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 mestizo9
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 Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: human experience]
#15747405 - 02/01/12 12:37 PM (3 months, 23 days ago) |
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I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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blackdogs
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: mestizo9]
#15798865 - 02/12/12 04:04 PM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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"the hand that writes the poem,
masturbates poetically."
~8th century Japanese poet
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soul.adventurer
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: blackdogs]
#15809361 - 02/14/12 04:37 PM (3 months, 10 days ago) |
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This might already be on here, but I didn't read through all 30+ pages:
"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky"
- Gautama the Buddha
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I said how you gonna kick it? Gonna kick it root down.
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Pandora5a
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: soul.adventurer]
#15821406 - 02/16/12 09:53 PM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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Death, however, should be looked in the face by young and old alike. We are not summoned according to our rating on the censor's list. Moreover, no one is so old that it would be improper for him to hope for another day of existence. And one day, mind you, is a stage on life's journey.
- Seneca, Epistle XII, Epistles Book I
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happy tree man
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Pandora5a]
#15836948 - 02/20/12 09:17 AM (3 months, 4 days ago) |
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"Life and death is a seamless continuum, mmmmhm..."
-Scruffy
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Pandora5a
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: happy tree man]
#15954093 - 03/16/12 01:37 AM (2 months, 11 days ago) |
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Picked this up off someones sig, not sure who:
"Everything in moderation: Including moderation."
What you think?
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 dustinthewind13
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Pandora5a]
#15955533 - 03/16/12 01:08 PM (2 months, 10 days ago) |
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I would moderately moderate only certain things... healthy things... although this is only in theory. 
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A friend of the devil is a friend of mine"
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teknix
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: dustinthewind13]
#16019489 - 03/30/12 01:26 PM (1 month, 27 days ago) |
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For the greater good of all humanity is the best course for all of humanity. -tek
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teknix
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: teknix]
#16019582 - 03/30/12 01:45 PM (1 month, 27 days ago) |
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Within the objective phenomena of love lies the key to objective morality.
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6th and 7th sense theory
Now is forever.
Scientism Debunked.
Shrinkage: Unifying Theory of Everything.
When the inevitable time comes, go with your head held high,without regret or remorse, in your subconscious mind.
The mind is not limited unto itself.
How To Awaken
After Awakening
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midace12
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: teknix]
#16020495 - 03/30/12 05:13 PM (1 month, 27 days ago) |
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"That's what she said."
Michael Scott
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Cowboyjesus
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: midace12]
#16028430 - 04/01/12 08:33 AM (1 month, 26 days ago) |
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"Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; that which cometh out of the mouth defileth a man." (Mat. 15:11)
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Our prime purpose in life is to help others. And if you can't help them, atleast don't hurt them.
-The Esteemed Dalai Lama
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stumpme
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cowboyjesus]
#16057787 - 04/07/12 03:32 PM (1 month, 19 days ago) |
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Take it easy, but take it! haha perfect..
"then you will know why the trees bury their roots far into the earth, where they see no sun shine breathing spring time."
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Life can be what it seems, or more than that.
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xXxCelestialxXx
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: stumpme]
#16102214 - 04/17/12 01:39 PM (1 month, 9 days ago) |
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good stuff! i always liked the one:
"Nature is not mute, it is man who is deaf."
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psisha
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: xXxCelestialxXx]
#16152421 - 04/28/12 05:31 PM (29 days, 15 hours ago) |
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"Some lives were made to be wasted" Charles Bukowski
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Icelander
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: psisha] 1
#16160062 - 04/30/12 11:24 AM (27 days, 21 hours ago) |
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“Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awarness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. As awarness calls for types of heroic dedication that his culture no longer provides for him, society contrives to help him forget. In the mysterious way in which life is given to us in evolution on this planet, it pushes in the direction of its own expansion. We don’t understand it simply because we don’t know the purpose of creation; we only feel life straining in ourselves and see it thrashing others about as they devour each other. Life seeks to expand in an unknown direction for unknown reasons.
What are we to make of creation in which routine activity is for organisms to be tearing others apart with teeth of all types - biting, grinding flesh, plant stalks, bones between molars, pushing the pulp greedily down the gullet with delight, incorporating its essence into one’s own organization, and then excreting with foul stench and gasses residue. Everyone reaching out to incorporate others who are edible to him. The mosquitoes bloating themselves on blood, the maggots, the killer-bees attacking with a fury and a demonism, sharks continuing to tear and swallow while their own innards are being torn out - not to mention the daily dismemberment and slaughter in “natural” accidents of all types: an earthquake buries alive 70 thousand bodies in Peru, a tidal wave washes over a quarter of a million in the Indian Ocean. Creation is a nightmare spectacular taking place on a planet that has been soaked for hundreds of millions of years in the blood of all creatures. The soberest conclusion that we could make about what has actually been taking place on the planet about three billion years is that it is being turned into a vast pit of fertilizer. But the sun distracts our attention, always baking the blood dry, making things grow over it, and with its warmth giving the hope that comes with the organism’s comfort and expansiveness.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander] 1
#16160072 - 04/30/12 11:28 AM (27 days, 21 hours ago) |
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Moar Becker:
Life cannot go on without the mutual devouring of organisms. If at the end of each person’s life he were to be presented with the living spectacle of all that he had organismically incorporated in order to stay alive, he might well feel horrified by the living energy he had ingested. The horizon of a gourmet, or even the average person, would be taken up with hundreds of chickens, flocks of lambs and sheep, a small herd of steers, sties full of pigs, and rivers of fish. The din alone would be deafening. To paraphrase Elias Canetti, each organism raises its head over a field of corpses, smiles into the sun, and declares life good.
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MushroomNSwiss
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#16180160 - 05/04/12 01:09 AM (24 days, 8 hours ago) |
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I hope none of these were posted. I'm really big into the early American History and Native Americans. Growing up in Alaska and Montana probably influenced that. Anyway, here are some that I like and some that I think are just humorous.
The anticipation of death is oft times worse that death itself. (seen on a Steven Seagal movie)
“Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.”
― Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed
If you take [a copy of] the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and the rain, soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone. Our bible IS the wind and the rain. -Indian Proverb
"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys." - Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, British Columbia, Canada
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. - Apache
Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man. - Sioux
All who have died are equal. – Comanche
You already possess everything necessary to become great. – Crow
A brave man dies but once, a coward many times. - Tribe Unknown.
Every animal knows more than you do. - Nez Perce
Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed. – Plains
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. - Cherokee
Now these are people that knew how to live. By me!
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The early bird may get the worm... but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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MushroomNSwiss
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I really like the simplicity of the indian proverbs and quotes. They could sum up alot of shit in just one sentence.
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The early bird may get the worm... but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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VUnderground
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If science and knowledge are
supposedly pursued for its own sake, then how about the
knowledge that life has no discernable purpose, knowledge
that happiness, wonder, and curiosity are based in material
organizations that were likely selected for their evolutionary
survival value, and knowledge that there is no
fundamentally rational basis for choosing life over death.
Nihilism, noted Friedrich Nietzsche, “represents the
ultimate logical conclusion of our great values and
ideals”. This is the bankrupt, philosophical disaster area
the West dwells in. I see no “bottom”, no limits to stop the
freefall into value nothingness. Implicit in nihilism is the
collapse of the entire human cause. The ultimate logical
conclusion of Western values is the rational self-destruction
of the West.
Is this absurd? If this is absurd then it must also be absurd
that I rage at the entire cosmos for having no ultimate
meaning.
But there is no reason to be pessimistic. There is no
justification whatsoever for a negative attitude! There is no
justification whatsoever for a positive attitude! There is no
justification whatsoever for a neutral attitude!
Who knows what will happen with certainty? I could be
strolling down the street, being beautiful, on my way to kill
myself, when suddenly I am run over by a bus.
But wait a minute. Why am I doing this? Ah, yes, now I
remember the punchline:
I’ll try anything once!
There is nothing to take seriously!
-Mitchel Heisman.
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PsychedelicVortex
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: VUnderground]
#16220475 - 05/12/12 03:25 PM (15 days, 17 hours ago) |
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"Preparation can only take us so far in life, after that we have to take a few leaps of faith" - Michael Scofield
"Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men" - Don Vito Corleone
Edited by PsychedelicVortex (05/12/12 03:27 PM)
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