[Guest]

“Poor people aren’t necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn’t mean you’re willing to kill.”
—President George W. Bush May 19, 2003

[Guest]

"Fuel, except to cook his food, is then unnecessary; the sun is his fire, and many of the fruits are sufficiently cooked by its rays..."

"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."

"...when the smoke is blown away and the vapor condensed, it will be preceived that a few are riding, but the rest are run over,--and it will be called, and will be, "A melancholy accident."


Henry David Thoreau

[EnviroEngr]

The longest journey is
the journey inward. . . .
The road to holiness
necessarily passes through
the world of action.

DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD

[EnviroEngr]

The greatest thing
in the world is to
know how to belong
to ourselves.

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

[Markos101]

"We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." -- John Swinton, New York Times editor, 1953

[EnviroEngr]

“Bring me a fig,” said the sage, Uddalaka, to his son.
“Here it is, father.”
“Break it open. What do you see inside?”
“Some rather tiny seeds, father.”
“Break one of them open. What do you see inside?”
“Nothing at all, father.”
“From the inside of this tiny seed, which seems to be
nothing at all, this whole fig tree grows.
That is the Real.
That is atman. That art thou, my son.”

HINDU MONDO

[EnviroEngr]

As for sitting in meditation, that is
something which must include fits of
ecstatic blissful laughter—brayings
that will make you slump to the ground
clutching your belly, and even after
that passes and you struggle to your
feet, will make you fall anew in further
contortions of side-splitting mirth.

HAKUIN

[pup55]

"We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land."

Herbert Hoover, 1928

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/hh31.html

[schajw]

"Mom's gonna fix it all soon
Mom's comin' 'round to put it back the way it ought to be"

- Tool

[pip]

"The road goes on forever and the party never ends"

-Robert Earl Keen Jr.

[jato]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')om's gonna fix it all soon
Mom's comin' 'round to put it back the way it ought to be

[Terran]

"Its not easy to become Sane.' -George Orwell 1984"

[Soft_Landing]

[Saddam] has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours
- Colin Powell Feb 2001

We are able to keep arms from [Saddam]. His military forces have not been rebuilt
- Condi Rice July 2001

To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability.
- George Bush Snr 1998

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I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes ... to spread a lively terror
- Winston Churchill 1919

If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as admirable (as Hitler) to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations
- Winston Churchill 1937

[EnviroEngr]

An optimist is a person who
sees a green light everywhere,
while a pessimist sees only the
red stoplight. . . . The truly wise
person is color-blind.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

[EnviroEngr]

Life and death are of supreme
importance.
Time swiftly passes by and opportunity
is lost.
Each of us should strive to awaken.
Awaken. Take heed, do not squander
your life.

EVENING CHANT

[EnviroEngr]

Pride means the end
of wisdom.

JAPANESE PROVERB

[EnviroEngr]

It is just like learning archery;
eventually you reach a point
where ideas are ended and
feelings forgotten, and then you
suddenly hit the target.

YING-AN

[EnviroEngr]

[b][size=134]Once some pilgrims came upon
an old Sufi digging through
dirt on the side of a road.
When asked what he was looking for,
he replied: “A treasure I have lost.â€

[EnviroEngr]

Humility collects the soul into a single
point by the power of silence. A truly
humble man has no desire to be known or
admired by others, but wishes to plunge
from himself into himself, to become
nothing as if he never had been born.
When he is completely hidden to himself
in himself, he is completely with God.

ISAAC OF NINEVEH

[EnviroEngr]

Reality is perceived
through your own body.

VIMALAKIRTI SUTRA