If you think you can or you think you can't your always right!
If you try to aim for it you are turning away from it.
One should count each day as a seperate life!
Zen is merely the art of the uncovering of inherent knowledge.
Zen is seeing into ones own nature.
We were put here to awaken through a certian number of expierences.RD.
To live by the bible is to have laws and limits, fear and anger, bad and good, and to live your life by a seperate system of laws and limits, etc... is to go against the grain of the natural flow of life.
You are the laws of the universe!
The journey across the great ocean of existence is a journey inward even deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet the truth.
Don't shed blood shed hatred! India.
The more sweat for peace, the less blood for war!
No truely meaningful expierence can be communicated to another, accept in his own modes of living.
No human being is without ancestors of whom one could be proud, over 1000 years every man and woman has had a million ancestors. Nothing that was accomplished by a million people over a 1000 years is irrelevant to any person.
When you are commited to doing right, righteousness will never betray you.
John Africa.
When you do not oppose a system, your silence becomes approval, for it does nothing to interrupt the system! MAJ.
Many people say that it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.! MAJ.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.TJ
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Thomas Jefferson
"Reformation in government follows reformation in opinion. Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one. Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1815.
When patience has begotten false estimates of its motives, when wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality. Thomas Jefferson to M. deStael, 1807. ME 11:282
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson: his motto.
The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitations are removed. Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Religion, 1776.
Can it be believed that a grateful people will suffer [individuals] to be consigned to execution, whose sole crime has been the developing and asserting their rights. Thomas Jefferson to William Small, 1775.
The advance of liberalism... [encourages] the hope that the human mind will some day get back to the freedom it enjoyed two thousand years ago. Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1821.
I'd like to meet:
Everyone who is living and learning, growing and showing. Anyone who is open minded and ready for change. I love hearing from beautiful people such as yourself! You are here to teach me something, what is it?
Music:
Jazz, Soul, R&B, Rock, Ragas, Rage, Reggae, Roots, Funk, hip-hop, bee-bop, Fusion, World, Percussion, Middle eastern, Classical, etc..... To name a few. Art Blakey, Antibalas, Anthrax, Tony Allen, India Arie, Cannonball Adderly, Louis Armstrong, Airto, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, Arrested Development, Count Basie, Blackalicous, Andy Bey, Dean Bowman, Buckethead, Will Bernard, Gary Burton, Buju Banton, Gato Barbieri, Blind Melon, Bonerama, James Brown, Black Sabbath, Burning Spear, Beastie Boys, Billy Cobham, Cymande, Joe Cocker, Eryka Badu, Kenny Burrell, Patricia Barber, George Benson, The Beatles, The Brecker Bros, Donald Byrd, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Candido, Les Claypool, Ron Carter, James Carter, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Common, Mike Clark, Stanley Clark, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Hank Crawford, Ornette Coleman, Club Delf, Charlie Hunter, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Chick Corea, Cream, Eric Clapton, Critters Buggin, Lou Donaldson, Mike Dillion, Al Di Meola, Dead can Dance, Digible Planets, Digital Underground, Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Dave Douglas, Eric Dolphy,Drums and Tuba, Dirty Dozen, Jack DeJohnette, Dexter Gordon, Duke Ellington, DJ Logic, DJ Shadow, The Doors, Richard Davis, Miles Davis, George Duke, Karl Denson, Bill Evans, Charles Earland, Gil Evans, Cesarie Evora, Kurt Elling, Ella FitzGerald, Fela Kuti, Maynard Ferguson, Funk Inc, Michael Franti, Roberta Flack, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Faith No More, Fertile Ground, Red Garland, Tommy Guerrero, Jeao and Bebel Giberto, Grant Green, Stan Getz, Galactic, Garage A Trois, Garage Mahal, Dizzy Gillespie, Gangstarr, Greyboy Allstars, Guru, Al Green, Greatful Dead, G Love, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Coleman Hawkins, Hairy Apes BMX, Stefon Harris, Bobby Humphrey, Eddie Henderson, Gil Scott-Heron, John Lee Hooker, Lionel Hampton, Chico Hamilton, Fareed Haque, Issac Hayes, Mickey Hart, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Hendrix, Freddie Hubbard, Groove Holmes, George Harrison, Intuit, Iron Butterfly, Jack Johnson, Keith Jarrett, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Jurassic 5, Jefferson Airplane & Starship, LKJ, Thad Jones, Elvin Jones, Bob James, Antionio Carlos Jobim, Jurassic 5, Jimmy Cliff, Jim Morrison, KRS-1, Gene Krumpa, Koop, Kodo, Ladysmith Black Mambazoo, Yusef Lateef, Ottmar Leibert, Leftover Salmon, Los Hombres Calientes, D.J. Logic, Led Zepplin, Hubert Laws, Mel Lewis, Legion of Mary, Lettuce, John McGlaughlin, Bob Marley, Mazzy Star, Bob Moses, The Molemen, Curtis Mayfield, The whole Marsalias family..Ellis, Jason, Wynton, Branford...Ennio Morricone, Morcheeba, Metallica, Mos Def, Megadeth, Buddy Miles, Bobby Mcferrin, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Motzart, Medeski Martin & Wood, Herbie Mann, Idris Muhammad, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Thelonious Monk, Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny, Jack McDuff, Mofro, The Meters, Ozomatli, Oysterhead, Ozzy Osborne, Babatunde Olatunji, Pink Floyd, Bud Powell, The Police, Portishead, Primus, Danillo Perez, Flora Purim, Jaco Pastorious, Oscar Peterson, Pantera, Parliment Funkadelic, Quincy Jones, Max Roach, Return to Forever, Reconstruction, The Roots, Rage Against the Machine, Rusted Root, Rebirth Brass Band, Sam Rivers, Marc Ribot, Artural Sanduval, Sepultura, Soulive, Soulfly, Sex Mob, Santana, Spearhead, The Slip, Steely Dan, Skerik, Ravi Shankar, Lonnie Liston Smith, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Smith, John Scofield, Squrriel nut Zippers, Sting, Paul Simon, Mongo Santamaria, Tony Scott, Jill Scott, Cal Tjader, Tribe Called Quest, Tool, TJ Kirk, Traffic, Toots & the Maytals, Peter Tosh, McCoy Tyner, Stanley Turrentine, ULU, Victor Wootin, Weather Report, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, Keller Williams, Grover Washington Jr., Chris Whitely, Tom Waits, Stevie Wonder, The Who, Fred Wesley, Youngblood Brass Band, Lester Young, Frank Zappa, John Zorn... wow did I forget any?
Movies:
Kundun(about the current Dali Lama), Baraka(audio visual journey of the world and its people, stunning), Super size me, Fahrenheight 911, Out Foxed!
Television:
KILL YOUR TELEVISION BEFORE IT KILLS YOU!
Books:
Skinny legs and all - Tom Robbins. Be here now, How can I help?, Journey of awakening - Ram Dass. On the road - Jack Keroac, Jack London- any, Animal Farm, 1984 -George Orwell. Celestine Everything- James Redfield. Conversations with god Book 1. Michael Moore - Dude where's my country, Stupid white men. Any -Alan Watts. Shambhala the sacred path of the warrior - Chogyam Trungpa. Success through a positive mental attitude- Nepoleon Hill. Into thin air, Into the wild - Jon Krakauer. Carlos Castaneda- The teachings of Don Juan, The Power of Silence. Don Miguel Ruiz - The mastery of love, The 4 agreements. Eckhart Tolle- The power of now. Diet for a new America - John Robbins. Boss(Richard J. Daley of Chicago) - Mike Royko. The Tao of sexology- Steven Chang.
Heroes:
My Grandfathers, The native americans, Martin Luther King Jr., Ghandi, Nikoli Tesla, John Coltrane, Fela Kuti, Dali Lama, Ram Das.
