Bilbo the Rover Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 "When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand." Anne Morrow Lindbergh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 "To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to rob others without interruption. To still others it means the leisure to devour the goods of the earth without being compelled to interrupt their pleasures to feed those whom their greed is starving. And to practically everybody peace simply means the absence of any physical violence that might cast a shadow over lives devoted to the satisfaction of their animal appetites for comfort and leisure. Many men like these have asked God for what they thought was “peace” and wondered why their prayer was not answered. They could not understand that it actually was answered. God left them with what they desired, for their idea of peace was only another form of war." Thomas Merton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."- Mother Teresa “Among the Reasons God May Temporarily Be Unavailable to Bless America”: (1) because God has had it up to here with the assumption that prayers for national exemption from pain and tragedy deserve an answer; (2) because God is too busy processing Americans’ prayers for their high-school football teams; (3) because God takes for granted that the bombs falling on Kabul are America’s real prayers; (4) because such a tasteless and lurid efflorescence of red, white, and blue (including flags wrapped around church steeples) gives God a massive headache. -Rev. Peter Laarman Judson Memorial Church, New York City Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 "Believe those who are seeking the truth ; doubt those who find it ." -Andre Gide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Zeppnile Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away, and you have their shoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away, and you have their shoes.Great quote ! You're a wise man Delbert.... ( Dude, I need to not post when I've been drinking ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Zeppnile Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Great quote ! You're a wise man Delbert.... ( Dude, I need to not post when I've been drinking ) Another wise man once said, "I'd rather have this bottle in front of me, than a frontal labotomy." Drink up -- it's the weekend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KashmirDevi Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 “Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.” ~Swami Sivananda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KashmirDevi Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 “We should worship lord Shiva so that we are freed from our worldly attachments just like a fruit falls from a tree after ripening. Once we are successful in doing this we are liberated from this vicious cycles of life and death.” ~Yajur Veda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KashmirDevi Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. ~Kahlil Gibran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahyoubetcha Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 The face of a child says it all. Especially the mouth part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 " Conscious faith is freedom, Emotional faith is slavery, Mechanical faith is foolishness." - G.I. Gurdjieff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 "At the days end, all our footsteps are added up to see how near." - W.S. Merwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 "The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith." -Helen Rowland "Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him." -Dorothy L. Sayers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 A devotee once complained to the great nineteenth-century saint Sri Ramakrishna about not having had any deep experiences of God. Sri Ramakrishna took him by the hand and led him to the ashram's bathing pond. They both walked into the water until they were about waist deep, and Sri Ramakrishna then pushed the man's head underwater with great force and held him there for nearly a minute. The man struggled and struggled, and finally the saint released his grip and the man emerged urgently from the water, gasping for breath. Sri Ramakrishna said to him, "When you want God as much as you wanted that next breath, you will see God. " - Bo Lozoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KashmirDevi Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other. ~Carlos Castaneda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 "Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something." H. Jackson Brown Jr. "I cried at first . . . and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy." Frances Noyes Hart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evster2012 Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Another wise man once said, "I'd rather have this bottle in front of me, than a frontal labotomy." *sings* I may be drunk, but at least I'm not insaaaaane!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whyalla Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth." - Peter McWilliams. Maybe I should re-post this on some of the 'falling-out' threads! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzyMerkin Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 "Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something." H. Jackson Brown Jr. That's beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahyoubetcha Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe. FZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted February 13, 2008 Author Share Posted February 13, 2008 " Just do what must be done, this may not be happiness ; but it is greatness." - George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatdrastik Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 People who blow their own horns are usually out of tune spatdrastik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal light Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Face saving (or saving face) refers to maintaining a good self image. People who are involved in a conflict and secretly know they are wrong will often not admit that they are wrong because they don’t want to admit they made a mistake. They therefore continue the conflict, just to avoid the embarrassment of looking bad. To avoid this problem, it is important to allow one’s opponents to make concessions gracefully, without having to admit that they made a mistake or backed down. Often a simple change in wording, or an exchange of concessions will help negotiators maintain a positive image, even when they are actually giving in very substantially. Negotiation expert William Ury, (1991, p. 105) recommends that negotiators "go slow to go fast." By moving slowly, negotiators can trade minor concessions, and can focus more on what they have gained than on what they have lost. Superior power is useless, cautions Ury, "if it drives your opponent into a corner and makes him resist you with all his might. Leaving him a way out is a time-honored precept." One aspect of this principle is the rule of not gloating or bragging when one has won a victory. Gloating makes the other side look bad and feel badly, which can encourage them to withdraw their cooperation with any previous agreements. www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/treatment/facesavr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerisaye Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 This is a beautiful thread...here is a small contribution from Welsh poet RS Thomas The Bright Field I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had the treasure in it. I realise now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you. by RS Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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