LIVING DREAM

2010-09-30T11:32:00.000-07:00

Conscious Collective Change is Co-Creative Choice

2010-09-30T11:27:00.000-07:00

SouLight + EartHeart = YoUniversaLOVE

ALOHA & MAHALO

2010-09-26T11:22:00.000-07:00

we have come so far

we have seen so much

we have done many things

yoUniversaLOVE

thank you for Life of Creation -- MAHALO

LOVE you for the LOVE by Creation -- ALOHA

every day, every night

we shine SouLight to EartHeart

∞♡∞

WEAREONE

Soma

2009-05-27T07:52:00.000-07:00

Red Angels - Soma, the Amanita Muscaria Mushroom

122

2009-01-03T06:48:00.000-08:00

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind... Romans 12:2

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart ... Peter 1:22

Be ye doers of the word, and not merely hearers...James 1:22

KNOWING THYSELVES

the factor of the cosmic law

2008-12-12T07:40:00.000-08:00

Each human is a projection “constructed” in accordance with a genetic code shared with the Creator. This applies first and foremost to the process of cognition.

« The boat of millions of years » or «Bark of Ra»

At the centre of the Ancient Egyptian spiritual world view lay the “The boat of millions of years” containing the “great nine gods” headed by Ra who created himself out of Nun (primordial energy). The voyage of the “gods in the boat of Ra” symbolizes the process of cognition.
“Sailing” means the beginning of movement in the universe (finding out about himself). Movement presupposes that the events take place in space and time, that is the Universe begins to exist as a mass of moving beings.

http://www.wands.ru/index2.html

VEDRUSS

2008-11-27T18:42:00.000-08:00

RINGING CEDARS

CO-CREATION

i look in you and see myself; i look in myself and see Creator

UNITY

2008-10-19T07:19:00.000-07:00

ONE VISION

ONE VOICE

ONE PEOPLE

ONE EARTH

ONE LOVE

ONE VISION of Unity, with ONE VOICE speaks words of Truth, brings ONE PEOPLE together in Light, on ONE EARTH of magnificent Life, in ONE LOVE eternal.

I BELIEVE

2008-09-24T12:16:00.000-07:00

I BELIEVE
In Universal Love
In Universal Truth
These two Principles guide Laws of Creation
These two Principles are inherent at all levels of Existence
These two Principles are actually One (energy)
This One is the resonance of existence
All that is Good corresponds to this Resonance harmony vibration
All that is evil opposes this resonance
The Universe is perfect
Evil occurs by ignorance of One
Like disease in perfect body - evil is to perfect Universe creation
The resonance is guiding humanity toward evolution
Perfection will be All

LOVE is in the air!

2008-09-24T12:14:00.000-07:00

“LOVE” is in the air.
Today when you awake can you truly say that you feel LOVE; that you find this new day a blessing and that you are filled with appreciation for the life on this Earth, all around you, everywhere, in You? Do you even LOVE yourself? Many have not even considered these questions, and are much less able to answer Yes.
Why is this? Why is the world we’ve allowed our children to inherit littered with empty distractions eager for us to forget what it is to have a meaningful existence? As the life of and on this planet Earth crumbles around us we are lulled into delusion and continue to participate in a system in which this exploitation is inherent...
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE
Every thought word and deed either contributes to the current path of degradation, or to the creation of the bright future of our choice!
I used to work for an airline, until recently after one simple act lead to the end of 4.5 enjoyable years of service. While aware that possible repercussions could be impending, I focused solely on one intent – the spread LOVE; and to spread LOVE to as many people as possible. And so on one night I wrote on many of the folding drink trays, “LOVE”. I wrote LOVE for all of you; for anyone who feels in this world that others have the advantage, while they don’t feel happy in life. I envisioned passengers opening the tray for a drink, and seeing LOVE and realizing that there is beauty in Life and so something inside them would begin to shine.
The next morning, LOVE was in the air! Yet the message did not go as far as I hoped and so I write to you all to keep the message of LOVE Alive! I do not know what will happen now as my life is changing, but I do know that I will continue. And so will you. Because the life we choose is one where the people and planet are first.
We must wake up, and we must choose; because with one look around you will see what is the result of allowing others to choose for you. Throughout the world, in nearly every country, the few profit at the expense of the rest.
I have made the decision to live a life now, which represents the future I wish to create and live in with the next generations.
A future of LOVE and FREEDOM.

11:11

2008-05-29T08:50:00.000-07:00

Glastonbury Tor ~ 11:11 Angelic Cards ~ Patrick F
The Knowledge Book ~ Sanjaya P

LOVE

new life paradigm rules of engagement

2008-03-27T08:44:00.000-07:00

Accept the human potential of truth as the creative nature of love.
Accept the human limitation of illusion as the destructive nature of fear.
Accept the principles of love as our unifying strength.
Accept the principles of fear as our divisive weakness.
Accept the principles of love as the cause of our human evolution.
Accept the principles of fear as the cause of human devolution.
Accept all life experiences as beacons of truth without judgement.

http://www.newlifeparadigm.com/Workbook.htm

the annunaki

2008-03-13T14:03:00.000-07:00

jedi mind tricks

2008-03-13T09:38:00.001-07:00

the coming of tan

g. carlin considers

2008-02-06T04:26:00.000-08:00

american dream

religion

from george carlin with love

restoretherepublic

2008-02-05T07:11:00.000-08:00

banned mtv video from restoretherepublic.com

PEACElife

wonderland

2008-01-31T08:15:00.000-08:00

As with everything, it is our choice as to whether we manifest abundance from the material illusion or the spiritual reality.
Uriel Heals - jenniferhoffman

the Calling

2008-01-23T08:40:00.000-08:00

Freedom: Desert Lover Filmed and Edited By: Blue Star 2007 from Blue Star on Vimeo.

Consciousness

2008-01-22T08:31:00.000-08:00

You are Consciousness, oneness, all that is, the source and appearance of all. All appearances rise and fall in awareness, nothing else is ever happening. People are passing, clouds are going by, conversations are going on, thoughts appear and disappear. All unfolds presently in awareness.

This appearance as the character is already the perfect expression of oneness – nothing needs to change for this to be so. No awakening or enlightenment is needed – all of this is simply the story in the play. There is only already awakeness as oneness, regardless of whether there is mesmerisation with the play of images, or resting in recognition as your true nature.

This present appearance, however ordinary or extraordinary, is the content of awareness. Awareness and content are one – Consciousness. You are Consciousness – awake and aware and presently appearing as everything.

from Already Awake by Nathan

and

art Wonder by Alex Gray

A Word of Advice

2008-01-19T04:40:00.000-08:00

In the time of your life, live so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life that your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere and when it is found, bring it out of the hiding place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue and whatever heart it may have driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of this world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart. Be the inferior to no man, nor of any man be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself, no man's guilt is yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil, these understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your life, live so that, in that wonderous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it. -fog & mf doom

http://www.youtube.com/v/eCg0JiVXFLY&rel=1

In the time of your life, live so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life that your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere and when it is found, bring it out of the hiding place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue and whatever heart it may have driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of this world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart. Be the inferior to no man, nor of any man be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself, no man's guilt is yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil, these understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your life, live so that, in that wonderous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it. -fog & mf doom

http://www.youtube.com/v/eCg0JiVXFLY&rel=1

In the time of your life, live so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life that your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere and when it is found, bring it out of the hiding place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue and whatever heart it may have driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of this world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart. Be the inferior to no man, nor of any man be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself, no man's guilt is yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil, these understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your life, live so that, in that wonderous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it. -fog & mf doom

http://www.youtube.com/v/eCg0JiVXFLY&rel=1

zero waste

2007-12-19T14:07:00.000-08:00

http://www.storyofstuff.com/ ***Share*Care***

saulwilliams

2007-11-08T14:04:00.001-08:00

one Voice

2007-11-06T17:27:00.000-08:00

Christianity: For behold, the kingdom of God is within you. (Luke 17:21)
Buddhism: You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes. (Siddhartha Gautama)
Zen: If you cannot find the truth right where you are where else do you expect to find it? (Dogen Zenji)
Taoism: Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many. (Chuang Tzu)
Science: Bell's theorem demonstrates that the universe is fundamentally interconnected, interdependent, and inseparable.' (Fritjof Capra)
Tibetan Buddhism: There is not a single state that is not this vast state of presence.(Longchenpa)
Islam: 'In that glory is no 'I' or 'We' or 'Thou.' 'I,' 'We,' 'Thou,' and 'He' are all one thing.'(Hallaj)

Hinduism: Tat Tvam Asi - Thou Art That.
Judaism: I am That I am.

and that alone

2007-10-30T04:47:00.000-07:00

It is our minds,

and that alone, that chains

us or sets us free.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

untitled

2007-10-30T04:40:00.000-07:00

cling to nothing

attach only to

your spirit

which is the

spirit of GoD

which is the

essence of ALL

Control yourself, before all else.

Know yourself, to know all.

Be at peace and

Peace you will Be

BE SILENT AND KNOW GOD

2007-10-24T08:14:00.000-07:00

Enter into yourself

(it is by means of introspection that we discover the divinity that lives within us)

Consider all things of this world

(in this way come to knowledge of the laws that govern the universe)

Be observant of all things

(make an effort to be aware and open minded)

Teofilo Schweighardt

A happy one!

2007-10-06T14:13:00.000-07:00

"Knowledge of the truth consists not in proclaiming it but

in living it."

"And what way of living it is best charateristic of those

who best know the truth?"

"A happy one!"

"But to know the truth one must have a conscious awareness

and purity of thought?!"

Anastasia and Vladimir Megre : Ringing Cedars of Russia

discipline is an art

2007-10-02T16:45:00.000-07:00

Sorcerers understand discipline as the capacity to face with serenity odds that are not included in our expectations.
For sorcerers, discipline is an art; the art of facing infinity without flinching; not because they are strong and tough, but because they are filled with awe.

Carlos Castenedas and don Juan the Yaqui shaman

Mountain

2007-10-01T13:17:00.000-07:00

One

basic

truth can

be used as

a foundation for

a mountain of lies,

and if we dig down deep

enough in the mountain of lies,

and bring out that truth, to set it

on top of the mountain of lies; the entire

mountain of lies will crumble under the weight of

that one truth, and there is nothing more devestating to a

structure of lies than the revelation of the truth upon which

the structure of lies was built, because the shock waves of

the revelation of the truth reverberate, and continue to

reverberate throughout the Earth for generations to

follow, awakening even those

people who had no

desire to be

awakened

to the

truth.

Delamer Duverus

quote from: Behold a Pale Horse, by William Cooper

PEACE

2007-09-18T18:04:00.000-07:00

Over the entire earth plane, there is disturbance.
It is as if an ant hill had been disturbed. Men run
hither and thither, seeking satisfaction, seeking re-
lease. Yet, through this period of tumult there
runs a thread of pure gold. This thread is the Truth
of man's Being, his Oneness with Divinity.

You must seek out this golden thread. See it
through all the tangeld web of human weaving.
Only as you do, shall Peace come to abide in your
heart. And only as Peace abides in the heart of
each, can it cover the land.

Beloved, seek this Peace. Seek to be still within.
Be not disturbed at the outer picture. Your life will
be encompassed by your consciousness of law and
order, by love and the fulfulling of virtues.

So be at Peace, My children. You shall stand as
if upon a high mount, and the hectic rush shall not
disturb you, and the Peace that passeth under-
standing shall be yours now and forever more.

~Eva Bell Werber~ Voice of the Master

courage

2007-09-12T17:17:00.000-07:00

In whatever arena of life one may meet the challenge of courage, each man must decide for himself which course he will follow
...each man must look into his own soul.

john f kennedy
profiles in courage

from movie The Artist and The Shaman

All-Naturale

2007-09-10T11:58:00.000-07:00

Skinny-dipping yesterday at Lake Erie (beach 11) with the one I Love.

SEE

2007-09-07T17:04:00.000-07:00

It is not new people,

places, & horizons

we seek but

new eyes through

which to see.

-Yehuda Berg

pictures: http://star.tau.ac.il/~eshel/gallery.html

Colonial Intelligence - bateria patterning themselves into higher complex order

Words to Live by

2007-08-03T15:38:00.000-07:00

We do not merely want to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words--to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.

C.S. Lewis

A Subtle Truth

2007-07-19T17:39:00.000-07:00

If you want money more than anything, /
you will be bought and sold. /
If you have a greed for food, /
you will become a loaf of bread. /
This is a subtle truth. /
Whatever you love, you are.
--Rumi

Heart of the Heavens

2007-07-13T17:32:00.000-07:00

"May the heart of earth
flow to the heart of heaven
through my heart
and through all hearts together

And may our hearts be
the hearts of every being
in all the starry sky

And may the heart of the heavens
flow to the heart of earth
through my heart
and through all our hearts together

And may our hearts be
the heart of every earthly creature."

Chichicastenango, Guatemala

from Father Charlie Moore and William Henry in: Stargate 2012 disc 1

Rememberance

2007-06-27T14:03:00.000-07:00

"There comes a point in the Work when it is clear that 'I' do

not remember myself. 'I Am' remembers."
—Lord John Pentland
June 6, 1907 – February 14, 1984

http://www.gurdjieff-legacy.org/

Socrates - Anamnesis - Remembrance

greg's quotes

2007-05-29T16:39:00.000-07:00

We are the ones who decide each minute what will be the lives of those around us and those to come.

Holding onto the past one does not feel the present.

An unconscious tongue leads the conscious mind astray.

As Noah built only one Ark, so too, God built one Earth. The Ark didn’t have life rafts, neither does Earth; were in this together, lets love each other.

Matter (nature) is the canvas upon which spirit paints life (creation).

Close your eyes and learn to see.

Search within and find what has been forgot, forget the search and you will find that you already have whats being sought.

Sometimes its hard to follow the path of God. Its always hard not to.

The closer you come to God, the closer you come to yourself.

All that is Good is in Nature.

The quiet mind hears God.

Even the blind see God and the deaf hear God; for what else is there.

Man is the heart of all religion. God is the heart of all man.

Be Free, Free from the way you think things should Be, Be Free.

Learning to Fly

2007-05-24T15:58:00.000-07:00

Our life is our dream.
Each of us has a dream, of which not all of us are conscious.
Our dream, guides our life, and the degree to which we are Aware and Act upon our soulful purpose, is the degree to which we are happy in life ~~ in FLUX with creation.
Let us ponder a metaphor:
A baby bird has instinct to fly; and as long as it maintains the instinct to flight, it will fly - whether by its own desire, or the desire of mother bird encouraging it out of the nest.
If a bird is to ignore or forget the instinct to flight, it will grow old and languish in the nest or meet its demise through incapability to fly.
Our life is like the bird learning to fly...if we ignore or forget our dreams, then we find ourselves in a life situation which we would not otherwise choose, or at an untimely exit from this life.
On the other hand, if we maintain the deep Intention towards our dream, then we will Create...
Whether by the universe, karma, God, placing us in unpreferable situations for our personal development like mother bird encouraging its chicks to fly, or by our own desire - we will FLY

http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/images/122005/cardinal_insnow.jpg ~~ picture source

L O V E

2007-05-16T12:43:00.001-07:00

The Invitation

2007-04-24T13:51:00.000-07:00

The Invitation

I am here. Find me. You will be Awakened.

Believe only what you experience directly from Me inside.

I am the Ocean of All Consciousness.
I contain all dimensions, all universes, all creatures.

At my level all is Ecstasy. Join Me.

The universe you inhabit is temporary.
The solar system you inhabit is temporary.
The planet you inhabit is temporary.
The species you inhabit is temporary.
Join Me in Permanence.

The outside drama is predetermined.
Everything happens in the only way it can.
Be free of identification with the drama.

You are sleeping in Personality.
Sleeper, Awaken!
Remember Who you are and What you are.

I am here. Find Me. You will be Awakened.

(http://www.awakenfoundation.org/the_invitation_tfw.htm)

BE FREE

2007-04-06T18:54:00.000-07:00

BE FREE

FREE from the way you think things should BE

BE FREE

I AWOKE TODAY

2007-03-19T15:16:00.000-07:00

I awoke today…
I stepped down the stairs and walked to the couch for a seat, where I raised my head and in the vision, lost myself…

As I stare out the window at the dance of snow which swirls to blizzard proportions with such magnitude as to envelope the entire neighborhood, my mind becomes entangled by the undulations of the numbing whiteness that consumes the objects of my perception.

Millions of tiny crystalline matrices of frozen precipitate, neither coming nor going, yet incessantly increasing in number, fill my vision and incapacitates my mind to the extent that I no longer distinguish past and present - time is as illusive as the space between the flakes.

I continue watching the infinite maze of snowflakes accumulate into a fog reducing creation into a fine white particulate, and all efforts to supplement depth, distance, dimension - something! - to this cold and mesmerizing oblivion are lost as the mind searches for the comforting sense of the old familiar reality which is so predictably taken for granted.

And for a moment I am that storm. An irreplaceable, irreproducible, unique and original moment that takes precedence over all thought and precludes preconception, but invites all into the tranquil serenity of Being.

Listening intently, I hear the snow spray against the glass as though beside the house there was a waterfall over which torrents of dense powder flowed to the ground with an explosive impact and ricochet nearly every angle of the house.

In the wind, the crooked branches of the trees wave restlessly like the raised hands of a skeletal audience applauding the winter catastrophe in its unbridled splendor.

As the storm subsides its residual effects are evident everywhere the blanket of soft whiteness is penetrated by the dark contrasting edges of objects minimally exposed, and like a lake with turtles whose noses breach the surface for air

created jan 16 2006 12:34 pm ~ pic feb 07

vegetarian in world religion

2007-02-28T10:24:00.000-08:00

GOLDEN RULE

Christianity - "So, whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them."

Judaism - "Do not do unto others what you would not wish to be done unto yourself - that is the entire Torah, the rest is commentary."

Islam - "No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself."

Baha'i Faith - "Blessed is he that preferreth his brother unto himself."

Taoism - "Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss."

Hinduism - "This is the sum of duty: do naught to others that which if done to thee would cause pain."

Jainism - "A man should wander about treating all creatures as he himself would be treated."

Buddhism - "Hurt not others with that which pains yourself."

The Bhagavad Gita

2007-02-26T08:35:00.000-08:00

... the beginningless Brahman, ...

can be called neither being nor nonbeing.

It is both near and far, both within and without every creature;

it moves and is unmoving. In its subtlety it is beyond comprehension.

It is indivisible, yet appears divided in separate creatures.

Know it to be the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer.

Dwelling in every heart, it is beyond darkness.

It is called the light of lights,

the object and goal of knowledge,

and knowledge itself.

Cosmic Consciousness.

2007-02-15T09:14:00.000-08:00

I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self

And Time and Space my spirit's seeing are.

I am the god and demon, ghost and elf,

I am the wind's speed and the blazing star.

All Nature is the nursling of my care,

I am its struggle and the eternal rest;

The world's joy thrilling runs through me, I bear

The sorrow of millions in my lonely breast.

I have learned a close identity with all,

Yet am by nothing bound that I become;

Carrying in me the universe's call

I mount to my imperishable home.

I pass beyond Time and life on measureless wings,

Yet still am one with born and unborn things.

~Sri Aurobindo~

excerpt from Awakening to the Dream: ATTD News Letter Number 98 Sunday, January 21, 2007

the truth makes men free

2007-01-23T10:02:00.000-08:00

to the open mind

http://www.rosicrucian-order.com/principal.html

http://www.summum.us/about/purpose.shtml

What I Believe

2007-01-18T08:08:00.000-08:00

The university professor challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?"

A student bravely replied, "Yes, he did!"

"God created everything?" The professor asked.

"Yes sir", the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then God is evil".

The student became quiet before such an answer.

The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth. Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question, professor?"

"Of course", replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"

The students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460° F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."

The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present." Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

The young man's name ............Albert Einstein

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing." -- Albert Einstein

quote from: http://groups.msn.com/TheJamesFiles/yourwebpage1.msnw

ONE

2007-01-11T08:30:00.000-08:00

"A human being is a part of a 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."

- Albert Einstein

quote from:http://groups.msn.com/TheJamesFiles/yourwebpage1.msnw

pic from:http://solarviews.com/cap/earth/bluemarblewest.htm

Vegetarian quotes

2007-01-11T08:04:00.000-08:00

http://pw2.netcom.com/~axleplus/stuff/veggie/vquotes.html

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child, as it is to the caterpillar." -- Bradley Miller

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." -- Albert Einstein

"But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy." -- Plutarch

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we ever expect ideal conditions on earth." -- George Bernard Shaw

"Men dig their graves with their own teeth and die by those fated instruments more than the weapons of their enemies. " -- Thomas Moffett

"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car." -- Harvey Diamond

"Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay." -- George Bernard Shaw

"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery." -- Charles Darwin

"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore." -- Franz Kafka

"When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." -- Ingrid Newkirk

"If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance." -- Richard Wagner

"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." -- Pythagoras

"It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit for their cruelty." -- Leo Tolstoy

"I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity." -- Ecclesiastes

"Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough." -- St. Francis of Assisi

"I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me." -- Alex Poulos

also some good ones here: http://www.ivu.org/people/quotes/

The End Of Seeking?

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Christianity: For behold, the kingdom of God is within you. (Luke 17:21)
Buddhism: You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes. (Siddhartha Gautama)
Zen: If you cannot find the truth right where you are where else do you expect to find it? (Dogen Zenji)
Taoism: Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many. (Chuang Tzu)
Science: Bell's theorem demonstrates that the universe is fundamentally interconnected, interdependent, and inseparable.' (Fritjof Capra)
Tibetan Buddhism: There is not a single state that is not this vast state of presence.
Islam: 'In that glory is no 'I' or 'We' or 'Thou.' 'I,' 'We,' 'Thou,' and 'He' are all one thing.'(Hallaj)Hinduism: Tat Tvam Asi - Thou Art That.
Judaism: I am That I am.

www.AwakeningToTheDream.com

A Message from the Hopi Elders

2006-12-29T09:07:00.000-08:00

"We have been telling the people that it is the
Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that it is
the Hour.

And there are things
to be considered.
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in the right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.

It is time to speak your truth
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.

This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing
now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold onto the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart and they will
suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination. The elders say we
must let go of the shore, and push off
and into the river,
Keep our eyes open, and our head above the water.
See who is in there with you and Celebrate.

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally.
Least of all ourselves.
For the moment that we do,
Our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over, Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your
vocabulary.
All that you do now must be done in a sacred manner
And in celebration.

We are the ones we've been waiting for."

-The Elders,
Hopi Nation, People of Peace
Oraibi, Arizona (2003)

[from Point of Light, winter 2006-07, vol. 13, issue 49]
Western PA's journal of Meaningful Living www.pointoflight.com

Thoughts become things... choose the good ones!

2006-12-26T08:10:00.000-08:00

There comes a time in the evolution of every spiritual being, along that sometimes dark road that leads to enlightenment, when their inner yearnings, struggles and frustrations bring them to a truth that could not have otherwise been realized.

Reaching this milestone was inevitable, for the light that will dawn hereafter is not only what you have summoned, but what all now seek. And with your blessing and recognition, it will bathe those who follow in your footsteps and the burden they bear shall be lessened.

If it's not yet obvious, the real reason for this season is you. A more perfect child of the Universe has never been born. Until now, only a celebration cloaked in myth and mystery could hint at your sublime heritage and divine destiny.

You are life's prayer of becoming, and its answer; the first light at the dawn of eternity, drawn from the ether, so that the Universe might know its depths, discover its heights, and frolic in boundless seas of blessed emotion; a pioneer into illusion, an adventurer into the unknown, and a lifter of veils; courageous, heroic and exalted by billions in the unseen.

To give beyond reason. To care beyond hope. To love without limit. To reach, stretch, and dream in spite of your fears. These are the hallmarks of divinity - traits of the immortal - your badges of honor, and your ticket onward.

This is the time of year we celebrate YOU.

Ye-haaaa!
The Universe
Thoughts become things... choose the good ones! ® © www.tut.com ®

2006-10-22T16:34:00.000-07:00