posted June 08, 2007 10:52 PM            

~ Valerian

Try to do something for your people - something difficult. Have pity on your people and love them... If there is discord among your people, intercede. Take your sacred pipe and walk into their midst. Die if necessary in your attempt to bring about reconciliation. Then, when order has been restored and they see you lying dead on the ground, still holding in your hand the sacred pipe, the symbol of peace and reconciliation, then assuredly will they know that you have been a real chief.

~ Winnebago lesson

A good heart and a good mind -
these are what you need to be a chief.

~ Louis Farmer, Onondaga Elder

You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.

~ Cochise, Chiricahua Chief

posted June 08, 2007 11:26 PM            

Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

posted June 08, 2007 11:43 PM            

~ Abraham Lincoln

posted June 08, 2007 11:51 PM            

-- Abraham Lincoln

"The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice."

--Plato

"Forgive your enemies,
but never forget their names. "

-- John F. Kennedy

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. "

-- John F. Kennedy

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

-- Robert F. Kennedy

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

posted June 09, 2007 12:08 AM            

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

"I am not concerned that you have fallen -
I am concerned that you arise. "

--Abraham Lincoln

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side.
My great concern is to be on God's side."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"You've got to stand for something or you will fall for anything"

~Unknown

Most people look up and admire the stars.
A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one.

~Unknown

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important

-Unknown

"If you have no confidence in yourself,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started."

- Marcus Garvey

"Life is like a grindstone -
whether it grinds you down or polishes
you up
depends on what you're made of."

-Unknown

"I disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to say it "

- Voltaire

"Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters."

- Unknown

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

- Eugene Ionesco

I don't know whether the world is run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.

- Hypatia

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. "

- Tony Robbins

"When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure For what we think, will come about."

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood."

~ Gen. George S. Patton Jr.

To make peace is harder than to do battle.

- Valerian

posted June 09, 2007 12:10 AM            

--Plato

posted June 09, 2007 12:26 AM            

- Carl Sagan

We learn, and often practice, to despise
that which we are afraid of.

- Valerian

"Strong reasons make strong actions."

- William Shakespeare

The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.

- Socrates

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

- Socrates

I was too honest a man to be a politician and live.

- Socrates

Don't just tell me what you think,
tell me why you think it.

- "IB Thinkin"

People cannot be angry and think clearly at the same time.

- "IB Thinkin"

When in doubt tell the truth.

- Mark Twain

"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

- Mark Twain

Don't let school interfere with your education.

- Mark Twain

Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."

- Booker T. Washington

posted June 09, 2007 01:51 AM            

“Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks”

“Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless, that for some people it is a complete substitute for life”

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”
~Dave Barry

“Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.”
~Dave Barry

“People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.”
~Dave Barry

“It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells . . . to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.”
~Dave Barry

"Battle not with monsters
lest ye become a monster
and if you gaze into the abyss
the abyss gazes into you."
~Nietzsche

It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.
~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
~Blaise Pascal

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"
~Blaise Pascal

"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."
~Mary Wollstonecraft

"But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil."
~Robert Heinlein

posted June 09, 2007 02:09 AM            

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.
Dave Barry

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
Dave Barry

I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.
Dave Barry

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.
Dave Barry

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.
Dave Barry

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
Dave Barry

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
Dave Barry

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
Dave Barry

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Dave Barry

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
Dave Barry

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.
Dave Barry

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
Dave Barry

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
Dave Barry

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry

posted June 09, 2007 09:25 AM            

~ Heraclitus

"Neither knowledge, nor devotion,
will carry you along the highest paths,
but only knowledge allied to devotion."

- The Vedas

posted June 10, 2007 11:13 PM            

- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
"Hagakure: The Way of The Samurai"

"And those who do battle with monsters
should take care they do not become monsters thereby."

- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

posted June 11, 2007 03:13 AM            

~ Gary Zukov

Everything you need is within you
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you

~Jesus

"Take your hands off the steering wheel. Be able to say to the Universe, "Thy will be done," and to know it within your intentions. Spend time in this thought. Consider what it means to say, "Thy will be done," and allow your life to go into the hands of the Universe completely. The final piece of reaching for authentic power is releasing your own to a higher form of wisdom."

~ Gary Zukov

These quotes are speaking to me.

"Do not discriminate in terms of what you can and should ask and speak about. Just assume and live in the beauty of the bond. Do not fear dependency. What is wrong with being dependent upon the Universe, whether that is your Teachers or Divine Intelligence? You do what you do for yourself and Universe and your nonphysical Teachers and guides are there in assistance. They will never do it for you. Delight in the dependency. Give your guides and Teachers permission to come closer.
When you ask for guidance and assistance, simply assume that it immediately is pouring forward. You may need to work a while to relax your mind into receptivity, or you may need to have lunch, or drive into town or do whatever it is that you need to do in order to relax your mind to hear or to feel, but live in the total assumption that the moment that you ask for guidance it is pouring in.
Try looking at life as a beautifully well-organized dynamic. Trust the Universe. Trusting means that the circumstance that you are in is working toward your best and most appropriate end. There is no when to that. There is no if to that. It is. Release your specifications and say to the Universe: "Find me where you know I need tobe." Let them go and trust the Universe will provide, and so it shall. Let go of all. Let your higher self complete its task.
Allow yourself to pray. Just as the many times human beings find themselves in circumstances where the hurt or the pain is so great that on their own power they cannot forgive, it is enough that they pray to be given the grace, the perception, the elevated Light that will allow them to forgive.
It is impossible for you to come full circle in this way of empowerment without prayer. It is not enough to want to or intend to meditate. You must pray. You must talk. You must ask. You must believe. That is partnership.
Think of what you are doing as entering into partnership with Divine Intelligence, a partnership in which you begin to share your concerns with the understanding that there is an Intelligence receptive to what you are saying that helps you create within your own environment of matter and energy the most effective dynamics to bring you into wholeness."

~Zukov

"When you pray, you draw to you, and invoke, grace.
Grace is uncontaminated conscious Light.
It is divinity."

~Z

Wow, its been a long time. I wrote some lyrics (and a melody in my head) back when I was reading this book like crazy. Its been 7 years or more. The song began playing in my mind again when I was typing. I'm glad I was inspired to pull this book out again.

Oh yep, I am remembering the lyrics now and I know I have them written in a lyric binder too. Hmmm... well, here is the beginning which I remember... *then I went to get the binder for the rest*

***No Easy Road***

There's hard work to be done
in the world today
No doubt about that

And I know that I'm strong
in my own way,
and there's no turning back

Miracles happen
Magic makes sense
Your wishes come true
No coincidence

And maybe in
the next life
things will be
brighter
And maybe in
the next life
my soul will be
lighter

And maybe next time around
people will see

things'll be different
and I'll be free to me

There's no easy road
take the path less travelled
life is a challenge
But at one day at time
and with a deep breath
I know that I'll manage

Have faith in the Universe
Care about your health
Love one another
And Know Thyself

And then...

Maybe in the next life
things will be brighter
Maybe in the next life
your soul will be lighter
Maybe next time around
You'll know what to do
Things will be different
You'll be free to be you

(bridge)
There's a light up ahead (ahe-ehhh-ed)
Only the strong will see

There's a place - a time -
for everything

Everyone's a star (a-arrr)
If they Believe

We all find our way
eventually
(I guar-en-teeeeeee)

Open up your heart
Expand your mind
Prepare for your journey
Its about time...
so...
Maybe in This life
things will be brighter
Maybe in This life
Our souls will be lighter

Maybe this time around
we will see
The truth in our hearts
that will set us free

~by MysticMelody copyright 1999 (gonna party like its...)

Well, they are a little dorky, but I loved them then, and I think I love them even more now.

posted June 11, 2007 03:54 AM            

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. "

- Tony Robbins

"When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure For what we think, will come about."

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

and I said,
Destiny? But
free will and
all that
and?
doesn't that go against what he..?
and...
I read the other quote and
What We Think Will Come About? But doesn't that also...
go against..
? hmm
huh
WWWWait!

No frEAKIN kidding, FREAKIN AQUARIAN GENIUS!!! Of COURSE!!!

To train your mind to believe that it is all previously determined is to train your mind to Know that is All part of a Larger plan, THE plan, and that we are all part of THE ONE WHO MAKES THE PLAN, and WE ***ARE*** THE ONE WHO MAKES THE PLAN. Freakin Genius. If you were in front of me right now I would be grabbing you and twirling Us around! You and God and We and Prayer and God and Me and God and God... its a trip around the moon...
Thank you for being in my life!

You are an EXCELLENT teacher!

God is good, life is good, and now I can rest.

posted June 11, 2007 04:26 AM              

-Patanjali

posted June 11, 2007 10:56 AM            

- Franz Kafka

posted June 11, 2007 10:56 AM            

I love you both so much.

I love truth and beauty.

I rededicate myself to Love.

No more scattering my energies to the four corners,
this is the time to consolidate and find my center.

Yesterday, I lifted weights a bunch of times throughout the day, while I was watching t.v. The day before that, I lifted a few times. For the past three days in a row, I've gone for walks and picked up litter along the way. This is all new to me. I'm taking better care of myself. I feel something BIG is coming, is already here. I'm very excited and full of faith and vigor. In a few minutes, I'm going to the health food store, and I'm going to be positively ascetic, lol.

I have to repeat this one, because every time I hear it some profound gasp goes up inside me, it is absolutely moving to me:

Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

~ Tecumseh, Shawnee

F*ckin' A!!!

posted June 11, 2007 11:05 AM            

If anyone knows good collections of Native American Wisdom, please share.
Maybe I'll reattempt Black Elk Speaks.

posted June 11, 2007 11:20 AM            

A singer in a smokey room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on

Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searching in the night
Streetlight people, living just to find emotion
Hiding, somewhere in the night

Working hard to get my fill,
Everybody wants a thrill
Payin anything to roll the dice,
Just one more time
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh, the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on

Dont stop believin
Hold on to that feelin

posted June 11, 2007 11:35 AM            

How 80s am I????

I'm dancing!!!!

(((I never dance.)))

I DO NOW.

I'm feeling JOY.

It's been a long time.

Love.
Love.
Love.

My whole heart.