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[Chance Cunningham]

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”

― Joe Klaas, Twelve Steps

 

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

― Mark Twain

 

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

― Anonymous

 

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29

 

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”

― John Lennon

 

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

― Oscar Wilde

 

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

― Flannery O'Connor

 

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

― Winston S. Churchill

 

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”

― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

 

“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”

― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

 

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

― William Faulkner

 

Peace, Love and Truth this morning... All three will make this world a better place for all of us.

[Kuba Powiertowski]

Ok. But these are just words.

[Kuba Powiertowski]

The real question is what am I going to do with them

[Loving Radiance]

31 minutes ago, Kuba Powiertowski said:

The real question is what am I going to do with them

The most impractical words are the most practical words.

Imagine you want to explore and see new lands. There are planks, sticks, cloth, nails, hammers and ropes lying around on the ground on your way through life. You could pick them up and build a ship with them to explore the ocean. On the other side you could also just say that the planks & ropes aren't practical as you don't know that there are things called ships or that it is even possible to travel on the ocean.

[Kuba Powiertowski]

@Loving Radiance absolutely agree

[Chance Cunningham]

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
-- Shigenori Kameoka

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” 
― Rumi

If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should not grow old.
-- James A. Garfield

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
-- Antonio Porchia

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
-- Aristotle

“Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.” 
― Shannon L. Alder

“I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted.” 
― Steve Goodier

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
-- Carlos Castaneda

[Gladius]

"Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded" (Buddha)

[jakee]

“The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost.

The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed.

Since beginningless time, darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purifying light.”

-Lion Turtle

 

"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it."

-Master Oogway

 

And a bonus quote from Leo (might be my favorite) 

 

"Science. It tries to give hope in a world torn apart by Science."

-Leo Gura

[Zigzag Idiot]

" If you could float above the earth and become aware of all the negativity that is going on, you would never laugh again. The world is ruled by negative emotions."  - Ocke de Boer

 

" I hate to bother God. Sometimes when I'm drunk I Pray to Judas instead of that little skinny Jew" - Gurdjieff 

 

[Loving Radiance]

Quote

[...] a lie is a wall that prevents intimacy, but not just intimacy with people, but intimacy with reality itself. A lie is much more palatable because it is ultimately created by ourselves and for ourselves, mainly to defend against any deeper anxiety. ~ A video comment by Circe

 

[Zigzag Idiot]

From the Gospel of Thomas

Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."

 

70. Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you [will] kill you."

 

[mmKay]

" With great power comes great irresponsibility " 

[Yog]

The wound is where the light gets in.
--Rumi

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”
--Rumi

In sterquiliniis invenitur - In dirt it shall be found.
--C. G. Jung

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
--C. G. Jung

Fools leap in, where Angels fear to thread.
--Unknown

Self-acceptance is the prerequisite for change, its prerequisite for contemplation.
--Aubrey Marcus

Gratitude is prerequisite for forgiveness, they are entangled.
--Aubrey Marcus

If there is a doubt..... there is no doubt.
--Unknown

You can not put someone in the cave of judgement without going in there yourself.
--Aubrey Marcus

Love will not yield to your smallness. Love is hard like a diamond.
--Leo Gura

The final loss is birth itself.
--Leo Gura

Everything gained will be lost.
Everything lost will be regained.
--Unknown

The unwillingness to accept suffering in others is the unwillingness to accept suffering in oneself.
--Me, lol

Logos = Truth. By speaking it, you create order.
--Jordan Peterson

Spaciousness is like moving from your bedroom to a big house. Or you already had a big house but your a hoarder.
--Damien Enchols

Boredom = Aversion
--Duncan Trussell (From Buddhism)

Surrender is when the wisdom of the masculine lets down its armor. Its preparation for receiving.
--Matt Kahn

We don't see things the way they are, we see things the way we are.
--Sadhguru

Hell is a place so beautiful that it will torment an angel to insanity.
--William Blake

Ease, or dis-ease
--Tabash

You only need the light in the room you are in.
--Tabash

When there is birth, there is blood
--Alister Crowley

To wake up from the illusion, the only possible response is laughter.
--Tony Moss

Without the master key that "the all is mind", the student knocks in vain at the many doors of the temple.
--Kabylion

The vibration of spirit is at such a high rate of intensity and rapidity that is practically at rest, just as a rapid moving wheel seems to be motionless.
--Unknown

Pure alert silence, pure potential, this is what your true nature is.
--Pleiadeans (channeled)

The snowflake wont blame itself for the avalanche
--Zizek ?

Mistaking memory for intelligence is a mistake of perception.
--Sadguru

Everything is fuel
--Owen Cook

Everything is fuel.
--John Kairter

Edited February 28, 2021 by Yog

[willy83]

Whoever looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens.
(Carl Gustav Jung)
Source: https://frasimondo.com/frasi-belle/

[ValiJustus]

"Even when  99% of people say that sugar is spicy, if you know that sugar is sweet, you must say that it is sweet" -my mom

I understand now that the "know" part is tricky and I better ask the 99% the reason they believe that sugar is spicy (for the sake of multiperspectivity and accuracy, I could be wrong), but this quote stay with me and give me courage to be myself and be honest even though I dont have any ally, especially through my childhood when my family moved a lot and I never had any old friend (it was before cellphone widely used, so sadly I lost all contact everytime we moved).

 

[pakirthan p]

Learn from the past,live in the present,be excited about the future

[Zakaria]

“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”

[HMD]

“You are fooled by your mind into believing there is tomorrow so you may waste today.“-Anonymous 

[RickyFitts]

'Surrender isn't about having a certain experience. It's about simple, open vulnerability to whatever is, right now.' - Jon Bernie

[gettoefl]

and l.o.v.e. is

l-etting o-pen v-ulnerability e-xude

- gettoefl