Interesting quotes

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates

"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked" - Voltaire

Thought I might ressurect this topic from its ashes, like a glorious phoenix shining our way, with the wisdom spread by others in the past or present.

" If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything"- Mark twain

"The Seeking of the Master. Musa Najib was asked why he charged a fee from those who came to his sessions; and why he often did not even address his audience. He said: 'I charge for this object lesson: people believe that knowledge must be given freely, and consequently mistake everything which is free for knowledge. I do not always lecture because, among Sufis, "The Master finds the pupil." The pupil has to be physically present: but he may be absent in every other sense. When I discern that a pupil is "present" then I "find" him, for then his inner call is audible to me, even if it is silent to him.' 'Seek and you will be found." - Idries Shah, Reflections

"Magic is not impossible but our vision of it is.
We are the guardians of our own impossibilities."

A.F. Khodam

"When poetry would answer you that there are no more question."

F. hoomanfar
my trance

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts."

Bertrand Russell

"Magic is not impossible but our vision of it is.

We are the guardians of our own impossibilities."

^^

Very interesting, one could be the opposite and it would be no less true. 'Magic is impossible but our vision of it isn't. We are the guardians of our own possibilities.'

Anyway
'Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they have a second.'

"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live." Aristotle

^^ pretty good one

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/rich.html#LVpjjMzdcLWjVWAX.99

Dear Colm , butterflies are reversed.

Dear Michael, who is rich, is the one that has the bigger portion.
But who must be rich, is he who is able to share, his/her portion.

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."― Alfred Tennyson

David Hume :
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."

Immanuel Kant:
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."

Arthur Schopenhauer:
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. Einstein

Good to know.
It sometimes feels though
that the pain would never go.

:)

"Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees."
- Dee Remy

"Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy remember that."
- Nicholas Sparks

"There is intelligence in human that is not possibly human"
A.F. Khodam

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
Ernest Hemingway, or Larry the godfather( they have so much resembles)

'The zinc roofs in the moonlight
And the tin shop, the gas tank
And the water tank, all look like silver.
Like a star, like a cigarette,
Far out, over Nally's hill,
A passenger plane
Passes and flashes in the night.'

While surfing the net I found this poem written about fifty years ago by someone that lived relatively close to my great uncle's farm. I recently critiqued a poem that began each line with capital letters and had two "Ands" in a row.
(I think I warned against the acceptability of that) Personally I believe this poem is about relativity

http://thevalueofsparrows.com/2013/03/01/poetry-gethsemani-ky-selections-by-thomas-merton/

Above is a link to more poems by the author of the poem/quote

"We used this exceptional story as a therapeutic aid for hopeless and depressed people who needed a powerful force for continuing struggles of life against fate. They should say as the boy Manolin, "I'll bring the luck by myself." In the story the old man tells us "It is silly not to hope...besides I believe it is a sin." Hemingway draws a distinction between two different types of success: outer-material and inner-spiritual. While the old man lacks the former, the importance of this lack is eclipsed by his possession of the later. He teaches all people the triumph of indefatigable spirit over exhaustible resources. Hemingway's hero as a perfectionist man tells us: To be a man is to behave with honor and dignity, not to succumb to suffering, to accept one's duties without complaint, and most importantly to have maximum self-control. At the end of the story he mentions, "A man is not made for defeat...a man can be destroyed but not defeated." The book finishes with this symbolic sentence: "The old man was dreaming about lions."

Alone she sleeps in the shirt of man
With my three wishes clutched in her hand
The first that she be spared the pain
That comes from a dark and laughing rain
When she finds love may it always stay true
This I beg for the second wish I made too
But wish no more
My life you can take
To have her please just one day wake
To have her please just one day wake

- Gaeta's Lament, Battlestar Galactica.

A. F. Khodam:

"If you don't have conscience you do not know why you should have one"

"An anomaly seems out of character but keep in mind all the characteristics also one day they were out of character and outcasts.

"When I write something I make sure that I become written by what I write"

Martin Luther::

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."

"The bigger thief beheads the petty one, in the name of law"

"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."

"Some people spend so much energy in order to seem normal."

Albert Camus

haha Everyone does that. For the most, they have done it to the extend that they do not even realize that they are doing it. They do it instinctively.

I do it, and usually fail..

I have always found normal boring.

I spent so much time in my school years worried about looking and feeling normal that I feel now looking back I wasted that era.

It would be nice to go back and be the real me.

Haha which one are you now??

Not sure

what is normal?

Somebody who abides by what is acceptable as deemed by the society they live in?
Aren't these people seen as boring?
Isn't being boring perceived as being abnormal
otherwise why would we label them as such?

I am glad you too see the bore of this face-let masks.
these people who constantly sort, 0 and 1, every data to: normal and acceptable, or abnormal and shoo shoo. Nothing transcendental would ever excite them.
But yet this is the source of survival, if you do not do it, they out cast you. They make you pay the price. You are the ugly duckling that they cant see themselves in your face. The "usual" is "fixed" and is collective, so if someone refute it it releases a lots of dispersed negative energy amongst those who are fixed to that fix. They call you mad, unfit, they use to throw stone at mad people. In mental hospitals they beat them up still. ( one flew over cuckoo's nest)
So the choice as always yours: survival, or authenticity!!

Still whoever has more power is right,
wiled civilization!

A. Shamloo

"Only those who have died truly know what it is to live" -Unknown