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A Quote Thread....

"In the time of your life, live so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life that your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere and when it is found, bring it out of the hiding place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption.

Encourage virtue and whatever heart it may have driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of this world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart. Be the inferior to no man, nor of any man be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself, no man's guilt is yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil, these understand.

Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your life, live so that, in that wonderous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it." - William Saroyan

And here's MF Doom reading it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCg0JiVXFLY :D
 
Great joy does not gather the rosebuds while it may; its eyes are fixed on the immortal rose which Dante saw.
-G.K. Chesterton
 
Fight for your own forgiveness and to help others forgive. Because the pain consumes you or them no matter what unless you let it go. Or at least become at peace with it yourself and the others that have hurt you.
 
Is this thread supposed to closed or open? It says closed by DD, although it is still allowing posts in the thread. Am I tripping or is that weird?
 
To govern yourself
Is more valuable than a thousand gold coins
In an instant, security or danger
Depends on how you direct your mind

Dao and Virtue rest within a tranquil mind
There is strategy even within the
turning of a hand

Sang-joh-nim
 
"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."

“I am going to be a storm-a flame, I need to fight whole armies alone. I have ten hearts. I have one hundred arms. I feel too strong to war with mortals. Bring me giants"
I feel too strong to war with mortals

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. "

"When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? It is because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. "

"If you understand everything, you must be misinformed."

Haha, I could go on all day, I love quotes!!

Much love all..
 
the richest man is not the one who owns the most but the one who needs the least - psy trance festival ^^ :)

(may have quoted that before)
 
"Fortunate the man who, at the right moment, meets the right friend; fortunate also the man who at the right moment meets the right enemy" T.S. Elliot


“the most dangerous, antisocial, and addictive drugs I've ever taken-the ones I'm afraid to touch in any quantity today-are legal. “John Perry Barlow
 
"The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest, as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart.

… We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

<3
 
He was undoubtedly influenced by that line of thought, although I'm not aware of any direct references to the Hermetics. He certainly followed in the gnostic tradition as a "disciple of his own mind," and after leaving the unitarian church, it becomes clear that his most profound influences are those of the esoteric variety.

Here is another incredibly rich Emerson quotation from Nature:

"Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear I think how glad I am. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and a sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God."​
Mind-opening Interpretation


Edit: I may have spoken too soon. Check out the link below.

"His attention to science, energized by his other reading in the great hermetic thinkers (Bruno, Boehme, Swedenborg) and in Romantic writers (Goethe and Coleridge), constituted his literary apprenticeship. ... In conducting the invisible, ubiquitous forces of nature into texts meant to reveal the grandeur of the cosmos, Romantic poets inaugurated a revival of the universal science dreamed of by the hermetic alchemists of the Renaissance, those equally ambitious experimenters who toiled in their smoky laboratories toward a universal synthesis of science, art, and religion. ... Emerson, in his scientific and religious quest for unity in nature and art, is firmly in this tradition of 'Romantic science', what might well be called a 'new hermeticism'."

Emerson's Sublime Science
 
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He who praises art and science emphasizes the cleavage between the talented and untalented among men. But he who praises love equalizes all, not in a common poverty or a common mediocrity, but in the community of the highest."
-S.Kierkegaard
 
^ Wow. That one really resonated with me. I definitely hold compassion (love) as the highest of values, and definitely see truth (science) and beauty (art) as subordinate. But these latter two are pretty close seconds, and I can't deny their importance too. Still, I find I don't see 100% eye to eye with people who put either truth or beauty atop their list of values and life goals (above compassion), even though I respect, and see some merit in, these ways.
 
swilow said:
Well, the quote is actually from the Bhagavad Gita, but it was said after the first Trinity tests. "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds....."
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and its actually a slight translation error, not metaphysically upsetting. in a correct translation of the Bagavad Gita (Chapter 11 Verse 32; the reply of Vishnu when Arjuna asks him who he, the Supreme Being, is; what is his mission?) it would be: "Now i am Time, the destroyer of worlds, and i come to engage all people."
 
He who praises art and science emphasizes the cleavage between the talented and untalented among men. But he who praises love equalizes all, not in a common poverty or a common mediocrity, but in the community of the highest."
-S.Kierkegaard
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if the first one emphasizes the cleavage between the talented and untalented, then you must be thinking about the art and science some humans are able to produce or understand

then, you'd have to compare it to love that some humans are able to provide

and there, humans are far from equal

some have love for everything
some have only love for themselves, their race, their car or whatever
some are pretty devoid of feelings
some have hate for everything


if you talk about someone who praises love in general, then you have to compare him/her to someone who praises art or science without necessarily being good at it himself
 
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