Quote of the Day(inspired by SD's post)

[TylerDurden]

The Ego and Its Own (1844)
Max Stirner (1844) The Ego and Its Own. Translations: Tucker, New York 1907; S. Byington, trans. (1913); Cambridge 1995; Dover 2005
What is not supposed to be my concern! First and foremost, the Good Cause, then God's cause, the cause of mankind, of truth, of freedom, of humanity, of justice; further, the cause of my people, my prince, my fatherland; finally, even the cause of Mind, and a thousand other causes. Only my cause is never to be my concern. "Shame on the egoist who thinks only of himself!"
Cambridge 1995, p. 5
I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?
Cambridge 1995, p. 6
The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is mine, and it is not a general one, but is — unique, as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!
Cambridge 1995, p. 7

[Brad462]

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.. John Milton, Paradise Lost

[Brad462]

"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher, "Vanity of vanities! All is vanity." (3) What advantage does man have in all his work Which he does under the sun?"

[sabertooth]

“God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.”

Aldous huxley

[sabertooth]

" I do muscular work, because I have muscles, and if I don't use
      my muscles I shall become a bad-tempered sitting-addict."

"With nothing between the cortex and the buttocks," said Dr. Robert. "Or rather with everything---but in a condition of complete unconsciousness and toxic stagnation. Western intellectuals are all sitting-addicts. That's why most of you are so repulsively unwholesome. In the past even a duke had to do a lot of walking, even a moneylender, even a metaphysician. And when they weren't using their legs, they were jogging about on horses. Whereas now, from the tycoon to his typist, from the logical positivist to the positive thinker, you spend nine tenths of your time on foam rubber. Spongy seats for spongy bottoms---at home, in the office, in cars and bars, in planes and trains and buses. No moving of legs, no struggles with distance and gravity---just lifts and planes and cars, just foam rubber and an eternity of sitting. The life force that used to find an outlet through striped muscle gets turned back on the viscera and the nervous system, and slowly destroys them."

[...Vijaya explained,] "If you'd been shown how to do things with the minimum of strain and the maximum of awareness, you'd enjoy even honest toil."

Aldous Huxley Island

[Brad462]

They who sow in tears shall reap in joy and singing.  PSALM 126:5 AMP

[Brad462]

"You think it is not possible to bring light and peace to all the people on earth, as there are so many of them! Of course, if you look at it like that, you’re right. But when you know certain methods, it becomes possible. Try, for example, to imagine humanity as a single being. Yes, imagine the whole world as a being, next to you, and you are holding their hand and sending them lots of love. The tiny particles that spread out from your soul at that moment move off in all directions in space and spread to all human beings, inspiring in them the most generous and brotherly thoughts and feelings. In this way, what you are doing for this being you are imagining has an effect on men and women all over the world. If there were hundreds, thousands, of us doing this exercise, a new breath, a divine breath, would pass through all creatures, and one day they too would feel inspired by an ideal of light and peace." Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

[sabertooth]

“And their memory made them extraordinary. In them, the unconscious knowledge of ancestral behavior called instinct had evolved. Stored in the back of their large brains were not just their own memories, but the memories of their forebears. They could recall knowledge learned by their ancestors and, under special circumstances, they could go a step beyond. They could recall their racial memory, their own evolution. And when they reached back far enough, they could merge that memory that was identical for all and join their minds, telepathically.”
? Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear

[raw-al]

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. 

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."

--Mark Twain

[sabertooth]

"Greek democracy today chose to stop going gently into the night. Greek democracy resolved to rage against the dying of the light."

'We've made hope return to Europe'

Yanis Varoufakis

[raw-al]

Hope that you can get out of paying your debts? Good luck on that one.

[sabertooth]

Varoufakis has successfully challenged the validity of the debts being put upon his people. He is a man of vision who is capable of clearly seeing the flaws and inequity which are built into the foundation of the current system, and his pragmatic views are inspiring other people of the world to transcend economic tyranny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBmsSkX3QAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZ2evtU0Yg

[JeuneKoq]

An answer to Tyler's “Life is not fair and people are not equal.” by Hiroo Onoda:

"God made man to his image, Sam Colt made them equal" unknown.

[jessica]

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted"-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[TylerDurden]

An answer to Tyler's “Life is not fair and people are not equal.” by Hiroo Onoda:

"God made man to his image, Sam Colt made them equal" unknown.

There are others:-
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
Aristotle

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."
Honore de Balzac

[raw-al]

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted"-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jessica, that says it all when it comes to a lot if not all problems with PPL. Thanks

[raw-al]

There are others:-
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
Aristotle

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."
Honore de Balzac

Ain't that the truth.

[raw-al]

It is easier to fool PPL,
 than to convince them that they have been fooled

Mark Twain

[sabertooth]

“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say”

 J. R. R Tolkien

[Brad462]

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the whole Israelite community and say to them: You shall be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am.holy.

[Brad462]

The less you give a fuck, the happier you'll be.  Mother Teresa.

[sabertooth]

http://www.lovethispic.com/image/87217/the-less-you-give-a-fuck,-the-happier-youll-be

I think she must of stole that one from Jack Nicholson

[Brad462]

Damn, you just bursted my bubble.  Thanks alot. 

[sabertooth]

"You wanna play blind man, go walk with the shepherd, but me, my eyes are wide fuckin' open."

 Pulp fiction

[TylerDurden]

"Civilization is sterilization." Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.