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Do not believe

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:01:55 GMT

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Buddha said:

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe anything because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

give up what is wrong and evil;
undertake what is good;
abandon thoughts that have to do with bringing suffering to any conscious being; cultivate thoughts that are of loving kindness, that are based on caring for others' suffering, and sympathetic joy in others' happiness.

Abstain from talk that brings harm or discredit to others (such as backbiting or slander) or talk that creates hatred or disharmony between individuals and groups.

John Lennon Quotes

Wed, 21 May 2008 18:58:32 GMT

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I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

"You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate."

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep on watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Everything is clearer when you're in love

I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me.

but then I met Yoko and that was it.

There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

I don't stand back and judge -- I do.

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MM quote

Tue, 13 May 2008 04:23:13 GMT

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"I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

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Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:34:12 GMT

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If gay and lesbian people are given civil rights, then everyone will want them!
–Unknown

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Diminished by Words

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:33:06 GMT

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"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revalations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear."

- Stephen King

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The Slow Arrow of Beauty

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:19:56 GMT

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The slow arrow of beauty. - The noblest kind of beauty is not that which suddenly transports us, which makes a violent and intoxicating assault upon us (such beauty can easily excite disgust), but that which slowly infiltrates us, which we bear away with us almost without noticing and encounter again in dreams, but which finally, after having for long lain modestly in our heart, takes total possession of us, filling our eyes with tears and our heart with longing. - What is it we long for at the sight of beauty? To be beautiful ourself: we imagine we would be very happy if we were beautiful. - But that is an error.

--Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

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The Wisdom of Blasphemy

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:21:39 GMT

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We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. - Gene Roddenberry

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. - Samuel Clemens

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. - Seneca the Younger

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. - Doug McLeod

Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. - Anonymous

On the first day, man created God. - Anonymous

Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. - Steven Colbert

Atheism is a non-prophet organization. - George Carlin

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. - Robert Pirsig

How To Achieve Inner Peace in just two steps

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:24:43 GMT

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a seeker once said, “I want peace.”

to which a wise man replied,

if you remove the I, (Ego)
then remove the want, (Desire)
you are left with, peace.

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Quotes from Dr. King

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:25:32 GMT

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"Darkness cannot run out darkness, only light can do that; Hate cannot run out hate, only love can do that." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

Watch your words ... Be Peaceful ... Your tongue is a tool

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:02:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What we are and what we say and what we do, all are linked; just as we are all linked to each other.

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Daphne Rose Kingma : Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into being, to remove, as if by magic, the terrible violations of childhood, to nurture, to cherish, to bless, to forgive - to create from the whole cloth of your soul, true love.

Natural Deaths

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:59:25 GMT

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

- Anais Nin [ 1903 - 1977 ]

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Have you ever been in love?

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:08:09 GMT

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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.

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Love One Another - Khalil Gibran

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:06:45 GMT

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Love One Another

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup, but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread, but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together.
For the pillars of the temple stand apart.

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Khalil Gibran

Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:29:09 GMT

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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us

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15 Quotes by Famous Atheists

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:17:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bertrand Russell:

“You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”

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15 Quotes By Famous Atheists

9. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot

15. It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous. — Gloria Steinem

5. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche

8. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright

3. All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway

11. The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. — Sigmund Freud

2. I don’t believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life. — Andrew Carnegie

4. Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. — Benjamin Franklin

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