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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: pur3bind] 1
#24903504 - 01/10/18 04:28 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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"True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.
Eckhart Tolle
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Allforublue]
#24915368 - 01/15/18 09:54 AM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth." --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#24915459 - 01/15/18 10:52 AM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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Though the meanings easy to parse, this is clumsy at first, I'm wondering if with this if King wasn't bawling in his beer. But I like the ambiguity that's added with the the use of bogged and breadth. Not that I'm going to search out his writing or speech, but if I come across it, I'll take a closer look.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: falcon] 2
#24915765 - 01/15/18 01:16 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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I think in part it means that everyone is so busy worrying about relatively unimportant matters, that they don't have the time or inclination, usually, to find spiritual fulfillment and to care about their fellow man. The modern extremeness of specialization I feel gives it a deeper meaning as well, as so many people are caught up and bogged down in their careers and in distractions that they don't have time to really live. And perhaps if they did, the world would be a better place.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#24917118 - 01/15/18 10:19 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yes, and for me it has a riddle-like quality, with bogged suggesting bog, water in which one may find it hard to breath.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#24917135 - 01/15/18 10:34 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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"Society gets wrapped around becoming a part of a machine. Society, instead of becoming a bunch of individuals that are expressing themselves in their own unique ways. And you know, I give you some coconuts and you give me some fish and we make a deal. And you have an inclination to fixing cars, and we all do what we have a passion in doing. But instead of that, you sold your life to sit in a box and work for a machine. An uncaring machine that demands productivity. It doesn't understand you, it doesn't want to understand you. It's got this strict rules where we all wear clothes we don't want to wear, and where we're all doing things we don't have a passion in doing. THAT'S the problem with our society. And then what's the reward for all this stuff? Go home, your going to get a nice big TV. Your going to get a shiny belt buckle. And every day we're chasing after this new object to fill this HOLE, and this sad shadow of a life that we've been left with. And when we get home it's just "*inbreath* huuh...... HUUUH" and that's it, THAT'S your life right there. All that other stuff is not your life anymore... All that other stuff is work. And MOST people have had to put up with that. I know you've been there before, and I've been there before. And we understand it's a trap because we've got out of it. But for the people that are still in it, a lot of the time they don't even see it as a trap. They just see it as a good job. You know, "I've got dental, I'm doing really good. I got a parking spot, it's got my own name on it." Your just a piece of this heartless, shitty machine, that makes money." - Joe Rogan (YouTube video escape society or remain a slave)
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: falcon]
#24917140 - 01/15/18 10:36 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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falcon said: Yes, and for me it has a riddle-like quality, with bogged suggesting bog, water in which one may find it hard to breath.
Great point.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum] 3
#24923355 - 01/18/18 02:32 PM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning."
"Love is a state of confusion in which the victim cannot distinguish between spiritual aspiration, carnal desire, and pride of ownership." --character of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, from the film Moulin Rouge
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#24924775 - 01/19/18 01:03 AM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 1
#24927869 - 01/20/18 11:38 AM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Reflect upon the rapidity with which all that exists and is coming to be is swept past us and disappears from sight. For substance is like a river in perpetual flow ... and ever at our side is the immeasurable span of the past and the yawning gulf of the future, in which all things vanish away. Then how is he not a fool who in the midst of all this is puffed up with pride, or tormented, or bewails his lot as though his troubles would endure for any great while?" --Emperor Marcus Aurelius
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#24930121 - 01/20/18 08:00 PM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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Not easy to see the long range picture when the moment is turmoil or torture. I tell myself often what he's saying but really not to much avail. It works best on the puffed up end of it. I seem to be able to disavow myself of any huge ego trip but when I'm suffering it's hard to let go of that. Just weak I guess.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#24930129 - 01/20/18 08:04 PM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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RJ Tubs 202 said: The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
A great band from the 70s used something similar to that quote in one of their songs. The band was "It's a Beautiful Day" I think this is the song.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
Edited by Icelander (01/20/18 08:05 PM)
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander] 1
#24935296 - 01/23/18 02:20 AM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
Consider all this; and then turn to the green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Middleman]
#24935768 - 01/23/18 09:58 AM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's an awesome quote and I could have used that about 10 days ago. Damn!
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander] 1
#24944655 - 01/26/18 07:54 PM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. Mahasi Sayadaw
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#24951513 - 01/29/18 04:17 AM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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LizardWizard said: "I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one." -Christopher McCandless-

"For from love of money all sorts of evils arise; and some have so hankered after money as to be led astray from the faith and be pierced through with countless sorrows." -Bible, New Testament, Timothy 6:10-

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking." -Marcus Aurelius-

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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LizardWizard]
#24955200 - 01/30/18 05:15 PM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: PatStevens]
#24961077 - 02/02/18 02:24 AM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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"The flames of Hell burn fierce . . . and purify!"
- Anton Szandor LaVey
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: remake] 2
#24979630 - 02/09/18 08:45 PM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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When people are depressed they tend to believe they are depressed all the time. Mindful attention to variability shows this is not the case.
Ellen J. Langer
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#24981928 - 02/10/18 12:06 PM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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“Still, shifting my thinking on the Bible did not mean I was losing my faith in God. In fact, I had the growing sense that God was inviting me down this path, encouraging it even.” -Pete Enns
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