cool quotes

[D-Lisch]

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." -Ziggy

 

[Wahwax]

Just think how much deeper the ocean would be if sponges didn't live there.

 

[Wahwax]

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?

 

[Theofilus]

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. - Alice Kahn

 

[freespirit2001]

"How can a healthy adult be so tired at the end of the day when a bird weighing under an ounce can fly nonstop across the Gulf of Mexico?"
~Edwin Pope

 

[freespirit2001]

"One great advantage of modern communication is it lets you know that somewhere the snow is deeper."
---Bill Vaugn

"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
---Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
---A.P. Herbert

"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong without comment."
---Theodore White, The Atlantic

 

[freespirit2001]

"The mystic insight begins with the sense of a mystery unveiled, of a hidden wisdom now suddenly become certain beyond the possibility of a doubt. The sense of certainty and revelation comes earlier than any definite belief...
The first and most direct outcome of the moment of illumination is belief in the possibility of a way of knowledge which may be called revelation or insight or intuition, as contrasted with sense, reason and analysis, which are regarded as blind guides leading to the morass of illusion. Closely connected with this belief is the conception of a Reality behind the world of appearance and utterly different from it. This Reality is regarded with an admiration often amounting to worship; it is felt to be always and everywhere close at hand, thinly veiled by the shows of sense, ready for the receptive mind, to shine in its glory even through the apparent folly and wickedness of Man. The poet, the artist, and the lover are seekers after that glory: the haunting beauty that they persue is the faint reflection of its sun. But the mystic lives in the full light of the vision; what others dimly seek he knows, with a knowledge beside which all other knowldege is ignorance."

---Bertrand Russell Mysticism and Logic (1914)

 

[tulc]

Admonished for his lack of familiarity with modern science, the Indian mystic Sundar Singh asked, “What is science?” “Natural selection, you know, and the survival of the fittest,” he was told. “Ah,” Sundar Singh replied, “but I am more interested in divine selection, and the survival of the unfit.”

 

[freespirit2001]

LOL tulc!!!!...freespirit felt a cool free breeze going through the forum today...must be tulc...(heralds of merriment...)

 

[freespirit2001]

Four Quartets​

Men's curiosity searches past and future ​

Here the impossible union ​

And clings to that dimension.But to apprehend​

Of spheres of existence is actual,​

The point of intersection of the timeless ​

Here the past and future​

With time, is an occupation for the saint--- ​

Are conquered and reconciled,​

No occupation either,but something given ​

Where action were otherwise movement​

And taken, in a lifetime's death in love, ​

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Of that which is only moved​

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Ardour and selflessness and self-surrender.​

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And has in it no source of moved​

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For most of us, there is only the unattended​

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Driven by daemonic,chthonic​

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Moment, the moment in and out of time; ​

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Powers. And right action is freedom​

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The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight,​

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From past and future also.​

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The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightening ​

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For most of us, this is the aim​

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Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply​

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Never here to be realised;​

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That it is not heard at all, but you are the music​

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Who are only the undefeated​

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While the music lasts. These are only hints and guesses,​

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Because we have gone on trying;​

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Hints followed by guesses; and the rest ​

We, content at the last​

Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.​

If our temporal reversion nourish​

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is​

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(Not too far from the yew-tree)​

Incarnation. ​

The life of significant soil.​

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----T.S.ELIOT (1943)
(placed by Raphael's painting Saint George and the Dragon,
A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art)

(The verses are supposed to line up on each half of the page...I wasn't able to aligne each side up properly:o )

 

[Amy]

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?

LOL!!!

 

[tulc]

Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in these times of tension and strife which may, at any moment, become for us all a time of terror, I think to myself: What else is the world interested in? What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships? God is Love. Love casts out fear. Even the most ardent revolutionist, seeking to change the world, to overturn the tables of the money changers, is trying to make a world where it is easier for people to love, to stand in that relationship to each other.
-Dorothy Day

 

[freespirit2001]

"It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social conditions of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are common, and enjoyments which are universal."
----Benjamin Disraeli

 

[WarSong]

"It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social conditions of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are common, and enjoyments which are universal."
----Benjamin Disraeli

Hey you!

 

[tulc]

Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom
or the strong man boast of his strength
or the rich man boast of his riches,
but let him who boasts boast about this:
that he understands and knows me!
-Jer 9:23

 

[hakrev]

My socks are in the dryer.....
-Me 1992 (haven't washed them since )

 

[freespirit2001]

"I repeat....that all power is trust;
that we are accountable for its exercise;
that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist."

"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."

"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage."

---Benjamin Disraeli


Hey Ya'll, WarSong!!! XOXOXOX

 

[User Name]

" no jesus no peace "
" know jesus know peace "

 

[freespirit2001]

"DAAAAYYY-O.........DAY-O....
Daylight Comes and me Wannagohome......"

"If you shoot at mimes...should you use a silencer?"
---Steven Wright

 

[tulc]

Living Community

It is quite easy to found a community. There are always plenty of courageous
people who want to be heroes, are ready to sleep on the floor, to work hard
hours each day, to live in dilapidated houses. It's not hard to camp-anyone
can rough it for a time. The problem comes in living with brothers and
sisters whom we have not chosen but who have been given to us, and in
working ever more truthfully towards the goal. A community is only being
created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great
things, that they are not going to be heroes, but simply live each day with
new hope, like children, in wonderment as the sun rises and in thankfulness
as it sets. Community is only being created when they have recognized that
the greatness of humanity lies in the acceptance of our insignificance, our
human condition, and to thank God for having put in a finite body the seeds
of eternity which are visible in small and daily gestures of love and
forgiveness.
-Jean Vanier