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shamandancer
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Odes of Solomon from The Door of Everything by Ruby Nelson | Quote: | I was crowned by my God, my crown is living.
I received the face and the fashion of a new person
And the thought of truth led me on.
I walked after it and did not wander.
And all that have seen me were amazed
and I was regarded by them
as a strange person.
And She who knew and brought me up is
the Most High in all Her
perfection. And She glorified
me by Her kindness, and raised
my thoughts to the height of
Her truth.
And from thence She gave me the way of
Her precepts and I opened the
doors that were closed.
And broke in pieces the bars of iron
but my iron melted and dissolved
before me:
Nothing appeared closed to me, because
I was the door of everything.
- Odes of Solomon -
~ changes mine ~ |
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SL
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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from John Perry Barlow (born 1947-10-03) an American poet, essayist, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
from 'A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace' written in 1996:
| Quote: | Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. |
| Quote: | You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here. |
| Quote: | Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.
These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. |
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SL
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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from Robert Sapolsky(born 1957), he is a biologist, author and a professor at Stanford University.
| Quote: | I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.
The Trouble With Testosterone (1997) ISBN 068483409X
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| Quote: | Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.
Sapolsky on Religion, Human Behavioral Biology 150/250 (Spring 2002)
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from "Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences", a lecture at Washington State University (10 October 2001)
| Quote: | Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.
Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out that sort of thing.
If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.
What's the punch line here? Physiologically, it doesn't come cheap being a bastard 24 hours a day.
We are not getting our ulcers being chased by Saber-tooth tigers, we're inventing our social stressors and if some baboons are good at dealing with this, we should be able to as well. Insofar as we're smart enough to have invented this stuff and stupid enough to fall of it, we have the potential to be wise enough to keep the stuff in perspective. |
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SL
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| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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from author and artist Mary Anne Radmacher
| Quote: | | courage doesn't always roar, sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying "i will try again tomorrow". |
| Quote: | | change, of any sort, requires courage. |
| Quote: | | the jump is so frightening between where i am and where i want to be... because of all i may become i will close my eyes and leap. |
| Quote: | | it is the tremble of risk which shakes the spirit, confirms courage and reinstates daring! |
| Quote: | | it is not the easy or convenient life for which i search - but rather life lived to the edge of all my possibility. |
| Quote: | | for yesterday i hold no apologies. for tomorrow i offer no answers. today is a gift: i will honor it by fully living in it |
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| Quote: | | live with intention. walk to the edge. listen hard. laugh. practice wellness. play with abandon. continue to learn. appreciate your friends. choose with no regret. do what you love. live as if this is all there is |
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SL
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from Sun Tzu; Sūn Zǐ; (c. 6th century BC) was a Chinese General, military strategist, and author of The Art of War, an immensely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy; also known as Sun Wu (Sūn Wǔ), and Chang Qing (Chαng Qīng).
| Quote: | | There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. |
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shamandancer
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:52 pm Post subject: some quotes I've collected over the years |
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| Quote: | | May my life be a light to guide the lost back to themselves. -Mirabai Starr |
| Quote: | Unity Consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.
-Deepak Chopra |
| Quote: | From a hologrammatic viewpoint, ... you are one little physical image that reflects all of humanity when projected spiritually upon the cosmic screen.
-Wayne Dyer |
| Quote: | Our greatest falls are naught but springboards for the highest ascensions.
-unknown |
| Quote: | The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
-Hans Hofmann |
| Quote: | It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
-Zig Ziglar |
| Quote: | Newday, for see the beauty, give Love.
-unknown |
| Quote: | I am the immeasurable potential of all that was, is, and will be, and my desires are like seeds left in the ground: they wait for the right season and then spontaneously manifest into beautiful flowers and mighty trees, into enchanted gardens and majestic forests.
-Ancient Vedic Sage |
| Quote: | Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
-Joseph Campbell |
| Quote: | Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
-Albert Einstein |
| Quote: | Whatever the mind can conceive, it can achieve
-W Clement Stone |
| Quote: | What you resist persists.
-Carl Jung |
| Quote: | Energy flows where attention goes.
-Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith |
| Quote: | Whether you think you can or think you can't ... either way you are right.
-Henry Ford |
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SL
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (11 October 1884 7 November 1962) was a social activist, first lady and the wife of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
| Quote: | | Do what you feel in your heart to be right for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't." |
As quoted in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1944; 1948) by Dale Carnegie; though Roosevelt has sometimes been credited with the originating the expression, "Damned if you do and damned if you don't" is set in quote marks, indicating she herself was quoting a common expression in saying this.
| Quote: | | Understanding is a two-way street. |
As quoted in Modern Quotations for Ready Reference (1947) by Arthur Richmond, p. 455
| Quote: | | It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. |
Voice of America broadcast (11 November 1951)
| Quote: | | We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. |
The New York Times (1960), as cited in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 156
| Quote: | | Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. |
Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xix
| Quote: | | When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. |
As quoted in Eleanor : The Years Alone (1972) by Joseph P. Lash
| Quote: | | I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. |
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1972) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 5
| Quote: | | Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. |
As quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130
| Quote: | | A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. |
As quoted in The WIt and Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt (1996), p. 199
| Quote: | | The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. |
As quoted in All You Can Do Is All You Can Do, But All You Can Do Is Enough! (1988) by A. L. Williams, p. 73, and in It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2
| Quote: | | When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? |
As quoted in "On The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" by Hillary Rodham Clinton in Issues of Democracy Vol. 3, No. 3 (October 1998), p. 11
from This Is My Story (1937)
| Quote: | No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 1941-06-07
Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give. |
from You Learn by Living (1960)
| Quote: | One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. ... All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
p. 14
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." ... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
p. 29 - 30
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
p. 63 |
from My Day (1935 - 1962)
Her daily newspaper column
| Quote: | It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)
I was one of those who was very happy when the original prohibition amendment passed. I thought innocently that a law in this country would automatically be complied with, and my own observation led me to feel rather ardently that the less strong liquor anyone consumed the better it was. During prohibition I observed the law meticulously, but I came gradually to see that laws are only observed with the consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law. (14 July 1939)
Little by little it dawned upon me that this law was not making people drink any less, but it was making hypocrites and law breakers of a great number of people. It seemed to me best to go back to the old situation in which, if a man or woman drank to excess, they were injuring themselves and their immediate family and friends and the act was a violation against their own sense of morality and no violation against the law of the land. (14 July 1939)
I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could. (8 November 1944) |
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SL
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from Sψren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 11 November 1855) was a Danish philosopher and theologian, considered to be a founder of existentialist thought.
| Quote: | | What if, rather than speaking or dreaming of an absolute beginning, we speak of a leap? |
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (1846)
| Quote: | | Anxiety is neither a category of necessity nor a category of freedom; it is entangled freedom, where freedom is not free in itself but entangled, not by necessity, but in itself. |
| Quote: | | Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into possibility, laying hold of finiteness to support itself. Freedom succumbs in this dizziness. Further than this, psychology cannot and will not go. In that very moment everything is changed, and freedom, when it again rises, sees that it is guilty. Between these two moments lies the leap, which no science has explained and which no science will explain. |
The Concept of Anxiety (1844)
| Quote: | | What feelings, understanding and will a person has depends in the last resort upon what imagination he has how he represents himself to himself, that is, upon imagination. |
The Sickness unto Death (1849) |
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SL
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from Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 February 15, 1988) was an American physicist; in the International Phonetic Alphabet his surname is rendered [ˈfaɪnmən], the first syllable sounding like "fine".
| Quote: | | A poet once said "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imaginations adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the Earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secret of the universe's age, and the evolution of the stars. What strange array of chemicals are there in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on remember that Nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all! |
The New Quantum Universe (2003) by Tony Hey and Patrick Walters; Epilogue
| Quote: | | ...the "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." |
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964) Volume III, p. 18-9
| Quote: | | It's a great game to look at the past, at an unscientific era, look at something there, and say have we got the same thing now, and where is it? So I would like to amuse myself with this game. First, we take witch doctors. The witch doctor says he knows how to cure. There are spirits inside which are trying to get out. ... Put a snakeskin on and take quinine from the bark of a tree. The quinine works. He doesn't know he's got the wrong theory of what happens. If I'm in the tribe and I'm sick, I go to the witch doctor. He knows more about it than anyone else. But I keep trying to tell him he doesn't know what he's doing and that someday when people investigate the thing freely and get free of all his complicated ideas they'll learn much better ways of doing it. Who are the witch doctors? Psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, of course. |
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist (1999) ISBN 0738201669 A collection of three guest lectures Feynman gave at the University of Washington.Third lecture. David Goodstein reports that the entire Psychology department walked out in a huff at this point [3]. |
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Necron99
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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I bet Freud wouldn't have walked out.  The psychologists etc., think they've nailed it all and yet they freely admit that they haven't figured it out... yet. How much longer must we wait? Must we wait or can we look at different angles?  |
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SL
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from Herman Northrop Frye (14 July 1912 23 January 1991), a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.
| Quote: | | Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. |
Words with Power : Being a Second Study of The Bible and Literature (1990), p. xiii |
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SL
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from Yoko Ono (オノ・ヨーコ Ono Yōko, kanji: 小野洋子), (born 18 February 1933), a Japanese-American artist and musician. She is known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician.
| Quote: | | A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. |
A line written by Ono many years before, and quoted by Lennon in December 1980, as quoted in All We Are Saying : The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (2000) by John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, p. 16 |
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SL
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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from Charles John Pedersen (October 3, 1904 October 26, 1989) was an American organic chemist best known for describing methods of synthesizing crown ethers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987.
| Quote: | | Every discovery takes place in more than a scientific context. |
in his Nobel lecture, December 8, 1987. |
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SL
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from Michael Joseph Jackson (29 August 1958 - 25 June 2009) American recording artist
| Quote: | | Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the Creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists. I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing and then, it is the eternal dance of creation. The Creator and the creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing until there is only ... the dance. |
"The Dance" - from inlay sleeve of Dangerous (1991) |
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SL
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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diverse quotations on human sexuality...
| Quote: | | Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body |
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Bell Hooks, 'Teaching to Transgress'
| Quote: | | The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species |
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Alfred Kinsey, 'Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male' (1948)
| Quote: | | Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex |
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Alfred Kinsey, 'Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male' (1948)
| Quote: | | Sex is an emotion in motion |
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