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Dragongurl
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Posted : May 10, 2004 16:57
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Hi guys,
This post will be dedicated to posting worthy quotes from books & famous ppl that have/or will make an impact on our thoughts and lives or just are really inspirational.
Here is one from Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - A Treatise on White Magic (one great book, you can open it up anywhere and read the most amazing stuff!):
Rule Four - The Creative Work of Sound: "Sound, light, vibration, and the form blend and merge, and thus the work is one. It proceedeth under the law, and naught can hinder now the work from going forward. The man breathes deeply. He concentrates his forces, and drives the thought-form from him."
Here is a link to read more: http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/magic/toc.html
  :: Life can be as bitter as dragon tears
But whether dragon tears are bitter or sweet
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Jason (LyTe)
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DeathPosture
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---Warning, long post----
Random stuff I've collected on the internet in the last couple of months
WORDS OF WISDOM
"It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters." - Mother Teresa
"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
"Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what
sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit." - William James
"One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect." - Mark Twain
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as
the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet
with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind." - Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart." - Benjamin Franklin
"If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children
and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes
to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level
of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development." - Dalai Lama
"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves." - Galileo Galilei
"It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out - It's the grain of sand in your shoe."
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." - Leonardo Da Vinci
"The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there." - Moliere 1622-1673
"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden." - Goethe
"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before." - Edwin Elliot
"Confinement is our greatest virtue. We thrive in captivity, as we see freedom in the walls of our perception.
To think that we know is our own undoing for ignorance is our pride that blooms in the sun of prejudice.
This is exactly how we love ourselves, this is what all of mankind’s achievements come down to." - Eliran Ben Ishai
"We must not ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often
cannot foresee." - Marian Write Edelman
"Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble--the ones they've had,
the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have." - Edward Everett Hale
"Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream preceeds the goal."
- Pamela Vaull Starr
"Have patience with all things, but cheifly have patience with yourself." - Saint Francis de Sales
"A wise man said:
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong!"
"Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Lao Tzu
"Respecting yourself means listening to your body and emotions continuously. Then acting beyond a linear
logic to achieve ones goals."
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for,
it is a thing to be achieved."
"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle
and quiet we become towards the defects of others." - Joseph Addison
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it"
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
- Albert Einstein
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
-Carl Jung
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
- Edith Wharton
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. "
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -Mother Teresa
"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."
- - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without." - Ernest (Miller) Hemingway
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley
"no one can make you feel inferior without your consent"- Elinor Roosevelt
"If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." - Paula A. Bendry
"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies."- Arthur Calwell
"Time is:
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love, time is not." - Henry Van Dyke
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart" - Robert G. Ingersoll
"A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste." Anon
"One of the most important results you can bring into the world is the you that you really want to be."- Robert Fritz
"Love who you are and what you are and what you do."
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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DeathPosture
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---continued - warning, even longer post ----
"I've seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".
- Sir Isaac Newton, 1676ad
"The heaven is forever, and the earth abides. Why so? Because they don't exist for themselves."
(Lau Tsu, The Way & The Virtue - 500BC)
Eight Poems of Fists
1.The mind is one with heaven and earth.
2. The circulatory rhythm of the body is similar to the cycle of the sun and the moon.
3. The way of inhaling and exhaling is hardness and softness.
4. Act in accordance with time and change.
5. Techniques will occur in the absence of conscious thought.
6. The feet must advance and retreat, separate and meet.
7. The eyes do not miss even the slightest change.
8. The ears listen well in all directions.
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It's not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years
- Abe Lincoln
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"Minds are like parachutes, they only work when open."
- Unknown
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"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it, right? and this bag was, like, dancing with me, like a little kid begging me to play with it for fifteen minutes. and that's the day i knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid -- ever. video's a poor excuse, but it helps me remember. And i need to remember... sometimes there's so much beauty in the world i feel like i can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."
- American Beauty
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"I guess i could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. sometimes i feel like i'm seeing it all at once and it's too much my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst and then i remember to relax and stop trying to hold on to it and then it flows through me like rain and i can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. you have no idea what i'm talking about, i'm sure. but don't worry you will... someday."
- Kevin Spacey, American Beauty
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"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
-Sherlock Holmes
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"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
-Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
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"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
-Paul Erdos
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"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
-George Burns
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"If you kill me, two will take my place!"
-Marketing Exec, The Simpsons
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"God help us. We're in the hands of engineers."
-Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
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"Pain always seems to be an unavoidable side-effect of my plans..."
-Brain, Pinky & The Brain
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Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes of those who don't believe in romance."
- Jean Zheng
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
- Albert Einstein
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"A man's dreams are an index to his greatness."
-Zadok Rabinwitz
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"
- Henry David Thoreau
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"So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been
worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life."
- Office Space
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.
-Albert Eintein
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"Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean universe - which stands continuously open to our gaze, but which cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of
mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth."
- Galileo (1623)
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"The problem with the rat race is even if you win your still a rat."
- Tomlin
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein
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"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away -- and barefoot."
-Unknown
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"My job requires mostly masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that less closely resembles Hell."
- Kevin Spacey, American Beauty
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits"
- Albert Einstein
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"It's like switching your point of view. Things sometimes look complicated from one angle, but simple from another."
- Achilles to the Tortoise, Gödel, Escher, Bach
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"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
-Jean Cocteau
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"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because
they'd never expect it."
- Jack Handy
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"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
-Anna Freud
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"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it."
-Albert Einstein
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
-Thomas Alva Edison
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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DeathPosture
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--- Warning, slightly shorter post - but it's the last one - promise!
Yeah, sort of reminds me of a time in Montana. It was 31st of December 1994 when I saw the Mexican Jesus floating down the
river. Yellowstone National Park. I think it was like minus twenty degrees in the snow and he was floating down butt naked.
I don't think he was Native American, he seemed too Mexican looking you know. He had long black hair and he was butt naked
in the middle of the Yellowstone River. Minus twenty. And we'd put our head under the water and come up and we turned our
eyes and he didn't have a [...] of ice on his hand, nothing. He was completely immune to the cold. And eh, which reminds me about the ayahuasca experience you know meeting the Mother Serpent. I don't think anybody really could, err... How to describe it? It was totally mind numbing. Just taking it, and waiting and that first time you take it, the suddenly you feel like you've got these vines running through your body. They were [...] ripping through your body. And that bright light burning you up from the inside. Next thing you know, you've got a Mother Serpent inside you. And the next minute you're down there, with the DNA watching the dino.
Genetic material getting changed before your eyes. Man, people think they know about drugs, but... That ain't a drug, it's
a sacrament. It's just a portal to another world. It's realities that are always there. A key to other dimensions That we live with them all the time. Thankfully our awareness never touches...
How would I describe it? Terrifying. Enlightening. But utterly terrifying. You swear you'll never go back. Ever. And the
next thing you know, you're taking it again. You're going down that tunnel.
People say you have a choice. I don't think there's any choice.
Ayahuasca just takes you. No choice. You surrender or you resist. Resist or inhale. You surrender, you must be free.
I don't know if I could do that again.
And the Mother Goddess calls me, the cosmic circuit calls. I have to answer. And I have to go back to the [...] I have no choice. I have no choice. It's not a drug, it's... It's not a drug. It's just the holy sacrament.
"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come." -Rabindranath Tagore
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I’ve Learned…
I’ve learned…
That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
That when you're in love, it shows.
That just one person saying to me, "You've made my day!" makes my day.
That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
That being kind is more important than being right.
That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
That we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.
That money doesn't buy class.
That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
That under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
That the Lord didn't do it all in one day. What makes me think I can?
That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you.
That love, not time, heals all wounds.
That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
That there's nothing sweeter than sleeping with your babies and feeling their breath on your cheeks.
That no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
That life is tough, but I'm tougher.
That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
That a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
That I can't choose how I feel, but I can choose what I do about it.
That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
That it is best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it is requested and when it is a life threatening situation.
That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
~Unknown~
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"My delight in death
exceeds the pleasure of a merchant
who makes a vast fortune,
or a victorious war god,
or a sage in total trance.
Like a traveller taking to the road,
I will leave this world & return home
to the limitless bliss of deathlessness.
My life is over and my karma is done with.
The benefit from praying is exhausted.
Things of the world are abandoned.
The show is over.
In the pure after-death states
I will instantly realize the essence of my being.
I am approaching the ground of primal perfection."
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Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep
Do not stand by my grave and weep.
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am a diamond glint in the snow.
I am the sunlight on the ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awake in the morning hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft star shine at night.
Do not stand by my grave and cry.
I am not there... I did not die.
Phew, long list of stuff...
Oh, and thanx for the links... Lots of nice stuff there! ;o)
DeathPosture
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Pavel
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Posted : May 11, 2004 00:01
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DP--> Don't stop!
Great stuff!
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DeathPosture
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I'm all out for now... But I'll dig out some more soon! ;o)
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"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." Dolly Parton
"I'm making love to the music man, and believe me, I can go all night." Muff
"The Self is not the individual the Body or Mind, but aspect that lies deep within everyone and knows the THRUTH." Swami Vishnu Devananda
"If everything is one, what are you doing here?"
"A day without dance, is a lost day." Nietzsche
"The foolish man seeks wisdom in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet."
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise: what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" Alice
"You are as close to God as you are to yourself." Sai Baba
"If you give a starving man a fish he will live a week. If you teach a starving man to fish he will live a life-time." Tom Lyon
"Every time man invents a better mousetrap, nature invents a better mouse."
"I used to be schizophrenic, but we are OK now."
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Dragongurl
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WOW, thanks guys...lots of reading to do here.....I think the best is to read a couple and take them in,and the following day read a few more.
Keep posting, I'm sure ppl are enjoying these beautiful quotes!
:: Life can be as bitter as dragon tears
But whether dragon tears are bitter or sweet
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DeathPosture
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More random stuff... Many of them are Isratrance signatures I think...
Haven't you been smoking peyote for six days straight? ...And couldn't some of this maybe be in your mind?
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'The way I feel I don't expect to go to sleep for a year. I'm on fucking fire.'
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'The DJs took pills to stay awake and play for 7 days.'
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Kids in the back seat cause accidents; accidents in the back seat cause kids
Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.
The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when it's open.
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
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Do not tempt a desperate man
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You wouldn't ever have an intelligent bone in your body unless I was fucking you in the ass!
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Cycles are boring, Spirals are fun!
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* I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and crap out a better conversation than you*
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You sound like me so much I think my sperm's in your water supply- Chino XL
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I dont like to work too often,unless its for something groovy.
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Be the change you want to see in the world!" M.K. Gandhi
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All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
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I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum!
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Anatidaephobia: The fear that somehow, somewhere, a duck is watching you
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If the world didn't SUCK, we'd all fall off!
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You are not your fucking system specs. You are not your uptime stats. Your scripts, or your oversized desktop screencap. You are not your broadband connection. You are not your fucking post count!!!
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It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow..."
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Would 54 bassdrums satisfy you?
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Elrond: Anduril, flame of the west, forged from the shards of narsil. The man who can wield the power of this sword can summon to him an army more deadly than any that walk this earth.
Aragorn: Sauron will not have forgotten this sword...
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Pippin: [Singing To Denethor] Home is behind the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread, through shadow, to the edge of night, till the stars are all alight. Mist and shadow, cloud and shade. All shall fade, all shall... fade.
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It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception". Albert Einstein, speaking about his theory of relativity
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SwImMiNg In A sEa Of SoUnDs, ViSuAlS aNd SoUlS, wEaViNg AnD wOrKiNg My WaY tHrOuGh ThEm, MoViNg WiTh RyThM, sHaPe AnD fLoW,
eXpErIeNcInG mAgIcAl WoNdErS aLl ThE wHiLe. ThIs Is ThE aRt Of TrAnCe DaNcInG, tHe AnCiEnT sHaMaNiC wAy. ThIs Is ThE rAw PoWeR oF hUmAn SpIrIt ExPoSeD iN iTs BaReSt, MoSt PrImAl FoRm, ThIs Is ThE dAnCe Of JeSuS, oF sHiVa, Of AlL bEiNgS wHo KnOw ThE pOwEr Of MoViNg In AnD oUt Of ThE cOnFiNeS oF tHe HuMaN bOdY. ThIs Is ThEiR wAy.
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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment...
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Assumption is the mother of all fuckups
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My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materalism and spirtualism are opposite poles of the same absordity, the absordity of Imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.
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Isratrance: where friends become lovers and lovers become bitter suicidal ex's
DeathPosture
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Eth-Lad
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hey DeathPosture, there seems to be pretty much life left inside you..
great posts!
the time has come to air the voice of reason
in a world gone mad - a drift on banal seas
for all who feel that lies have had their season
and whose hearts cry out instead for honesty
for all the weary souls gone bored with dreaming
whose thurst for beauty and for knowledge goes unslaked
for all who want to wake from what is dreaming
to know what's real and what is real to embrace
for all who've watched with mounting horror
evils reign upon this world grow ever clear
for all who've cried in vain, emancipators
wielding swords of truth and laughing without fear
- Bill Hicks
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Pavel
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I adore Bill Hicks!
Neverendind pool of great ideas.
Too bad he is not with us anymore
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DeathPosture
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Posted : May 12, 2004 22:29
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Beautiful... ;o)
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Jason (LyTe)
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There are doors that we are afraid to open because there is more into reality that we can understand - Terence Mc Kenna
- Taken form LSD-25 video
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