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Post by Tamrin on Dec 29, 2013 20:35:22 GMT 10
I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions them- selves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer
What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you
The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beingsRainer Maria RilkeAustrian writer ( The Book of Hours) (Died this day 1926) Death is the side of life which is turned away from us
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 29, 2013 20:35:59 GMT 10
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?’
I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race
There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country if you are President the trouble happens to you but if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterdayDon MarquisAmerican playwright, novelist and poet ('Archy and Mehitabel) (Died this day 1937) If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 30, 2013 11:35:01 GMT 10
Monday’s Quotes:The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every cruelty, every wrong, reaches back sooner or later and crushes its author. Justice is moral health, bringing happiness, wrong is moral disease, bringing mortal death
There are thousands of men in this state who have great fortunes invested in stocks, bonds and other forms of personal property upon which they do not pay a dollar (in taxes), yet they enjoy all ... of the advantages of government ... Curiously enough, these are very often the men who have the most to say about patriotism and the duties of citizenship
As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights
You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be but one answer. If she does the same quantity and quality of work under the same conditions as a man, simple justice requires that she should be paid the same wages. To deny her this is to deny her justice
The policy of the government in the hands of the Republicans is to take care of the rich on the pretense that the rich will take care of the poor
It is a curious and sad fact that in the long, weary upward march of the human race there was scarcely ever an act proposed for the protection, emancipation or elevation of the poor but met with the most violent opposition from the so-called better classes, as well as from statesmen and philosophers and from many of the clergy
No man can examine the great penal system of this country without being astounded at its magnitude, its cost and its unsatisfactory resultsJohn Peter Altgeld, US politician (Governor-IL) (Born this day 1847) I say that there cannot be in a republic any institution exempt from criticism, and that when any institution is permitted to assume that attitude, it will destroy republican government
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 30, 2013 11:37:48 GMT 10
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
Everyone is more or less mad on one point
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run
And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my sonBro. Rudyard KiplingIndian-born British author ( The Man Who Would be King) (Born this day 1865) Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 30, 2013 11:38:35 GMT 10
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour
The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies
A half-truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike — information and witStephen LeacockEnglish-born Canadian economist, writer and humorist (Born this day 1869) I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 30, 2013 11:39:18 GMT 10
Mind is consciousness, which has limitations. We are originally unlimited and perfect. Later on we take on limitations and become the mind
Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness
See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away — the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness
The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss
There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification
Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realizedSri Ramana MaharshiHindu philosopher and yogi (Maharshi Research Institute) (Born this day 1879) When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 30, 2013 11:45:44 GMT 10
Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic, sly and fantastically organized. It never ever has the illusion of the ability to stand on its own feet and to win in a fair competition. That is why it is ready to use any kind of means without hesitation. And of course it does — under the banners of the most noble ideas
Having failed to finish off conclusively the communist system, we are now in danger of inte- grating the resulting monster into our world. It may not be called communism anymore, but it retained many of its dangerous characteristics... Until the Nuremberg-style tribunal passes its judgment on all the crimes committed by communism, it is not dead and the war is not over
The ultimate purpose of the Soviet Union was to create a new historic entity, the Soviet people, all around the globe. The same is true in the EU today. They are trying to create a new people. They call this people “Europeans”, whatever that means
What you observe, taken into perspective, is a systematic introduction of ideology which could later be enforced with oppressive measures. Apparently that is the whole purpose of Europol. Otherwise why do we need it? To me Europol looks very suspicious. I watch very carefully who is persecuted for what and what is happening, because that is one field in which I am an expert. I know how Gulags spring up
It is always the same thing. It is a trick for idiots. The people have to vote in referendums until the people vote the way that is wanted. Then they have to stop voting. Why stop? Let us continue voting. The European Union is what Americans would call a shotgun marriage
According to Communist doctrine as well as to many forms of Socialist thinking, the state, the national state, is supposed to wither away. In Russia, however, the opposite happened. Instead of withering away the Soviet state became a very powerful state, but the national- ities were obliterated. But when the time of the Soviet collapse came these suppressed feelings of national identity came bouncing back and they nearly destroyed the country
There will be a collapse of the European Union pretty much like the Soviet Union collapsed. But do not forget that when these things collapse they leave such devastation that it takes a generation to recover. Just think what will happen if it comes to an economic crisis. The recrimination between nations will be hugeVladimir BukovskyRussian neurophysiologist, political dissident and author (Born this day 1942) You can press a spring only that much, and the human psyche is very resilient you know. You can press it, you can press it, but don’t forget it is still accumu- lating a power to rebound. It is like a spring and it always goes to overshoot
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 30, 2013 11:46:56 GMT 10
The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivaled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordin- ation. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe
Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all others, and if need be against all others
Never do I hesitate to look squarely at the unexpected face that every passing hour unveils to us, and to sacrifice the false images of it formed in advance, however dear they may be. In me, the love of life in general predominates over love of my own life (that, indeed, would never have sufficed to bear me up). May life herself speak! However inade- quate I may be in listening to her, and in repeating her words, I shall try to record them, even if they contradict my most secret desires. In all that I write, may her will, not mine, be done!
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so
Why be angry because of what you cannot do? We all have to do what we can
I am not all that is. I am Life fighting Nothingness. I am not Nothingness, I am the Fire which burns in the Night. I am not the Night. I am the eternal Light; I am not an eternal destiny soaring above the fight. I am free Will which struggles eternally. Struggle and burn with Me
Romain RollandFrench writer and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1915) (Died this day 1944) I, too, shall wake again
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 30, 2013 11:47:35 GMT 10
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naïve or a salesman
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses
A program that has not been tested does not work
"How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost
If it doesn't compile on my computer — it doesn't existBjarne StroustrupDanish computer scientist (C++ programming language) (Born this day 1950) Proof by analogy is fraud
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 30, 2013 11:50:39 GMT 10
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public
Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive
It turns out that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony — which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. I can’t imagine anything worse than that. Okay, maybe I can, but imagine reading the morning newspaper and believing it all to be true on some level
In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves
In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week
All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family — it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next
Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyesDouglas Coupland, Canadian novelist ( Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture) (Born this day 1961) I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts
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