Now for the gratuitous political comment :
Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich.
-- Peter Ustinov
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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.
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine,
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.
God appears, and God is light,
To those poor souls who dwell in night;
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day.
-William Blake
Auguries of Innocence
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star
A dead body revenges not injuries
Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
-William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
God likes to play hide-and-seek, but because there is nothing outside God, he has no one but himself to play with. But he gets over this difficulty by pretending that he is not himself. This is his way of hiding from himself. He pretends that he is you and I and all the people in the world, all the animals, all the plants, all the rocks, and all the stars. In this way he has strange and wonderful adventures, some of which are terrible and frightening. But these are just like bad dreams...
When the game has gone on long enough, all of us will wake up, stop pretending, and remember that we are all one single Self--the God who is all that there is and who lives for ever and ever.
Alan Watts
The Book
Beyond the thinking mind stillness speaks. Become at ease with the state of not knowing. This takes you beyond mind because the mind is always trying to conclude and interpret. It is afraid of not knowing, so when you can be at ease with not knowing , you have already gone beyond the mind. A Deeper knowing that is nonconceptual then arises out of that state. Eckhart Tolle - Stillness Speaks (p23)
Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
~ Harvey Steiman ~
Eden Ahbez
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