TRUST IS WHERE THE REAL POWER OF LOVE COMES FROM. DIANE KEATON
THE COMIC is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Nothing gives the fearful man more courage than another’s fear.
BECAUSE OF LIES WE CAN PRODUCE AND INVENT A POSSIBLE WORLD.
Umberto Eco
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
The sense of being a separate, ego self begins with the astral, not with the physical body. The soul is individualized spirit. Paramahansa Yogananda
The sense of being a separate, ego self begins with the astral, not with the physical body. The soul is individualized spirit. Paramahansa Yogananda
Befuddlement can clarify. Richard Foreman
Dialectic: The Hegelian process of change in which a concept or its realization passes over into & is preserved & fulfilled by its opposite. (merman-webster)
ALAN WATTS 1915-1973 “THE WISDOM OF INSECURITY””The Way of Zen”.
“A British & American writer, speaker & self-styled ‘philosophical entertainer’ known for interpreting & popularizing Buddhist, Taoist & Hindu philosophy for Wester audience.” wikipedia
THE EGO IS NOTHING OTHER THAN THE FOCUS OF CONSCIOUS ATTENTION.
BUT I’LL TELL YOU WHAT HERMITS REALIZE. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
Unless one is able to live in the present, the future is a hoax.
GOD is what nobody admits to being and everybody really is.
FAITH IS A STATE OF OPENNESS OR TRUST.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions that they exist in the present which is what there is and all there is.
LOVE MAKES YOUR SOUL CRAWL OUT FROM ITS HIDING PLACE.
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey’s back.
JUSTICE LIKE BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER.
AN ENVIOUS HEART MAKES A TREACHEROUS EAR.
Zora Neale Hurston
OUT OF SUFFERING HAVE EMERGED THE STRONGEST SOULS;
The most massive characters are seared with scars. Kalil Gibran
ALL Ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person. Graham Chapman
The more you can make a performance seem spontaneous — the better an entertainer you are.
BEING FUNNY IS VERY SERIOUS BUSINESS.
The performer who does the unexpected is the one who catches and holds his audience. Soupy Sales
STORM JAMESON 1891-1986 “Journey From the North” “Love in Winter”.
HAPPINESS comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply,
to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
HOPE IS A TALENT LIKE ANY OTHER.
LANGUAGE IS MEMORY AND METAPHOR.
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent & observable.
Emily Greene Balch
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Life, at its best, is a flowering, changing process in which nothing is fixed.
LIFE IS ABOUT BEING AND BECOMING.
WHAT IS MOST PERSONAL IS MOST UNIVERSAL.
EXPERIENCE IS, FOR ME, THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY.
Carl Rogers
I REALLY BELIEVE THAT BROTHERHOOD IS WHAT MAKES A MAN/WOMAN HUMAN. Saul Bellow
In “The Truth & the Light” Dr. Peter Fenwick revealed that 82 % of the people he surveyed were less afraid of dying as a result of their near-death experiences and that 42% reported being more spiritual. 48% were “convinced” there was “survival after death.”
“Once you’ve had this experience you are changed whether you like it or not.”
His belief that there was death of the body but not the individual person erased any fear he had about dying. “Actually I’m looking forward to it” NYTobit1/9/25
THE TRUE SUCCESS IS THE PERSON WHO INVENTED HIMSELF.
PHILOSOPHY is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
In reality there is no cause and effect — there is only the indifference of the universe.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
CELEBRITY GIVES US DELUSION OF SELF IMPORTANCE.Al Goldstein “Screw”
EISENHOWER had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. in my every interview with him he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.
Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20rh Century. Of all the men I’ve studied and written about he is the brightest and the best. Stephen Ambrose
POETRY TEACHES US MUSIC, METAPHOR, CONDENSATION & SPECIFICITY.
Walter Mosley
MUSIC IS ESSENTIALLY BUILT UPON PRIMITIVE MEMORY STRUCTURES.
Morton Feldman
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