QUOTES

Eventually all things come together…. And a river runs through it.

-A River Runs Through It

I am haunted by waters. -A River Runs through it

One man with courage makes a majority -anon

God = knowledge thinking itself -Aristotle Metaphysics(not a quote)

I am that I am

-how Yahweh defines himself to Moses in Exodus in the Hebrew Bible.

Om = Sanskrit for “I am that I am”

Tat Tvam asi = you art that. Sanskrit

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Estragon: Let’s go.

Vladimir: We can’t.

Estragon: Why not?

Vladimir: We’re waiting for Godot.

Estragon: Ah! (despairing)

- Samuel Beckett

To see a World in a Grain of Sand,

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,

And Eternity in an hour.

-Blake

“Auguries of Innocence” 506

All deities reside in the human breast.

-Blake

The roaring of lions the howling of wolves, the raging

of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are por-

tions of eternity too great for the eye of man. (184)

-Blake

I have a low threshold for pleasure -Bootsie

Najagneq, an Inuit shaman, said to Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen about “a power we call Sila.” He said,

his speech to man comes not in ordinary words, but through storms, snowfall, rain showers, the tempests of the sea, all the forces that man fears, or through sunshine, calm seas, or small, innocent, playing children who understand nothing.

-Campbell, Myths to Live By

pg 212

Follow your bliss

-J. Campbell

It might be worth mentioning that Campbell was also eating meat. He liked to tease vegetarians by saying they were people who couldn't hear a carrot scream.

-Joe Campbell

"The last incarnation of Oedipus, the continuing romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the light to change” Joe Campbell

“The mystic swims in the same water that the [druggie] drowns in”

J. Campbell, Encyclopedia of W. Rel

“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.” – Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

-Albert Camus

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

- Albert Camus

“Someone out there understands what I mean when I say that the apathy of the stars is a delightful ambiguity. (He’s likely been in a whale before himself.)”

-Chris, “Ode to Pan”, classmate

“Healthy people who regularly use medicines become ill”

-Chinese proverb

What if you slept? And what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand? Ah. What then?

-Samuel Coleridge

"Got out of town on a boat goin' to southern islands.
Sailing a reach before a followin'Sea.
was waiten for the trades on the outside, and the downhill run to Papaeete.
Off the wind on this heading lies the Marquesas.
We got 80 (23) feet of waterline nicely making way.

When you see the southern cross for the first time
You understand now why you came this way
'cause the truth you might be runnin from is so small
But it's as big as the promise,
the promise of a coming day"
Southern Cross, Crosby, Stills, and Nash

I still think that the answer is Maybe -Dave, Brian’s crew on Thistledown

It is a dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won’t stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is what you get. -Annie Dillard,

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, pg 15

The world has signed a pact with the devil; it had to. It is a covenant to which every thing, even every hydrogen atom, is bound. The terms are clear: if you want to live, you have to die; you cannot have mountains and creeks without space, and space is a beauty married to a blind man. The blind man is Freedom, or Time, and he does not go anywhere without his great dog Death. -Annie Dillard

Father and teacher, I ponder, ‘What is hell?’ I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. -Dostoyevsky

I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. - “” Notes from the Underground

A man without fear is a man without hope.

-the movie “Daredevil”

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

-Einstein

God is subtle, but not malicious, . . . nature conceals her mystery by means of her essential grandeur, not by her cunning. -Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

- Albert Einstein

A man is a god in ruins -Emerson

Today is tomorrow’s memory and yesterday’s dream.

-Kalil Gibran

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

-Goethe

Salvation is the death of song

-Andrew Harvey

Excerpt for Journey to Ladakh:

“He stood flexing his biceps (very small) in the light. He said, ‘ I am going. We will never meet again. Be careful. You are very enthusiastic, you are a great fool, you will be eaten alive if you don’t watch out. I wish you all the melancholy wisdoms and a relatively early death! Ha! Yes!’ and ran out into the morning laughing and slapping his thighs. ‘All the melancholy wisdoms and a relatively early death! What rhythm! What style!” -Andrew Harvey

The greatest courage is the courage to be happy. . . It takes great courage to be ruthless with one’s griefs.

-Andrew Harvey

We only begin to live at the end of philosophy.

-Andrew Harvey

"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later."
- Mitch Hedberg

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you. – Horace

I only wanted to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

-Hermann Hesse Demian

Truth is lived.

-Hesse Glass Bead Game

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

- “ “

Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value.

- “ “

The life of a hedonist is the best preparation for becoming a mystic

- “ “

Well now, every experience has its element of magic.

-Hermann Hesse

Drive fast and take chances.

-Cousin Rick & Uncle Richard

Sing, goddess of the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus,

the destructive wrath, that brought countless woes to the Achaeans,

and hurled forth to Hades many stalwart

souls of heroes… -Illiad, book 1, lines 1-4

I’m not wasting time—How can I waste something that doesn’t even exist?

-movie “I.Q.”

For some reason it's always stuck in my mind that you were the only one
who never refused seconds on the smidgets that they passed around during snack
time, an odd thing to remember, but it just stuck.

Matt Johnson on me as a child

A wholemole millwheeling vicocyclometer, a tetradomational gazebocroticon.

-James Joyce, Finnigan’s Wake

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

-James Joyce, Portrait of an Artist

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile, and cunning. J. Joyce

Contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality -James Joyce, p. 32

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

-of course, JJoyce Ulysses, 17.1038

I will be quiet, comforted that I am dust.

-Book of Job

[The Gnostics were] like the romantics in rebellion against the structure of classicism (orthodoxy), they focused on the individual rather than the group; they were liberals rather than holy tories; . . . They were hippies, not corporate executives; spiritual people rather than attendees at divine services; they saw salvation in enlightenment, not ecclesiastical sanction. . . .They were idealists, not church builders; people who would cheer for Ivan Karamazov, not for the Grand Inquisitor in his poem.

-Karen King What is Gnosticism

We have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and non violent pressure … Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." — Martin Luther King, 1963

Theology and myth are stepsisters of truth. The one probes with questions, the other spins out tales on gossamer threads. But both serve a common mystery. -Belden Lane

Dreams are whispers from your soul..........

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

- Nelson Mandela

The mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

-John Milton

Oh look at me in my fancy car and my bank account

How I wish I could take it down to my grave,

God knows I’d save and save

Man take a look again, Take a look again, the things you have collected

Well in the end it all piles up so tall

To one big nothing, one big nothing at all

Dave Matthews “Seek Up”

I hope you are well and
I hope you are being as safe as the spirit of your
activities will allow. Wendy McFadden

When I was a very young Zen student, caught up in the problem of evil, I once asked my teacher, “Why does shit smell so bad?” He said, “If you were a fly, it would taste like candy.” Stephen Mitchell

A ship in the harbor is safe. . . but that’s not what ships were made for.

-? ? ?

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

-Wolfgang Mozart,

A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

-Nietzsche ?? on life, the universe

I should believe only in a god who understands how to dance

-Nietzsche

I want hobgoblins around me, for I am courageous.

-Nietzsche

There are no facts, only interpretations.

-Nietzsche

Any kind of seeing is seeing from a point of view.

-idea of Nietzsche

For believe me!—the secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as long as you cannot be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge!

-Nietzsche, Gay Science, sec 283

What if a demon crept after you one day or night in your loneliest solitude and said to you: “this life, as you live it now and have lived it, you will have to live again and again, times without number; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and all the unspeakably small and great in your life must return to you, and everything in the same series and sequence—and in the same way this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and in the same way this moment and I myself. The eternal hour-glass of existence will be turned again and again—and you with it, you dust of dust!”—Would you not throw yourself down and gnash you teeth and curse the demon who spoke? Or have you experienced a tremendous moment in which you would have answered him: “You are a god and never did I hear anything more divine!”

-Nietzsche, Gay Science

“et ignotas animum dimittit in artes,” or

“he applies his mind to obscure arts.”

-Ovid:

Become who you are.

-Pindar

Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. I admit, doubtfully, as exceptions, snailshells and caravans. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

It is for that reason perhaps, that when it comes, the desire to build a boat is one of those that cannot be resisted. It begins as a little cloud on a serene horizon. It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of nothing else. You must build to regain your freedom. And always you comfort yourself with the thought that yours will be the perfect boat, the boat that you may search the harbors of the world for and not find."

-Arthur Ransome

The credit belongs to those people who are actually in the field. . . who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions to a worthy cause; who at best know triumph of high achievement, and, who at worst, fail while daring greatly. . . So that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

-Teddy Roosevelt

Bring me that horizon -Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

Where ever we want to go, we go. That’s what a ship is, you know. It’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails—that’s what a ship needs. But what a ship is, what The Black Pearl really is……is freedom. ----------

I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

-Psalms 139:14

I’ve been to Paradise. . . and I like it here better. -Herbert Salvenmoser

I’m sailing so slow my fish hook is overtaking me. - “”

If only people could understand that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

-Schopenhauer

Fear was his blanket

-Mark Strand ~

I consider myself a" Christian", based on  John 3:16, and Romans 10:9. I don't 

think I want to take on anything that might cause confusion in my belief.

-Southern Baptist friend

If you can’t do it drunk and stoned then you shouldn’t be doing it at all”

-Ralph Stedman

or Hunter S. Thomson

Dark Helmet: "Before you die, there is something you should know about 

us"

Lone Starr: "What?"

Dark Helmet: "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former 

room-mate."

Lone Starr: "What's that make us?"

Dark Helmet: "Absolutely nothing. Which is what you are about to 

become. Prepare to die."

Dark Helmet: "You have the ring, and I see your Schwartz is as big as 

mine."

-Spaceballs, the movie

Dark Helmet: "What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in 

the movie?"

Col Sandurz: "Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens 

now, is happening now."

DH: "What happened to then?"

CS: "We passed then?"

DH: "When?"

CS: "Just now. We're at now, now."

DH: "Go back to then."

CS: "When?"

DH: "Now."

CS: "Now?"

DH: "Now."

CS: "I can't."

DH: "Why?"

CS: "We missed it."

DH: "When?"

CS: "Just now."

DH: "When will then be now?"

CS: "Soon."

DH: "How soon?"

CORPORAL "Sir."

DH: "What?"

C: "We've identified their location. "

DH: "Where?"

C: "It's the Moon of Vega."

CS: "Good work. Set a course, and prepare for our arrival."

DH: "When?"

C: "Nineteen-hundred hours, sir."

CS: "By high-noon, tomorrow, they will be our prisoners."

DH: "Whoooooo!!!"

-Spaceballs the movie

I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,

Little flower—but if I could understand

What you are, root and all, and all in all,

I should know what God and man is.

-Tennyson:

If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you.

-Gospel of Thomas

Still round the corner there may wait

A new road or a secret gate

And though often I have passed them by

A day will come at last when I

Shall take the hidden paths that run

East of the Moon, west of the sun

-J.R.R. Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.

-J.R.R. Tolkien

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.                     -Tolkien

Hail, Son of Hurin, Well met!                           “”””

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe

harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.  Dream. Discover."

                                                                                   -Mark Twain 

"The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him." – Voltaire

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death

-Whitman

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

-Whitman

Considering that, all hatred driven hence,

The soul recovers radical innocence

And learns at last that it is self-delighting,

Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,

And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will.

-Yeats

1

Man made his gods, and furnished them

With his own body, voice and garments.

2

If a horse or lion or a slow ox

Had agile hands for paint and sculpture,

The horse would make his god a horse,

The ox would sculpt an ox.

-Zenophanes

“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leader. That is easy. All you have to do is tell the people they are being attacked and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

-Nazi Reich Marshal Hans Goering at the Nurenburg War Trials.

From S.Pac trip with Willy and Herb

It’s science Anchorman

True story Jim, Aguja

Am I wrong? Big Lebowski

That nap just raged out of control Willy

How the wheel of ka turns! Dark Tower

We’ve been betrayed, ambushed, we’re outnumbered and backed against a wall. We have them exactly where we want them. Should we charge?

Dark Tower

Sweet irony! Will Ferrill

My apartment smells of rich mahogany and I have many leather bound books

Anchorman

Combed, feathered, tapered—you just don’t see hair like that anymore

Dodgeball

You wouldn’t expect that from a Buddhist. Anger management

I don’t know where I am. I think in need to sit down. Oh the room is getting smaller.

Waterboy

I believe you have my stapler…. OfficeSpace

….Chuck Norris…..just ask Will

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From NZ with Martina

I was gutted.

Loo role

Right oh!

Sweet as!

On a piss; taking the piss

Knackered

‘I didn’t love it” – from Tilikum

Fucking tosser

Stuffed and trolleyed