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"Love conquers all." – Virgil

"love stinks yeah, yeah" -j. geils band

Talk like Yoda-go and see... yodaspeak.co.uk/index.php "You, I love you. Yes hmmm." -Yoda

"Me something wise and wonderful tell." -Yoda

"The greatest gifts, friends are. Yeesssssss." -Yoda

'Awakening is not a thing. It's not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying "And then I shall have wings and antennae", there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.' - Alejandro Jodorowsky

"Strive for Excellencenot perfection" -Jackson Brown Jr. Portal Publications, LTD

"So how do we go about seeing through the illusion of this false notion of the self? How do we generate the insight that would directly contradict that form of perception? Nagarjuna says that if a "self","I", or person exists as we normally assume it to exist, if it exists as we falsely view it, then the more we look at it, the more we search for its essence, the referent behind our terms and labels, then the clearer it should become. But that is not the case. If we were to search for the self or person as we normally perceive it, then it disappears, it sort of disintegrates, and this is an indication that such a notion of self was an illusion from the start. Because of this point, one of Nagarjuna's students, Aryadeva, stated in his "Four Hundred Verses on the Middle Way" that it is our ignorant conception of consciousness which is the seed of samsara (cyclic existence) and that things and events are its objects of grasping and apprehension. And it is only through seeing through the illusion of such a conception that we will be able to put an end to the process of existence." – His Holiness the Dalai Lama

'And I imagine...with great pleasure...all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day i'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live.' - Alejandro Jodorowsky

"Remember the past but don't live in it." -Liz Betrey

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." – Charles M. Schulz

'Birds born in a cage think fly is an illness.' - Alejandro Jodorowsky

'On the back part of the step, toward the right, I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance. At first I thought it was revolving; then I realised that this movement was a illusion created by the dizzying world it bounded. The Aleph's diameter was probably little more than an inch, but all space was there, actual and undiminished. Each thing (a mirror's face, let us say) was infinite things, since I distinctly saw it from every angle of the universe. I saw the teeming sea; I saw daybreak and nightfall; I saw the multitudes of America; I saw a silvery cobweb in the centre of a black pyramid; I saw a splintered labyrinth (it was London); I saw, close up, unending eyes watching themselves in me as in a mirror; I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me; I saw in a backyard of Soler Street the same tiles that thirty years before I'd seen in the entrance of a house in Fray Bentos; I saw bunches of grapes, snow, tobacco, lodes of metal, steam; I saw convex equatorial deserts and each one of their grains of sand: I saw a woman in Inverness whom I shall never forget: I saw her tangled hair, her tall figure, I saw the cancer in her breast; I saw a ring of baked mud in a sidewalk, where before there had been a tree; I saw a summer house in Adrogué and a copy of the first English translation of Pliny - Philemon Holland's - and all at the same time saw each letter on each page (as a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight); I saw a sunset in Querétaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal; I saw my empty bedroom; I saw in a closet in Alkmaar a terrestrial globe between two mirrors that multiplied it endlessly: I saw horses with flowing manes on a shore of the Caspian Sea at dawn; I saw the delicate bone structure of a hand; I saw the survivors of a battle sending out picture postcards; I saw in a showcase in Mirzapur a pack of Spanish playing cards; I saw the slanting shadows of ferns on a greenhouse floor; I saw tigers, pistons, bison, tides, and armies; I saw all the ants on the planet; I saw a Persian astrolabe; I saw in the drawer of a writing table (and the handwriting made me tremble) unbelievable, obscene, detailed letters, which Beatriz had written to Carlos Argentino; I saw a monument I worshipped in Chacarita cemetery; I saw the rotted dust and bones that had once deliciously been Beatriz Viterbo; I saw the circualtion of my own dark blood; I saw the coupling of love and the modification of death; I saw the Aleph from every point and angle, and in the Aleph I saw the earth and in the earth the Aleph and in the Aleph the earth; I saw my own face and my own bowels; I saw your face; and I felt dizzy and wept, for my eyes had seen that secret and conjectured object whose name is common to all men but which no man has looked upon - the unimaginable universe. I felt infinite wonder, infinite pity.' - Jorge Luis Borges

"Sometimes it is easier to thinkusing only one eye." -sherbear

"February hath 28 days- alone.As love and blood go hand in hand." -sherbear

"I have found that a few brief statements, mentally affirmed,followed by a silent meditation, have been effective in the healing work." -The Science of Mind, page 507

"I pray, surrendering my opinions and doubtsto the Divine Presence within." -Science of Mind Vol. 82 No. 6 Pg. 63

"While we may honestly acknowledge that we wouldprefer a certain outcome, it is essential to surrender our attachment to how we think our prayer should out-picture." -Michael Bernard Beckwith

"when I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.then i realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me." -emo phillips

glazed eyes aren't suspicious at all.they're simply the more energy-efficient model of windows to the soul.........officer -sl

"HAPPINESS NEVER DECREASESBY BEING SHARED." -BUDDHA

"Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfactions, our ego satisfactions, in consumption." – Victor Lebow (1955)

'There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.' - Marquis de Sade

"A white spiderupon a white flower consuming a white moth... the canvas without color is governed by itself. What for curiosities sake is it, in of itself." -Written upon a white piece of paper and found in a binder of yester-year.

We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodley do,What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must; Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust. – Kurt Vonnegut

'An erect phallus is a symbol of life, a cross a symbol of death.' - Jean Daniel Cadinot

@-----)------------------------------@---)------------------------------ "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." -Oscar Wilde

Melt into the seaEventually

'It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, "Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer." By then, pigs will be your style.' - Quentin Crisp

"Our greatest glory is not in neverfalling but in rising every time we fall." -Fortune Cookie Lucky numbers 1, 2, 20, 45, 37, 43

'Anytime you see a turtle on top of a fence post, you know he had some help." -Alex Haley **call http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJWxPE8G2c for a good time!!! Mondegreen Magnificent!!! Enjoy and Happy Friday!

Decorum is a product and an exponent of leisure class life and thrives in full measure only under a regime of status. – Thorstein Veblen

Friendship never needs to rebound.

'What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed in order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare.' - Georges Perec

"As soon as a person does not take their own existence for granted,but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins." -Albert Schweitzer

'I mean, the human race, we are a tribe, let's face it, and let's stop all this religious bullshit. I think everybody, or at least a lot of my friends, are just so exhausted with this whole self-importance of religious people. Just drop it. We're all fucking animals, so let's just make some universal tribal beat. We're all pagan. Let's just march.' - Björk

'In the part of the world we are dealing with everybody wants to own everything. Existence feels so uncertain and so fragile that people fight fiercely and with great passion to hold on to things: land, culture, religious symbols, food - everything is in danger of being snatched away or of disappearing. The result is fiery arguments about provenance, about who and what came first. As we have seen through our investigations, and will become blatantly apparent to anyone reading and cooking from this book, these arguments are futile. ... they are futile because it doesn't matter. Looking back in time or far afield into distant lands is simply distracting. The beauty of food and of eating is that they are rooted in the now. Food is a basic, hedonistic pleasure, a sensual instinct we all share and revel in. It is a shame to spoil it.' - Yotam Ottolenghi

"Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals that returned the questionaire." -Robert Brault

'The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.' - Austin Osman Spare

"And love will see you through..." -Robert Hunter

Chi-chi, grab the yay-oh

"All human nature vigorously resistschange because change changes us and change is painful." -Flannery O"Connor

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nobody leaves this place without singin' the blues." – Spoken by Albert Collins in the film Adventures in Babysitting

"Without accepting the fact that everything changes,we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, this truth is difficult for us to accept and because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer." -Shunryu Suzuki

"If the head fits, wear it." -Bob Weir - from David Letterman interview, 1982

'It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty.' - Alfred Jarry

"Exchanging compliments isintellectual back scratching." -Fortune Cookie Lucky Numbers 50, 47, 22, 1, 35, 20