moment Posted June 14, 2020 “Happy is the man who can recognize in the work of to-day a connected portion of the work of life and an embodiment of the work of Eternity. The foundations of his confidence are unchangeable, for he has been made a partaker of Infinity. He strenuously works out his daily enterprises because the present is given him for a possession. Thus ought man to be an impersonation of the divine process of nature, and to show forth the union of the infinite with the finite, not slighting his temporal existence, remembering that in it only is individual action possible, nor yet shutting out from his view that which is eternal, knowing that Time is a mystery which man cannot endure to contemplate until eternal Truth enlighten it.” ― James Clerk Maxwell 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted June 15, 2020 “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” ― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted June 15, 2020 "The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.” ― Derek Landy 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted June 15, 2020 “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” ― Rudyard Kipling 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted June 15, 2020 (edited) Have you ever opened yourself up through the playing of Conch shells? -- me Edited June 15, 2020 by moment Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted June 17, 2020 “I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.” ~ Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted June 17, 2020 Your lungs collapsed, and the machine, unstrained, Did all your breathing now. Nothing remained But death by drowning on an inland sea Of your own fluids, which it seemed could be Kindly forestalled by drugs. Both could and would: Nothing was said, everything understood, At least by us. Your own concerns were not Long-term, precisely, when they gave the shot —You made local arrangements to the bed And pulled a pillow round beside your head. And so you slept, and died, your skin gone grey, Achieving your completeness, in a way. Excerpt from “Lament” by Thom Gunn. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted June 20, 2020 A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. ---------John Muir 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted June 20, 2020 Keep close to Nature's heart-- John Muir 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manitou Posted June 22, 2020 One whose consciousness is extroverted experiences pleasure and pain; the yogi, on the other hand, whose vision is introverted does not entertain ideas of pain and pleasure. Vasistha's Yoga - III:89 Swami Venkatesananda 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted June 25, 2020 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ---Aristotle 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted June 25, 2020 (edited) After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. ------Porcius Marcus Cato Edited June 25, 2020 by moment 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted June 25, 2020 “There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.” —James Carroll 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted June 27, 2020 (edited) "I can explain it to you... but I can't understand it for you." Me to a work-mate on the last show. or when folks are being purposely obtuse, my patience is done and I'm pissy. "I'd try and explain it further... but I don't have enough crayons." Edited June 27, 2020 by silent thunder 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neti neti Posted June 28, 2020 "Justice is not postponed. A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life. Oi chusoi Dios aei enpiptousi, -- The dice of God are always loaded. The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears. If you see smoke, there must be fire. If you see a hand or a limb, you know that the trunk to which it belongs is there behind." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mithras Posted June 28, 2020 (edited) True wisdom derives from no source A mirror reflects a myriad of images, but remains unchanged Edited June 29, 2020 by Mithras 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted June 28, 2020 We are drowning in information while starving for content and wisdom. ~anon 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted June 29, 2020 So shines a good deed, in a weary world. ~Willy Wonka (by way of Roald Dahl) 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SirPalomides Posted June 29, 2020 "Behold, already on the long parades the crows anoint the statues with their dirt..." - Wallace Stevens, "Invective against swans" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted July 3, 2020 In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. ~ Mark Twain 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manitou Posted July 3, 2020 17 minutes ago, silent thunder said: In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. ~ Mark Twain That's quite an observation from Samuel. It makes a real case for self realization. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted July 3, 2020 People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. Carl Jung 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites