If you set aside love and friendship and the bonds of family, luck, religion, and spirituality, the desire to better mankind, and music and art, and hunting and fishing and farming, self-importance, and public and private transportation from buses to bicycles, if you set all that aside money is what makes the world go around.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Lord Krishna says to Arjuna
Therefore, without attachment, constantly perform action which is duty, for, by performing action without attachment, man verily reaches the Supreme.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Clement Watt
The world is much too full of men who spend their lives without taking a step in any direction, afraid even to have a thought that is not already branded on the common mind of ordinary humanity.
Monday, October 7, 2013
Jimmy the Bitch
Our cellphones are ostensibly keeping us more connected. But in reality they're helping us to more easily live our disconnected lives.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Friday, September 13, 2013
Barack Obama
You can't have 100 percent security, and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Adolf Hitler
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Richard Rohr
You cannot wait for things to be totally perfect to fall in love with them or you will never love anything.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Paul's likely last letter
Suffering produces endurance; endurance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint.
(Romans 5:1-5 in the Newer Testament part of the Bible)
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Chris Hedges
There is nothing in 5,000 years of economic history to justify the belief that human societies should structure their behavior around the demands of the marketplace.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
José Mujica
I don’t feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Dexter Gelfand
This is a team job, and you can't sit there and be a patient and wait for somebody else to create an effect on you.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Jeanne de Salzmann
At each moment there is negation of whatever is affirmed, sometimes with violence. Yet without this negation we might not have the possibility to evolve.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Alan Watts
Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Arno Gruen
If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
The Gospel of Thomas
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
then you will enter the Kingdom.
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