_Demian_ by Herman Hesse I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? I can see that your thoughts are deeper than you yourself are able to express. But since this is so, you know, don't you, that you've never lived what you are thinking and that isn't good. Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value. You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world and you tried to suppress the second half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think. * There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves. * You can achieve anything you desire passionately enough. * If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. You can be happy that way. But once you know the other interpretation you no longer have the choice of following the crowd. The majority's path is an easy one, ours is difficult. False communion everywhere, everywhere shedding the responsibility of fate, flight to the herd for warmth. We who wore the sign might justly be considered 'odd' by the world: yes, even crazy, and dangerous. We were aware or in the process of becoming aware and our striving was directed toward achieving a more and more complete state of awareness while the striving of the others was a quest aimed at binding their opinions, ideals, duties, their lives and fortunes more and more closely to those of the herd. There, too was striving, there, too, were power and greatness. But whereas we, who were marked, believed that we represented the will of Nature to something new, to the indifidualism of the future, the others sought to perpetuate the status quo. Humanity - which they loved as we did - was for them something complete that must be maintained and protected. For us, humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down. _The Journey to the East_ Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. [first principle] never to rely on and let myself be disconcerted by reason, always to know that faith ist stronger than so-called reality. What person really knows another or even himself? _____________________________________________________________________ I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. -Dr. Suess Please, please don't squish the butterflies. -me Be tough yet gentle, humble yet bold, swayed always by beauty and truth. You must learn to have a good laugh at yourself when you make a mistake. -Archie Fire Lame Deer A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in religion bringeth men's minds about to religion. -Francis Bacon You love what you find time for. The greatest Love is shown when a person lays down his life for his friends. -John 15:13 Now when I talked to God, I knew He'd understand, He said 'stick by me and I'll be your guiding hand ... but don't ask me what I Think of you, I might not give the answer you want me to...' -Velcro If you don't understand my silence, you will not understand my words. That which does not destroy me makes me stronger. -Nietzsche Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. _____________________________________________________________________ _Way of the Peaceful Warrior_ by Dan Millman On some of your weakest physical days, you can learn the most about your mind. The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for. Your business is not to 'get somewhere' - it is to be here. Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will. There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One. And the only law are paradox, humor, and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life, just do your best.... _____________________________________________________________________ The Millennium Book of Prophecy - John Hogue [The Pyramid Prophecies] ...each 'pyramid inch' (approx. one standard inch) running along the ascending passageway's design signifies an important milestone in Adamic history. Most interpreters of pyramid prophecy claim that the final measurement between teh entrance of the chamber and the opposing wall represents the latter days before the end of the world. ...begin a new stage of evolution in consciousness or suffer a global suicide. The entrance of the chamber marks inch 1953. 1953 also marks the death rattle of the Adamic Age. Measuring the final steps of our journey brings us smack into the opposite wall of the King's chamber by September of 2001, when time, as the Egyptian priest knew it, will stop. [Cycles in Time] Berosus (2nd century Astronomer) 25,872 years ends in 200? Egypt - sum of X diagnols of Great Pyramid=25,826.6 so end time between year 2000 and 2100 Persian Mythratic - end of 2000 last Celtic Druid 500 year cycle ends in 2000 Cabalistic - Hermetic school 1000 yrs ends in 2000 Tibetan - after 14th incarnation of Dalai Lama Whell of Dharma - requires new buddha every 2500 years ends in 2000 Great Cosmic Year is 25,970 years ends in 2008 Mayan Calendar 'one of the most accurate calendars ever created, time will run out on us by the year 2012' [The Seven Final Plagues] *dozens of the oldest and most dangerous reactors were designed with a life expectancy ending in the year 1996 * 50/50 chance of a serious nuclear accident occuring in the US during the 90's * These coteries of conditioned labels and limits, once hypnotized, will discard the particular reality that fire burns the flesh and will tip-toe through the brimstone, emerging with little more than a smudge of charcoal. *The power of our unconscious thoughts to affect the world within and around us is perhaps truly the final frontier humans will explore. * They might act as America's tigh-fisted pusher, using its addiction to oil as a political weapon to neutralize America's support of Israel. * 6 trip wires for Armageddon: drought, famine, ethnic hatreds, terrorism, mistaken nuclear weapons launch, and supersystem collapse * They [Israel] have been termed the Chose People, but are they more chosen than those who themselves choose God? -spirit Guide Ruth Montgomery *The resulting smoke [of nuclear fireballs] and debris is hurled into the upper atmosphere and blocks the sun's light for 6 months to 1 year * Looking inward is discovering that it is not that someone hurts my feelings - I am hurting because I purchased and hold on to that hurt feeling *Words by themselves have no life except that which we invest in them * '..what afflicted the people in _Brave New Word_ was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why that had stopped thinking.' *So you will see how absurb is the whole structure that you have built, looking for external help, depending on others for your comfort, for your happiness, for your strength. These can only be found within yourselves. -J. Krishnamurti (1929) * Hell is your fear projected. Heaven is your greed projected. -Osho * [most prophecies] definitely point to a 'man from the East' and India in particular, as a source of a change in world consciousness 'Those who really desire to understand, who are looking to find that which is eternal, without beginning and without an end, will walk together with a greater intensity, will be a danger to everything that is unessential, to unrealities, to shadows. And they will concentrate, they will become the flame, because they understand.' -From the Manifesto _Truth is a Pathless Land_ [Meditation: Therapy for Madhouse Earth] * I do not yet know 'who' I am, but meditation allows me to often see 'how' I am * It is unnatural humans, divided against the self, who judge them. * A natural human being, like the grass, could not dictate or push his or her fragrance on others but would simply be unable to contain it. * ... meditation, the science of self-observation, is the only medicine that can cure the insanity we have become and give us back a future. * I had become my own memorial statue while still living. * "The spiritual revolution can be reduced to a simple maxim: You disappear and let God be." -Osho _____________________________________________________________________ in music one has melody and instruments and lots of other things to hide in, but poetry is naked, against the silence. -Jewel If I were a painter, I'd paint that picture just to see if the girl in the doorway would turn out to be me. -Pam Houston "Cowboys are my Weakness" Is 'happy' the appropriate epithet for someone who experiences each moment as if he were being alternately flayed alive and tickled to death? -Mark Leyner "I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot" The vector of my movement from given point is isotropic - meaning that all possible directions are equally probable. -Mark Leyner "I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot" I hate the empty moment before emotion clarifies itself. -Dale Peck "Fucking Martin" He wasn't trying to recapture his past - merely to validate its existence. -Dale Peck "Fucking Martin" I always find it disturbingly beautiful to watch a white man speak fluent Arabic. -me Don't let a little prick spoil your day. -Kolotex pantihose You sat there with your book looking like you don't know anything, then you come here and clean-up! -drunk bloke at the bar in ChristChurch referring to my pool game Prayer doesn't necessarily change things for you but it changes you for things. -Plaque on Egypt Air desk Clever talk is useless - you only loose yourself in the process. -Herman Hesse ...the Kingdom of God is within you. -Luke 17:21 The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. -Samuel Beckett _Waiting For Godot_ If Eden or Paradise is a symbol for an early state of consciousness, and the expulsion from Eden was a result of eating from the tree of knowledge and gaining a more aware complex sort of consciousness, we might say that we had to leave Eden because we weren't animals anymore. We knew something after w4e bit into that apple that separated us forever from our simple, unselfconscious animal state. -Katherine Houghton "Buddha" 'Funeral Director' 'Family Business?' 'No' 'How then you get involved with that?' 'Persistence, I guess.' 'Why?' 'Fascinating!' 'What about it is so fascinating?' 'Working with dead people!' I always wondered. And there you have it. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me: but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. -John 5:43 If their [Apostles] purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men you will only find yourselves fighting against God. -Acts 5:38 ... while yours would be a single isolated glimpse, the map fits all those different experiences together. ... if you want to go anywhere, the map is absolutely necessary. As long as you are content with walks on the beach, your own glimpses are far more fun than looking at a map. But the map is going to be more use than walks on the beach if you want to get to America. -C.S. Lewis _Mere Christianity_ In fact, that is just why a vague relition -all about feeling God in nature, and so on - is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studing the Atlantic that way, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in flowers or music. Neither will you get anywhere by looking at maps without going to sea. -C.S. Lewis _Mere Christinaity_ In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is 3 persons while remaining one Being; just as a cube is 6 squares while remaining 1 cube. -C.S. Lewis _Mere Christianity_ God inside you [Holy Spirit] seeking God - and finding itself. -Ayn Rand _The Fountainhead_ It's something made me very sick once, but then it turned out it made no difference at all in the long run. -Ayn Rand If you're first concern is for what you are or think or feel or have or haven't got - you're still a common egotist. -Ayn rand love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. -Ayn Rand ...he's too selfish. In what act or thought of his has there ever been a self? What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other people's eyes. A self-sufficient ego. -Ayn Rand A journey like this suggests some kind of personal transformation, but I am not sure that people really change in their basic character. It is probably true that they simply become more intensely themselves. -Elizabeth Bumiller _May You Be The Mother Of 10,000 Sons_ ...selfhood begins with a walking away and love is proved in the letting go. -C. Day Lewis _Walking Away_ And as things have been, things remain. -Arthur Hugh Clough It's good to suffer... For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy. 'Ahmen' 3 letters 'Ah' one, 'm' Father 30th generation = Christ 'nu' 50 years = Resurrection=Holy Spirit Matches 1-25 of exactly 22 for search: -Deja News You've got a friend in Pennsylvania. - license plate motto for the state What's the definition of old age? A time when a man sees a pretty girl and it arouses his memory instead of his hopes. What's the definition of a mistress? Something between a mister and a mattress. Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. - Addison (1672-1719) 76.Every once in a while, declare peace. If confuses the hell out of your enemies. -Star Trek "I was attempting to ascertain the meaning of the lyrics." -- Spock "It's a song, you green-blooded...Vulcan. You don't analyse it. The point is you have a good time singing it." -- McCoy - Star Trek Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. - Ambrose (340-397 A.D.) "If only women came with pull-down menus and online help." The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. -Richter (1763-1825) "Listen Sweetie, I know about stressed, it's desserts spelled backwards!" -Strawberry Fare menu All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. -Goethe (1749-1832) I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. Joyce Kilmer Born in New Brunswick, NEW JERSEY 1886 :-) You want to hear God laugh? Tell him _your_ plans. --Yiddish proverb Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree. It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. "Books are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development." --Dorothy L. Sayers The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. The life that is unexamined is not worth living. - Plato (B.C. 427?-347?) The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought. Albert Pike (1809-1891) There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend. Plutarch (46-120 A.D.) When the wise realize the omnipresent Spirit, who rests invisible in the visible and permanent in the impermanent, then they go beyond sorrow. Upanishads (c. B.C. 800) As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk much and say nothing. La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) The discovery of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy. Voltaire (1694-1778) The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. Henry Miller (1891-1980) There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear of keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them. Matthew Henry (1662-1714) Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James (1842-1910) Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus (1913-1960) I keep praying that your prince will come soon. But I rather your prince be in the United States. love [Mums] (dated: Dec 17, 1998) Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Longfellow (1819-1892) Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself. Plato (B.C. 427?-347?) Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.) Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind. Buddha (B.C. 568-488) The point appeared in the circle, yet wasn't. Rather, it was the circle, traversed by the point. To one who has completed the circle, the point exists on the circumference. The whole world I said is His imagination, then I saw: His imagination is Himself. Ni'matullah Wali (1331-1431?) Just as rain exists in the clouds, butter in milk, fragrance in flowers, so also God is hidden in all these names and forms. Sivananda (born 1887) Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere. Emerson (1803-1882) For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go. Omar Khayyam (fl. 1100) By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal. Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600) Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. Beethoven (1770-1827) You are now before the King of the Dead. In vain will you try to lie, and to deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done. The Judge holds up before you the shining mirror of action, wherein all your deeds are reflected...The mirror in which the King of the Dead seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment, which in its turn determines your next rebirth. Tibetan Book of the Dead (c. 780 A.D.) But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. Omar Khayyam (fl. 1100) We are negative in our relationships with that which is of a higher potential than we are; and we are positive in our relationships with that which has a lower potential. This is a relationship which is in a perpetual state of flux, and which varies at every separate point at which we make our innumerable contracts with our environment. Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.) Even as a great fish swims along the two banks of a river, first along the eastern bank and then the western bank, in the same way the Spirit of man moves along beside his two dwellings: this waking world and the land of sleep and dreams. Upanishads (c. B.C. 800) But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think. Byron (1788-1824) The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... The riders contend for its possession. Martin Luther (1483-1546) Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected. Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700? A.D.) Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately. Plato (B.C. 427?-347?) scientists for the USDA suggested that men should take a look at their beer consumption, considering the results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer. The theory is that drinking beer makes men turn into women. To test the finding, 100 men were fed 8 pints of beer each. It was then observed that 100% of the men gained weight, talked excessively without making sense, became overly emotional, couldn't drive, failed to think rationally, argued over nothing, and refused to apologize when wrong. 'Release is in the eye.'... 'The seed-blossoms (spiritual embryo) of the human body must be concentrated upward in the empty space (the heavenly heart between the eyes).' Immortality is contained in this sentence and also the overcoming of the world is contained in it. This is the common goal of all religions. Lu Yen (fl. 800 A.D.) Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul. Charles Buxton (1823-1871) Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds. Colton (1780-1832) To reach the port of Heaven we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must sail, and not drift or lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) In dreams the mind beholds its own immensity. What has been seen is seen again, and what has been heard is heard again. What has been felt in different places or faraway regions returns to the mind again. Seen and unseen, heard and unheard, felt and not felt, the mind sees all, since the mind is all. Upanishads (c. B.C. 800) "Marky, I love you." - me "What does that mean, Lizzy?" - Marky "It means you can fart and get away with it." - me 20jan00 2251 Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) 2392 Be of an exceedingly humble spirit, for the end of man is the worm. The Talmud (B.C. 500?-400? A.D.) 2459 Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. Young (1683-1765) 5077 Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) 2698 Learn that the advantage lieth not in possessing good things, but in the knowing the use of them. Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375) 2184 There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus (50-138 A.D.) 2879 Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! Addison (1672-1719) 3618 The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - commonsense and perseverance. Owen Feltham (1602-1668) 2849 ...The root of life was in every drop of the ocean of immortality, and the ocean was radiant light, which was fire, and heat, and motion. Darkness vanished and was no more; it disappeared in its own essence, the body of fire and water, or father and mother... Book of Dzyan (B.C. 3000?) 6452 Superstition is...religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence. John Tyndall (1820-1893) 5068 The consciousness of man is a veil concealing the reality of God in the state of non-manifestation. We are ourselves the veil covering God's reality. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (born 1916) 1059 If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes (1596-1650) 2802 We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Bailey (1816-1902) 4911 The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. La Bruyere (1645-1696) 6263 Use words sparingly, then all things will fall into place. A tornado does not last a whole morning. A downpour of rain does not last a whole day. And who works these? Heaven and Earth. What Heaven and Earth cannot do enduringly: how much less can man do it? Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600) 928 If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. Montaigne (1533-1592) 6095 A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. Buddha (B.C. 568-488) 6182 This universe is a trinity and this is made of name, form, and action. The source of all names is the word, for it is by the word that all names are spoken. The word is behind all names, even as the Eternal is behind the word. Upanishads (c. B.C. 800) 6517 Prayer - to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) 3400 He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success. Albert Pike (1809-1891) 4917 There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All - in all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) Woman's Quote of the Day: > > "Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our > > job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into > > something with which you'd like to have dinner with." > > > > > > Men's Counter-Quote of the Day: > > "Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and > > intoxicating to the mind and then turn full-bodied with age until they > > go all sour and vinegary and give you a headache." > >