Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Ghandi
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller
"Man the living creature, the creative individual, is always more important than any established style or system"
- Bruce Lee
A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
"Research your own experience
Absorb what is useful
Reject what is useless
Add what is specifically your own."
- Bruce Lee
“To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour”
- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence, 1924
“Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that an is here for the sake of other men (& women) - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends”
- Albert Einstein
“I don’t try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows adequate senses to appreciate it.”
- Albert Einstein
“The great unmentionable evil at the centre of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric bronze aged text known as the Old Testament, three anti human religions have evolved - judaism, Christianity and Islam. These are sky-god religions. they are, literally, patriarchal - God is the Omnipotent father - Hence the loathing of women for 2000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky god and his earthly male delegates.”
- Gore Vidal
“I am Hindu, I am Moslem, I am a Jew, I am a Christian, I am a Buddhist!”
- Ghandi
“The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organized religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and i have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.”
-Nehru
“We talk about a secular india...Some people think that it means something opposed to religion. That obviously is not correct. What it means is that it is a state which honors all faiths equally and gives them equal opportunities: india has a long history of religious tolerance...In a country like India, which has many faiths and religions, no real nationalism can be built up except on the basis of secularity.”
- Jefferson
“Patriotism is the Virtue of the viscous.”
“Can omniscient God, who
Knows the future, find
The omnipotence to
Change His future mind?”
Knows the future, find
The omnipotence to
Change His future mind?”
- Karen Owens
“Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived.”
- Oscar Wilde
“The Immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of loosing their incomes.
- Bertrand Russel
“The day will come when the mystical generation of jesus, by the supreme being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brtain of Jupiter”
- Thomas Jefferson
"The God of mystical experience may not be the ethically obstreperous (rebellious) and precisely defined autocrat beloved of religious authoritarians; but as experience, not concept, as vividly real as indefinable, this God does not violate the intellectual conscience, the aesthetic imagination, or the religious intuition. A Christianity which is not basically mystical must become either a political ideology or a mindless fundamentalism.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“The priests of different religious sects...dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivision of the duperies on which they live.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents...Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for life sciences but for cosmology as well.”
- Leonard Susskind
“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have formed by numerous successive slight modifications. my theory would absolutely break down. But i can find no such case.”
- Darwin
“If you don’t understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it.”
- Richard Dawkins
Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost
"Knowledge exists in two forms – lifeless, stored in books, and alive in the consciousness of men.”
- Albert Einstein, 1949
“Love is touching souls”
- Joni Mitchel
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.”
- Mark Twain
"The Eye with which I see God is the same Eye with which God sees me"
- Eckhart von Hochheim “Meister Eckhart”
“I was reading the news and it sure looks very bad
they wouldn't give peace a chance
that was just a dream some of us had”
- Joni Mitchel
Everybody’s saying that hell’s a hippies way to go
well I don’t think so
but ill take a look around it though
- Joni mitchell
well I don’t think so
but ill take a look around it though
- Joni mitchell
"...life stretches from moment to moment in stupendous infinitude. Nothing can be more real than what you suppose it to be. Whatever you think the cosmos to be, it is and could not possibly be anything else as long as you are you and I am I. You live the fruits of your action and your actions are the harvest of your thought. Thought and action are one, because swimming you are in it and of it, and it is everything you desire it to be, no more, no less. Every stroke counts for eternity."
"Music is the can-opener of the soul"
- Henry Miller
"The wisest person
Trusts the process,
without seeking control;
Lives not to achieve or possess,
But simply to be
Trusts the process,
without seeking control;
Lives not to achieve or possess,
But simply to be
All he or she can be,
In harmony with "The Way.
In harmony with "The Way.
- (Lao Tsu) Tao Te Ching
"We are the middle generation of history....
We have no great war....
No great deppression....
Our war is a spiritual war....
Our great deppression is our lives...."
- Fight Club Movie
"When walking along the shady pathways and admiring each successive view, I wish to find language to express my ideas. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere thread of his body. The land is one great wild, untidy, luxuriant hothouse made by nature, for herself."
- Darwin
"To be is music, which is a profanation of silence in the interest of silence, and therefore beyond good and evil. Music is the manifestation of action without activity. Is is the pure act of creation, swimming on its own bosom. Music neither goads nor defends, neither seeks nor explains. Music is the noiseless sound made by the swimmer in the ocean of consciousness. It is a reward which can only be given by oneself. It is the gift of the god which one is because he ceased thinking about God. It is an augur of the god which every one will become in due time, when all that is will be beyond imagination... Music is the tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can opener for the soul. It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware there's a roof to your being"
- Henry Miller
“That this social order with its pauperism, famines, prisons, gallows, armies, and wars is necessary to society; that still greater disaster would ensue if this organization were destroyed; all this is said only by those who profit by this organization, while those who suffer from it – and they are ten times as numerous – think and say quite the contrary.”
– Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You
“Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.”
– Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You
– Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You
“How can you kill people, when it is written in God’s commandment: ‘Thou shalt not murder’?”
– Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion its called Religion.”
- Robert M. Pirsig
For him I sing,
(As some perennial tree, out of its roots, the present on the past:)
With time and space I him dilate—and fuse the immortal laws,
To make himself, by them, the law unto himself.
- Walt Whitman
