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“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
~Aint that the truth~
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
"Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice" ~ Aristotle
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
edited May 21
"Everything is political, but politics isn't everything" ~ H.M. Kuitert
AI Overview
The quote "Everything is political, but politics isn't everything" encapsulates the idea that while political forces and dynamics permeate many aspects of life, politics should not dominate or overshadow other essential aspects of human existence.
Here's a breakdown of the quote's meaning:
1. "Everything is political":
This acknowledges that power dynamics, decision-making processes, and social structures, which are central to politics, influence various spheres of life, even those seemingly apolitical.
Examples: Choices about consumption, lifestyle, or even art can be seen as having political implications, as they can reflect or challenge existing norms and power structures.
2. "But politics isn't everything":
This emphasizes that human life encompasses more than just political concerns.
It highlights the importance of individual well-being, relationships, personal values, and pursuits like art, culture, and spirituality, which should not be entirely subsumed by political considerations.
It suggests that focusing solely on politics can lead to a narrow and potentially unbalanced life, neglecting other crucial dimensions of human experience.
In essence, the quote calls for:
Political awareness: Recognizing the presence of politics in various aspects of life and being mindful of its influence.
Perspective and balance: Maintaining a broad perspective and not allowing politics to become the sole focus of one's life, ensuring a balanced approach to human experience.
Prioritizing well-being: Recognizing the importance of individual and collective well-being beyond the realm of politics.
The quote highlights that while politics is an important aspect of life, it is not the only factor, and a balanced life that encompasses multiple facets of human experience should be pursued.
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“I love the Buddha's simple definition of enlightenment as "the end of suffering." There is nothing superhuman in that, is there? Of course, as a definition, it is incomplete. It only tells you what enlightenment is not: no suffering. But what's left when there is no more suffering? The Buddha is silent on that, and his silence implies that you'll have to find out for yourself. He uses a negative definition so that the mind cannot make it into something to believe in or into a superhuman accomplishment, a goal that is impossible for you to attain. Despite this precaution, the majority of Buddhists still believe that enlightenment is for the Buddha, not for them, at least not in this lifetime.”
— Eckhart Tolle
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“When you learn to be the witness of your thoughts and emotions, which is an essential part of being present, you may be surprised when you first become aware of the background "static" of ordinary unconsciousness and realise how rarely, if ever, you are truly at ease within yourself. On the level of your thinking, you will find a great deal of resistance in the form of judgment, discontent, and mental projection away from the Now. On the emotional level, there will be an undercurrent of unease, tension, boredom, or nervousness. Both are aspects of the mind in its habitual resistance mode.”
JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you. Only the stillness in you can perceive the silence outside. And what is stillness other than presence, consciousness freed from thought forms?”
— Eckhart Tolle
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“Nothing lasts. Not your lovers, not your enemies, not your family, ultimately not even your own body.”
— Terence McKenna
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“When I speak of healing, I mean nothing more or less than a natural movement towards wholeness.”
— Gabor Maté
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.”
— Pele
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
"My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.”
در راه طلب عاقل و دیوانه یکی است
در شیوهی عشق خویش و بیگانه یکی است
آن را که شراب وصل جانان دادند
در مذهب او کعبه و بتخانه یکی است
On the seeker's path, the wise and crazed are one.
In the way of love, kin and strangers are one.
The one who they gave the wine of the beloved's union,
in his path, the Kaaba and house of idols are one
Awareness is like a timid, shy creature. It watches you constantly, wary and cautious. Only through patience and diligence can you gain its trust, and when you do, it will let you see yourself through its eyes.
@Shoshin1 said: Awareness is like a timid, shy creature. It watches you constantly, wary and cautious. Only through patience and diligence can you gain its trust, and when you do, it will let you see yourself through its eyes.
~Thoughts from the cushion~
thoughts in movement,
sit/aware
move/aware
your friend sees through u
aware is key to
be
this be is up/awake
@Jeffrey said:
“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
― Rumi
simple step
leads to many steps
rumi way
is our way
mind your way
is the way
free to see
how the way
lets the way be
free and see
the steps guide your way
be the way
is our way
rumi
love on your way.
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
edited July 18
“The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.”
— Terence McKenna
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. If artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.”
— Terence McKenna
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it’s not easy.”
— Terence McKenna
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“Western civilisation is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”
JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“Life is music, not math.”
— Alan Watts
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“They are doing immense harm without knowing it, because they are helping people to become knowers without knowing. This is the greatest harm that can be done to man, to give him a sense that he knows -- and he knows nothing. You have destroyed his whole life. You have destroyed the opportunity in which he may have known, experienced, lived. You have taken all his opportunities, all his possibilities of growth.”
— Osho
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
edited August 1
“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.”
— Orson Welles, The Third Man
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“Something is true if it is true always, everywhere, for everyone.”
Everything evolves would come to mean that nothing is true
~Nietzschean style quote~
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“I do not search. I find.”
— Picasso
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster, and when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.”
Just be present, and let everything be.
Stop pushing against the moment,
stop resisting what already is.
You don’t need to fix it,
change it,
judge it,
or escape from it.
Let go of the striving,
the grasping,
the tightening around how life should be.
There is peace in your softness.
A deeper stillness in surrender.
Let what comes, come.
Let what goes, go.
Stand as the witness,
aware,
open,
untouched at your core.
Even if the mind races,
even if emotions swell,
you can remain here,
in this space of allowing.
No pushing.
No pulling.
Just presence.
The breath flows in,
the breath flows out.
Life moves,
and you remain still within it.
This is not giving up.
This is waking up,
to the quiet intelligence moving through all things.
You don’t have to hold the world up.
You only have to let go.
In surrender,
there is freedom.
In stillness,
clarity.
In simply being,
you return home.
'The Gift of Presence' by Spirit of a Hippie
✍️ Mary Anne Byrne
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times.
Come, yet again, come, come.”
He was named after a town in Turkey, when he fled from pre-buddhist Mongol persecution and taught the Turkey stiffs to whirl around in circles until they were danced out... https://www.historytoday.com/archive/whirling-dervishes
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
— Nietzsche
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
— Nietzsche
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
edited August 14
“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.”
— Nietzsche
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“To me, man has in him the highest potential of existence and consciousness. If he explores it he will reach to a state of godliness -- not of God, but only of godliness. But don't be worried that you are starting with a small amount of trust; that much is enough. To begin with, anything is enough, Just the desire to go on a pilgrimage is enough. And don't be bothered that you have to be my sannyasin; just be a sannyasin. Just be a seeker of truth. And perhaps somewhere on the way I will be meeting you.”
— Osho
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“There are many ways to the divine. And I have chosen the way of song, dance and laughter.”
— Rumi
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“Run from what is comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
"A society that tolerates all, even the intolerant, risks losing the very tolerance it seeks to protect"
~The paradox of tolerance- Karl Popper~
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Fosdickin its eye are mirrored far off mountainsAlaska, USAVeteran
Always carry a rose through life, and even when there is sadness, there will be fragrance and beauty as well.
slightly paraphrased, from J.P. Dunleavy. I think.
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Fosdickin its eye are mirrored far off mountainsAlaska, USAVeteran
edited September 4
And, somewhat in the same vein -
And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And, like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again
Rise again, rise again
Though your heart it be broken or life about to end
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again
Stan Rogers, The Mary Ellen Carter
Good song to sing on getting up in the morning, I find.
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“You have much to learn from your enemies. What is it in them that you find most upsetting, most disturbing? Their selfishness? Their greed? Their need for power and control? Their insincerity, dishonesty, propensity to violence, or whatever it may be? Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you. But it is no more than a form of ego, and as such, it is completely impersonal.”
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“ “If you think you are so enlightened,” Ram Dass said, “go and spend a week with your parents.” That is good advice. The relationship with your parents is not only the primordial relationship that sets the tone for all subsequent relationships, it is also a good test for your degree of Presence. The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again.”
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment. And what is that? There is a sense of quality in what you do, even the most simple action. Quality implies care and attention, which comes with awareness.”
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
“In our civilisation, which is totally identified with the outer and ignorant of the inner dimension of spirit, the word old has mainly negative connotations. It equals useless and so we regard it as almost an insult to refer to someone as old. To avoid the word, we use euphemisms such as elderly and senior. The First Nation's “grandmother” is a figure of great dignity. Today's “granny” is at best cute. Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilisation, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being.”
Stoicism Daily When the rich rob the poor it's called business
when the poor fight back it's called violence.
~ Mark Twain
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them." Barry Goldwater.
Comments
“I’d like to keep growing as I get old.”
— Dr Gabor Maté
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
~Aint that the truth~
"Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice" ~ Aristotle
"Everything is political, but politics isn't everything" ~ H.M. Kuitert
“Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff
“I love the Buddha's simple definition of enlightenment as "the end of suffering." There is nothing superhuman in that, is there? Of course, as a definition, it is incomplete. It only tells you what enlightenment is not: no suffering. But what's left when there is no more suffering? The Buddha is silent on that, and his silence implies that you'll have to find out for yourself. He uses a negative definition so that the mind cannot make it into something to believe in or into a superhuman accomplishment, a goal that is impossible for you to attain. Despite this precaution, the majority of Buddhists still believe that enlightenment is for the Buddha, not for them, at least not in this lifetime.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“When you learn to be the witness of your thoughts and emotions, which is an essential part of being present, you may be surprised when you first become aware of the background "static" of ordinary unconsciousness and realise how rarely, if ever, you are truly at ease within yourself. On the level of your thinking, you will find a great deal of resistance in the form of judgment, discontent, and mental projection away from the Now. On the emotional level, there will be an undercurrent of unease, tension, boredom, or nervousness. Both are aspects of the mind in its habitual resistance mode.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Majority does not mean right
As a minority buddhist, I do not believe anyone, not even me...
I will not be turning into a Hyena, even if X-orcised
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buda_(folklore)
“To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you. Only the stillness in you can perceive the silence outside. And what is stillness other than presence, consciousness freed from thought forms?”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Nothing lasts. Not your lovers, not your enemies, not your family, ultimately not even your own body.”
— Terence McKenna
“When I speak of healing, I mean nothing more or less than a natural movement towards wholeness.”
— Gabor Maté
“I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.”
— Pele
"My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.”
— Diego Armando Maradona
“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
― Rumi
در راه طلب عاقل و دیوانه یکی است
در شیوهی عشق خویش و بیگانه یکی است
آن را که شراب وصل جانان دادند
در مذهب او کعبه و بتخانه یکی است
On the seeker's path, the wise and crazed are one.
In the way of love, kin and strangers are one.
The one who they gave the wine of the beloved's union,
in his path, the Kaaba and house of idols are one
Rumi with a view...
Awareness is like a timid, shy creature. It watches you constantly, wary and cautious. Only through patience and diligence can you gain its trust, and when you do, it will let you see yourself through its eyes.
~Thoughts from the cushion~
thoughts in movement,
sit/aware
move/aware
your friend sees through u
aware is key to
be
this be is up/awake
simple step
leads to many steps
rumi way
is our way
mind your way
is the way
free to see
how the way
lets the way be
free and see
the steps guide your way
be the way
is our way
rumi
love on your way.
“The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.”
— Terence McKenna
“The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. If artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.”
— Terence McKenna
“It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it’s not easy.”
— Terence McKenna
“Western civilisation is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”
— Terence McKenna
"It ain't over 'til its over."
- Yogi Bara
“Life is music, not math.”
— Alan Watts
“They are doing immense harm without knowing it, because they are helping people to become knowers without knowing. This is the greatest harm that can be done to man, to give him a sense that he knows -- and he knows nothing. You have destroyed his whole life. You have destroyed the opportunity in which he may have known, experienced, lived. You have taken all his opportunities, all his possibilities of growth.”
— Osho
“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.”
— Orson Welles, The Third Man
“Something is true if it is true always, everywhere, for everyone.”
— Hindu teaching
Everything evolves would come to mean that nothing is true
~Nietzschean style quote~
“I do not search. I find.”
— Picasso
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster, and when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
✍️ Mary Anne Byrne
“Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times.
Come, yet again, come, come.”
— Rumi
Rumi is almost my favourite Bodhi poet.
He was named after a town in Turkey, when he fled from pre-buddhist Mongol persecution and taught the Turkey stiffs to whirl around in circles until they were danced out...
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/whirling-dervishes
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
— Nietzsche
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
— Nietzsche
“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.”
— Nietzsche
“To me, man has in him the highest potential of existence and consciousness. If he explores it he will reach to a state of godliness -- not of God, but only of godliness. But don't be worried that you are starting with a small amount of trust; that much is enough. To begin with, anything is enough, Just the desire to go on a pilgrimage is enough. And don't be bothered that you have to be my sannyasin; just be a sannyasin. Just be a seeker of truth. And perhaps somewhere on the way I will be meeting you.”
— Osho
“There are many ways to the divine. And I have chosen the way of song, dance and laughter.”
— Rumi
“Run from what is comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
— Rumi
"A society that tolerates all, even the intolerant, risks losing the very tolerance it seeks to protect"
~The paradox of tolerance- Karl Popper~
Always carry a rose through life, and even when there is sadness, there will be fragrance and beauty as well.
slightly paraphrased, from J.P. Dunleavy. I think.
And, somewhat in the same vein -
And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And, like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again
Rise again, rise again
Though your heart it be broken or life about to end
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again
Stan Rogers, The Mary Ellen Carter
Good song to sing on getting up in the morning, I find.
“You have much to learn from your enemies. What is it in them that you find most upsetting, most disturbing? Their selfishness? Their greed? Their need for power and control? Their insincerity, dishonesty, propensity to violence, or whatever it may be? Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you. But it is no more than a form of ego, and as such, it is completely impersonal.”
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
“ “If you think you are so enlightened,” Ram Dass said, “go and spend a week with your parents.” That is good advice. The relationship with your parents is not only the primordial relationship that sets the tone for all subsequent relationships, it is also a good test for your degree of Presence. The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again.”
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
“Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment. And what is that? There is a sense of quality in what you do, even the most simple action. Quality implies care and attention, which comes with awareness.”
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
“In our civilisation, which is totally identified with the outer and ignorant of the inner dimension of spirit, the word old has mainly negative connotations. It equals useless and so we regard it as almost an insult to refer to someone as old. To avoid the word, we use euphemisms such as elderly and senior. The First Nation's “grandmother” is a figure of great dignity. Today's “granny” is at best cute. Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilisation, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being.”
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
Stoicism Daily
When the rich rob the poor it's called business
when the poor fight back it's called violence.
~ Mark Twain
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them." Barry Goldwater.