Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Leonard Dubrow: The irony of Life — All the answers have been birthed by women & men through the ages. Wisdom that waits to be discovered — wisdom that will clarify life’s dilemmas & turn humans from war to love. If you don’t search for the unparalled vision collected through the ages it will not affect your consciousness which is required to grow & reaching the heights of understanding.
In investigating one’s consciousness
one is investigating the whole human consciousness. Rudolf Steiner
The ego is a programmed sense of identity.
The ego is an idea about ourselves & not what we really are. Cate Montana
The ego creates separation & separation causes suffering.
The ego is therefore clearly pathological. Eckhart Tolls
CREATIVITY is intelligence having fun. Albert Einstein
Comedy is no different than music.
There’s scales & there’s keys & notes to hit. Chris Rock
Comedy is truth, comedy is healing & comedy speaks all languages. Julie Halston
Stupidity is the product of the groups & societies
in which we are raised. Stuart Jeffries
The thing that separates war from murder is the law. David French
I think you go off into a kind of reverie when you’re painting a still life. You’re thrown completely away from everything else in this world.
Janet Fish Artist Wells, Vt. 1938-2025
The heart is the bridge between the mind & soul. First get out of your mind & into your heart space. From there it is a quick jump into your soul.
When you are in your heart space with another, that is when you can have a real soul talk.
When you are in your heart space with yourself, that is when you can experience connecting with your soul at a very deep level. That is when you can experience communion with God. Neale Donald Walsh
If you’re fit & healthy, you can have sex until you die. Marilyn Minter
No great wisdom hasn’t been without a touch of madness. John Garfield
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. Antoine de Saint Exupery
Somewhere allong the way I realized you have to imagine what you want and then get out of the way and let it happen. WILLIE NELSON
The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.
If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful
Knowledge does away with darkness, suspicion & doubt for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . in knowledge there is power. Joseph Smith
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and see. Alexander Dumas
Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.
Swami Satchidananda
A story is a series of events building toward irrevocable change. If you understand your story, you’ll be able to say it’s about the change from ‘this’ to ‘that,’. Poverty to riches. Justice to injustice. It’s one master arching event. Endings matter most. The story’s ultimate event is the writer’s ultimate task. Robert McKee
Hope . . . is the companion of power & the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character. Samuel Smiles
Public funding of the opera John Carey contended amounted to the poor subsidizing the entertainment of the “well-fed, well-swaddled” elite.
WE LIVE IN A PERPETUALLY BURNING BUILDING
and what we must save from it, all the time, is love. Tennessee Williams
There’s something about using your brain creatively
that really elevates being alive. Darlene Costello
Lenny D.: We’re all on a magic carpet
Robert Ellsberg: My father, Daniel Ellsberg taught us there are moments when you have to choose between your career, your freedom, your comfort — and your conscience. And if you choose your conscience, you might lose everything else. But you’ll keep your soul.
Daniel Ellsberg: There are times when you have to do the right thing, regardless of the consequences. and you have to accept that you might lose everything. But if you don’t act, you lose something much worse — you lose yourself.
The best political, social & spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others. Carl Jung
The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy & discover our innermost essence. This is the best way we can benefit others. Pema Codon
Give the audience two plus two and let them make four. Billy Wilder
Abraham Joshua Heschel once compared the world to a pit of snakes whose venom was “dulling our minds, darkening our vision.” The result has been a culture that teaches us to worship force, despise compassion & nurture only “our unappeasable appetite.” Heschel noted how diligently we pursue technological feats while letting our inner life fall to pieces: “The greatest task of our time is to take the souls of men out of the pit.”
