I HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT:
“I'm the man I am today, thanks to Albert Hofmann and Buddha†: Robert Anton
"Men under the guidance of reason, desire nothing for themselves which they do not desire for the rest of mankind" : Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677
"Brainwash yourself before somebody nasty beats you to it" : Rob Brezsny
"Our highest duty as human beings is to search out a means whereby beings may be freed from all kinds of unsatisfactory experience and suffering" : H.H. Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th. Dalai Lama
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth" : Albert Einstein
"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 feelings 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. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security" : Albert Einstein
"We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body - a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange. ." : Alan Watts
"I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end" : Albert Schweitzer
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religionâ€: Thomas Paine
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government†: Thomas Jefferson
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Second Paragraph, The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies, July 4, 1776
"If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more wonders" : Andrew Harvey
Since everything is but an apparition
perfect in being what it is,
having nothing to do with good or bad,
acceptance or rejection.
One may well burst out in laughter! :Longchenpa
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My humanity is wrapped up in yours, for we can only be human together: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself: Jane Addams
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you can help them become what they are capable of being." : Goethe
"...that until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned;
that until there is no longer any first-class and second-class citizens of any nation;
that until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes;
that until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all, without regard to race
-- until that day, the dreams of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion,
to be pursued but never attained: H.I.M. HAILE SELASSIE I -
The essence of peace is to connect two opposites
If you see somebody whose opinion is the very opposite of yours, don't believe that it is impossible to be at peace with him.
Also, if you see two people (peoples) that are two opposites - don't say it is impossible to make peace between them.
On the contrary, that is the essence of the completeness of peace - to make peace prevail between two opposites:
Rabbi Nachman of Bratislav, 1772-1811
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming - WOW---What A Ride!" : Unknown
"Politricks is wicked fuckery" : Bob Marley
"The stars are matter,
We're matter,
But it doesn't matter" : Don van Vliet (Capt. Beefheart)
Welease Wodger!!
That's enuff about me, let's talk about you, naaahh! Let's just get it on!!!
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