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    marye
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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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    .....they'll take my thoughts away - Megadeth- Holy Wars.

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    not like any other...

    We didn't realize we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun.

    - Winnie the Pooh

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    take care of yourself and think of others...

    A healthy person has a thousand wishes. A sick person has but one.

    - Indian proverb

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    A Pink Floyd song.

    If I were a swan, I'd be gone
    If I were a train, I'd be late
    And if I were a good man
    I'd talk with you
    More often than I do
    If I were to sleep, I could dream
    If I were afraid, I could hide
    If I go insane, please don't put
    Your wires in my brain
    If I were the moon, I'd be cool
    If I were a rule, I would bend for you
    If I were a good man, I'd understand
    The spaces between friends
    If I were alone, I would cry
    And if I were with you, I'd be home and dry
    And if I go insane
    Will you still let me join in with the game?
    If I were a swan, I'd be gone
    If I were a train, I'd be late again
    If I were a good man
    I'd talk with you
    More often than I do

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    If ifs and buts were fruits and nuts, every day would be Christmas.

    -Boehner

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    ....that word can be found on dry river beds and on trails long overgrown by weeds. What's more important are the paths we follow now.

    -Jessup

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    Dear Marye - in response to your question, one of the many lyric lines that always nailed it for me is one we have all heard and sung a hundred times: Now the die is shaken, now the die must fall. My knowledge of artistic expression would fit in a thimble, but that always seemed to be such a strong statement of us being little more than a cork bobbing in the stream and being pushed along. Your thoughts?

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    Jerry

    Thank you for the kind words and afirmation, daverock. There is always an upside to any situation, even a bad one, from the perspective of gathering strength and wisdom.

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    I hope I am not being insensitive, but to me, Jerry lives on through the vast amount of wonderful live recordings we have. I only saw him 5 times, and that over a period of 9 years, so he wasn't a physical presence as such for me, like he must have been for people who were lucky enough to see and hear him play in person many times.

    I was listening to "Eyes of the World" from 8/1/73 yesterday-his 30th birthday show. The music and message comes across as strongly now as it ever did, and reaches more people than could ever have been anticipated when they first started. Almost every day, the magic weaves out of my stereo, here in a town in England he had possibly never even heard of.

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    It's been 20 + years, but I have been overwhelmed with sadness lately over the loss of JG and what was essentially the end of the band. I know some permutations have cropped up and many members have carried on, but for some reason I cannot explain, I have been overwhelmed with the absence of the Grateful Dead. Maybe it is due to some big changes that have happened in my own life, and others that are scheduled to occur soon. I have realized that one of the most steady and permanent companions I have had throughout my entire life has been the music of the Grateful Dead. Anyone else running into this?

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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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"It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness....... a gratefulness........ open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation. .....I think in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be." -Dr Albert Hofmann, part of a speech given by him on his 100th birthday Today marks the 70th anniversary that chemist extraordinaire Dr. Hofmann - on a hunch! - synthesized LSD 25 at Sandoz Laboratories for the second time in human history and accidentally absorbed an amount small enough to produce a couple hours of effects, which led him to intentionally take 250 mcg. 3 days later and take his famous bicycle ride home. "Thank you" seems so shallow......
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For the quote from Mr. Hofmann. All of us owe a large debt of gratitude to him. He gave us the soma of the gods and we launched a revolution to change the world. And, as Hunter S. Thompson said, "With the right kind of eyes you can look out into the Pacific Ocean and see where the wave peaked..." Jerry bore the psychedelic cross Albert created for 30 long years. In the end even he couldn't turn the tide. Did we help enough?
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'A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.' - Hermann von Helmholtz
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"Farmers and gossipers both spread shit, but for completely different reasons." -me (hope Bob's ok; feel sorry for his family and loved ones that read the speculations spewed from assholes)
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"out of sight, out of mind" -the words engraved onto a large piece of red granite at the entrance to a local cemetery; I just noticed it today.
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'Our mastery over the forces of nature has led to a rapid growth of population, and a vast accumulation of wealth; but these have brought with them such an amount of poverty and crime, and have fostered the growth of so much sordid feeling and so many fierce passions, that it may well be questioned, whether the mental and moral status of our population has not on the average been lowered, and whether the evil has not overbalanced the good.' - Alfred Wallace
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'The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.' - Gilles Deleuze
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The seeming contradiction of a rising accumulation of wealth and a rising amount of poverty is an interesting phenomenon that it is a very central theme. If human beings are basically good, then why don't the more capable share with the less capable? In the Western industrialized countries they do, to a greater or lesser extent. And it is a never-ending debate. Some people say that if he rich are forced to share with the poor then they are less inclined to be productive (and dominate nature so much). Isn't that a good thing? More animals, less global warming and a whole lot more go along with that. I like to believe that human beings are good but this very thing Wallace talks about leads me to believe that, on average,we are selfish and would destroy ourselves and our planet rather than share with the less fortunate. Human beings are the number one bad-ass animal on the planet, no doubt.
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'Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.' - Jean Baudrillard
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& dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void! Loves these quotes you are coming up with, Lard!
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'Larks are the sparks torn from the revolving Earth as it turns like a wheel through the night.' - Ronald Duncan
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'Larks are the dance in which the dancer is still.' - Ronald Duncan
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'When winter whips, old men discover their life is a dream they can't remember.' - Ronald Duncan
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'The sun bleeds on the horizon till the day, like a fallow deer, is bled and the light is devoured and the lake is dead.' - Ronald Duncan
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“If "con" is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress? " - Jon Stewart
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Put me on the plane.Hurry, hurry, hurry, Before I go insane! I want to be sedated.
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'If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.' - Antonin Artaud
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"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it." -Haim Ginott
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"Most of us are inattentive. Now, next time you are conscious of inattentive, you are attentive." -J. Krishnemurti, from: You Are the World
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" I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous." - Robert Brault
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"It's the young person's prerogative to be noisy." - a line from the character Tom in the movie "Another Year"
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"If we gaze longingly at joy, it willmake its home with us, and we shall enter its portals and be happy." -The Science of the Mind page 491
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"Joy does not come from what you do;it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you." -Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
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"Inamuch as you have done it untothe least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me." -Matthew 25:40
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"Love one another and you will be happy.It's as simple and as difficult as that." -Michael Leunig
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"Only in a spirit of love, understandingand unity can there be wholeness." -How To Use The Science of Mind, page 138
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"The basic principle ofspiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love." -Jack Kornfield
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"Don't forget love; it willbring all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe." -Mira
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"5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, 6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor the destruction that lays waste at noonday." -Psalm 91 5 and 6 The Gideons International Nashville, Tennessee
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"Love is at the center of man's being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love." -The Science of Mind, page 238
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Exchanging compliments isintellectual back scratching. -Fortune Cookie Lucky numbers 50, 47, 1, 35, 20 (imagine that) You are so beautiful, xo!
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Fearless courage is the foundationof victory. -Fortune Cookie Lucky Numbers 20, 5, 15, 51, 27, 13
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"Corn can't expect justice in a court composed of chickens." - African proverb Eric Holder, US Dist. Attorney promises Edward Snowden that he will not be given the death penalty or tortured if he returns to the US for trial. Kinda has all the feeling of that creepy guy driving slowly by the school sidewalk with his window down offering candy to the kids.
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"There is nothing on this earthmore to be prized than true friendship." -Sir Thomas Aquinas