebig-ass winners it hasn't told us
about the guttersor the suicides. or the terror of one person
aching in one place alone

untouched
unspoken to

-Charles Bukowski
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That is true in large part, but not everyone is like that. If everyone did what they felt was right (which in many cases they want to do but either don't know how or are afraid of being labeled weak) the world would seem much less like that, I think. If humanity does not self destruct, I think the time will come when most people are good to one another, regardless of class or other things that can be used to separate one grouo from others. I believe when that time comes, we will also see that non-human animals share much or maybe all (in at least some cases) of the same emotions as we do - even if in a somewhat different form or style.
 
"The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." (John three:eight)

Found this quote from the Bible on a Buddhist site this morning.;)
 
"Hello dad"
Said to me by my 19 year old son that I hadn't seen since he was 4 months old.
Best words I have ever had spoken to me.
 
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