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    Sometimes you come across a quote, a line, a statement that just nails it, at some level. Cosmic, comic, whatever. If you'd like to share it, post it here, duly credited!

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    i thought this would fit better under "words to live by" ; it's beautiful. SLOW DANCE have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round? listened to the rain slapping on the ground? ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? or gazed at the sun into the fading night? you better slow down don't dance so fast time is short the music won't last do you run through each day on the fly? when you ask how are you do you hear the reply? when the day is done do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? you better slow down don't dance so fast time is short the music won' last ever told your child we'll do it tomorrow and in your haste not see his sorrow? let a good frienship die cause you never had time to call and say hi? you better slow down don't dance so fast time is short the music won't last when you run so fast to get somewhere you miss half the fun of getting there when you worry and hurry through your day it's like an unopened gift thrown away. life is not a race do take it slower hear the music before the song is over Author unknown
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    "My peace I give unto you...Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" John 14:27 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Let peace abound inside your mind... Like a waterfall washing away the things you house that could never be~ peace and love. Effort needed and a good teacher. But um yeah let's party! ---------------------------------------(-----@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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Sometimes you come across a quote, a line, a statement that just nails it, at some level. Cosmic, comic, whatever. If you'd like to share it, post it here, duly credited!
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'We are all ultimately responsible for our actions, and any organisation, religion, sect, cult, NGO, army captain or anyone else that tells you any different is lying.' - Peter Christopherson
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In his last novel, Timequake, the writer Kurt Vonnegut quotes his son, Mark: "We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is."
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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"what is to give light must endure burning". viktor frankl, concentration-camp survivor (subject title courtesy of baumgartner's..............serving classic limburger daily.......... :) )
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"when you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. when you're born in america, you get a front row seat." george carlin
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"common sense? that's nothing more than understanding that it doesn't take both hearing and smell to know the person next to you farted." gerald "shit liquor" mcknelly former friend, poet and all around grate guy.......4 yrs now.......rip funny friend :(
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"I bask in the lush grandeur of my ageless, birth-less,space-less, timeless, deathless, existance. I rest in the circulatory complete-ness that makes all things perfect, new, and good." -Science of Mind -Vol. 82 No. 7
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'It is better to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.' - Arthur Machen
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do try to be happy, because no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. lily tomlin comedienne extarordinaire
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reality is the leading cause of stress...............among those in touch with it. lily tomlin (i love this one)
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a word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones that need the advice. bill cosby
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"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
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Is giving up the claim to "Truth" better than fighting for it?
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Offering prayers 11 years after 9/11, realizing, by their very act of giving of up all claim to truth in the word, that they have found the key to defeat all that evil. (I think I just blew my mind!)
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Realizing that offering prayers to counteract evil in the world as evidenced by 9/ll, (by their very action of praying for an end to such evil acts) is in itself the end of evil.
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'Christian fundamentalists and fundamentalists in general are viruses, and they're killing us, multiplying and mutating, and they're destroying us. Now, you know, you got to give strong medicine to combat a virus.' - John Giorno
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"There is no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound."–John Cage
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"It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense."–Aldo Leopold
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where he lived and was inspired to write the "sand county almanac", are situated along the wisconsin river and,luckily,are a short drive from where i live. me and friends have hiked (and day-tripped :)) around there several times in past years and always get a wonderful vibe from that beautiful place. aldo's efforts have left a beautiful and thoughtful environmentally conscious legacy for future generations.
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'The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.' - David Bohm
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If you get confused listen to the music play
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'The poets are supposed to liberate the words - not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are supposed to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? "Your very own words", indeed! And who are you?' - Brion Gysin
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Don't bogart that joint my friendPass it over to me – Lawrence Wagner
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'The ability to soft-boil an egg is not regarded as a virtue in Spain. The more pervious a culture is to Surrealism, the less preoccupied it is with the least imaginative thing you can do with an egg. It's a post-Protestant talent to stand around for four minutes watching water precipitate gastronomic banality.' - Jonathan Meades
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The world IS flat, until you go around it. -ALC-
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'If you were to put all the arteries and veins and capillaries out end to end, that man would probably die.' - Eric Morecambe
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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." – Groucho Marx
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this is a big anniversary of the publication of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, my copy of which is apparently in an alternate universe, so somebody weigh in with some immortal words from Douglas Adams here...
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"Don't panic." – Douglas Adams