I tend to favor creatures and places rather than people n things...but if i had to pick,Moses,Alan Watts,Alex Grey,Rabindranath Tagore,Alexandre Van Maltzan,and quite a few others. "But there's no use in going back to yesterday,because I was a different person then" AIW "No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy." Herbert Spencer"The best of us still have our aspirations for the supreme goals of life, which is so often mocked by prosperous people who now control the world. We still believe that the world has a deeper meaning than what is apparent, and that therein the human soul finds its ultimate harmony and peace. We still know that only in spiritual wealth does civilization attain its end, not in a prolific production of materials, and not in the competition of intemperate power with power." "Friendship is the bridge between lonely and loved, between a glance and a gaze. It stretches from the fog into sunshine, hopelessness into faith, between despair and joy. It crosses the chasm from hell to heaven, from God to man, and from you to me." Unknown "It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best."E.R. Bulwer-Lytton I was a black widow last night,inna dream.However,all the pleasntly pretty,wonted cricket saw before its demise, was a bewitchingly beautiful,opulent butterfly...And then!All of a quick sudden,green rain exploded from the sky,it seemed,almost a light mist....and the widow crawled around,sniveled,for just one moment,and then proceeded to bathe herself under the neon haze,until the storm DiEd,completely...However,the film never stopped showering,not ultimately,and the mist was her cloying music...THEN,almost instantaneously,she fluttered away~ "People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die."Plato CHeeRs,to the great in everyone. "Midnight criminal metabolism of guilt forest Rattlesnakes whistles catcallsRemove me from this hall of mirrors This filthy glassAre you her Do you look like that How could you be when no one ever could"Jim Morrison~ There was nothing passive about her appearance.She was disciclined to play by the rules and had no intention of suffering alone...oh those silly demons and their tea parties~KRL "...Even Saint Thomas Aquinas let it out that part of the blessedness of the saints in Heaven was that they could look over the battlements and enjoy the "proper justice" of the sinners squirming in Hell.All winners need losers,all saints need sinners;all sages need fools-that is,so long as the major kick in life is to "amount to something" or to "be someone" as a particular or separate g0dlet..."The Book On the Taboo Against knowing who You Are>Alan Watts< "We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." ~William Ralph Inge "There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace."-Kofi Annan Ya gatta keep a smile on your face and a hand on your waist~We each have a mutual appreciation for sass and soul...sure,whatever makes you steady..."Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind." Socrates (~BURNING MAN 2008~)E. B. White: You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web" St. Jafree's Prayer "Just for today... May you know that who you really are is a divine infinite being that cannot die. May you understand that each positive action you choose returns back to you multiplied. May you realize that you are a powerful manifesting being who can create anything your heart desires. May you give generously to others from a place of trust and knowing this is an infinite abundant Universe. May you radiate your love like the Sun with everyone you encounter. May you become a trust-a-holic who can easily let go of any fear that arises. May you experience total freedom from your ego/mind and whatever thought patterns it is addicted to. May you be filled with gratitude and be truly thankful for the smallest of blessings in your life right now. May you enlighten others with your simple sweet divine presence And allow this lightness to radiate to others as laughter, appreciation and love. May you always find great peace at the center of the cyclone of life." How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."Hebert Spencer bat Tzion...מִי ×ַתָּה"What are you doing here? What do you want? Is it music? We can play music. But you want more. You want something & someone new. Am I right? Of course I am. You want ecstasy Desire & dreams. Things not exactly what they seem. I lead you this way, he pulls that way. I'm not singing to an imaginary girl. I'm talking to you, my self. Let's recreate the world. The palace of conception is burning.Look. See it burn. Bask in the warm hot coals.You're too young to be old You don't need to be told You want to see things as they are. You know exactly what I do Everything."J "Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs." "And the colors of the sea blind your eyes with trembling mermaids, And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave ulysses: How his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing, For the sparkling waves are calling you to kiss their white laced lips.And you see a girls brown body dancing through the turquoise, And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea. And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body, Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind." "Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength." George Henry Lewes "All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine." Socrates The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile." Plato "Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves."Albert Camus"Let your life come amongst them like a flame of light, my child, unflickering and pure, and delight them into silence.Come and take your seat in the bosom of the limitless, my child. At sunrise open and raise your heart like a blossoming flower, and at sunset bend your head and in silence complete the worship of the day." Tagore "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." Socrates "How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.â€--Oscar Wilde" It slipped my mind that I could use my brain... "Child of light, I bless you. I pray for you, not in terms of what I think you need, or what I think you should do or be or express. I lift up my thoughts to you. I catch a new vision of you. I see you as a child of light. I see you guided and directed by an inward spirit that leads you unerringly into the path that is right for you. I see you strong and whole. I see you blessed and prosperous. I see you capable and successful. I see you free from bondage of any kind. I see you as the spiritually perfect being you truly are." who wrote this? (our healthy last resort,Miami) "Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." Alan Watts "The darkness has never been able to suffocate the light, just as the light has always illuminated the darkness. So, with these two truths, may we all strive for, seek, and live within the light. May the glow we emit, even to those not yet ready to see, be warmed and comforted by it. May our light be a beacon to guide others to a path of virtue and compassion. May we be as the sun, the life bringer to all life. May we penetrate even the most obscure places and the shadows, aspiring that not a single being left overlooked." " James A. Froude: You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. Toda,shalom