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MikaelYosef
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Hi folks,
I've been doing a fair bit of reading but not a lot of posting. One think which struck me was the signatures from forum members, a number of which are personal or quotes from others containing wise words. With the awareness that my contributions are minimal, I decided to compile a list of signatures of forum members below which are broken down by the number of posts they've made - greater than or equal to 5000; greater than or equal to 1000; greater than or equal to 500.
The list was compiled with the intention of having a number of short inspiring phrases to ponder on occasion, but I also thought I'd share the list for everyone seeing as it might be useful for others too.
Sorry if I've missed anyone's signature and moderators please move this to the appropriate section if this is not the correct one. Thank you :)
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He who learns must suffer
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
And in our own despair, against our will,
Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Agamemnon, Aeschylus
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Every time you say "yes" to someone who doesn't deserve it, and go against Yourself and what you value the most, you kill a small part of your essence. LKJ
One should also keep in mind that when you interfere in the "lesson plan" of another by trying to rescue them, you very often take their karma or lessons on yourself. That is, when you try to stop bullets for someone else, YOU are the one who gets shot. LKJ
The secret to good relations (when they are close or wanted to be close) is to explain, explain and explain some more. Communication is key. Ark J.
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"To love you must know. And to know is to have light. And to have light is to love. And to have knowledge is to love."
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"[...]Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.[...]" ~ W.H. Murray
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Every time you say "yes" to someone who doesn't deserve it, and go against Yourself and what you value the most, you kill a small part of your essence. ~ LKJ
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
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"This is not a typical chat or debate forum. It is a research forum and the members voluntarily engage in specific activities, in specific ways for specific purposes."
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It seems, from all the studies that are done, that an elevated mood - one of happy expectation of the possibility of adventure - is the greatest protection against illness. Perhaps it is also the one that makes one "inedible" to the Matrix? –Laura
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"Giving birth and nourishing,
Bearing yet not possessing,
Working yet not taking credit,
Leading yet not dominating,
This is the Primal Virtue."
- Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching (10)
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"When you begin to separate limiting emotions based on assumptions from emotions that open one to unlimited possibilities, that means you are preparing for the next density."
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"All there is is Lessons." "Knowledge Protects, Ignorance Endangers." - Cassiopaeans
I can think of this network-group as a second, adopted family. I can think of Laura and Ark as the "parents" of this rather large family with all our amusing foibles. Occasionally there will be a "falling out;" a certain member may leave the family. But life goes on... and we all continue learning our lessons.
All for One & One for All. Together we stand, divided we fall.
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"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'" — 1984 - pg 32
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Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
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"When something goes wrong, take it as an adventure." Laura
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The predators give us their mind, which becomes our mind. The predators' mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now. -Castaneda
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. -1 Corinthians 13:1–13
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Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. G. I. Gurdjieff
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Creation never ceases, and we can participate in it through something greater than we are, greater than the whole group. -J.G. Bennett
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You are going on [...] an 'inner-world journey' like a high mountain climb where you must be roped together for safety, where each must think of others on the rope, all for one and one for all. You must help each other as 'hand washes hand', each contributing to the company according to her lights, according to her means. Only faithful hard work on yourselves will get you where I want you to go, not your wishing ~ Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope
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A true hero needs no name only compassion and courage
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"the slipper must awaken"
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"There are things and aims and goals available to us, that we do not dream of even in our most courageous dreams."
I mean personal goals here. Often we are afraid to set an aim for ourselves because, in the moment, we cannot
imagine a way to reach it. I think that is a mistake. Let us set goals for ourselves, and no matter how ambitious they are, let us trust that sooner or later, if we persevere, the path itself will emerge. Ark – February 2012
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"When the passions of the past blend with the prejudices of the present, human reality is reduced to a picture of black and white."
Marc Bloch, 'The Historian's Craft'
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Never ask unless you want an answer.
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...A question not asked leads to a problem unresolved... - The C's, 2/12/97
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"Ouspensky wrote that theoretically, a man could awaken. But in practice this is almost impossible. As soon as a man awakens for a moment and opens his eyes, all the forces that caused him to fall asleep in the first place begin to act on him with tenfold energy. He immediately falls asleep again, very often dreaming that he is awake." - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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"It is important for us all to remember that our goal in this life is not to be become 'super' men or women, but to relearn how to become normally functioning human beings."
— Perceval
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
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'You literally possess within your consciousness profile all the power that exists within all of creation!?! ... All you need to do is learn how to use it, ... (C's)
'... a challenge that provokes fearful resistance in me is the one that I most need to take.' (PepperFritz)
'learning is fun' (C's)
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“At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.”
― Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
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"We will do almost anything to conceal from ourselves the sad fact that we are mere gnats buzzing around a cosmic dung heap." -John Keel, The Eighth Tower-
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esse conscious
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"Mrs. Peel, we're needed!" - Steed
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Must not sleep, Clowns will Eat Me.
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Evolution is the result of conscious struggle. - Gurdjieff
Real understanding in spiritual matters is the result of much bitter fighting, of suffering, spiritual agony and soul passion... Woe to him who wants to put himself on a level with the Creator and escape fighting! - T Illion
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Keepin'it fresh with G.I.Gurdjieff
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Cs: It is not where you are, but who you are, and what you SEE!
Grandma: “Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see”
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. – Gurdjieff
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“In the life of warriors it was extremely natural to be sad for no overt reason. Whenever the boundaries of the known are broken, a mere glimpse of the eternity outside is enough to disrupt the coziness of our controlled awareness. The best way to get rid of melancholy is to make fun of it.”(carlos)
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When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose
The Rose.
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It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Julius Caesar
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**Humans, members of one great whole,
In creation, one essence, one great soul,
When a single member’s afflicted by pain,
Renders with pain other members to turn,
You, with no compassion for the hurt soul
Can’t claim self human in part or in whole** - Saadi Shirazi
**This wheel of the universe that disconserts us
We imagine it as a revolving lantern
Consider the sun its flame, the Universe the lantern
And we are like images passing within it.** -Omar Khayyam
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Between the idea And the reality
Between the motion And the act
Falls the Shadow
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What should we have ready at hand in difficult situations?
Simply the knowledge of what is under my control and what is not.
I have to die
Do I also have to die groaning?
I have to go into exile
Does anyone prevent me from going with a smile, cheerful and serene?
Tell your secrets.
I refuse, because that is up to me.
Then I will fetter you.
What do you mean, fellow? Fetter me? You can fetter my leg, but not even Zeus can overcome my volition.
Epictetus
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The only thing that seems to offer a way out is simply to observe the phenomena and compare the perceptions with a lot of other folks and try to narrow down the "constant" that is present in all of them. In this way, we can have a closer idea of what the Third Man REALLY is, and what he is REALLY doing, and what then, should be our best response. And, of course, "observing phenomena" means, in its most literal sense, to gain and gather knowledge of every form and sort so that one has a sufficient database from which to draw conclusions about observations of one's environment.
Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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"The Way is basically taking up your cross, bearing it under trials and tribulations, and getting crucified. Just understand that these are metaphors though the pain and suffering is very real." -- Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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"Thinking is my fighting." (Virginia Woolf)
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He who goes slow goes far.
Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff
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Reality is under no obligation to conform to our beliefs.
Endymion
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Ignorance is not a capital crime. It is a correctable condition.
Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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"God is always in motion and constantly in action"
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"We must look at what we are seeking to nourish, and by the exercise of our thoughts seek for the proper aliment." ~ I Ching
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I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep mine eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows. I will persist until I succeed
Og Mandino
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My wish to BE is a cosmic wish, and my being needs to situate itself in a world of forces. There is a cosmic need for the new being that I could become. Jeanne De Salzmann
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"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali
The reward for learning the lesson is learning the lesson.
Karma's a bitch only if you are . . . . . . .
"War, under any circumstance, is not a 'core value' of humanity; in fact, it is the ultimate failure of humanity." - Cindy Sheehan
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"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood" - Marie Curie
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Lies squeeze you empty and fill you with themselves.
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"Men... have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence."
"Indeed, there is nothing super-natural in nature. There is only the unknown: but what was unknown yesterday becomes the truth of tomorrow”.
— Camille Flammarion
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"And so, let me repeat: who wants to believe - let them believe. But I do not want to believe, I want to know."
(An old philosopher in "The lost future" by K. Borun and A. Trepka, SF novel - in Polish)
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"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue." - Anonymous
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C's Groups of people represent energy portals in cosmic rather than global terms. Light warriors are "connectors"
on a cosmic level. Transducers of energy of transitions of your sector of space and time rather like capacitors. Now, all of you have value far beyond your own understanding to this point. It would be wise to remember this and be cautious. Go from this point with joy in the knowledge and ...defend it. Session: 020731
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Use the present to repair the past, and prepare the future- G
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Galadriel: Mithrandir, why the halfling?
Gandalf: I do not know. Saruman believes that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps it is because I am afraid and he gives me courage.
- The Hobbit
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If we only knew what illusion is, we would then know the opposite: what truth is. This truth would liberate us from slavery – Mouravieff
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So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. -Mullah Nasr Eddin: Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson.
No matter who gets elected, Government always gets in.
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We have told you that you must learn in order to make progress as souls, this does not happen any faster than your abilities to absorb and process!!!
- You absolutely have all that exists, ever has, or ever will, contained within your mind. All you have to do is learn how to use it –
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C's: At some point there will be those among your group who will step forward and accept the mantle of teacher. Your role as teachers of teachers is one that may produce the balancing energy needed for the STO harvest to be plentiful indeed. Perhaps you should relax and not be afraid of the child you have borne taking its first step out in the world. There are many teachers in your group. Each of them will awaken to their mission destiny profile as appropriate. June 22, 2002
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For to know our past we may conjecture about our future. and to know our future is to be able to divine our purpose in a cosmic sense. And having done that, our priorities may be ordered accordingly so that we will no longer groan under the weight of feeling cast adrift in an uncaring & hostile universe - orphans of the cosmos - playthings of the gods. -- Laura Knight-Jadczyk The Noah Syndrome
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"The world is run by insane people for insane objectives." - John Lennon
"Once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you." - John Lennon
"I still think All You Need is Love, but I don't think that just saying it is gonna do it." - John Lennon
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Wisdom is as the flower from which the bee its honey makes and the spider poison, each according to its own nature.
The Kabbalah
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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge! Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
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"A man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country, but only life to be lived, and under these circumstances his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly". - Don Juan
-The only thing I know for sure is that I don't know anything for sure
-We were all newbies at one point; being ignorant is not a capital crime, it is a correctable condition. –Laura
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about languages or ideas - even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense. – Rumi
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stuck in the middle of nowhere actually might mean: BEing Now Here
everything is thinkable - much is possible - little is probable - only one thing at a time can really happen
yesterday is history - tomorrow is a mystery - today is a gift - that's why it's called 'present'
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. Albert Einstein
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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“Faith is an openness and trusting attitude to truth and reality, whatever it may turn out to be. This is a risky and adventurous state of mind. Belief in the religious sense, is the opposite of faith - because it is a fervent wishing or hope, a compulsive clinging to the idea that the universe is arranged and governed in such and such a way. Belief is holding to a rock; faith is learning how to swim - and this whole universe swims in boundless space.” ~ Alan Watts
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"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery--none but ourselves can free our minds . . ." Bob Marley
“If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. . . .”
(from Howard Zinn’s "A Peoples’ History of the United States")
“Out beyond ideas of who is right or wrong, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” Rumi
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My religion is Truth and my philosophy is One. All there is is lessons. Knowledge protects, ignorance endangers. Know yourself, be yourself, look and listen. The anwsers are everywhere. It's up to you to look at them or to ignore them.
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
- Kahlil Gibran
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While we all might like to think we can transform our world by praying and/or thinking positively, we must remember that there is a great deal of evidence that real transformations of the planet have repeatedly been cataclysmic. A philosophy which ignores this fact is courting disaster.
LKJ
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Sit down before fact as a little child,
be prepared to give up every preconceived notion,
follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, Or you shall learn nothing.
T H Huxley
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"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists."
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A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it. - Don Juan
My advice to you is to get it right this time, because this time, is all you have. - Prot
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
SOPHOCLES, Ajax
"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
— Socrates
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"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand." Mark Twain
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"Fall seven times, stand up eight." -Japanese Proverb
"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner." -English Proverb
"It is better to know your own faults than those of your neighbor." -African Proverb
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Everything responsible for our "human existence" is due to an anonymous multitude of others who lived before us, whose achievements have been bestowed upon us as gifts.
-H. Hass (quoted in 'In an Unspoken Voice' by Peter Levine)
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"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." - W.H. Murray (usually attributed to Goethe).
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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
-Mencius
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." Albert Einstein
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Willing is not enough; we must do. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
-- Bruce Lee
I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and gentle as doves. --Mt. 10:16
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There is no positivity without negativity - The C's
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"if anything is anything, then everything is everything." -miyamoto musashi
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
G. I. Gurdjieff
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
-Sun Tzu
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
-Miyamoto Musashi
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"We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill." - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of Liberty quits the horizon." – Thomas Paine
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"What are you doing to make yourself valuable to the Universe and ITS intentions? " - Laura knight Jadczyk
"I saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." Michelangelo
"All there is is Lessons." "Knowledge Protects, Ignorance Endangers." - Cassiopaeans
"You only live once,
but if you do it right,
once is enough."
- Mae West
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Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices. - Carl Jung
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"Political language [...] is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." (George Orwell)
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"Understanding is the essence of which is derived from information intentionally learned and experiences of self. "
Father Giovanni
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--= constant learning =--
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It's not about where you are from, it's where you are going.
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Unless thunder strikes - a man won't cross himself.
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I always appreciate a mirror.
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I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time [...] General facts may indeed be collected from them [...] but no details can be relied on. He who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false. [Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Norvell, 1807]
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"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Looking up at skies on fire, Leaving nothing left of us
To discover... And the stars still laugh and cry and shine
S. Nicks (Planets of the Universe & Blue Lamp)
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"To work on yourself for the good of others is a smart way to receive the best from life for yourself." - Gurdjieff
"Discerning the predator's mind in ourselves and others and refusing to be its food is the all-important task of work on the self. It is, in fact, the path to enlightenment. If we cannot accomplish this, we cannot achieve sufficient awareness to be able to even see the next step on the journey." - LKJ
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Indeed, there is very little point in pursuing esoteric or philosophical discussions unless and until you have at least some mastery of how your machine works and how you lie to yourself all day, every day.
Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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"Without self knowledge,without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free,he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave."
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible,whatever remains,however improbable,must be the truth."
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"The Earth is the Great Mother who gives her body, literally, in the form of creatures with a certain level of consciousness for the sustenance of her children of the cosmos" (Cassiopaeans)
“One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.”
“The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted”
“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man”
(Diogenes the Cynic)
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Were you born all-knowing or did you go through being an idiot first?
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The more you know; the more you know that you don’t know.
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Better to be a tiger for a day, than a sheep for a lifetime. - Chinese Proverb
And I say: "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?" - Frank Herbert
The only reason to be a warrior is to fight, the only reason to fight is to win, if you aren't here to win, then why be a warrior, it is easier to count beads. - Miyamoto Musashi
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"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain
"Doubt is the beginning of wisdom." Aristote
"The favorable winds are only for those who know where they go." Seneque
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Men use thoughts only to justify their injustices,
and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
-Voltaire
God is not nice. He is not an uncle.
He is an earthquake.
-Jacob Needleman quoting Abraham Heschel
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Don't hurt others protect yourself
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“And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors." -Nietzsche
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Luminescence breeds in your finest moments of desperation.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? - T.S. Eliot
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The Road is long with so many stones!!!
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"The struggle with small habits is very difficult and boring, but without it self observation is impossible." -Gurdjieff in In Search of The Miraculous
"When you have a team that is motivated, works well together and exhibits complementary skills you drastically improve the collective output." –Belibaste
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"Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words." - G I Gurdjieff
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Purify self.
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The way out is the way through.
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"Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of the body depends only on type and polarity.
Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feeling is slavery
Hope of body is disease." Gurdjieff.
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Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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"If you think you are so enlightened, go and spend a week with your parents." - Ram Dass
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You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?
Neo: Because I choose to.
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"Where is there any limitation in the concept behind the word "knowledge"? Being that there is no limitation, what is the value of that word? Infinite. Can you conceive of how that one concept, that one meaning, frees you from all limitation?" — The C's
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People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and continue on as if nothing happened.
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Every day I destroy countless lives to fuel my own; I must heal myself for their sake.
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“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
-JFK
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“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.”
George Gurdjieff.
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes -- Marcel Proust
Meditation is not an escape from life, but preparation for really being in life -- Thich Nhat Hanh
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“One person can make a difference and every person should try.” John F. Kennedy
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Will put something here when I became clever enough!
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"Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge, because the art of a warrior is to balance the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man." Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan's Teachings
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"Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way. And then sin is what stops a man, helps him to deceive himself & to think he is working when he is simply asleep. Sin is what puts a man to sleep when he has already decided to awaken. And what puts a man to sleep? Again everything that is unnecessary, everything that is not indispensable. THE INDESPENSABLE IS ALWAYS PERMITTED. BUT BEYOND THIS HYPNOSIS BEGINS AT ONCE." - G. I. Gurdjieff
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the growing force..
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It is very easy in the world, to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished person, is he who in the midst of the crowd, keeps with the perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In order to practice controlled folly, since it is not a way to fool or chastise people or feel superior to them, one has to be capable of laughing at oneself. One of the results of a detailed recapitulation is genuine laughter upon coming face to face with the boring repetition of one's self-esteem, which is at the core of all human interactions.
--Don Juan The Eagle's Gift
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I've been doing a fair bit of reading but not a lot of posting. One think which struck me was the signatures from forum members, a number of which are personal or quotes from others containing wise words. With the awareness that my contributions are minimal, I decided to compile a list of signatures of forum members below which are broken down by the number of posts they've made - greater than or equal to 5000; greater than or equal to 1000; greater than or equal to 500.
The list was compiled with the intention of having a number of short inspiring phrases to ponder on occasion, but I also thought I'd share the list for everyone seeing as it might be useful for others too.
Sorry if I've missed anyone's signature and moderators please move this to the appropriate section if this is not the correct one. Thank you :)
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He who learns must suffer
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
And in our own despair, against our will,
Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Agamemnon, Aeschylus
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Every time you say "yes" to someone who doesn't deserve it, and go against Yourself and what you value the most, you kill a small part of your essence. LKJ
One should also keep in mind that when you interfere in the "lesson plan" of another by trying to rescue them, you very often take their karma or lessons on yourself. That is, when you try to stop bullets for someone else, YOU are the one who gets shot. LKJ
The secret to good relations (when they are close or wanted to be close) is to explain, explain and explain some more. Communication is key. Ark J.
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"To love you must know. And to know is to have light. And to have light is to love. And to have knowledge is to love."
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"[...]Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.[...]" ~ W.H. Murray
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Every time you say "yes" to someone who doesn't deserve it, and go against Yourself and what you value the most, you kill a small part of your essence. ~ LKJ
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
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"This is not a typical chat or debate forum. It is a research forum and the members voluntarily engage in specific activities, in specific ways for specific purposes."
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It seems, from all the studies that are done, that an elevated mood - one of happy expectation of the possibility of adventure - is the greatest protection against illness. Perhaps it is also the one that makes one "inedible" to the Matrix? –Laura
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"Giving birth and nourishing,
Bearing yet not possessing,
Working yet not taking credit,
Leading yet not dominating,
This is the Primal Virtue."
- Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching (10)
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"When you begin to separate limiting emotions based on assumptions from emotions that open one to unlimited possibilities, that means you are preparing for the next density."
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"All there is is Lessons." "Knowledge Protects, Ignorance Endangers." - Cassiopaeans
I can think of this network-group as a second, adopted family. I can think of Laura and Ark as the "parents" of this rather large family with all our amusing foibles. Occasionally there will be a "falling out;" a certain member may leave the family. But life goes on... and we all continue learning our lessons.
All for One & One for All. Together we stand, divided we fall.
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"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'" — 1984 - pg 32
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Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
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"When something goes wrong, take it as an adventure." Laura
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The predators give us their mind, which becomes our mind. The predators' mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now. -Castaneda
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. -1 Corinthians 13:1–13
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Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. G. I. Gurdjieff
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Creation never ceases, and we can participate in it through something greater than we are, greater than the whole group. -J.G. Bennett
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You are going on [...] an 'inner-world journey' like a high mountain climb where you must be roped together for safety, where each must think of others on the rope, all for one and one for all. You must help each other as 'hand washes hand', each contributing to the company according to her lights, according to her means. Only faithful hard work on yourselves will get you where I want you to go, not your wishing ~ Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope
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A true hero needs no name only compassion and courage
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"the slipper must awaken"
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"There are things and aims and goals available to us, that we do not dream of even in our most courageous dreams."
I mean personal goals here. Often we are afraid to set an aim for ourselves because, in the moment, we cannot
imagine a way to reach it. I think that is a mistake. Let us set goals for ourselves, and no matter how ambitious they are, let us trust that sooner or later, if we persevere, the path itself will emerge. Ark – February 2012
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"When the passions of the past blend with the prejudices of the present, human reality is reduced to a picture of black and white."
Marc Bloch, 'The Historian's Craft'
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Never ask unless you want an answer.
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...A question not asked leads to a problem unresolved... - The C's, 2/12/97
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"Ouspensky wrote that theoretically, a man could awaken. But in practice this is almost impossible. As soon as a man awakens for a moment and opens his eyes, all the forces that caused him to fall asleep in the first place begin to act on him with tenfold energy. He immediately falls asleep again, very often dreaming that he is awake." - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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"It is important for us all to remember that our goal in this life is not to be become 'super' men or women, but to relearn how to become normally functioning human beings."
— Perceval
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
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'You literally possess within your consciousness profile all the power that exists within all of creation!?! ... All you need to do is learn how to use it, ... (C's)
'... a challenge that provokes fearful resistance in me is the one that I most need to take.' (PepperFritz)
'learning is fun' (C's)
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“At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.”
― Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
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"We will do almost anything to conceal from ourselves the sad fact that we are mere gnats buzzing around a cosmic dung heap." -John Keel, The Eighth Tower-
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esse conscious
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"Mrs. Peel, we're needed!" - Steed
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Must not sleep, Clowns will Eat Me.
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Evolution is the result of conscious struggle. - Gurdjieff
Real understanding in spiritual matters is the result of much bitter fighting, of suffering, spiritual agony and soul passion... Woe to him who wants to put himself on a level with the Creator and escape fighting! - T Illion
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Keepin'it fresh with G.I.Gurdjieff
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Cs: It is not where you are, but who you are, and what you SEE!
Grandma: “Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see”
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. – Gurdjieff
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“In the life of warriors it was extremely natural to be sad for no overt reason. Whenever the boundaries of the known are broken, a mere glimpse of the eternity outside is enough to disrupt the coziness of our controlled awareness. The best way to get rid of melancholy is to make fun of it.”(carlos)
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When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose
The Rose.
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It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Julius Caesar
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**Humans, members of one great whole,
In creation, one essence, one great soul,
When a single member’s afflicted by pain,
Renders with pain other members to turn,
You, with no compassion for the hurt soul
Can’t claim self human in part or in whole** - Saadi Shirazi
**This wheel of the universe that disconserts us
We imagine it as a revolving lantern
Consider the sun its flame, the Universe the lantern
And we are like images passing within it.** -Omar Khayyam
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Between the idea And the reality
Between the motion And the act
Falls the Shadow
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What should we have ready at hand in difficult situations?
Simply the knowledge of what is under my control and what is not.
I have to die
Do I also have to die groaning?
I have to go into exile
Does anyone prevent me from going with a smile, cheerful and serene?
Tell your secrets.
I refuse, because that is up to me.
Then I will fetter you.
What do you mean, fellow? Fetter me? You can fetter my leg, but not even Zeus can overcome my volition.
Epictetus
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The only thing that seems to offer a way out is simply to observe the phenomena and compare the perceptions with a lot of other folks and try to narrow down the "constant" that is present in all of them. In this way, we can have a closer idea of what the Third Man REALLY is, and what he is REALLY doing, and what then, should be our best response. And, of course, "observing phenomena" means, in its most literal sense, to gain and gather knowledge of every form and sort so that one has a sufficient database from which to draw conclusions about observations of one's environment.
Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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"The Way is basically taking up your cross, bearing it under trials and tribulations, and getting crucified. Just understand that these are metaphors though the pain and suffering is very real." -- Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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"Thinking is my fighting." (Virginia Woolf)
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He who goes slow goes far.
Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff
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Reality is under no obligation to conform to our beliefs.
Endymion
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Ignorance is not a capital crime. It is a correctable condition.
Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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"God is always in motion and constantly in action"
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"We must look at what we are seeking to nourish, and by the exercise of our thoughts seek for the proper aliment." ~ I Ching
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I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep mine eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows. I will persist until I succeed
Og Mandino
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My wish to BE is a cosmic wish, and my being needs to situate itself in a world of forces. There is a cosmic need for the new being that I could become. Jeanne De Salzmann
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"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali
The reward for learning the lesson is learning the lesson.
Karma's a bitch only if you are . . . . . . .
"War, under any circumstance, is not a 'core value' of humanity; in fact, it is the ultimate failure of humanity." - Cindy Sheehan
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"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood" - Marie Curie
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Lies squeeze you empty and fill you with themselves.
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"Men... have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence."
"Indeed, there is nothing super-natural in nature. There is only the unknown: but what was unknown yesterday becomes the truth of tomorrow”.
— Camille Flammarion
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"And so, let me repeat: who wants to believe - let them believe. But I do not want to believe, I want to know."
(An old philosopher in "The lost future" by K. Borun and A. Trepka, SF novel - in Polish)
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"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue." - Anonymous
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C's Groups of people represent energy portals in cosmic rather than global terms. Light warriors are "connectors"
on a cosmic level. Transducers of energy of transitions of your sector of space and time rather like capacitors. Now, all of you have value far beyond your own understanding to this point. It would be wise to remember this and be cautious. Go from this point with joy in the knowledge and ...defend it. Session: 020731
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Use the present to repair the past, and prepare the future- G
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Galadriel: Mithrandir, why the halfling?
Gandalf: I do not know. Saruman believes that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps it is because I am afraid and he gives me courage.
- The Hobbit
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If we only knew what illusion is, we would then know the opposite: what truth is. This truth would liberate us from slavery – Mouravieff
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So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. -Mullah Nasr Eddin: Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson.
No matter who gets elected, Government always gets in.
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We have told you that you must learn in order to make progress as souls, this does not happen any faster than your abilities to absorb and process!!!
- You absolutely have all that exists, ever has, or ever will, contained within your mind. All you have to do is learn how to use it –
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C's: At some point there will be those among your group who will step forward and accept the mantle of teacher. Your role as teachers of teachers is one that may produce the balancing energy needed for the STO harvest to be plentiful indeed. Perhaps you should relax and not be afraid of the child you have borne taking its first step out in the world. There are many teachers in your group. Each of them will awaken to their mission destiny profile as appropriate. June 22, 2002
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For to know our past we may conjecture about our future. and to know our future is to be able to divine our purpose in a cosmic sense. And having done that, our priorities may be ordered accordingly so that we will no longer groan under the weight of feeling cast adrift in an uncaring & hostile universe - orphans of the cosmos - playthings of the gods. -- Laura Knight-Jadczyk The Noah Syndrome
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"The world is run by insane people for insane objectives." - John Lennon
"Once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you." - John Lennon
"I still think All You Need is Love, but I don't think that just saying it is gonna do it." - John Lennon
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Wisdom is as the flower from which the bee its honey makes and the spider poison, each according to its own nature.
The Kabbalah
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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge! Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
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"A man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country, but only life to be lived, and under these circumstances his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly". - Don Juan
-The only thing I know for sure is that I don't know anything for sure
-We were all newbies at one point; being ignorant is not a capital crime, it is a correctable condition. –Laura
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about languages or ideas - even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense. – Rumi
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stuck in the middle of nowhere actually might mean: BEing Now Here
everything is thinkable - much is possible - little is probable - only one thing at a time can really happen
yesterday is history - tomorrow is a mystery - today is a gift - that's why it's called 'present'
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. Albert Einstein
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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“Faith is an openness and trusting attitude to truth and reality, whatever it may turn out to be. This is a risky and adventurous state of mind. Belief in the religious sense, is the opposite of faith - because it is a fervent wishing or hope, a compulsive clinging to the idea that the universe is arranged and governed in such and such a way. Belief is holding to a rock; faith is learning how to swim - and this whole universe swims in boundless space.” ~ Alan Watts
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"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery--none but ourselves can free our minds . . ." Bob Marley
“If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. . . .”
(from Howard Zinn’s "A Peoples’ History of the United States")
“Out beyond ideas of who is right or wrong, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” Rumi
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My religion is Truth and my philosophy is One. All there is is lessons. Knowledge protects, ignorance endangers. Know yourself, be yourself, look and listen. The anwsers are everywhere. It's up to you to look at them or to ignore them.
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
- Kahlil Gibran
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While we all might like to think we can transform our world by praying and/or thinking positively, we must remember that there is a great deal of evidence that real transformations of the planet have repeatedly been cataclysmic. A philosophy which ignores this fact is courting disaster.
LKJ
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Sit down before fact as a little child,
be prepared to give up every preconceived notion,
follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, Or you shall learn nothing.
T H Huxley
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"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists."
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A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it. - Don Juan
My advice to you is to get it right this time, because this time, is all you have. - Prot
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
SOPHOCLES, Ajax
"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
— Socrates
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"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand." Mark Twain
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"Fall seven times, stand up eight." -Japanese Proverb
"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner." -English Proverb
"It is better to know your own faults than those of your neighbor." -African Proverb
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Everything responsible for our "human existence" is due to an anonymous multitude of others who lived before us, whose achievements have been bestowed upon us as gifts.
-H. Hass (quoted in 'In an Unspoken Voice' by Peter Levine)
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"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." - W.H. Murray (usually attributed to Goethe).
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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
-Mencius
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." Albert Einstein
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Willing is not enough; we must do. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
-- Bruce Lee
I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and gentle as doves. --Mt. 10:16
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There is no positivity without negativity - The C's
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"if anything is anything, then everything is everything." -miyamoto musashi
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
G. I. Gurdjieff
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
-Sun Tzu
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
-Miyamoto Musashi
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"We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill." - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of Liberty quits the horizon." – Thomas Paine
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"What are you doing to make yourself valuable to the Universe and ITS intentions? " - Laura knight Jadczyk
"I saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." Michelangelo
"All there is is Lessons." "Knowledge Protects, Ignorance Endangers." - Cassiopaeans
"You only live once,
but if you do it right,
once is enough."
- Mae West
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Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices. - Carl Jung
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"Political language [...] is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." (George Orwell)
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"Understanding is the essence of which is derived from information intentionally learned and experiences of self. "
Father Giovanni
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--= constant learning =--
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It's not about where you are from, it's where you are going.
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Unless thunder strikes - a man won't cross himself.
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I always appreciate a mirror.
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I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time [...] General facts may indeed be collected from them [...] but no details can be relied on. He who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false. [Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Norvell, 1807]
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"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Looking up at skies on fire, Leaving nothing left of us
To discover... And the stars still laugh and cry and shine
S. Nicks (Planets of the Universe & Blue Lamp)
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"To work on yourself for the good of others is a smart way to receive the best from life for yourself." - Gurdjieff
"Discerning the predator's mind in ourselves and others and refusing to be its food is the all-important task of work on the self. It is, in fact, the path to enlightenment. If we cannot accomplish this, we cannot achieve sufficient awareness to be able to even see the next step on the journey." - LKJ
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Indeed, there is very little point in pursuing esoteric or philosophical discussions unless and until you have at least some mastery of how your machine works and how you lie to yourself all day, every day.
Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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"Without self knowledge,without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free,he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave."
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible,whatever remains,however improbable,must be the truth."
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"The Earth is the Great Mother who gives her body, literally, in the form of creatures with a certain level of consciousness for the sustenance of her children of the cosmos" (Cassiopaeans)
“One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.”
“The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted”
“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man”
(Diogenes the Cynic)
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Were you born all-knowing or did you go through being an idiot first?
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The more you know; the more you know that you don’t know.
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Better to be a tiger for a day, than a sheep for a lifetime. - Chinese Proverb
And I say: "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?" - Frank Herbert
The only reason to be a warrior is to fight, the only reason to fight is to win, if you aren't here to win, then why be a warrior, it is easier to count beads. - Miyamoto Musashi
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"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain
"Doubt is the beginning of wisdom." Aristote
"The favorable winds are only for those who know where they go." Seneque
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Men use thoughts only to justify their injustices,
and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
-Voltaire
God is not nice. He is not an uncle.
He is an earthquake.
-Jacob Needleman quoting Abraham Heschel
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Don't hurt others protect yourself
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“And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors." -Nietzsche
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Luminescence breeds in your finest moments of desperation.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? - T.S. Eliot
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The Road is long with so many stones!!!
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"The struggle with small habits is very difficult and boring, but without it self observation is impossible." -Gurdjieff in In Search of The Miraculous
"When you have a team that is motivated, works well together and exhibits complementary skills you drastically improve the collective output." –Belibaste
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"Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words." - G I Gurdjieff
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Purify self.
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The way out is the way through.
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"Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of the body depends only on type and polarity.
Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feeling is slavery
Hope of body is disease." Gurdjieff.
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Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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"If you think you are so enlightened, go and spend a week with your parents." - Ram Dass
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You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?
Neo: Because I choose to.
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"Where is there any limitation in the concept behind the word "knowledge"? Being that there is no limitation, what is the value of that word? Infinite. Can you conceive of how that one concept, that one meaning, frees you from all limitation?" — The C's
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People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and continue on as if nothing happened.
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Every day I destroy countless lives to fuel my own; I must heal myself for their sake.
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“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
-JFK
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“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.”
George Gurdjieff.
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes -- Marcel Proust
Meditation is not an escape from life, but preparation for really being in life -- Thich Nhat Hanh
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“One person can make a difference and every person should try.” John F. Kennedy
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Will put something here when I became clever enough!
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"Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge, because the art of a warrior is to balance the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man." Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan's Teachings
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"Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way. And then sin is what stops a man, helps him to deceive himself & to think he is working when he is simply asleep. Sin is what puts a man to sleep when he has already decided to awaken. And what puts a man to sleep? Again everything that is unnecessary, everything that is not indispensable. THE INDESPENSABLE IS ALWAYS PERMITTED. BUT BEYOND THIS HYPNOSIS BEGINS AT ONCE." - G. I. Gurdjieff
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the growing force..
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It is very easy in the world, to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished person, is he who in the midst of the crowd, keeps with the perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In order to practice controlled folly, since it is not a way to fool or chastise people or feel superior to them, one has to be capable of laughing at oneself. One of the results of a detailed recapitulation is genuine laughter upon coming face to face with the boring repetition of one's self-esteem, which is at the core of all human interactions.
--Don Juan The Eagle's Gift
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