My favourite proverbs and quotes.
Most people think,
Great god will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,stand up for your rights.
Get up, stand up.By Bob Marley
All that we are is the result of what we have thought,if a man speaks or acts with an evil thought pain follows him.If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.Siddhartha Gautama Buddha from The dhammapada verse 1 and 2.
The mind is everything,what you think,you become.Siddhartha Gautama Buddha.from The dhammapada
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,nor to worry about the future,the secret is to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha from The dhammapada
Friendship is the only cure for hatred,the only guarantee of peace.Buddha Siddhartha Gautama
The whole secret of existance is to have no fear.Never fear what will become of you,depend on no one.Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.Buddha Siddhartha Gautama
Those who are free of resentful thoughts, surely find peace.Buddha Siddhartha Gautama
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. Robert .G. Ingersoll 1833-1899
Always believe in yourself,shine a light from your highest dream.Always believe in yourself, keep your innerchild alive,keep your innerchild alive...Shanice
I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow
They'll learn much more.....than Ill never know
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world
What a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong
Science and symbols control the world, not phrases and laws.Confucius
And I choose to be the best that I can be,I choose to be authentic in everything I do,My past don't dictate who I am,I choose yeah. India. Arie =I choose
"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing -- fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand." Why I Am Not A Christian.Bertrand Russell
An agnostic thinks it impossible to know the truth in matters such as God and the future life with which Christianity and other religions are concerned. Or, if not impossible, at least impossible at the present time.
In his 1953 essay, What Is An Agnostic? Bertrand Russell
To experience love,you must feel your own anger. If you want to feel more love,you must allow yourself to feel your anger. If you are afraid of anger,find a good therapist (who's not afraid of anger !) to help you learn safe,constructive ways to experience and express anger.Underneath anger, there is always some way you've been hurt or some way you've given your power away.When you uncover and express the hurt,the healing can take place.When you learn to assert your needs and feelings directly,you'll feel less anger. Eventually, you will feel love and compassion toward the person you were angry at. Our natural state is love when it is not blocked by repressed emotions.Our spirits automatically feel love.When we embrace and make peace with our own feelings, we will recognise the being in others and feel love for them. I am learning to feel and express my anger appropriately and constructively.
March 8th-Awakening-A daily guide to conscious living.Shakti Gawain.
To experience joy,feel your sadness.March 6th- Awakening-A daily guide to conscious living.Shakti Gawain.
Your Joy is your sorrow unmasked.And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being ,the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit,the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous,look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.When you are sorrowful look again in your heart ,and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Some of you say " Joy is greater than sorrow" and others say "Nay ,sorrow is the greater" But I say unto you ,they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.When the treasure -keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and silver, needs must your joy or sorrow rise or fall. Kahlil Gibran -The prophet.
I donot concern myself with gods and spirits either good nor evil nor do I serve any.Lao-Tzu From the
"Tao Teh Ching"
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete,everybody will respect you.
Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
One who is too insistent on his own views,finds few to agree with him. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, this is a noble insight.
To regard our ignorance as knowledge,this is mental sickness. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
Knowing others is intelligence.
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Knowing others is a strength.
Knowing yourself is true power.
Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
Knowing others is wisdom: knowing self is enlightenment.Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
Mastering others requires force: Mastering the self needs strength. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
He who conquers others is strong:He who conquers himself is mighty. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
Truthful words are not beautiful:beautiful words are not truthful.Good words are not persuasive: persuasive words are not good. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
When desires of men are curbed,there will be peace. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
Truly,humility is the root from which greatness springs. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
To win the world,one must renounce all.If one still has private ends to serve,one will never be able to win the world.Therfore the sage desires to be desireless. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.Confucius
Everything has its beauty,but not everyone sees it.Confucius.
If you cannot find it within yourself,where will you go for it? Confucius
Anyone can be angry- that is easy, but to be angry with the right person to the right degree,at the right time, for the right purpose in the right way-this is not easy. Aristotle
Religion misoverstood (misunderstood) is poison,...By Nas.lyrics from"What goes around comes around."
........thinking a perm or
Bleaching cream will make them better when they gorgeous
White girls tanning, lypo suction
Fake titties are implanted, fake lips thats life destruction
Lightskin women, bi-racial hateful toward themselves
Denying even they blood
I don't judge Tiger Woods but I overstand the mental poison
Thats even worser than drugs By Nas.lyrics from"What goes around comes around."
Ayo its poison, ecstacy, coke
You say its love, it is poison
Schools where I learned they should be burned, it is poison
Physicians prescripting us medicine which is poison
Doctors injecting our infants with the poison
Religion misoverstood is poison
By Nas.What goes around comes around
Radio and TV poison, white Jesus poison, By Nas.lyrics from"What goes around comes around."
It's all scientific, mystic, you know the Earth and the stars
Don't hesitate to say you heard it from Nas By Nas.lyrics from"What goes around comes around."
Some people talkin' 'bout when judgement day will come
Looking down upon those not down with their religion
You must believe in all they say and all they do
And if you don't then heaven's gate's are closed to you
I do not subscribe to their philosophy
I don't think my god wants them judgin me
Followin' like i'm blind just wont do for me
God knows what's in my heart
That's why i got to be chorus:
Ini,ini....... Ini By Amel Larrieux
A little girl I was looking at a magazine
Wonderin' why I could never find to many girls that look like me
All i saw was hair so blonde and eyes so very blue
And the words under the picture said and you can get this look too
They cannot define beautiful to me
Someone elses eyes don't see what i see
Followin like i'm blind just won't do for me
God made me just fine that's why i got to be I n I....
Ini By Amel Larrieux
War war is stupid,And people are stupid,And love means nothing,In some strange quarters.The War song by Culture Club.
"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis." By Sigmund Freud from "The future of an illusion".1927
Your true self awaits you....You don't have to live no lie, live no lie....The answer lies within,That's where we 'll find who we are....Jhelisa (Jhelisa Anderson)
Let's get unconscious honey, let's get unconscious honey,lets get unconscious honey, I'm travelling, travelling,travelling.....in the arms of unconsciousness,words are useless,especially sentences,they don't stand for anything,how can they explain how I feel? and all that you have ever learned, try to forget...Bedtime story.written by Bjork and Marius De Vries.Sung by Madonna.
We are awakened through poetry,we are affirmed through ritual,we are fulfilled through music.Confucius
Your capacity to love others depends entirely on your capacity to love yourself, and take care of yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Art is the essence of life.Our words and our actions should be filled with art.The substance of art is complete awareness. Thich Nhat Hanh
If I know that love is myself and that pain is also myself, that understanding is myself, and that understanding is myself and suffering too,then I will be mindful. I will not suppress my own suffering because I know that I can transform it into a flower... The flower exists because suffering exists.Thich Nhat Hanh
To understand how any society functions (Manashantii) =OR (to understand how any nation of people function) we must look at the relationships between the men and the women.Angela Yvonne Davis.
We have to talk about liberating minds, as well as liberating society.Angela Yvonne Davis.
To educate a woman is to educate and liberate a nation.Malcolm X (Little) (Malik Omowale El Shabazz)
Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.Malcolm X (Little) (Malik Omowale El Shabazz )
If you can judge a wise man by the colour of his skin,then mister you're a better man than I. Aerosmith,Living on the edge.
My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.By Lenny Kravitz.Lyrics from "Eleutheria."
If you get up and you quarrel everyday you are saying prayers to the devil I say.....Make way for the positive day.Bob Marley.Lyrics from "Positive vibration".
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery no one but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley.Lyrics from "Redemption song".
Until lions have their own historians,tales of the hunter shall always glorify the hunter.Igbo proverb.
If we stand tall today,it is because we stood on the shoulders of many ancestors.Akan and Yuroba Proverb. Translated by Manashantii
May my outer head not rule my inner head.Yuroba proverb.
For no man can be blessed without the acceptance of his own head.Yuroba proverb.
Where you sit when you are old, shows were you stood in youth.Yuroba proverb.
You must live within your sacred truth.Hausa proverb.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.Maori proverb
A shining gemstone is never polished without friction,nor is being realised (enlightenment) without trials.Chinese proverb.
The (nature of the human) human person is truly born a beast,it is only our nurturing that can develop us to become civilised and humane.Akan /Ghanaian proverb.Translated by Manashantii
A family's previous ancestral nurturing,plays a part in the design of the child of today's personality.Ghanaian proverb.Translated by Manashantii
It takes the strength and effort of a village to raise one child.Akan /Ghanaian and Nigerian proverb.
A house on fire requires active resolution rather than argument.Akan /Ghanaian proverb.Translated by Manashantii
It is easier for outside enemies to infiltrate,if there is an enemy within.Akan /Ghanaian proverb.Translated by Manashantii
A parasite's bite is usually from within your very cloth(ing).Akan /Ghanaian proverb.Translated by Manashantii
In order for the rain to fall the wind and clouds must first be seduced by the sky.Akan /Ghanaian proverb.Translated by Manashantii
You must master and recognise your medicine cure (potion) from your medicine death (poison).Akan /Ghanaian proverb.(In Akan there is one word for medicine and poison,the sentence structure describes the difference between the two words).Translated by Manashantii
Force against force equals more force. Akan /Ghanaian proverb.
Mother is supreme.Igbo proverb.
Mother is gold ,father is a looking glass(mirror).Yuroba proverb.
Poverty can make a pure mind become perversely decayed with immoral thoughts.Akan,Ghanaian Proverb.Reinterpreted By Manashantii
( You must ) Fear the negative force of mankind before you contemplate fearing ghosts.Akan,Ghanaian Proverb.Reinterpretated by Manashantii
If all the seeds that fall were to grow,then no one could follow the path under the trees.Akan,Ghanaian Proverb.
Abundance will make a cotton pull a stone.Hausa Proverb.
Before healing others, heal yourself.Gambian Proverb.
Work is the medicine for poverty.Yuroba Nigerian Proverb.
Your mind is nothing but gibberish,put it aside and you will have a taste of your own being. Jabbar- Sufi Mystic
Go into the silent places of your heart;(Manashantii recommends =replace the word heart with "self")enter into the chambers so quiet and still,of your innerbeing....Intuition will then come to you.You will know truth instantly.By G.dePuruker,Golden Precepts.
Emotional balance and maturity are essential ingredients of self development.To this end one has to be aware of the fundamental drives and desires of one's nature and fulfill them an intelligent and organised fashion.One has to relate to others meaningfully.By Haridas Chaudri,Problems.
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." Richard Dawkins.
"The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity" Richard Dawkins
"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?" Richard Dawkins
Solitude is the greatest teacher of one's personality.Albert Einstein.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. Albert Einstein
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description .. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism. (Albert Einstein)
"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity" A widely cited, but spurious quotation attributed to Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite,the universe and human stupidity,I am not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
I do not believe in the immortality of the indivdual and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authourity behind it.
Albert Einstein
If my theory of relativity is proven successful,Germany will claim me as German and France declare that I am a citizen of the world.If my theory should proove to be untrue,then France will say I am a German and Germany will say that I am a Jew. Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make intellect our god.It has of course powerful muscles,but no personality.
Albert Einstein
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures,or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves.Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives physical death;let feeble souls,from fear or absurd egoism,cherish such thoughts.I am satisfied with the mystery of eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world,together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion,be it ever so tiny,of the Reason that manifests itself in nature. Albert Einstein,The world as I see it.
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom." Albert Einstein
"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness." "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
_Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium_ (1941) ch. 13 Albert Einstein
"I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe." or sometimes quoted as "God does not play dice with the universe." Albert Einstein.
"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber." Albert Einstein
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music." Albert Einstein
"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," from the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary." Albert Einstein
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."Albert Einstein
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."Albert Einstein
Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.Albert Einstein
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."Albert Einstein
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.Albert Einstein
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path
to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."Albert Einstein
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein
I have no special talents.I am only passionately curious.Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it. Albert Einstein
Buddhist theology does not rely on or need Gods, nor do Buddhist ethics or teachings involve Gods, which is probably why many scholars consider Buddhism to be atheistic rather than theistic. In reality it may be closer to agnostic, but it is certainly untrue to say that it is out and out theistic. By Vexen Crabtree.
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.Buddhist quote.
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. Zen Buddhist quote.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.Buddhist quote.
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation. Buddhist quote.
That which doesnot kill me will make me stronger.Albert Camus.
The greatest quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.Immanuel Kant.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire,is the wisdom of humility.Humility is endless.By T.S.Eliot.Four Quartets.
The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. Hilary Stanton Zunin.
I have to deal with all the f**kheads that believe in their supremacy, to all who look different like me,I wonder where did they learn this from The Holy Bible? Everybody jump off. by Jhelisa (Jhelisa Anderson)
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Great god will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,stand up for your rights.
Get up, stand up.By Bob Marley
All that we are is the result of what we have thought,if a man speaks or acts with an evil thought pain follows him.If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.Siddhartha Gautama Buddha from The dhammapada verse 1 and 2.
The mind is everything,what you think,you become.Siddhartha Gautama Buddha.from The dhammapada
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,nor to worry about the future,the secret is to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha from The dhammapada
Friendship is the only cure for hatred,the only guarantee of peace.Buddha Siddhartha Gautama
The whole secret of existance is to have no fear.Never fear what will become of you,depend on no one.Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.Buddha Siddhartha Gautama
Those who are free of resentful thoughts, surely find peace.Buddha Siddhartha Gautama
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. Robert .G. Ingersoll 1833-1899
Always believe in yourself,shine a light from your highest dream.Always believe in yourself, keep your innerchild alive,keep your innerchild alive...Shanice
I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow
They'll learn much more.....than Ill never know
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world
What a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong
Science and symbols control the world, not phrases and laws.Confucius
And I choose to be the best that I can be,I choose to be authentic in everything I do,My past don't dictate who I am,I choose yeah. India. Arie =I choose
"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing -- fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand." Why I Am Not A Christian.Bertrand Russell
An agnostic thinks it impossible to know the truth in matters such as God and the future life with which Christianity and other religions are concerned. Or, if not impossible, at least impossible at the present time.
In his 1953 essay, What Is An Agnostic? Bertrand Russell
To experience love,you must feel your own anger. If you want to feel more love,you must allow yourself to feel your anger. If you are afraid of anger,find a good therapist (who's not afraid of anger !) to help you learn safe,constructive ways to experience and express anger.Underneath anger, there is always some way you've been hurt or some way you've given your power away.When you uncover and express the hurt,the healing can take place.When you learn to assert your needs and feelings directly,you'll feel less anger. Eventually, you will feel love and compassion toward the person you were angry at. Our natural state is love when it is not blocked by repressed emotions.Our spirits automatically feel love.When we embrace and make peace with our own feelings, we will recognise the being in others and feel love for them. I am learning to feel and express my anger appropriately and constructively.
March 8th-Awakening-A daily guide to conscious living.Shakti Gawain.
To experience joy,feel your sadness.March 6th- Awakening-A daily guide to conscious living.Shakti Gawain.
Your Joy is your sorrow unmasked.And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being ,the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit,the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous,look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.When you are sorrowful look again in your heart ,and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Some of you say " Joy is greater than sorrow" and others say "Nay ,sorrow is the greater" But I say unto you ,they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.When the treasure -keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and silver, needs must your joy or sorrow rise or fall. Kahlil Gibran -The prophet.
I donot concern myself with gods and spirits either good nor evil nor do I serve any.Lao-Tzu From the
"Tao Teh Ching"
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete,everybody will respect you.
Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
One who is too insistent on his own views,finds few to agree with him. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, this is a noble insight.
To regard our ignorance as knowledge,this is mental sickness. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
Knowing others is intelligence.
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Knowing others is a strength.
Knowing yourself is true power.
Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
Knowing others is wisdom: knowing self is enlightenment.Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
Mastering others requires force: Mastering the self needs strength. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
He who conquers others is strong:He who conquers himself is mighty. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
Truthful words are not beautiful:beautiful words are not truthful.Good words are not persuasive: persuasive words are not good. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
When desires of men are curbed,there will be peace. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
Truly,humility is the root from which greatness springs. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
To win the world,one must renounce all.If one still has private ends to serve,one will never be able to win the world.Therfore the sage desires to be desireless. Lao-Tzu From the "Tao Teh Ching"
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.Confucius
Everything has its beauty,but not everyone sees it.Confucius.
If you cannot find it within yourself,where will you go for it? Confucius
Anyone can be angry- that is easy, but to be angry with the right person to the right degree,at the right time, for the right purpose in the right way-this is not easy. Aristotle
Religion misoverstood (misunderstood) is poison,...By Nas.lyrics from"What goes around comes around."
........thinking a perm or
Bleaching cream will make them better when they gorgeous
White girls tanning, lypo suction
Fake titties are implanted, fake lips thats life destruction
Lightskin women, bi-racial hateful toward themselves
Denying even they blood
I don't judge Tiger Woods but I overstand the mental poison
Thats even worser than drugs By Nas.lyrics from"What goes around comes around."
Ayo its poison, ecstacy, coke
You say its love, it is poison
Schools where I learned they should be burned, it is poison
Physicians prescripting us medicine which is poison
Doctors injecting our infants with the poison
Religion misoverstood is poison
By Nas.What goes around comes around
Radio and TV poison, white Jesus poison, By Nas.lyrics from"What goes around comes around."
It's all scientific, mystic, you know the Earth and the stars
Don't hesitate to say you heard it from Nas By Nas.lyrics from"What goes around comes around."
Some people talkin' 'bout when judgement day will come
Looking down upon those not down with their religion
You must believe in all they say and all they do
And if you don't then heaven's gate's are closed to you
I do not subscribe to their philosophy
I don't think my god wants them judgin me
Followin' like i'm blind just wont do for me
God knows what's in my heart
That's why i got to be chorus:
Ini,ini....... Ini By Amel Larrieux
A little girl I was looking at a magazine
Wonderin' why I could never find to many girls that look like me
All i saw was hair so blonde and eyes so very blue
And the words under the picture said and you can get this look too
They cannot define beautiful to me
Someone elses eyes don't see what i see
Followin like i'm blind just won't do for me
God made me just fine that's why i got to be I n I....
Ini By Amel Larrieux
War war is stupid,And people are stupid,And love means nothing,In some strange quarters.The War song by Culture Club.
"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis." By Sigmund Freud from "The future of an illusion".1927
Your true self awaits you....You don't have to live no lie, live no lie....The answer lies within,That's where we 'll find who we are....Jhelisa (Jhelisa Anderson)
Let's get unconscious honey, let's get unconscious honey,lets get unconscious honey, I'm travelling, travelling,travelling.....in the arms of unconsciousness,words are useless,especially sentences,they don't stand for anything,how can they explain how I feel? and all that you have ever learned, try to forget...Bedtime story.written by Bjork and Marius De Vries.Sung by Madonna.
We are awakened through poetry,we are affirmed through ritual,we are fulfilled through music.Confucius
Your capacity to love others depends entirely on your capacity to love yourself, and take care of yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Art is the essence of life.Our words and our actions should be filled with art.The substance of art is complete awareness. Thich Nhat Hanh
If I know that love is myself and that pain is also myself, that understanding is myself, and that understanding is myself and suffering too,then I will be mindful. I will not suppress my own suffering because I know that I can transform it into a flower... The flower exists because suffering exists.Thich Nhat Hanh
To understand how any society functions (Manashantii) =OR (to understand how any nation of people function) we must look at the relationships between the men and the women.Angela Yvonne Davis.
We have to talk about liberating minds, as well as liberating society.Angela Yvonne Davis.
To educate a woman is to educate and liberate a nation.Malcolm X (Little) (Malik Omowale El Shabazz)
Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.Malcolm X (Little) (Malik Omowale El Shabazz )
If you can judge a wise man by the colour of his skin,then mister you're a better man than I. Aerosmith,Living on the edge.
My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.By Lenny Kravitz.Lyrics from "Eleutheria."
If you get up and you quarrel everyday you are saying prayers to the devil I say.....Make way for the positive day.Bob Marley.Lyrics from "Positive vibration".
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery no one but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley.Lyrics from "Redemption song".
Until lions have their own historians,tales of the hunter shall always glorify the hunter.Igbo proverb.
If we stand tall today,it is because we stood on the shoulders of many ancestors.Akan and Yuroba Proverb. Translated by Manashantii
May my outer head not rule my inner head.Yuroba proverb.
For no man can be blessed without the acceptance of his own head.Yuroba proverb.
Where you sit when you are old, shows were you stood in youth.Yuroba proverb.
You must live within your sacred truth.Hausa proverb.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.Maori proverb
A shining gemstone is never polished without friction,nor is being realised (enlightenment) without trials.Chinese proverb.
The (nature of the human) human person is truly born a beast,it is only our nurturing that can develop us to become civilised and humane.Akan /Ghanaian proverb.Translated by Manashantii
A family's previous ancestral nurturing,plays a part in the design of the child of today's personality.Ghanaian proverb.Translated by Manashantii
It takes the strength and effort of a village to raise one child.Akan /Ghanaian and Nigerian proverb.
A house on fire requires active resolution rather than argument.Akan /Ghanaian proverb.Translated by Manashantii
It is easier for outside enemies to infiltrate,if there is an enemy within.Akan /Ghanaian proverb.Translated by Manashantii
A parasite's bite is usually from within your very cloth(ing).Akan /Ghanaian proverb.Translated by Manashantii
In order for the rain to fall the wind and clouds must first be seduced by the sky.Akan /Ghanaian proverb.Translated by Manashantii
You must master and recognise your medicine cure (potion) from your medicine death (poison).Akan /Ghanaian proverb.(In Akan there is one word for medicine and poison,the sentence structure describes the difference between the two words).Translated by Manashantii
Force against force equals more force. Akan /Ghanaian proverb.
Mother is supreme.Igbo proverb.
Mother is gold ,father is a looking glass(mirror).Yuroba proverb.
Poverty can make a pure mind become perversely decayed with immoral thoughts.Akan,Ghanaian Proverb.Reinterpreted By Manashantii
( You must ) Fear the negative force of mankind before you contemplate fearing ghosts.Akan,Ghanaian Proverb.Reinterpretated by Manashantii
If all the seeds that fall were to grow,then no one could follow the path under the trees.Akan,Ghanaian Proverb.
Abundance will make a cotton pull a stone.Hausa Proverb.
Before healing others, heal yourself.Gambian Proverb.
Work is the medicine for poverty.Yuroba Nigerian Proverb.
Your mind is nothing but gibberish,put it aside and you will have a taste of your own being. Jabbar- Sufi Mystic
Go into the silent places of your heart;(Manashantii recommends =replace the word heart with "self")enter into the chambers so quiet and still,of your innerbeing....Intuition will then come to you.You will know truth instantly.By G.dePuruker,Golden Precepts.
Emotional balance and maturity are essential ingredients of self development.To this end one has to be aware of the fundamental drives and desires of one's nature and fulfill them an intelligent and organised fashion.One has to relate to others meaningfully.By Haridas Chaudri,Problems.
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." Richard Dawkins.
"The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity" Richard Dawkins
"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?" Richard Dawkins
Solitude is the greatest teacher of one's personality.Albert Einstein.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. Albert Einstein
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description .. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism. (Albert Einstein)
"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity" A widely cited, but spurious quotation attributed to Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite,the universe and human stupidity,I am not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
I do not believe in the immortality of the indivdual and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authourity behind it.
Albert Einstein
If my theory of relativity is proven successful,Germany will claim me as German and France declare that I am a citizen of the world.If my theory should proove to be untrue,then France will say I am a German and Germany will say that I am a Jew. Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make intellect our god.It has of course powerful muscles,but no personality.
Albert Einstein
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures,or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves.Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives physical death;let feeble souls,from fear or absurd egoism,cherish such thoughts.I am satisfied with the mystery of eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world,together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion,be it ever so tiny,of the Reason that manifests itself in nature. Albert Einstein,The world as I see it.
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom." Albert Einstein
"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness." "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
_Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium_ (1941) ch. 13 Albert Einstein
"I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe." or sometimes quoted as "God does not play dice with the universe." Albert Einstein.
"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber." Albert Einstein
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music." Albert Einstein
"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," from the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary." Albert Einstein
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."Albert Einstein
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."Albert Einstein
Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.Albert Einstein
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."Albert Einstein
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.Albert Einstein
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path
to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."Albert Einstein
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein
I have no special talents.I am only passionately curious.Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it. Albert Einstein
Buddhist theology does not rely on or need Gods, nor do Buddhist ethics or teachings involve Gods, which is probably why many scholars consider Buddhism to be atheistic rather than theistic. In reality it may be closer to agnostic, but it is certainly untrue to say that it is out and out theistic. By Vexen Crabtree.
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.Buddhist quote.
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. Zen Buddhist quote.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.Buddhist quote.
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation. Buddhist quote.
That which doesnot kill me will make me stronger.Albert Camus.
The greatest quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.Immanuel Kant.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire,is the wisdom of humility.Humility is endless.By T.S.Eliot.Four Quartets.
The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. Hilary Stanton Zunin.
I have to deal with all the f**kheads that believe in their supremacy, to all who look different like me,I wonder where did they learn this from The Holy Bible? Everybody jump off. by Jhelisa (Jhelisa Anderson)
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