April 29, 2011
The world will never be truly free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ~ Voltaire
April 25, 2011
Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly perfectly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. In the same way many human institutions are turned over to grossly inferior men. This is true, for example, of most universities, and of all great newspapers. ~ H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2011
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me. ~ Marquis de Sade
April 19, 2011
Follow your heart and you'll be fine. Follow your dreams; they're the key to everything. ~ Unknown
April 18, 2011
By the age of ten I knew I was different. I didn't need to convince anyone else to know the truth of it. ~ Ann Brasher (from "My Name Is Memory")
April 17, 2011
The Buddha didn't describe his awakening as an awakening to some absolute truth or absolute reality, perhaps comparable to God as we would find in other religious traditions. Instead, what he woke up to is the unfolding of the phenomenal world itself. This I think is what is so radical in the Buddha’s understanding of spiritual experience. It doesn’t have to do with gaining some privileged access to a higher truth that somehow transcends the messiness of everyday life. Rather, his awakening was an awakening to the flux and the flow, the pain, the beauty, the tragedy, and the joy of life itself. ~ Stephen Batchelor (from "Awakening to Life, Awakening to Death")
April 16, 2011
Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it. ~ Maya Angelou
April 15, 2011
Sometimes you need to hang on to someone else's hope, someone else's peace and sanity while your's is under siege. Do it. Courage, hope, faith, sanity, peace... they all come and go. Borrow them from someone else's supply until your own comes back in. ~ Linda Mundy
April 14, 2011
Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. Its about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater. ~ Nicholas Evans (from "The Horse Whisperer")
April 13, 2011
There are too many jokes made at the expense of opera. ~ Unknown (from "What People on the Tube are Saying, May 23, 2002")
April 11, 2011
Never over look the power of simplicity. ~ Robin Sharma (from "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Dreams")
April 10, 2011
Sitting by a teapot in a room bathed with pure breezes and moonbeams, one can read the mind of Heaven in every thing. Walking along a running brook in the clouded mountain, one can observe the mysteries of Tao in every moment. ~ Hung Ying-ming
April 09, 2011
The Sahara Desert is like no other place I've ever been. It's trippy. It is in a way a living thing. It is beautiful and brutal. It is like space or the sea, its is huge and it doesn't care what happens to you when you're in it. ~ Henry Rollins
April 08, 2011
I don't have an attitude problem; you have a perception problem. ~ Scott Adams, as Dilbert
April 07, 2011
He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment. ~ Ivern Ball
April 06, 2011
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~ Abba Eban
April 04, 2011
Imagination is more important than knowledge for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world. ~ Albert Einstein
April 03, 2011
Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise. ~ Unknown (Adorns a lintel in the Shakespeare and Company bookshop, Paris)
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