TO IMAGINE THAT NO MISFORTUNE WILL BEFALL YOU is like wishing not to be alive at all for misfortunes are a necessary part of the transient world. IBN GABIROL
THERE IS NO YOU — there is only the state of freedom. Be that. Be free like the sky. Be still like the hill. Accept change like the seasons. Be silent like complete emptiness. You are That! Ramana Maharshi
LIFE IS LIKE AN ONION. YOU PEEL IT OFF ONE LAYER AT A TIME AND SOMETIMES YOU WEEP CARL SANDBURG
I withdraw from people and places from time to time, I need space from a world that is filled with millions of mouths that talk too much but never have anything to say.
There are parts of me that will always remain untamable, messy and reckless. KAITLIN FOSTER
BLACK ELK 1863-1950—He took two scalps at Little Bighorn
SEVEN SACRED RITES
Keeping of the soul.
The rite of purification.
Crying for a vision.
The sun dance.
the making of relatives.
A girl’s coming of Age.
The throwing of the ball.
LET EVERY STEP YOU TAKE UPON THE EARTH BE AS A PRAYER.
THE FIRST PEACE, which is the most important is that which comes within the souls of people.
ALL THINGS are our relatives; what we do to everything — we do to ourselves. All is really One.
THE UNIVERSE is circles with circles and everything is one circle and all the circles are connected to each other.
BEHOLD THIS DAY. IT IS YOURS TO MAKE.
GROWN MWN may learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure & therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.
PEACE WILL COME to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe — it is everywhere.
ONCE we were happy in our own country & we were seldom hungry, for then the two-legged & the four-legged lived together like relatives & there was plenty for them & for us. but the Wasichus came & they have made little islands for us & other little islands for the four-leggeds & always these islands are becoming smaller for around them surges the growing flood of the Wasichu; & it is dirty with lies & greed.
ANY MAN who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance & is being consumed by the snakes of his own passion.
RICHARD PRYOR 1940-2005 “See No Evil, Hear No Evil”.
A LIE IS PROFANITY. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
TWO THINGS people throughout history have had in common are hatred & humor. I am proud I have ben able to use humor to lessen people’s hatred.
I BELIEVE the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. the big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
I HAD some great things & I had some bad things. the best & the worst . . . in other words I had a life.
ALL HUMOR IS ROOTED IN PAIN.
I’M for human lib — the liberation of all people not just black people or female people or gay people.
WHAT I’M SAYING MIGHT BE PROFANE BUT IT’S ALSO PROFOUND.
NOW they’re calling taking drugs an epidemic — that’s cos white folks are doing it.
IF I thought about it, I could be bitter but I don’t feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile & there’s too much I still want to do.
You don’t get to be old being’ no fool.
I SEE PEOPLE as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn’t come to be yet.
WHEN YOU AIN’T GOT NO MONEY, YOU GOTTA GET AN ATTITUDE.
EVERYONE CARRIES AROUND HIS OWN MONSTERS.
THERE’S A THIN LINE BETWEEN TO LAUGH WITH & TO LAUGH AT.
HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It’s almost like you know that God’s there.
THERE’S a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
WOODY ALLEN 1935—“SLEEPER” “LOVE & DEATH””ANNIE HALL”
SOME drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.
I HAVE NO IDEA what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.
ANYTHING WORTH KNOWING cannot be understood by the human mind.
CONFIDENCE is what you have before you understand the problem.
IN MY NEXT LIFE I want to live backwards. Start out dead & finish off as an orgasm.
TIME IS nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.
HAVING SEX is like playing bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.
THE ONLY LOVE THAT LASTS IS UNREQUITED LOVE.
WE STAND at a crossroads. One path leads to despair — the other to destruction. Let’s hope we make the right choice.
THE DIFFERENCE between sex & death is death you can do alone & nobody laughs at you.