Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[neti neti]

I think I'm already extinct.

I can dig it. Can't help but feel like it was just the death of an idea though... just the death of who I thought I was. Oh but it sure felt like dying! An intense death! But I'm grateful.

[neti neti]

"I started a joke which started the whole world crying
But I didn't see that the joke was on me oh no
I started to cry which started the whole world laughing
Oh If I'd only seen that the joke was on me

 

I looked at the skies running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed hurting my head from things that I said
'Till I finally died which started the whole world living
Oh if I'd only seen that the joke was on me

 

I looked at the skies running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed hurting my head from things that I said
'Till I finally died which started the whole world living
Oh if I'd only seen that the joke was on me
Oh no that the joke was on me "

 

-The Bee Gees

[silent thunder]

Here are a couple from Mel Brooks.

 

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

 

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

[silent thunder]

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”  Anais Nin

[steviesrojas]

To have no thought and put forth no effort is the first step towards understanding the Tao.

 

To go nowhere and do nothing is the first step towards finding peace in the Tao.

 

To start from no point and follow no road is the first step towards reaching the Tao.

 

- The Yellow Emperor (From the Tao of Pooh)

[RiverSnake]

"When you surrender to the universe...the universe surrenders to you." Anonymous 

Edited March 17, 2017 by OldAngel

[Marblehead]

No surrender.  The universe knows I'm still here.  We get along fine most of the time.

[RiverSnake]

"Just because a message comes from heaven doesn’t mean its not stupid." Jacques Vallee  

Edited March 20, 2017 by OldAngel

[neti neti]

Rare is the birth of faith in something.
If such faith is born, do not let the infant perish.
    - Muruganar

[steviesrojas]

A tweet I saw:

 

"Other people have purpose;

I alone don't know.

I drift like a wave on the ocean,

I blow as aimless as the wind."

— Lao Tzu

[blue eyed snake]

be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.

 

( found on twitter  ) 

[blue eyed snake]

[steviesrojas]

All this running around, 

Praying and making offerings so that 

The next life will be better than 

This life. 

What silliness! 

Life after this death is 

Not different than, 

Nor better than 

Life before this birth.

 

- The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin

[silent thunder]

Don't fight forces... work with them.  ~ Bucky Fuller

[phil]

“If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer."

Seth

[RiverSnake]

"Help me, Jesus! Help me, Jewish God! Help me, Allah! Help me, Tom Cruise! Tom Cruise, use your witchcraft to get the fire off me!" ~ Ricky Bobby 

Edited April 1, 2017 by OldAngel

[RiverSnake]

"My head's all tied up like...a pretzel! I got a pretzel in my head!" - Cal Naughton Jr. 

[Miffymog]

Homer:

Son, come here. Of course I'm not mad. If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the garage next to your short-wave radio, your karate outfit, and your unicycle, and we'll go and watch TV.

 

Bart:

What's on?

 

Homer:

It doesn't matter.

[neti neti]

"To be affronted by solitude without decadence or a single material thing to prostitute it, elevates you to a spiritual plane... where I felt the presence of God.

There's the God they taught me about at school...
And there is the God that's hidden by what surrounds us in this civilization. That's the God I met on the mountain."

 

~John Malkovich, (Alive 1993)

[TheWayOfMine]

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

[Stumpich]

I've always fought against evil & I've always won 

[liminal_luke]

Help isn`t help if it`s not helpful.

 

Pat Deegan

[liminal_luke]

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

 

Pat Paulsen

Edited April 16, 2017 by liminal_luke

[cold]

Truer words were never spoken!

[Marblehead]

 

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

 

Pat Paulsen

 

 

It actually goes back further than that.