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 LucidSid
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 Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10592065 - 06/29/09 11:06 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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“I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.” - Maher
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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LucidSid
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
#10592148 - 06/29/09 11:24 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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HALFemptyJOSH
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
#10608685 - 07/02/09 08:00 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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THE INTENSITY OF EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON HOW INTENSE YOU THINK ABOUT IT![gradient:#D4B881,#][/gradient]
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the intensity of everything depends on how intense you think about it ~Broughton
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Mr.Al
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 Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: HALFemptyJOSH]
#10609313 - 07/02/09 10:41 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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LucidSid
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10621881 - 07/04/09 04:24 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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"The creative mind plays with the objects it loves" Carl Jung
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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Lakefingers
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
#10623469 - 07/05/09 02:44 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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LucidSid
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#10624606 - 07/05/09 11:37 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hahah. That shits crazy.
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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 Silversoul
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
#10639922 - 07/08/09 12:40 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat.
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Lakefingers
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#10662266 - 07/12/09 08:58 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Moreso: you're an ideal rat.
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tzaeru
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#10670453 - 07/13/09 03:54 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Read a fair bit of works of philosophers as well as of few occultists, but truly it needs an artist to format a simple sentence that, in the most effective manner, taps to the subconsciousness.
Considering that:
"A man is the less likely to become great the more he is dominated by reason: few can achieve greatness - and none in art - if they are not dominated by illusion.", by Mr. Doctor of Devil Doll.
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"A man is the less likely to become great the more he is dominated by reason: few can achieve greatness - and none in art - if they are not dominated by illusion." - Mr. Doctor/Devil Doll
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10673206 - 07/14/09 12:36 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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A sample from one of the documents I've slowly been working at.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to percieve with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. - Albert Einstein...
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
I have argued that every human being is born with an innate drive to experience altered states of consciousness periodically -- in particular to learn how to get away from ordinary ego-centered consciousness. I have also explained my intuition that this drive is a most important factor in our evolution, both as individuals and as a species. No ordinary experiences are vital to us because they are expressions of our unconscious minds, and the integration of conscious and unconscious experience is the key to life, health, and spiritual development, and fullest use of our nervous systems. - Andrew Weil, M.D.
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russell
Whatever is flexible and flowing will tend to grow, whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die. - Tao Te Ching...
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. - The Beatles
"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
"Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim" [Be patient and tough; one day this
pain will be useful to you]
"The greatest weakness of mankind is that we have to believe in something no matter how illogical that belief may be." "Nations have been raised and destoryed on belief alone...... Food for thought." :|
"When a man nails his foot to the floor he tends to walk in circles." :-P
Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift ~
that's why it's called the present!
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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. "
Hemingway
'Truth is a pathless land'. Man cannot come to it through any organisation, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind . . .
- J. Krishnamurti
And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart
" When you hit rock bottom, start digging. " --Aleister Crowley
"Look up at me, and you will see a god. Look down on me, and you will see a fool. Look straight at me, and you will see yourself." - Charles Manson
Your religion is not the garb you wear outwardly, but the garment of light you weave around your heart. By outward garb I don't mean your physical raiment only, but rather the thoughts and beliefs in which you enclose yourself. They are not you. Discover who you are, behind those outer trappings, and you will discover who Jesus was, and Buddha, and Krishna. For the masters come to earth for the purpose of holding up to every man a reflection of his deeper, eternal Self."
Paramhansa Yogananda
Grey's Anatomy, "So instead of spending your life drawing lines, how about spending it crossing them. Because the view from outside... is wonderful."
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.
Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.
Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.
Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.
I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.
By means of meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced; within this calmness is a richness and a potential, an inner knowledge which can render our lives boundlessly satisfying and meaningful. While the mind may be what traps us in unhealthy patterns of stress and imbalance, it is also the mind which can free us. Through meditation, we can tap the healing qualities of mind. - Tarthang Tulku...
There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realizing its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being. - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon by Wei Wu Wei...
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Blooming with sociopaths
Once upon a time the idea occurred to start controlling people. The idea of god was created, which thus led to duality. Now, in order to control people you have to give them a reason for control. Convince them that they are not simply animals with developed brains, and tell them they cannot fuck except to make babies. Now all the fun is taken out of fucking, and you're in control of one of the most baser instincts. Well, if you can only fuck to make babies you cannot fuck with someone of your own gender, or even more than one person at a time. So it was declared that having sex with someone of your own gender was evil, and people who did this were given a specific title. No matter that before this there was no gay or straight, people just fucked other people that they liked. Being humans and having big brains, we can develop emotional attachments to people and find closeness and emotional fulfillment through sex. Now we can no longer explore our interpersonal relationships in that way. Now a division has been created in sexuality that is not naturally meant to exist for us. So what happened is that the powers that be started making up outlandish stories and stereotypes about people who have sex with other people of the same gender... And eventually those people started buying into it. So now we have prancing ****** queens and intolerant daughter-raping rednecks. The problem with all this is none of it is real. It's like people who get in really heated arguments about Star Wars. It's not fucking real and you're buying into an obvious like. Just like how Catholics invented the concept of Satan Worship to demonize their enemies, even though there were no such people... Some people eventually decided to act out against the church and become Satan Worshipers. It would be just like if a group of people go together and really declared themselves to be Jedi. Wait, I forgot, that actually did happen. The concept of dual sexualities is a myth. People are naturally geared to have sex with people they like and are attracted to. That doesn't mean everyone will be "bisexual" it means that the concepts don't exist, and that gays are fucking annoying by wanting to define themselves strictly by what they like to do with their genitals, just like straight people are fucking annoying by thinking they're "normal".
know I have a point. What bothers me is that it blind-sided you like it did. It's just common sense, but nobody wants to break people down and examine us as fairly basic, if gifted, animals. They always want to pile shit on and add new neurosis and syndromes that don't even exist. It's like "Schizoid Tendencies"; it's a blanket term for "we don't know". People are simple and basic, but our whole society has been borne out of convincing ourselves that were these complicated, flawed, immature creatures that wouldn't exist but for lawyers, psychologists, religion, the death penalty, etc... Granted, there are a lot of people who wouldn't survive without those things because they've invested themselves and their personalities so deeply in those institutions it would be like taking a patient off of life support. The worst part is it's like a perfectly alert and healthy person not surviving off life support, it's a choice.
We are at an evolutionary cross roads right now, we've evolved slightly past ourselves. We're at a point now where we need to make some societal changes, and a lot of personal ones, that we're not willing to make yet. The problem is we've fucked things up so bad that if we don't take this evolutionary step, the wave of our previous ignorance and greed threatens to swallow us whole. People do stand around a lot and sermonize about the way the world ought to be, but they don't do anything about it. "Oh, gas prices are too high and we're at war because we're dependant on Arab oil... But I won't go buy a Prius or other hybrid car because they're a little more money and I like the social validation I get from driving my Suburban everywhere." There was a point in this country when we went out and had violent, bloody, revolutions. We don't anymore. Fuck, we barely even say anything contrary we're so lazy. Granted, this country was founded by WASPS for WASPS, and the rest of American society benefited by trickle-down. It doesn't matter what used to happen, it matters now what does happen. We're more worried about the government making sure our kids don't even watch a dirty movie or play a violent video game, but we've stopped raising and educating our children. Breastfeeding is actually starting to decline, that's how much mothers don't want to deal with their children. Pop 'em out so the relatives and friends think more of me for being a parent, then stick the kid in a seperate room and only pay attention to it when it does something that makes my life difficult or uncomfortable. That's how serial killers get raises, and why we're blooming with sociopaths.
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Silversoul
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Spiralout112]
#10676484 - 07/14/09 04:00 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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"How can an infinitesimal part of the universe understand the whole? We are drops of water trying to understand the sea." -- Will Durant
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The Chronic
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#10686396 - 07/16/09 02:25 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Silversoul said:
"How can an infinitesimal part of the universe understand the whole? We are drops of water trying to understand the sea." -- Will Durant
if you See you are the sea then your no longer a drop trying to understand the sea...
"be a light unto yourself"
Buddha
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Dephect
New Life
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: The Chronic]
#10742665 - 07/26/09 10:10 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Detachment is a state, it is not a totalisation of achieved indifferences. - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon by Wei Wu Wei
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Heaven - the great big rave in the sky.
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Mr.Al
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Dephect]
#10742688 - 07/26/09 10:17 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Huh,
Kind of like a really good actor that still knows he's an actor? Sometimes if you play the role long enough you can become it.... It gets confusing and sometimes I find myself referring to myself in the third person and get confused as to "which one is which"....
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Real CA Milk
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr.Al]
#10749460 - 07/27/09 12:40 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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If you want happiness for an hour...take a nap
If you want happiness for a day...go fishing
If you want happiness for a month...get married
If you want happiness for a year...inherit a fortune
If you want happiness for a lifetime...help others 
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 How many psychedelic users — in any country — actually give
time to the local church soup kitchen, helping to feed the homeless and
hungry? How many of us, having had the experience, under the influence
of the visionary drugs, of seeing all human beings as incarnations of God,
have gone down to the local hospital to give affection and a listening ear to
lonely patients who need somebody to talk to? How many of us regularly
visit a jail, to provide spiritual and emotional support to confused, damaged
people who have grown up unloved, uneducated and unguided by their
confused, damaged parents -Alexander Shulgin 
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origuami
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Real CA Milk]
#10823753 - 08/08/09 03:39 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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wow i can spend ridiculous amounts of time reading quotes.
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I don't believe in cops, bosses, or politicians. Some call that anarchism. I call it having a fucking heart that beats.
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Ahimsa
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#10913221 - 08/22/09 02:22 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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"There's no proof that there's no proof that anything you say is true or false." My conclusion from the observation that not one formal system can escape itself.
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ennos
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#10950799 - 08/27/09 07:09 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time"
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives"
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DannyGlick
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: ennos]
#10993209 - 09/03/09 02:40 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect." - George Carlin
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