Marblehead Posted December 26, 2012 "Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will." - Jawaharlal Nehru 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gatito Posted December 26, 2012 Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CloudHands Posted December 27, 2012 "You must relax. In Tai Chi Chuan, this does not mean to simply let go. In Chinese this means "Jou". It is a combination of being loose, relaxed and hard." 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RiverSnake Posted December 28, 2012 I thought this was a very interesting quote: "The higher the initiate, the more difficult the childhood" Dion Fortune -My 2 cents, Peace 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Protector Posted December 30, 2012 “That’s the thing about pain…it demands to be felt.” — John Green Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShenLung Posted December 30, 2012 "...and let that be a lesson to you. From now on, when I am giving instruction in a technique, you will listen attentively, and not attempt the technique until I have fully explained it, and you fully understand the instructions. This is nei gong, not guided meditation hour." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Protector Posted December 30, 2012 One day he was with his disciples in Judea, and he found them gathered together andseated in pious observance. When he [approached] his disciples, [34] gathered together and seated and offering a prayer of thanksgiving over the bread, [he] laughed. The disciples said to [him], “Master, why are you laughing at [our] prayer of thanksgiving? We have done what is right.” He answered and said to them, “I am not laughing at you. <You> are not doing this because of your own will but because it is through this that your god [will be] praised.” They said, “Master, you are […] the son of our god.” Jesus said to them, “How do you know me? Truly say to you, no generation of the people that are among you will know me.” Good times with the Gospel of Judas 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GrandmasterP Posted December 30, 2012 He's not the Messiah, he's just a very naughty boy. (Monty Python's Life of Brian) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eye_of_the_storm Posted January 8, 2013 (edited) . Edited January 8, 2013 by White Wolf Running On Air Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gatito Posted January 9, 2013 Deepen and broaden your awareness of yourself and all the blessings will flow. You need not seek anything, all will come to you most naturally and effortlessly. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GrandmasterP Posted January 10, 2013 ' You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar, with a two headed nipper on your lap, complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you don't have time for nonsense'. (Robert Rankin... The Suburban Book of the Dead.. p. 208). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cyrius Posted January 10, 2013 "{Piety} is what people think of when they hear the word 'religion', a matter of believing more in a set of doctrines than in the mystery those doctrines point to."-James A. Connor. Silent Fire Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GrandmasterP Posted January 12, 2013 (edited) If you had taken as much LSD as Paul McCartney then you wouldn't eat anything with a face either. (Robert Rankin) Same guy.... "Ganesha, isn't he Dennis the Menace's dog?' Edited January 12, 2013 by GrandmasterP 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gatito Posted January 12, 2013 The known is accidental, the unknown is the home of the real. To live in the known is bondage, to live in the unknown is liberation. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Simple_Jack Posted January 15, 2013 Since everything is but an illusion, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one might as well burst out laughing! - Longchenpa 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted January 15, 2013 "But that chick looked so ugly she had to sneak up on a glass to get her a drink of water." Bo Diddley from the song "Say Man" 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLB Posted January 17, 2013 (edited) "The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just off the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon." Franz Kafka Edited January 17, 2013 by PLB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted January 17, 2013 "The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just off the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon." Franz Kafka Life seems that way sometimes, doesn't it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLB Posted January 17, 2013 That sentence has been a piece of my mental furniture for decades. I like the way it depicts an explanation for being tripped up in an orthoganal relationship to the experience of successfully negoitiating the tightrope. I think Zhuangzi would have enjoyed Kafka. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AsheSkyler Posted January 18, 2013 "Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!" "Star Trekking across the universe. Boldly going forward, for we cannot find the reverse!" "Your attitude decides whether you are happy or not. You can change your attitude. Choose happiness, concentrate on happiness, and you will find it everywhere." - Remez Sasson Had to put a serious one in. Although I usually prefer silly quotes. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted January 18, 2013 (edited) Had to put a serious one in. Although I usually prefer silly quotes. Both are valid. Besides, we shouldn't be silly or serious all the time. Boring! Edited January 18, 2013 by Marblehead Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GrandmasterP Posted January 18, 2013 On a rope of infinite length any point must be the middle with exactly as much infinity on either side of it. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GrandmasterP Posted January 18, 2013 If you want in on the Discordian Society then declare yourself what you wish do what you like and tell us about it or if you prefer don't. There are no rules anywhere. (Discordian Manifesto) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted January 18, 2013 If you want in on the Discordian Society then declare yourself what you wish (Discordian Manifesto) I haven't heard from those folks for a long time. There used to be a member at another forum I frequent who he and his wife are Discordians. Interesting folks to talk with. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GrandmasterP Posted January 18, 2013 (edited) Robert Rankin who you'll have seen me mention in Books is a Discordian author. Makes me chuckle anyhoo. There's a forum... http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php Edited January 18, 2013 by GrandmasterP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites