When love meets grit, something beautiful always rises.
INSIGHT into life is the real religion which alone can help us understand life.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
The person you will be in five years
depends largely on the information
you feed your mind today.
A vagina is a magical thing.
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally & spiritually. M.S.Peck
When from the depths of his heart, man desires something more lasting than wealth, something more real than material power, the wave will recede. Then peace will come, joy will come, light will come. Meher Baba
Barry Diller calls George Lucas a sanctimonious hypocrite.
“Injured innocence is the favored pose of the tycoon class; assumed naïveté, it’s pet intoxicant.”
“It would be one of the stranger, if in a way more inspiring, ironies of our time if what is happening in America ends by stiffening the sinews & strengthening the ties between the remaining liberal democracies. It feels absurd to have to write that sentence. But here we are. Adam Gopnik “The New Yorker”
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost.
Emotional health is facing reality ar any cost. M.Scott Peck
Sanctimonious: Hypocritically pious or devout.
Trolling: To harass, criticize or antagonize (someone) especially by provocatively disparaging or mocking public statements, postings or acts.
BOB DYLAN: May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
The truth is failure can be a very honorable thing. It’s not that you have a failure. It’s what you do with it. Michael Roemer 1928-2025 Film maker.
The more I live — the more I think that humor is the saving sense. Jacob Riis
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption. Upton Sinclair
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality,
the opening of new frontiers. Arthur Koestler
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen & stupidity.
Love ain’t nothing but sex misspelled. Harlan Ellison
You got to look on the bright side even if there ain’t one. Dashiell Hammett
CYNICISM IS A FORM OF IGNORANCE. TOM ROBBINS
“Being There” is ultimately about perception: how easily society mistakes appearances for substance, silence for brilliance. Peter Sellers considered this his greatest role and it was. A performance of stillness, mystery and quiet power. It proved that sometimes the loudest commentary is made without a word.
This country cannot afford to be materially rich & spiritually poor.
John. F. Kennedy
MANY Indigenous healers say that negative experiences are not just stored in the brain but that they are stored in every cell in our body & that negative experiences can be passed on through the generations. Evelyn Einhaeuser
GOD IS LOVE — WHEN LOVE IS AWAKENED IN THE HEART,
GOD IS AWAKENED THERE.
All the disharmony of the world caused by religious differences is the result of man’s failure to understand that religion is One, truth is One; how can there be two religions? HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
I expect to pass through life but once.
If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show,
or any good thing I can do to any fellow being,
let me do it now and not defer or neglect it as
I shall not pass this way again. William Penn
Max Plank: The mind is the creator of all matter.
Richard Conn Henry:
The universe is immaterial – it’s mental & spiritual. Live and enjoy.
The only reality is mind & observations but observations are not of things. To see the universe as it really is we must abandon our tendency to conceptualize observations as things.
Erica Jong (mom) was the most glamorous&inaccessible person I’d ever known.