Your favourite quotes

[Talorgan]

Truth is the weapon for free peoples

 

[Mr H]

Live by faith, not by fear. Because fear hesitates, but faith moves forward - even in the unknown.

[Talorgan]

"Those who believe absurdities commit atrocities" 

Possibly Voltaire?

[Mr H]

[Mr H]

Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze,

but as they sway they connect at the roots.

 

~ Rumi

[Mr H]

Relying upon a finger, we see the moon

Relying upon the moon, we understand the finger.

Moon and finger

Are neither the same nor different.

This expedient analogy is for guiding beginners.

Having seen reality as it is,

There is neither moon nor finger.

~ Okumura Roshi, Ryōkan Interpreted

[Mr H]

It is not the individual which has consciousness;

it is consciousness which assumes innumerable forms.

I am one, but appear as many.

 

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

[Mr H]

Is there anything we can do to alter the flow of things as they are? Whatever is happening is happening independent of us. Our feeling of control is utterly illusory. If we are honest we know this to be true. So we might as well stop resisting and accept it.

 

~ Plato

[Mr H]

[Talorgan]

The world is my country and to do good is my religion 

 

Thomas Paine

[Mr H]

The question isn't if you're ready but if you're willing. Jim Rohn

[Mr H]

Before thought, everything is one seamless whole.

 

Then the mind slices it up - this is me, that is not me.

 

It draws impenetrable borders and calls them reality.

 

But the truth is, division is always after the fact. - from everyday awaken

[Mr H]

Your biggest problem isn't your circumstances. It's that you keep thinking the same thoughts about your circumstances.

 

-Random internet person 

[Mr H]

If you don't shoot you don't score.

 

Fat Frank Lampard

[Mr H]

If you don't change who you are you will get what you always get. Jim Rohn

[Campion]

“When I accept myself as I am, then I can change”  - Carl Rogers, psychologist. 

[Talorgan]

"If voting had really worked it would have been banned "

Alan Watt 

[Talorgan]

If we were supposed to live in cities we would look like ants or bees

But we're not 

[Campion]

Cities are factory farms for people, and much older than factory farmed animals. 

[Mr H]

[Mr H]

We desire the menu

And ignore the food  

 

No wonder, 

We are always hungry

[Mr H]

Don’t let someone who’s never been in your shoes tell you how to tie your laces.

 

Anon

[Talorgan]

Step  into your own power and believe in yourself with integrity 

stand up &  say No to b.s.

And helping the world wake up

Because when we do that we can change the world in a day

 

Paraphrased-- Max Igan 

Edited July 9 by Talorgan

[Mr H]

What if everything you’re running from is waiting for you right where you left it?

[Screamingeagle]

 Fred Hoyle

 

“The trouble with conformity is that the process has strong positive feedback. The baaing starts up at a volume low enough to permit stronger-minded animals to think for themselves without too much trouble. Progressively, however, we break down one-by-one, losing all power of sensible judgement, to the point where we can do nothing but add our own baaing to the uproar, which eventually rises to such monumental proportions that nothing remains for the flock except the butcher’s shop.”