Peace is the only battle worth waging.
- Albert Camus

Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being.
- Adolpho Perez Esquival

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
- Carlos Santana

If you want peace, work for justice.
- Pope Paul VI

Peace, like charity, begins at home.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

That’s all nonviolence is - organized love.
- Joan Baez

A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn’t because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. … We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.
- Senator John Kerry (Born December 11, 1943)

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Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace amid the storm.
- Alcoholics Anonymous

One man in the right makes a majority.
- Abraham Lincoln

To save one life, it is as if you had saved the world.
- Talmud

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Don’t think, just do.
- Horace

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
- Philip K. Dick

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
- Marquis de Sade

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
- Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home.
- William Wordsworth

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A thorn in the foot is hard to find.
What about a thorn in the heart?
If everyone saw the thorn in his heart,
when would sorrow gain the upper hand?
- Mevlana Rumi

Translated by Camille and Kabir Helminski

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When will you begin your long journey into yourself?
- Rumi

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
- Blaise Pascal

Peace is a daily,a weekly,a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures
- John F. Kennedy

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
- Marvin Gaye

But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held up as another small piece of proof that it can be this way, it doesn’t have to be that way; if there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it heavy walls, and we will furnish it with soft red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler’s felt so that we should never hear it.

Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is either a daring adventure.. or nothing.
- Helen Keller

The sacred heart is a secret heart.
- Swami Satchidananda

When your thoughts, speech and actions all go together, then they will bear fruit.
- Integral Yoga

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Today, the values of democracy, open society, respect for human rights, and equality are becoming recognized all over the world as universal values. To my mind there is an intimate connection between democratic values, such as transparency, the rule of law and freedom of information, and the fundamental values of human goodness.
- Dalai Lama

Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats dominate our political, economic and cultural systems.
- Cornel West

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s JOY.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
- Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
- Adlai E. Stevenson

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
- Marvin Gaye

If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
- Joan Baez

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
- Howard Zinn

We always have a choice: we can limit our perception so that we close off vastness, or we can allow vastness to touch us.
- Chögyam Trungpa

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
- Louis D. Brandeis

Nothing happens unless first we dream.
- Carl Sandburg

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
- Basho

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world.
- Max Born (Born December 11, 1882)

The classical Greeks were not influenced by the classical Greeks.
-Principia Discordia

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
- Bernard Meltzer

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
- Thomas Carlyle

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
- Thaddeus Golas



Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his METHOD must inexorably choose falsehood as his PRINCIPLE.

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?

I believe that world literature has it in its power to help mankind, in these its troubled hours, to see itself as it really is, notwithstanding the indoctrinations of prejudiced people and parties.

They were mistaken, and will always be mistaken, who prophesy that art will disintegrate, that it will outlive its forms and die. It is we who shall die — art will remain.

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers — such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

I am of course confident that I will fulfil my tasks as a writer in all circumstances — from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer’s pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions — especially selfish ones.

At no time has the world been without war. Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years. Neither the wisest of leaders, nor the noblest of kings, nor yet the Church — none of them has been able to stop it. And don’t succumb to the facile belief that wars will be stopped by hotheaded socialists. Or that rational and just wars can be sorted out from the rest. There will always be thousands of thousands to whom even such a war will be senseless and unjustified. Quite simply, no state can live without war, that is one of the state’s essential functions. … War is the price we pay for living in a state. Before you can abolish war you will have to abolish all states. But that is unthinkable until the propensity to violence and evil is rooted out of human beings. The state was created to protect us from evil. In ordinary life thousands of bad impulses, from a thousand foci of evil, move chaotically, randomly, against the vulnerable. The state is called upon to check these impulses — but it generates others of its own, still more powerful, and this time one-directional. At times it throws them all in a single direction — and that is war.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Born December 11, 1918)

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can’t even describe and aren’t even aware of.

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
- Ellen Goodman





Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim — that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
- George Mason (Born December 11, 1725)

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
- Jean Cocteau

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
- Vincent Van Gogh

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
- Audrey Hepburn

You really can change, your reality is based on the way you think.
- Oprah

The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Go in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Born December 11, 1931)

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
- Peace Quotes

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“Explanation: Created as planet Earth sweeps through dusty debris from mysterious, asteroid-like, 3200 Phaethon, the annual Geminid Meteor Shower should be the best meteor shower of the year. The Geminids are predicted to peak on the night of December 13/14, but you can start watching for Geminid meteors this weekend. The best viewing is after midnight in a dark, moonless sky, with the shower’s radiant constellation Gemini well above the horizon - a situation that favors skygazers in the northern hemisphere. In this picture from the 2009 Geminid shower, a bright meteor with a greenish tinge flashes through the sky over the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California, USA. Recognizable in the background are bright stars in the northern asterism known as the Big Dipper, framing the meteor streak.”

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving…

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away
- Paulo Coelho

Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.
- Alan Moore

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
- Kahlil Gibran

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.”
- Johann Ludwig Tieck

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
- Billy Wilder

And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
- Marlon Brando

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
- Walt Whitman

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
- Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.

You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
- Milan Kundera

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche



The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women.
I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone’s ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.
I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.
I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we’ll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds.
I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman.
I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it’s aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there’s a cat in a box somewhere who’s alive and dead at the same time (although if they don’t ever open the box to feed it it’ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck.
I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too.
I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman’s right to choose, a baby’s right to live, that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
- Neil Gaiman

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
- Siddhārtha Gautama

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less rational, less peaceful than he knows how to be, than he is fully capable of being. He has been led astray from the ways of peace and brotherhood by his addiction to concepts and attitudes of narrow nationalism, racial and religious bigotry, greed and lust for power.
- Ralph J. Bunche

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
- Avram Noam Chomsky (Born December 7, 1928)

Peace is a chain reaction of love.
- A First Grader

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.
- Mohammad Ali Jinnah

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

Transparency, info, clarity & interpretation, are required for a deep democracy. That’s why Wikileaks is a challenge to the powers that be.
- Cornel West

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don’t read.
- Heywood C. Broun (Born December 7, 1888)

Oh, if a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died what one man’s life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world?
- Harry Chapin



The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
- Willa Cather (Born December 7, 1973)

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
- Thornton Wilder (Died December 7, 1975)

It’s an alethiometer. It’s one of only six that were ever made. Lyra, I urge you again: keep it private. … It tells you the truth. As for how to read it, you’ll have to learn by yourself. Now go — it’s getting lighter…
- Philip Pullman (Quote from The Golden Compass (1995) the movie adaptation opening on December 7, 2007)

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed. - Algernon Sydney (Executed on this date, no birthdate known)

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War is fear cloaked in courage.
- William C. Westmoreland

You are a precious gift of God….now go be who you are.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path
- Morpheus, The Matrix

Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
- A. G. Bell

Literature is a state of culture. Poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
- Juan Ramon Jimenez

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All know the way, but few actually walk it
- Bodhidharma

For beautiful lips, speak words of kindness.
- Audrey Hepburn

There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.

This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love!

The fish needs to say “Something ain’t right about this camel ride- and I’m feeling so damn thirsty”
- Hafiz

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.
- 2pac

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
- Basho

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
- Plato

Your life is always perfect: you are always at the right place at the right time.
- Salerno

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I’ve discovered that the fastest way “to find God” is to find each other. To
stop hiding out from each other, of course, we must stop hiding from
ourselves.
- Neale Donald Walsch

If I adore You out of fear of Hell,
Burn me in Hell!
If I adore you out of desire for Paradise
Lock me out of Paradise.
But if I adore you for Yourself alone,
Do not deny to me Your eternal beauty
- Rabia al-Basri



This poetry. I never know what I’m going to say.
I don’t plan it.
When I’m outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

‎The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

I pretended to leap to see if I could live there. Someday I must actually arrive there or nothing will be left to arrive.

O lovers, lovers it is time
to set out from the world.
I hear a drum in my soul’s ear
coming from the depths of the stars.
Our camel driver is at work;
the caravan is being readied.
He asks that we forgive him
for the disturbance he has caused us,
He asks why we travelers are asleep.
Everywhere the murmur of departure;
the stars, like candles
thrust at us from behind blue veils,
and as if to make the invisible plain,
a wondrous people have come forth.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

And just the moment
when you are all confused
leaps forth a voice
hold me close
I’m love and
………I’m always yours.

Before a flower can open in His rose garden thousands of thotns come to pierce it. Although the soul has received only grief from Him, Love has made her turn away from all worldly attachments: She has preferred this anguish to all rewards. She has chosen suffering above all joys. In her eyes, His thorn is more glorious than any flower, His lock more precious than all other keys, His tyranny victorious over all earthly happiness. The poison of His anger transforms itself into tenderness, His refusal is worth far more than the agreement of others. Cornelian and happiness of supreme lover of God-All the joys of this world are nothing to it.

Silence
You are the diamond in me
the Jewel of my real wealth!
From your soft earth
grow thousands
of rose gardens
whose perfumes
drown me
in my heart.

My love, you are closer to me than myself,
you shine through my eyes.
Your light is brighter than the Moon.
Step into the garden
so all the flowers,
even the tall poplar
can kneel before your beauty.

Let your voice silence he lily
famous for its hundred tounges
When you want to be kind
you are Softer than the soul
but when you widraw
You can be so cold and harsh

The Buraq of love has taken my mind as well as my heart, do not ask me where. I have reached such a realm that there is no moon, nor day. I have reached a world where the world is no longer the world.

And just the moment
when you are all confused
leaps forth a voice
hold me close
I’m love and
I’m always yours.

That barbed wire on your path is the mind
Cut the wire and your path clearly find.
Heart trickster, soul veil and mind bind
To find the path you must put all three behind.
When you transcend heart and soul as well as mind
…It is like giving sight to the blind.

There is no salvation for the soul
but to fall in Love.
Only lovers can escape
out of these two worlds.
This was ordained in creation.
Only from the heart
can you reach the sky:
The Rose of Glory
can grow only from the heart.

‎I want to see you.
Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come ‘round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come
into a room you’ve just left.

Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.

I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
“more”

Let the beauty we love be what we do

The grapes of my body can only become wineAfter the winemaker tramples me.I surrender my spirit like grapes to his tramplingSo my inmost heart can blaze and dance with joy.Although the grapes go on weeping blood and sobbing“I cannot bear any more anguish, any more cruelty”The trampler stuffs cotton in his ears: “I am not working in ignoranceYou can deny me if you want, you have every excuse, But it is I who am the Master of this Work. And when through my Passion you reach Perfection,You will never be done praising my name.

And if every way is closed before you, the secret one will show a secret path no other eyes have seen.

I hear nothing in my ear but your voice.
Heart has plundered mind of its eloquence.

Love writes a transparent calligraphy, so on
the empty page my soul can read and recollect.

My beloved grows
right out of my own heart
how much more union can there be

Do you want to enter paradise?
To walk to the path of Truth, you need the grace of GOD.
We all face death in the end.
But on the way, be careful, never to hurt a human heart

You’ve no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.
What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean.
Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient.
It’s no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these.
So- I’ve brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me

Because of love
I have become
the giver of light.

Only You
i choose
among the entire world

is it fair
of you
letting me be unhappy?

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,
…they’re in each other all along.

if you pass your night
and merge it with dawn
for the sake of heart
what do you think will happen?

if the entire world
is covered with the blossoms
you have labored to plant
what do you think will happen?

if the elixir of life
that has been hidden in the dark
fills the desert and towns
what do you think will happen?

if because of
your generosity and love
a few humans find their lives
what do you think will happen?

if you pour an entire jar
filled with joyous wine
on the head of those already drunk
what do you think will happen?

go my friend
bestow your love
even on your enemies
if you touch their hearts
what do you think will happen?

what is it you seek everyday n everynight…..
if it is pleasure it will elude you
if it is contentment pleasure will be at your feet..

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

My sweet heart,
you have aroused my passion,
your touch has filled me with desire,
I am no longer separate from you,
these are precious moments,
I beseech you,
don’t let me wait,
let me merge with you.

Don’t mind the destination,
Don’t mind the end.

Don’t mind the good or bad
or right and wrong.
Grow from the past,
But grab hold of now.
Now is always evolving.
Listen my love,

As you walk this eternal path,
Show courage by remaining guiltless
in the midst of an ever-reaching end.

Don’t expect to find any more in me
Than what you give
Don’t search for Hidden pockets
Because I have shown you that
All I have is all you gave…

Death comes, and what we thought
we needed loses importance.

The living shiver, focused
on a muscular dark hand,
rather than the glowing cup it holds
or the toast being proposed.

In that same way love enters
your life, and the I, the ego,
a corrupt, self-absorbed king,
dies during the night.

Let him go.
Breathe cold new air,
the nothing of roselight.

All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that,
and I intend to end up there

This is how I would die into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud dissolve in Sunlight.

People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another.

When I see your face, the stones start spinning.
You appear. All studying wanders.
I lose my place.

Water turns pearly.
Fire dies down and does not consume.

In your presence I do not want
what I thought I wanted,
those three little hanging lamps.

Inside your face the ancient manuscripts
seem like rusty mirrors.
You breathe, and new shapes appear.

The music of a desire as widespread as spring
begins to move like a great wagon.

Drive slowly.
Some of us walking alongside are lame.

Oh soul,you worry too much.

You have seen your own strength.

You have seen your own beauty.

You have seen your golden wings.

Of anything less, why do you worry?

You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.

Rationality
He who perceives Your chain-like, linked tress-on-tress and then stays “rational” is mad.

Today, like every other day, we wake up emptyand frightened. Don’t open the door to the studyand begin reading. Take down the dulcimer.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Mevlana Rumi

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“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
- William Wordsworth

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“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.”
- Helen Keller

“I do not believe that friendship today can flower out — can come out — of political life. I do believe that if there is something like a political life-to-be — to remain for us, in this world of technology — then it begins with friendship.

The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring.

Learned and leisured hospitality is the only antidote to the stance of deadly cleverness that is acquired in the professional pursuit of objectively secured knowledge. I remain certain that the quest for truth cannot thrive outside the nourishment of mutual trust flowering into a commitment to friendship.

I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is hospitality. A practice of hospitality— recovering threshold, table, patience, listening, and from there generating seedbeds for virtue and friendship on the one hand — on the other hand radiating out for possible community, for rebirth of community.”
- Ivan Illich (Died December 2, 2002)

“Ultimately, leadership requires action: daring to take steps that are necessary but unpopular, challenging the status quo in order to reach a brighter future. And to push for peace is ultimately personal sacrifice, for leadership is not easy. It is born of a passion, and it is a commitment. Leadership is a commitment to an idea, to a dream, and to a vision of what can be. And my dream is for my land and my people to cease fighting and allow our children to reach their full potential regardless of sex, status, or belief.”
- Benazir Bhutto (became first female Prime Minister of Pakistan on 2 December 1988)

“It is not enough to have a beautiful voice. What does that mean? When you interpret a role, you have to have a thousand colors to portray happiness, joy, sorrow, fear. How can you do this with only a beautiful voice? Even if you sing harshly sometimes, as I have frequently done, it is a necessity of expression. You have to do it, even if people will not understand. But in the long run they will, because you must persuade them of what you’re doing.”
- Maria Callas (Born December 2, 1923)

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“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
- William Blake (Born November 28, 1757)

“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”
- George Washington



“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

Security is mostly a superstition… Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
- Helen Keller

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“Where they burn books, sooner or later they will also burn people.”
- Heinrich Heine

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“Love is the distance between reality and pain.”
- Robyn Hitchcock

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“Put every great teacher together in a room, and they’d agree about everything, put their disciples in there and they’d argue about everything.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.

The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.

Taoist philosophy … is essentially monistic. … Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE.

We have finally come back to the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, who said everything is flow, flux, process. There are no “things.”

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed.

We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever

Emptiness the starting point.

The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man’s mind can conceive and believe.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. OPEN yourelf and flow, my friend. Flow in the TOTAL OPENESS OF THE LIVING MOMENT. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.”
- Bruce Lee



“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘Thank You’, that would suffice.

The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.”
- Meister Eckhart

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“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher — a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It’s the surest path to obscurity.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people if he’s any good.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.

Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain;
God is his own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.”
- William Cowper (Born November 26, 1731)

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“It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.”
- Ellen G. White (Born November 26, 1827)

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“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man … there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.”
- Albert Camus

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“The battle to save life is still going on. … This battle to save life will eventually be won. … Blind faith in established experience has been shattered, outmoded regulations have been smashed.

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.”
- Ba Jin (Born November 25, 1904)

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“Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.”
- Tecumseh

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“Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.”
- Lao Tzu

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“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.”
- Maya Angelou

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
- David Viscott

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“An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in “inventing” something. It’s an arrogance that some enjoy, and others do not. Now I reach beyond arrogance when I proclaim that fractals had been pictured forever but their true role remained unrecognized and waited for me to be uncovered.

My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.”
- Benoît Mandelbrot (Born November 20, 1924)

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“A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.

Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly. … Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
Quoting George Bernard Shaw
- Robert F. Kennedy (Born November 20, 1925)

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“Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

The Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.”
- Nadine Gordimer (Born November 20, 1923)

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“The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.”
- Margot Fonteyn

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“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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