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Your mind perceives and continues to perceive the things in that very form which it imagines it to be in full faith with. Pierce through the steel-armor of biased thoughts, and try to see the divinity in every object.-Swami Sivananda
The problem is, we don't want to look inside. We continue to search and demand difference outside where true happiness and peace can never be found.
Manifestation is everything we see and experience. Your individual thoughts have been manifested based on your persistent train of thought & thoughts from previous births. Change your thoughts, change your world.
The trouble with the farmer up to now has been that every time somebody has thought of relief for him it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. That’s what’s the matter with him now. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1927-02-27), “Weekly Article: Big Bouts for Farm Relief”
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You sleep, gaping,
On your bags of gold, adore them like hallowed
Relics not meant to be touched, stare as at gorgeous
Canvases. Money is meant to be spent, it buys pleasure:
Did you know that? Bread, vegetables, wine, you can
Buy almost everything it’s hard to live without.
[Congestis undique saccis
indormis inhians et tamquam parcere sacris
cogeris aut pictis tamquam gaudere tabellis.
Nescis, quo valeat nummus, quem praebeat usum?
Panis ematur, holus, vini sextarius, adde
quis humana sibi doleat natura negatis.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 70ff (1.1.70-75) (35 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]
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I made no remark, however, but sat nursing my wounded leg. I had a Jezail bullet through it some time before, and, though it did not prevent me from walking, it ached wearily at every change of the weather.
— Watson, in “The Sign of the Four”
celebrate all who plant seeds of #kindness to make the world more beautiful for people living with #Alzheimers and other forms of #dementia.
A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Story (1882-06), “The Merry Men,” ch. 3, Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 6
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WIST Quotations · Story (1882-06), "The Merry Men," ch. 3, Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 6 - Stevenson, Robert Louis | WIST QuotationsA generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation. Collected in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887).
When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page […] Well, in the case of Dickens I see a face that is not quite the face of Dickens’s photographs, though it resembles it. It is the face of a man of about forty, with a small beard and a high colour. He is laughing, with a touch of anger in his laughter, but no triumph, no malignity. It is the face of a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open and is not frightened, the face of a man who is generously angry — in other words, of a nineteenth-century liberal, a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1939), “Charles Dickens,” sec. 6, Inside the Whale (1940-03-11)
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WIST Quotations · Essay (1939), "Charles Dickens," sec. 6, Inside the Whale (1940-03-11) - Orwell, George | WIST QuotationsWhen one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page […] Well, in the case of Dickens I see a face that is not quite the face of Dickens’s photographs, though it resembles it. It is the face of…
A quotation from Sarah J. Hale
We need not power or splendor;
Wide hall or lordly dome;
The good, the true, the tender, —
These form the wealth of home.
Sarah J. Hale (1788-1879) American writer, activist, magazine editor
“Home” (1830)
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WIST Quotations · "Home" (1830) - Hale, Sarah Josepha | WIST QuotationsWe need not power or splendor; Wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender, -- These form the wealth of home. The provenance of this poem is unclear. It is often assigned to her Poems for Our Children (1830) (the original location of her "Mary Had a…
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment - Robert Frank
#photography #quote
“It was a sad and disappointing day when I found out that my universal remote control did not, in fact, control the Universe. Not even remotely.” — Memes by Sam
Painting by Carolus Duran (1837-1917)
"Change is the essential process of all existence." Sarek- The Vulcan Hello, Stardate: 1207.3 #StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #IDIC #Quote
Happy Birthday to James Frain. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/James_Frain #StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #IDIC #Quote
Memory AlphaJames FrainJames Frain (born 14 March 1968; age 56) is a British actor who portrayed Sarek in the first and second seasons of Star Trek: Discovery. He is married to director Marta Cunningham, who directed him in DIS: "Light and Shadows". (TRR: "Light and Shadows") The costume he wore in "The Vulcan Hello" was sold off on the Prop Store Star Trek: Discovery online auction in September 2021. [1] Frain came up in the British television and film circuit but was not exposed to American audiences until he was ca
"Look, I could stay here and listen to you apologize all day, but I've got to get to Bajor." Yates "Bajor? I thought." Sisko "Oh, I know what you thought, but I took the job. Do you think I'd give up a great opportunity just because you got cold feet?" Yates- Indiscretion, Stardate: Unknown #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #IDIC #Quote
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Memory AlphaPenny JohnsonPenny Johnson Jerald (born 14 March 1961; age 63) is an actress who played Kasidy Yates in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Dobara in the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episode "Homeward". Her costume from "Homeward" was later sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1](X) One of Johnson Jerald's early television guest appearances was in an episode of T. J. Hooker, starring William Shatner and her Deep Space Nine co-star James Darren. She was a regular cast member on
The demeaning system of domination I've described rules over half the waking hours of a majority of women and the vast majority of men for decades, for most of their lifespans.
-- Bob Black
BRUTUS: If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
— Julius Caesar, III, ii
"The world is an illusion" refers to the projections and perceptions of the mind. All is Atman or Brahman. See all as God and serve all as Thyself. This leads to self-realization and is enlightenment.