"For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have a heart, on any path that may have a heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I travel--looking, looking, breathlessly." Don Juan Matus
When the heart knows no danger, no danger exists. When the soul becomes the warrior, all fear melts, as the snowflake that falls upon your hand. –Master Poe
'Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.' -Adam Smith
"Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it--what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone." -Don Juan Matus
" The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can."- Thomas Jefferson " Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that."- Thomas Jefferson
• "That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." --John Stuart Mill, On Liberty • "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." --Thomas Paine
"We are given two things in life;...the first thing is our name,the second is our word......if you can't keep your word then your name ain't worth a shit!!!" I ain't famous,but this is a quote of mine I have lived my life by.
"Everywhere I go, I see organic cooperatives, community based groups all comming together localy. We could be winning and not even know it." Utah Phillips
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. (Frank Zappa)
"The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking man is bound to rebel against. Who makes up the majority in any given country? Is it the wise men or the fools? I think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority, all the wide world over. But, damn it, it can surely never be right that the stupid should rule over the clever! --Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), An Enemy of the People
Science: a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. - James Randi
"Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift, that's why it's called the present." "Don't always beleive what you read and beleive only half of what you hear."