Quotes for the Day

"Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots."
-- Edward Bulwer Lytton

"Many people have sacrificed themselves for others, thinking when they sacrifice themselves they are being a good person. Wrong! To sacrifice yourself can only come from thoughts of absolute lack, because it is saying, 'There is not enough for everyone, so I will go without.' Those feelings do not feel good and will eventually lead to resentment. There is abundance for everybody and it is each person's responsibility to summon their own desires. You cannot summon for another person because you cannot think and feel for another. Your job is You. When you make feeling good a priority, that magnificent frequency will radiate and touch everyone close to you."
-- Rhonda Byrne, in "The Secret"

"It is spiritual pride to think that you are any further on the journey than anyone else. Even if this were true, it would not serve you to know it or claim it. What serves you is compassion for self, compassion for others. What serves you is knowing that each person has the lesson that is perfect for him and, if he learns it, there is no telling how far he will advance.
Don't think you have the capacity to make a correct determination of the spiritual progress of any individual, including yourself. You don't. You don't know. One who seems to be far behind can move ahead in a flash. And one who seems ahead can be seriously disabled. The whole idea of ahead and behind is meaningless, since you don't know where the starting line is or the finish line...You can look at others and think you understand, but you will just be kidding yourself. You have no idea what anyone else's life is about. Nor is it really any of your business to know."
-- Paul Ferrini, in "The Silence of the Heart"

"Even though change is constant and inevitable, we prefer to turn our attention-and a great deal of our attention-to preventing changes from happening in our lives. Suggesting to people that they initiate change and call upon the winds to pull their ship from its safe harbor into the moving seas is akin to asking them to sit on hot coals for the afternoon. Yet the truth is that healing and change are one and the same thing. They are composed of the same energy, and we cannot seek to heal an illness without first looking into what behavioral patterns and attitudes need to be altered in our life. Once those characteristics are identified, we have to do something about those patterns. This requires taking action, and action brings about change."
-- Caroline Myss, in "Why People Don't Heal And How They Can"

"The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion ... draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises ... in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate."
-- Francis Bacon

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous. Actually, who are you not to be. You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
-- Marianne Williamson

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Quotes for the Day

"So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering."
-- Brenda Ueland

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
-- William Blake

"All modern thought is permeated by the idea of thinking the unthinkable."
-- Michel Foucault

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."
-- unknown

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
-- William Blake

"He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
-- William Blake

"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise."
-- William Blake

"Everything you can imagine is real."
-- Pablo Picasso

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing...."
-- George Bernard Shaw

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Dear Red

ANDY
If you're reading this,
you've gotten out. And if you've
come this far, maybe you're willing
to come a little further. You
remember the name of the town,
don't you? I could use a good man
to help me get my project on
wheels. I'll keep an eye out for
you and the chessboard ready.
(beat)
Remember, Red. Hope is a good
thing, maybe the best of things,
and no good thing ever dies. I will
be hoping that this letter finds
you, and finds you well. Your
friend. Andy.

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TRAVELING SHOT

A gorgeous New England landscape whizzes by, fields and trees
a blur of motion. ANGLE SHIFTS to reveal a Greyhound Sceni-
Cruiser barreling up the road, pulling abreast of us. CAMERA
TRAVELS from window to window, passing faces. We finally come
to Red gazing out at the passing landscape.

RED
I find I am so excited I can barely
sit still or hold a thought in my
head. I think it is the excitement
only a free man can feel, a free
man at the start of a long journey
whose conclusion is uncertain....

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OSHO: Spiritually Incorrect: F*CK

Quote of the Day

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

- Einstein

Scientists find most Earthlike planet yet

Scientists find most Earthlike planet yet - Space.com - MSNBC.com

Quote of the Day

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

--- George Bernard Shaw

Anybots walking robot

(From Paul Graham's website) "Trevor Blackwell's robot finally walked. Dexter is, as far as we know, the first dynamically balancing biped robot—that is, the first robot that walks like we do.

There are of course biped robots that walk. The Honda Asimo is the best known. But the Asimo doesn't balance dynamically. Its walk is preprogrammed; if you had it walk twice across the same space, it would put its feet down in exactly the same place the second time. And of course the floor has to be hard and flat."
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