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Post by Tamrin on Feb 20, 2014 8:29:15 GMT 10
Let this hell be our heaven
Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This quest for enlightenment must begin now
It is essential that all men and women become aware of what they are, why they are here on Earth and what they must do to preserve civilization before it is too late
It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements
The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
Heaven would never be heaven without youRichard Burton MathesonAmerican author and screenwriter (fantasy, horror & science fiction) (Born this day 1926) I am legend
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 20, 2014 8:30:16 GMT 10
As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents
My mother is a Bahamian. My father is a Bahamian, as am I, ... And all that I am, I've received from them and a country that has today given me the opportunities, and to my grandchildren, that I have never dreamt of
As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey
A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being
Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value — to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you
Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred processSir Sidney Poitier, KBEBahamian actor, film director, author, and diplomat (Born this day 1927) I am the me I choose to be
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 20, 2014 8:31:15 GMT 10
The sun is gone but I have a light
I miss the comfort in being sad
Yes I eat cow I am not proud
I need you around to remind me what not to become
Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evalu- ation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?
To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.
I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers meKurt CobainAmerican lead singer, songwriter and guitarist ( Nirvana) (Born this day 1967) All in all is all we are
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 20, 2014 8:33:12 GMT 10
When the going gets weird the weird turn professional
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously
Pray to God, but row away from the rocksHunter S ThompsonAmerican journalist and author (Gonzo journalism) (Died this day 2005) Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 21, 2014 7:32:26 GMT 10
Friday’s Quotes:Desire is the very essence of man
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself
I call him free who is led solely by reasonBaruch SpinozaDutch Jewish philosopher (Died this day 1677) Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand!
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 21, 2014 7:33:09 GMT 10
Ability is sexless
Growth is the only evidence of life
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believingJohn Henry NewmanEnglish cardinal and author ( Dream of Gerontius) (Born this day 1801) To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 21, 2014 7:35:03 GMT 10
There is a great beauty in simplicity
The most important surrender is the surrender of your character, your way of being, so that it may change. If you do not surrender your very own nature, never will this nature change
The will is … the capacity to concentrate on everything one does, do it as best one can and not stop doing it unless one receives a very precise intimation that it is finished
One need not leave the earth to find the Truth, one need not leave the life to find his soul, one need not abandon the world or have only limited beliefs to enter into relation with the Divine
Be courageous, enduring, and vigilant and above all, be sincere, with perfect honesty. Then you will be able to face all difficulties
Daily we must aspire to conquer all mistakes, all obscurities, and all ignorance
What you are not able to do today, you will achieve tomorrow. Persevere and you shall conquerMirra Alfassa (“The Mother”)French-born Indian spiritual leader (Born this day 1878) Do not pretend — be. Do not promise — act. Do not dream — realize
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 21, 2014 7:36:17 GMT 10
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman
People living deeply have no fear of deathAnaïs NinFrench novelist ( Winter of Artifice, House of Incense) (Born this day 1903) We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 21, 2014 7:37:16 GMT 10
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology
All that we are not stares back at what we are
Thou shalt not answer questionnaires or quizzes upon world affairs, nor with compliance take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians, nor commit a social scienceW. H. AudenUS poet ( Age of Anxiety, Pulitzer 1948) (Born this day 1907) The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 21, 2014 7:39:31 GMT 10
It may be expedient but it is not just that some should have less in order that others may prosper
A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust
Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others
The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them
Many conservative writers have contended that the tendency to equality in modern social movements is the expression of envy. In this way they seek to discredit this trend, attributing it to collectively harmful impulses
One who lacks a sense of justice lacks certain fundamental attitudes and capacities included under the notion of humanity. Now the moral feelings are admittedly unpleasant, in some extended sense of unpleasant; but there is no way for us to avoid a liability to them without disfiguring ourselves. This liability is the price of love and trust, of friendship and affection, and of devotion to institutions and trad- itions from which we have benefited and which serve the general interests of man- kind ... by understanding what it would be like not to have a sense of justice — that it would be to lack part of our humanity too — we are led to accept our having this sense
The difference principal, for example, requires that the higher expectations of the more advantaged contribute to the prospects of the least advantagedJohn RawlsAmerican professor of moral and political philosophy ( A Theory of Justice) (Born this day 1921) Ideal legislators do not vote their interests
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