Random good quotes

havent the weird already became pro? :sunny:

purple haze all in my brain lately things dont feel the same..... my dear jummie rip!

thats how i feel lately things are changing to fast for me to keep up with... what happend to love:love: man?

what happend to the world?

 

"There is a chance the world will end in fire. There also is a chance it will end in Ice. But it could just as easily end in Nostalgia and Paperwork," Frank Zappa

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

A few of my favorites:

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. ~ Hermann Hesse

"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity." ~Herman Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it. ~ Hermann Hesse

" This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love." ~Martin Luther King

"I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask,
'Mother, what was war?'" ~ Eve Merriam

"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity." ~Herman Hesse

 

in a cosmic sense..we all are nill

 

Not to denigrate any of the quotes provided, but...

The Eve Merriam quote reminded me of a Jack Handy line I saw years ago, "I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex."

In Eve Merriam's quote it would be, ""I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask,
'Mother, where did I learn to talk?'

Silly I know, but my mind unfortunately never works in straight lines. The doctors have assured my family that I am harmless, and that I'll probably get better in another 70 or so years.

 

This is eastern Caribbean vernacular for "it takes two to tango."

 

If you're going through hell keep going.

 

My dad always used to say, "When you're up to your asshole in alligators it's easy to forget your main objective was to drain the swamp."

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

If your nose runs and your feet smell, you're built upside down!

 

Noses run in my family!

 

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law - Aleister Crowley

 

Speaking of a restaurant in NYC: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

-Yogi Berra

 

"If it has wheels or tits it will give you trouble" A wise old man:wheelchair:

 

"Instant Karma's gonna get 'em, If I don't get 'em first," Bono

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

Here's a kind of universal wise quote, reiterated in slightly different words across the ages by a diverse bunch of ancient 'wise hippies'.

THE GOLDEN RULE

Brahmanism:
This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others
which would cause you pain if done to you.
: Mahabharata 5:1517

Christianity:
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them.
: Matthew 7:12

Islam:
No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother
what which he desires for himself.
: Sunnah

Buddhism:
Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
: Udana Varga 5:18

Judaism:
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen.
That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.
: Talmud, Shabbat 31:a

Confucianism:
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness:
Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.
: Analects 15:23

Taoism:
Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain,
and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.
: T’ai Shag Kan Ying P’ien

Zoroastrianism:
That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto
another whatsoever is not good for itself.
: Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5
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^^ That made me think of this:
TAOISM: Shit happens.
CONFUCIANISM: Confucius say, "Shit happens".
ZEN: (What is the sound of shit happening?)
JESUITISM: If shit happens and when nobody is watching, is it really shit?
ISLAM: Shit happens if it is the will of Allah.
COMMUNISM: Equal shit happens to all people.
CATHOLICISM: Shit happens because you are bad.
PSYCHOANALYSIS: Shit happens because of your toilet training.
SCIENTOLOGY: Shit happens if you're on our shit list.
ZOROASTRIANISM: Bad shit happens, and good shit happens.
UNITARIANISM: Maybe shit happens. Let's have coffee and donuts.
RIGHT-WING PROTESTANTISM: Let this shit happen to someone else.
JUDAISM: Why does shit always happen to US?
REFORM JUDAISM: Got any Kaopectate?
MYSTICISM: What weird shit!
AGNOSTICISM: What is this shit?
ATHEISM: I don't believe this shit!
NIHILISM: Who needs this shit?
AZTEC: Cut out this shit!
QUAKER: Let's not fight over this shit.
FORTEANISM: No shit??
12-STEP: I am powerless to cut the shit.
VOODOO: Hey, that shit looks just like you!
NEWAGE: Visualize shit not happening.
DEISM: Shit just happens.
EXISTENTIALISM: Shit doesn't happen; shit is.
SECULAR HUMANISM: Shit evolves.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: Shit is in your mind.
BUDDHISM: Shit happens, but pay no mind.
SHINTOISM: Shit is everywhere.
HINDUISM: This shit has happened before.
WICCA: Mix this shit together and make it happen!
HASIDISM: Shit never happens the same way twice.
THEOSOPHY: You don't know half of the shit that happens.
DIANETICS: Your mother gave you shit before you were born.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST: No shit on Saturdays.
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: No shit happens until Armageddon.
MOONIES: Only happy shit really happens.
HOPI: Corn fertilizer happens.
BAHA'I: It's all the same shit.
STOICISM: This shit is good for me.
OBJECTIVISM: Our shit is good for you.
EST: If my shit bothers you, that's your fault.
REAGANISM: Don't move; the shit will trickle down.
FASCISM: Shit makes the trains run on time.
CARGO CULT: A barge will come and take all the shit away.
EMACS: Hold down Control-Meta-Shit.
DISCORDIANISM: Some funny shit happened to me today.
RASTAFARIANISM: Let's smoke this shit.
CHARISMATIC: This is not shit and it doesn't smell bad.
MASONIC: Shit happens, but we can't discuss it during Lodge.
RED CROSS: Shit happens - send money.
EVANGELICAL: Praise God in spite of this shit cause this shit ain't gonna last much longer.

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

I’m here to wake up to this day
I’m here to dance the clouds away
I’m here to live and sing my song
And disappear into the Blessed One

- Rumi ​

 

A Psalm of Life

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream! --
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts,
though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
Be not like dumb driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, -- act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked broether,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Life I embrace you,
I shall honor and disgrace you,
Please forgive me if I replace you,
You see I'm going through some pain,

But now I see clearly,
And the dawn is coming nearly,
Though I'm Human and it's early,
I swear I'll never forget again,"

Blues Traveler

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

My favorite quote. I bolded my favorite parts.

We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world."
-Terrence Mckenna