Cool Quotes * The time has come for all people to share the knowledge and understanding that has been passed on from generation to generation to ensure the stability and continuation of Human life on Earth. * Isn't it strange that the same people that laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously? * I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. * Love is the root of all evil and good. -- sasha. * What makes the Universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with. * Ever notice that the word "therapist" breaks down into "the rapist"? Simple coincidence? Maybe... * He who Laughs, Lasts. * It's not who you know, but how you know them. -- sasha. * ... But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell. If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding of their world, not in their distorted perceptions. Even the standard example of ancient nonsense -- the debate about angels on pinheads -- makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number. -- S. J. Gould, "Wide Hats and Narrow Minds" * A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. -- Samuel Johnson * Be the change you want in this world. * I feel that human existence will not end after such a long beginning. -- sasha. * Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. -- Josh Billings * Truth will set you free, not if you did it. * As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein * If I have to reincarnate, I would like to be a flower. -- sasha. * There is an old time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend." -- Mark Twain * I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good.... I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are outgrowing. -- Bertrand Russell Skeptical Essays (1928) XII * "Free thought" means thinking freely.... To be worthy of the name (freethinker) he must be free of two things: the force of tradition, and the tyranny of his own passions. No one is completely free from either, and in the measure of a man's emancipation he deserves to be called a free thinker. -- Bertrand Russell Understanding Human History "The Value of Free Thought" * Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. .... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. -- The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967) Prologue * Man, even if he does not commit scientific suicide, will perish ultimately through the failure of water or air or warmth. It is difficult to believe that Omnipotence needed so vast a setting for so small and transitory a result. Apart from the minuteness and brevity of the human species, I cannot feel that it is a worthy climax to such an enormous prelude. -- Bertrand Russell "The Faith of a Rationalist," BBC broadcast, 1953 * This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply. -- Lazarus Long * Leave vengeance to the god... More acceptable to him Is the virtue of one who is upright of heart Than the ox of the wrongdoer. -- The Instructions of one king, HaKaRa, for his successor, MeriKaRa of the First Intermediate Period 10th Dynasty (c.a. 2160 - 2134 BC) (Source: 'Behind The Bible' by Hermes) * Why let people drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance? * Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -- Aldous Huxley * Follow your heart, but remember to take your brain with you. * Why can't you be a non-conformist like everyone else? * Always be a first rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else. -- Judy Garland * Some parts of the past must be preserved, and some of the future prevented at all costs. * A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight. -- Mark Twain * When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot, hang on, and swing! * Remember - amatures built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic. * Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art . . . it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. -- Becky * Grief is the price we pay for Love. -- HRH Queen Elizabeth II * To generalize is to be an idiot. -- William Blake * Most people have a mind that's open by appointment only. * Begat Unto Thy Weorld Hwat Thou Wilt Thy Weorld Begat Unto Thee. -- sasha. * There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to. * There are as many stories as there are people. -- Hermes 'Behind The Bible' * Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. * The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using other animals; they've piled thousands of tons of sand and Middle Eastern countries on top of cows, raccoons, haddock, laboratory rats, etc., but so far all they have managed to do is run up an enormous bulldozer-rental bill and anger a lot of Middle Eastern persons. None of the animals turned into oil, although most of the laboratory rats developed cancer. -- Dave Barry, "Postpetroleum Guzzler" * I read a column by George Will that Scarface should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it. So what? Why should the motion-picture industry be responsible for our morality? Dad says to Mom, "Honey, Scarface is in town." "What's it about?" "Human scum who kill each other over cocaine deals." "Sounds great! Let's take the kids!" -- Ian Shoales * Children are natural mimic who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. * Kids have *____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original tree, you would see the primate parents yelling at the primate teenager for sitting around and sulking all day instead of hunting for grubs and berries like dad primate. Then you'd see the primate teenages stomp up to his branch and slam the leaves. -- Dave Barry, "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do" * Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art. -- Charles McCabe * What is the definition of upper crust? Crumbs held together by dough. -- 22 Minutes, CBC * Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. -- John Keats * To get ahead in life one needs to drop out of school as early as possible. -- sasha. * Following rules is going around in circles, not forward. -- sasha. * Money can't buy happiness but it sure can help to pay the bills. -- sasha. * In order to have money one needs to make money. * The Golden Rule - Those who make the rules, Rule. * Life begins at the centerfold and expands outward. -- Miss November, 1966 * The more you complain, the longer God lets you live. * Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal. * A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw * Where there's a will, there's an Inheritance Tax. * The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist fears that it is true. * The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture. -- Elbert Hubbard * The True Friend is True Love without sex. -- sasha. * Friends make lousy lovers. * If you can count more friends than your fingers, you are deluded. * Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.) * Faith, n: That quality which enables us to believe what we know to be untrue. * Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. -- Lenny Bruce * Best of all is never to have been born. Second best is to die soon. * Never be led astray onto the path of virtue. * Birds shit a lot because it is hard to fly when you are full of shit. -- Valerie Scott * Peace Please. Love I Love. -- sasha. * Bees are very busy souls They have no time for birth controls And that is why in times like these There are so many Sons of Bees * The only real game in the world, I think, is baseball... You've got to start way down, at the bottom, when you're six or seven years old. You can't wait until you're fifteen or sixteen. You've got to let it grow up with you, and if you're successful and you try hard enough, you're bound to come out on top, just like these boys have come to the top now. -- Babe Ruth, in his 1948 farewell speech at Yankee Stadium * Not to know is bad. Not to want to know is even worst. -- Nigerian proverb * Don't be fooled by your ego, there is no privacy from yourself, you are watching you at all time, if you know, then God knows, if you don't know, then God knows. -- sasha. * We no longer grow old gracefully. Years of experience are not always valued. Instead of using the wisdom of age to help solve our problems, we have turned the aged themselves into a problem. Our preoccupation with youth has made us forget that, often, people considered "too old" have the youngest ideas of all. -- National Geographic, back cover, Vol. 146, No. 2, August 1974 * Be ours a religion which, like sunshine goes everywhere; its temple, all space; its shrine, the good heart; its creed, all truth; its ritual, works of love; its profession of faith, divine living. -- Theodore Parker (1810-1860 AD) Unitarian Church * Love is staying up all night with a sick child, or a healthy adult. * Memories of the past romance taking me for a dance. -- sasha. * Vidi, vici, veni. (I saw, I conquered, I came.) * Collaboration, n.: A literary partnership based on the false assumption that the other fellow can spell. * Santa Claus sucks big cock, I got coal in my fuckin sock. -- sasha. * It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. -- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I live" * A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. -- Samuel Goldwyn * Another roof, another proof. -- Paul Erdo * Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982 * Race: 1. To contend in a race. 2. The whole race of mankind. As for the human "races" - there are no races. While all people have unique DNA, there are no "racial" genetic differences between human beings. The genetic makeup of an individual is effected by their environment & lifestyle, and the environment & lifestyle of their predecessors. There is no such thing as identical. If all people had an identical DNA, which is impossible, humans would have become extinct after one bad case of flu. In-breeding is a common problem in royal families, causing all sorts of health issues, because the diversity of the genetic matterial is kept to a minimum. While all people are different, we do have a lot in common, being of the same specie. There are individual, physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, ethnic, cultural, tribal, family, people, nations, lineage, breed, lifestyle, habbits, aesthetics, experience, age, sex, etc. distinctions that can be identified with but not limited to only that. All people discriminate when forming their opinion according to what one knows and identify with. When the state discriminates systematically, then it is called fascism. -- sasha. * Racism: An individual or social action, or government policy based upon an irrational belief in or advocacy of the superiority of a given individual, group, people, or nation, usually one's own, on the basis of differences which have no scientific validity. -- sasha. * Specie: If you can make an offspring, then you are of the same specie. Human specie includes females, males, hermaphrodites, transgendered sex distinctions. --sasha. * Kingdoms: There are five Kingdoms: Human, Animal, Vegetable, Fungi, Mineral. -- sasha. * Worlds: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Emotional -- sasha. * Elements: Fire, Air, Water, Earth, Bread (Chinese: Fire, Air, Water, Wood, Metal) -- sasha. * Individual being is the colourful part of the otherwise gray matter filled with self-importance. -- sasha. * Baruch's Observation: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. * ... But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell. If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding of their world, not in their distorted perceptions. Even the standard example of ancient nonsense -- the debate about angels on pinheads -- makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number. -- S. J. Gould, "Wide Hats and Narrow Minds" * If a camel is a horse designed by a committee, then a consensus forecast is a camel's behind. -- Edgar R. Fiedler * We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi * Our leaders are leading the way. -- Adam Weishaupt IX, Happyclown Inc. * A statistician, who refused to fly after reading of the alarmingly high probability that there will be a bomb on any given plane, realized that the probability of there being two bombs on any given flight is very low. Now, whenever he flies, he carries a bomb with him. * Look at the light and see nothing, look in the direction of light and see everything. -- sasha. * One wrong doesn't justify another wrong. * We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace. -- Walter Lippmann * Violent Revolutions put Violent people in charge. -- Dmytri Kleiner * A panny saved is ridiculous. * Fighting one is fighting yourself. -- sasha. * The only Revolution that can be successful is a peaceful one. -- Dmytri Kleiner * The Value of the Future is far greater than the value of the past. -- Dmytri Kleiner * The Value of the Present is far greater than the value of both the Future and the Past. -- sasha. * When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles. * Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization? Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea. * If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson * Psychiatry is a discipline where mental illness is known and recognised by a name, like psychopath, ADD, OCD, etc. There are neither naturally born, nor wild, psychopaths, the illness only exists within the definition of psychiatry. -- sasha. * Briefly stated, the findings are that when presented with an array of data or a sequence of events in which they are instructed to discover an underlying order, subjects show strong tendencies to perceive order and causality in random arrays, to perceive a pattern or correlation which seems a priori intuitively correct even when the actual correlation in the data is counterintuitive, to jump to conclusions about the correct hypothesis, to seek and to use only positive or confirmatory evidence, to construe evidence liberally as confirmatory, to fail to generate or to assess alternative hypotheses, and having thus managed to expose themselves only to confirmatory instances, to be fallaciously confident of the validity of their judgments (Jahoda, 1969; Einhorn and Hogarth, 1978). In the analyzing of past events, these tendencies are exacerbated by failure to appreciate the pitfalls of post hoc analyses. -- A. Benjamin * SARS - the common flu kills much more then SARS every year. -- sasha. * There is no such disease as AIDS or HIV virus. There is malnutrition, poverty, and the actual virus caused illness like tuberculosis, syphilis, and other scientifically proven disease, i.e. when the virus is isolated, photographed, and it's chromosome structure (DNA information) is documented. The tuberculosis kills more then AIDS every year, and cars kill more then all known disease combined together. The AIDS phenomenon can be looked at as a medical condition caused by wrong diagnosis and treatment. -- sasha. Links: www.virusmyth.com * Rules meant to be broken. * Learn the rules so you know better how to brake them. * Rules without exceptions are dogma. -- Dmytri Kleiner * Without dark is there light? -- Tristan Tsuji * Everywhere I go, I bring a good weather. * Kill Your Passion And Your Pride and let Acceptance Rule! Tolerate the Intolerable, Love the Unloved, Expect the Unexpected, And Believe the Unbelievable! -- Tristan Tsuji * To believe in God one doesn't have to be part of a franchise. -- sasha. * All organised religions are confused and in continous dispute. -- sasha. * Write your own Bible, start your own Religion, be your own Boss. -- sasha. * Those who claim to have found "The Truth" have lost their mind. -- sasha. * Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902 AD) * Learn from the mistakes of others, and your own. -- sasha. * Is there a five hundred pounds garilla in the room? * When the wheel spins, what direction does it spin: clockwise or counterclockwise? -- sasha. * When the wheel spins, part of it is going up and forward, while the opposite part is coming down and moving backwards, thus revolving the wheel around it's fixed centre. -- sasha. * The larger mass casts bigger shadow. -- sasha. * Where there is much light there is also much shadow. -- Goethe * The dark of my heart enhances it's inherent beauty! -- Tristan Tsuji * All people are wonderful when they are asleep. -- sasha. * I am not God, God is me, and all being. -- Dmytri Kleiner * At the highest peak one has only their soul for a company. * The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time. * There are many paths that lead to the summit of one and the same mountain; their differences are more apparent the lower down we are but they vanish at the peak. Each person will naturally take the path which starts from the point at which they find themselves. One who goes around the mountain looking for another is not climbing. -- Ananda Coomaraswami, Indian philosopher (1877 - 1948 AD). * Religion is political. Science is mythological. -- sasha. * Life is the frontier of what is God. -- sasha. * Those who know don't tell, those who tell don't know. * The tao spoken is not the tao. * The Truth - There Is No Truth, only a story, and, as long as story holds the water. -- sasha. * Denial is a river in Egypt. * Just because someone is successful in making money for themselves does not necessarily translates into the common, social, good. -- sasha. * For those who don't know Buddha, there is Buddha. For those who know Buddha, there is no Buddha. * There is neither coming-from, nor going to. * Perfect when clear, perfect when cloudy, mount Fuji's original form never changes. -- Jesshu (1870 AD) * A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and hours are lost. * There are no facts. -- Bob, Church of the Subgenius * The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. -- Justice Douglas * Our silence says more then the words can say. -- Yehudah Lionel Cullman * Imagineer - One who creates the future in one's mind. Imagineering - the process by which one mind's eye creates vision (visualization) of imagery in 3.1 dimension. -- James Laf * Ok, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard. -- Dr. Joy * Intellectual property is a fraud. -- Dmytri Kleiner * It is easier to promote your own ideas then try to change ideas of others. * Life is a moment. Departure is travel. Arrival is destination. -- sasha. * Welcome to Everything, population Everyone. * For the carmic wheel to turn it needs sharp spikes. -- Yehudah Lionel Cullman * Hitler have lost the battle but the Global facists have won the war. -- contemporary * Home wasn't built in a day. -- Jane Ace, US humorist (1905 - 1974 AD). * Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you. Remember that all is in motion, is growing, is you. Joy Harjo, contemporary Native American poet. * The rainbow might be better looking if it wasn't such a cheap show. -- African American proverb. * Only in our virtues are we original because virtue is difficult... Vices are general, virtues are particular. -- Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999 AD). * Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that some thing makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. -- V�clav Havel, contemporary Czech playwright and leader. * Squeeze the past like a sponge, smell the present like a rose and send a kiss to the future. -- Arabic proverb. * Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery, French aviator and writer (1900 - 1944 AD). * I feel the old and impetuous blood of the wanderer pulse in my veins. -- Elisaveta, contemporary Bagriana Bulgarian poet. * Mouth eat, back pay. -- Guyanan proverb * The more serious the face, the more beautiful the smile. -- Francois-Ren� Chateaubriand French, writer and statesperson (1768 - 1389 AD) * Love is the great work Though every heart is first an apprentice. -- Hafiz, Persian Fufi poet (Circa 1320 - 1389 AD) * Philogyny recapitulates erogeny; erogeny recapitulates philogyny. * The only certainty is that nothing is certain. -- Pliny the Elder * When all else fails, read the instructions. * The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -- Nietzsche * Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill, he jumped out the window 'cause he couldn't sit still. -- Elvis Costello Unlike · · Stop Notifications · 30 March 2008 at 21:13 Seen by 70 You, Dale Martin Howe Caragata, Vinicius Mueller, Svetlana Braun and 7 others like this. Alexander Braun * If you keep an open mind people will throw a lot of garbage in it. * When others look to you for stability, hide when byting your nails. * Independent create, indoctrinated follow, greedy waste. -- sasha. * I believe in the good of life. -- The Hidden Cameras, Toronto * For every asshole there is a dick. -- sasha. * Remember when you were a kid and the boys didn't like the girls? Only sissies liked girls? What I'm trying to tell you is that nothing's changed. You think boys grow out of not liking girls, but we don't grow out of it. We just grow horny. That's the problem. We mix up liking pussy for liking girls. Believe me, one couldn't have less to do with the other. -- Julies Feiffer * The Medium Is the Message. -- Marshall McLuhan * Purpose defines the medium. -- sasha. * It is not up to the dead to decide on the matters of living. -- sasha. * Q. What's the difference between corporations and yogurt? * A. Yogurt has a living, active culture. * No matter how much driving experience you have, you cannot ignore the laws of physics without running a considerable risk. -- Societe de l'assurance automibile du Quebec, "Driving a Passenger Vehicle". * Sun shining in the sky giving life loving light for everyone's delight. -- sasha. Akhenaten II * Avoid reality at all costs. * You see in this one location all the faces, all the races, and the colours, and religions that make up this planet. This is the Canada of today. And this is our mission to the world. To show how it is possible to live together in diversity and in harmony. But to fulfill this mission, we have a solemn responsibility to speak to the world in our own voice - an independent voice. It is not something to barter or give away, not for economic gain, commercial advatage or anything else. * Canadians should beware of those on the right who put profit ahead of community... beware of those on the right who put the narrow bottom line ahead of everything else. Canadians should be aware of those on the right who would reduce taxes at the expense of necessary public services... beware of those on the right who do not care about reducing social and environmental deficits. * We must never ever lose our social conscious. * Diversity, Harmony, Unity. * Peace, Progress, Prosperity. -- Prime Minister Jean Chr�tien at the Liberal leadership convention. Thursday, November 13, 2003. * No country can develop its economic potential without meeting the basic need of its people. -- Paul Martin * Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and think what nobody else has thought. * The cheepest way to get rid of poverty is to give poor money. The share of the public wealth, at least complying with the Human Rights (article 25 - provision for functions of life), is the right, not privilege, for all people. -- sasha. (See Guaranteed Annual Income) * If you don't know what you are doing and why you are doing it, then don't do it. * Love thy neighbour. -- Tutankhamun (Yeshua/Jesus). * Think global, act local. -- Local knowledge, global wisdom 1997 conference. * One is always smarter than many. The bigger the crowd, the dummer it is. -- sasha. * My notion of a husband at forty is that a woman should be able to change him, like a bank note, for two twenties. * Masses are always wrong about everything. -- sasha. * The robber takes the wallet. The thief steals the wallet. The asshole steals the wallet and helps to look for it. The loser idiot steals the wallet and loses it. -- sasha. * It is not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you. -- sasha. * God is the biggest escape goat of all. -- sasha. * Life is just like a kitchen sink full of dishes which never end. -- sasha. * Love is a two way highway. -- sasha. * Monday is Moon's day * Tuesday is Tyr's day - also, the Tiu or Tiw word for 'God' in Old Teutonic * Wednesday is Odin's day * Thursday is Thur's day * Friday is Friga's day * Saturday is Saturn's day * Sunday is Sun's day -- Akhenaten II * Beware of God. -- sasha. * Be aware of the news you bear. -- Akhenaten II (paraphrased old proverb) * Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. -- Mark Twain (I think it should say 'share it with' - sasha.) * It's true, people say, wrestling is the soap opera for the guys. -- Steph * Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low. -- Wallace Sayre * QWERT (kwirt), n. [MW < OW qwertyuiop, a thirteenth]: 1. a unit of weight equal to 13 poiuyt avoirdupois (or 1.69 kiloliks), commonly used in structural engineering; 2. [colloq.] one thirteenth the load that a fully grown sligo can carry; 3. [anat.] a painful irritation of the dermis in the region of the anus; 4. [slang] person who excites in others the symptoms of a qwert. -- Webster's Middle World Dictionary, 4th ed. * If good things can happen, then they will happen. -- sasha. * I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling. -- Florence Henderson. * Love and Buldozers. -- Carole Pope (band: Rough Trade) * Any being is of light, stars, and all proceeding to it creation. -- sasha. * The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together. -- Jean de la Bruyere * I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein * I hope that Albert Einstein is wrong about the above statement. I hope there will be no war at all, but Peace, Harmony, and Prosperity for All. Enough of wars, more good is needed. -- Akhenaten II * The four laws of Sphinx: To know, To dare, To act, and To remain silent. * Good and evil is the intent. * Matter is just that - matter. * Bullets don't kill, people do. -- Akhenaten II * When we look at the stars we see our past, on the opposite, when the stars look at us they see their future. -- sasha. * When you stare at the abyss, the abyss stares back at you. * Knowledge is an accumulated experience that ferments into wisdom. -- sasha. Akhenaten II * Work is a sustained use of energy. -- Dmytri Kleiner. * In the beginning there was an egg, and it was laid by a dinosaur. -- sasha. * Without doing any work one can't get fish out of a pond. * Those who save themselves, God saves. * Breakfast eat yourself, lunch share with a friend, but dinner give to the enemy. * Slower you move, farther you will advance. * Rushing gets people laughing. * Wishing good luck one says, 'No feather, no down', person then replies: 'To the devil'. * Word is not a bird, once it got out, you can't catch it. * Everyone talks about their own issues. * What you seed, that you will harvest. * Turkey had also thought. * When I eat, I am death and mute. * Laughing is the one who laughs last. * In the healthy body is the healthy spirit. * Greed has destroyed the hipster. * Prepare sleigh during summer and the carriage during winter. * These who raise early, live longer. * These who chew longer, live longer. * The morning is wiser than the evening. * What will be, that will be. * Trust but check. * One head is good, two is better. * In a quiet swamp monsters lurk. * A spike is removed with another spike. * Don't say hop until after the jump. -- Old Russian folklore proverbs translated by sasha. * Early bird gets the worm. * Second mice gets the cheese. * He who laughs last hasn't been told the terrible truth. * Show me your friend and I'll tell you who you are. * Time heals all wounds. / Time heals all ills 30 March 2008 at 21:17 · Like Alexander Braun _/\_ * the universe is a playground and the earth is where we learn how to share it. * in silent body the abode of soul in search of peace, but restless mind needs to know and spirit loves to live. * Nobody can love me more than I am. * Love is the root of all evil and good. --Alexander Braun (aka sasha.) _/\_ 23 January 2010 at 20:42 · Like Alexander Braun "GREAT SPIRITS HAVE ALWAYS ENCOUNTERED VIOLENT OPPOSITION FROM MEDIOCRE MINDS." -- Albert Einstein (via Joey Dammit) 25 January 2010 at 11:34 · Like Alexander Braun "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." ~Unkown. (via Robyn Field) 26 January 2010 at 14:04 · Like Alexander Braun now + here = nowhere 28 January 2010 at 04:31 · Like Alexander Braun "A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart." (via Abel Villa) 28 January 2010 at 14:21 · Like Alexander Braun "the illusion of desire" -- Ross Priddle 28 January 2010 at 14:46 · Like Alexander Braun "Ignorance can be fixed, stupidity is forever." -- Ed Ward 31 January 2010 at 17:24 · Like Alexander Braun “I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.” -- Brittany Renée 1 February 2010 at 01:45 · Like Alexander Braun coming together, coming apart. 1 February 2010 at 01:46 · Like Alexander Braun William Burroughs advice for young people: #1 Avoid fuckups. You all know the type. Anything they have anything to do with, no matter how good it sounds, turns into a disaster. #2 If, after having been exposed to someone's presence, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma avoid that presence.You need it like you need pernicious anemia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL7EOauz6X0 2 February 2010 at 00:22 · Like Alexander Braun "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrariwise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?" —Alice in Wonderland 2 February 2010 at 00:26 · Like Alexander Braun "The Cat: By-the-bye, what became of the baby? I'd nearly forgotten to ask. Alice: It turned into a pig. The Cat: I thought it would." —Alice in Wonderland 2 February 2010 at 00:33 · Like Alexander Braun "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." -- Don Marquis, American writer and columnist, 1878-1937 2 February 2010 at 23:03 · Like Alexander Braun Morgenbesser a few weeks before his death: "Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don't believe in him?" (via Josh Geller) "If you may not arm yourself, you have no rights. You may have privileges which your Master allows you. Free men may arm themselves: slaves are disarmed." --Josh Geller 18 February 2010 at 04:33 · Like Alexander Braun "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order." -- Brian Pickrell 21 February 2010 at 15:14 · Like Alexander Braun "He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened." -- Lao Tzu (via Timæus Martinus) 18 March 2010 at 00:59 · Like Alexander Braun "9) A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him." -- Book 4 Part 1 · Part 2 · Magick In Theory and Practice (Part 3) · Equinox of the Gods (Part 4) http://hermetic.com/crowley/book-4/defs.html 22 March 2010 at 11:21 · Like Alexander Braun "If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson (via Seed of Truth) 22 March 2010 at 12:15 · Like Alexander Braun "Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." Albert Einstein (via THE GREAT AWAKENING) 20 April 2010 at 16:10 · Like Alexander Braun “Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.”- NIKOLA TESLA (via Cay Queldromo) 7 May 2010 at 11:27 · Like Alexander Braun "Love has the power to negate poisonous thoughts created by you or by others. Make the right choices and bring health, joy, happiness, and peace to yourself and to others. When sending resentment and hate seem so “natural,” make the choice of sending love instead. Petition for God to send love to and through you to the person, place, or condition." (via Spiritual Laws That Govern Humanity and the Universe) 7 May 2010 at 15:05 · Like Alexander Braun "I don't have to have faith, I have experience." -Joseph Campbell 7 May 2010 at 15:43 · Like Alexander Braun "As long as you consider the stars as something above the head, you will lack the eye of knowledge." -- Friedrich Nietzsche (via Aimee Louise Lund) 11 May 2010 at 01:38 · Like Alexander Braun "I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other." -- Rainer Maria Rilke (via Aimee Louise Lund) 11 May 2010 at 20:59 · Like Alexander Braun "In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?" — Rainer Maria Rilke (tattooed on Lady Gaga's Left-Arm in curling-cursive-script) (via Todd Akira Morikawa) 11 May 2010 at 22:56 · Like Alexander Braun "May the Sun bring you new energy by day, May the Moon softly restore you by night, May the Rain wash away your worries, May the Breeze blow new strength into your being, May you Walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life." -- Apache Blessing (via Bill Braithwaite) 12 May 2010 at 11:22 · Like Alexander Braun "I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." ~Thomas Carlyle (via Michael Shanklin) 12 May 2010 at 23:51 · Like Alexander Braun "if abortion is murder, masturbation is genocide." -- (via David Leather) 17 May 2010 at 07:36 · Like Alexander Braun "If you cant feed 'em don't breed 'em." -- (via David Leather) 17 May 2010 at 07:48 · Like Alexander Braun "The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart." -- Thich Nhat Hanh (via Robyn Field) 21 May 2010 at 21:07 · Like Alexander Braun "…. Distrust everything I say, I am telling the truth. … The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor. …. that the truth is a matter of the imagination." -- Ursula K. Le Guin, Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness (via Robert Chrysler) 28 May 2010 at 22:47 · Like Alexander Braun "He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." ~ Marcus Aurelius (via Tommi Von Kana) 29 May 2010 at 04:31 · Like Alexander Braun “I believe in a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us.” -- JIM MORRISON (via Robert Chrysler) 3 June 2010 at 12:40 · Like Alexander Braun “I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?” ~ Rumi (via Aimee Louise Lund) 3 June 2010 at 12:44 · Like Alexander Braun "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter" -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (via THE GREAT AWAKENING) 3 June 2010 at 13:07 · Like Alexander Braun "The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body." — Marcus Tullius Cicero (via Great Quotes) 3 June 2010 at 17:19 · Like Alexander Braun "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion" -- Abraham Lincoln (via Great Quotes) 4 June 2010 at 12:01 · Like Alexander Braun “We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” ~Albert Einstein (via Tommi Von Kana) 4 June 2010 at 23:43 · Like Alexander Braun "Life is a complex journey towards the simple realizations." -- Alexander Braun 5 June 2010 at 15:08 · Like Alexander Braun "I Am... a human who doesnt understand humanity, living in a universe I can't comprehend" ~ Everett Tucker 5 June 2010 at 15:08 · Like Alexander Braun "...You ain't even seen me in my prime Eatin' baby brains, baby veins, baby spines I know they be cryin' when I'm cuttin' off the neck I'm peelin' off the skin for some bacon-fried croquettes Baby villain spine, that baby-killin' mind ... A fifth-pound of gin cause I know I'm doin' time So catch me now before I do my next crime My kids' gotta eat, somebody's baby's on the line, nigga" -- Brotha Lynch (via Everett Tucker) 5 June 2010 at 15:12 · Like Alexander Braun "don't mess with texas, cause they're pretty messed up already." -- Dag Omatic 5 June 2010 at 15:26 · Like Alexander Braun "Live as if you were to die now. Learn as if you were already dead." -- Alexander Braun 6 June 2010 at 23:19 · Like Alexander Braun "In truth we trust." -- Alexander Braun 7 June 2010 at 14:16 · Like Alexander Braun . "Be a man and get yourself a wife. Be yourself and get yourself a life." -- Alexander Braun 9 June 2010 at 15:40 · Like Alexander Braun "Look at the light and see nothing, look in the direction of light and see everything." -- Alexander Braun 10 June 2010 at 04:26 · Like Alexander Braun "If you can't accept me as I am, you'll NEVER accept me as you think I should be." -- Aimee Louise Lund 11 June 2010 at 13:44 · Like Alexander Braun "life is the sentence, body is the prison." -- Alexander Braun 11 June 2010 at 23:09 · Like Alexander Braun ☯ "It's outrageous, whatever it is, it is outrageous." -- Alexander Braun 12 June 2010 at 00:01 · Like Alexander Braun . "love = pleasure, peace, life. hate = pain, war, death." -- Alexander Braun 12 June 2010 at 01:15 · Like Alexander Braun "If you have conquered yourself, you have conquered the world!" -- Alexander Braun 14 June 2010 at 14:29 · Like Alexander Braun "Life is making meaning out of nonsense." -- Alexander Braun 21 June 2010 at 00:03 · Like Alexander Braun "The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!" -- Mordechaj Anielewicz (1919 - 8 May 1943) (via Josh Geller) 24 June 2010 at 01:08 · Like Alexander Braun "In China, Confucius believed that the Dao, the supreme reality, was now so alien from the world of men that it was better not to speak about it. 71"* 71 - Confucius, Analects 5:6; 16:2. * - A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong, The Axial Age, p.83 31 August 2010 at 04:10 · Like Alexander Braun "Although the world's religions may differ fundamentally from one other in their metaphysical views, when it comes to their teachings on the actual practice of ethics, there is great convergence. All the faith traditions emphasize a virtuous way of being, the purification of the mind from negative thoughts and impulses, the doing of good deeds, and living a meaningful life." -- Dali Lama 31 August 2010 at 04:13 · Like Alexander Braun "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." ~Jimi Hendrix (via Bill Braithwaite) 3 September 2010 at 20:17 · Like Alexander Braun "Cosmic law states that thoughts and feelings of peace are creative and will vibrate and radiate into the minds and hearts of humankind. When we think and express our intelligence in such a way that it serves our fellow human beings, we are spreading peace and understanding. As we respect the opinions of others, even when those opinions differ from our own, we are preventing war and creating peace." (via Spiritual Laws That Govern Humanity and the Universe) 3 September 2010 at 20:52 · Like Alexander Braun "Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." -- Steve Jobs (via Ildiko Rostas :o) 11 September 2010 at 00:37 · Like Alexander Braun "It is only your personal soul's journey at hand here not the domains of Satan. focus on the matter at hand concerning your own salvation and prosperity. forget about the noise of the hell, that is if you can afford such an ignorance." -- Alexander Braun 22 September 2010 at 00:01 · Like Alexander Braun "Every Star has its own Nature, which is 'Right' for it. We are not to be missionaries, with ideal standards of dress and morals, and such hard ideas. We are to do what we Will, and leave others to do what they Will. We are infinitely tolerant, save of intolerance." -- Aleister Crowley. 22 September 2010 at 01:10 · Like Alexander Braun "You are free, that is why you are lost." -- Franz Kafka 22 September 2010 at 20:44 · Like Alexander Braun "Give up being a 'meaning of life' junkie. Free the butterflies of past moments you have captured to give life meaning and live in the wonderment of every now moment, where life is an unfoldment of your own creation." (via Francis Stanley Tahata) 22 September 2010 at 21:45 · Like Alexander Braun "No matter whether the origin of any disturbance—world-related, news-related, or personal-related—we can let go of these and allow peace to enter and quietly infuse our consciousness. This peace has its origin within the soul and it stands ready to express itself in every experience and condition of our lives. Its action does not require and is not dependent upon the external world or conditions." (via Spiritual Laws That Govern Humanity and the Universe) 22 September 2010 at 23:44 · Like Alexander Braun "Life is illegal." -- Alexander Braun 24 September 2010 at 00:55 · Like Alexander Braun "To vote or not to vote, that is what is and what is not." "Life is an individual journey towards the apex of wisdom of a personal hill of experience, however there are some who want to get you out of your way to start climbing their hill instead of your own or, even worse, try to climb yours." -- Alexander Braun 24 September 2010 at 22:56 · Like Alexander Braun "Get your head right. People deep down are always evaluating whether or not you are their next meal..." -- Everett Tucker 25 September 2010 at 21:39 · Like Alexander Braun "If you don't like something change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain..." -- Ildiko Rostas 27 September 2010 at 00:34 · Like Alexander Braun "Free to die and pay to live, most time is so, or so it seems." -- Alexander Braun 27 September 2010 at 01:47 · Like Alexander Braun "If men are good, you don't need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don't dare have one." -- Robert LeFevre (via Michael Shanklin) 27 September 2010 at 11:48 · Like Alexander Braun "When the knock on the door said "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms" I thought it was a delivery." (via Michael Feddeler) 30 September 2010 at 13:36 · Like Alexander Braun ".... There is a good reason why he was alone and he made sure of nobody shall ever learn about that. To everyone, he is resting in peace. For himself, he believed that living was the coldest part of being alive." -- Last lines of Godless (via Sid Haider) 2 October 2010 at 13:43 · Like Alexander Braun "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." - John F. Kennedy "Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad." - James Madison (via Circulator 38) 2 October 2010 at 14:11 · Like Alexander Braun "it is not what your country can do for you but what you can do for yourself. bloody idiots." -- Alexander Braun 4 October 2010 at 12:37 · Like Alexander Braun "any concept of we is a lie, first i live a life, then i die." -- Alexander Braun 11 October 2010 at 22:01 · Like Alexander Braun "We all got at least one body to care for." -- Alexander Braun 14 October 2010 at 13:33 · Like Alexander Braun "nonsense dear. utter nonsense. but keep on trying, eventually it will make sense." -- Alexander Braun (in response to "The message is more important than the art but the art is the message" by Sean Caulfield.) 14 October 2010 at 16:28 · Like Alexander Braun "Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there." ~ Rumi (via Shannon Terry) 17 October 2010 at 21:14 · Like Alexander Braun “I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.” -- Madonna's curse. (via Ildiko Rostas) 13 November 2010 at 11:56 · Like Alexander Braun "The guy who looks after the worms at City Hall wants to run the place." -- Tooker Gomberg (via Anthony Rapoport) 16 November 2010 at 21:24 · Like Alexander Braun "...when you are God, and when you realize that everyone and everyone else is also God, you quickly run out of people to impress". -J.A.S. (via Aimee Louise Lund) 16 November 2010 at 22:02 · Like Alexander Braun (via Milton Foster) "The Most Important Kind Of Freedom Is To be What You Really Are . You Trade In Your Reality For a Role. You Trade In your Sense For An Act. You Give Up Your Ability To Feel , And In Exchange , Put On A Mask .There Can't Be Any Large -Scale Revolution Until There's A Personel Revolution , On An Individual Level Its got To happen On The Inside First " ~ Jim Morrison ~ 20 November 2010 at 21:44 · Like Alexander Braun "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) (via Ashish Thomas) 24 November 2010 at 00:04 · Like Alexander Braun "art is saving humanity from itself." -- alexander.braun 1 December 2010 at 13:40 · Like Alexander Braun "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul." -- Carl Jung (via Robert Chrysler) 10 December 2010 at 09:44 · Like Alexander Braun "I sincerely believe the banking institutions having issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies." -- Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826)[2] was the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (via John Greco) 10 December 2010 at 14:20 · Like Alexander Braun "i don't like it, i love it." -- Walteer Frei 12 December 2010 at 04:41 · Like Alexander Braun "i am as old as the universe and as young as now." -- alexander.braun 12 December 2010 at 04:42 · Like Alexander Braun "All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." -- Adolf Hitler (via Raisin Kane) 12 December 2010 at 04:56 · Like Alexander Braun "success has many parents while failure is an orphan." -- proverb 12 December 2010 at 04:57 · Like Alexander Braun “There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” -- Hunter S. Thompson 13 December 2010 at 20:22 · Like Alexander Braun "Everything in the world is about sex except sex . Sex is about power." — Oscar Wilde (via Andrew Stys) 17 December 2010 at 22:00 · Like Alexander Braun "Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good." -- Woody Allen (via Billy Warhol) 17 December 2010 at 22:01 · Like Alexander Braun "...I said "no" to drugs, but they just wouldn't listen." -- Bob Dobbs 18 December 2010 at 02:00 · Like Alexander Braun “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” “Ignorance: the root of all evil.” “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” - Plato (via Richard Sexton) 20 December 2010 at 22:49 · Like Alexander Braun "Bogus are those who don't know how lame their egos are in the grand scheme of the universe." -- alexander.braun 25 December 2010 at 03:31 · Like Alexander Braun "The body IS the silent God, judge, executioner, a painful prison or a pleasant paradise." -- alexander.braun 26 December 2010 at 22:41 · Like Alexander Braun "When the Egg of Nothing Hatches, Everything Is." -- Bruce Becker 27 December 2010 at 00:58 · Like Alexander Braun "i would rather have void than what nature decides to fill it with." -- unkown 27 December 2010 at 01:41 · Like Alexander Braun "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws." -- Mayer Amschel Rothschild 27 December 2010 at 15:15 · Like Alexander Braun "Some people will spend their whole life learning and growing from their mistakes.. Some people will just never learn." -- Anthony Antonello 27 December 2010 at 16:59 · Like Alexander Braun "Love is a basic need of life. In reality love is that which sustains life. Just as the body needs food to grow, the soul needs love to grow."-- Amma 28 December 2010 at 00:18 · Like Alexander Braun "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." Siddhartha Gautama (c. 566–480 BC) (via Niall Good) 31 December 2010 at 02:34 · Like Alexander Braun "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) (via Niall Good) 31 December 2010 at 02:35 · Like Alexander Braun "Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena." Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) (via Niall Good) 31 December 2010 at 02:35 · Like Alexander Braun "the repetition is mother of hypnosis, father is the ignorance." -- alexander.braun 2 January 2011 at 07:22 · Like Alexander Braun "oh ya, i just had, with a friend, a "ricoperto con cioccolato e farcito con crema chantilly il vecchio forno artigiano" which revealed to mean, after a quick search with yahoo babelfish, "covered with chocolate and farcito with cream chantilly the old artisan furnace," it was on sale as well and delicious." - alexander braun (new year's afe) 5 January 2011 at 01:54 · Like Alexander Braun "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies one can invent." -- William Blake (via Danny) 10 January 2011 at 04:12 · Like Alexander Braun "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963. (via Richard Underhill) 19 January 2011 at 04:28 · Like Alexander Braun "When birds fall from the sky and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people ...shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow." ~Hopi Prophecy (via Michael DancingEagle Cassidy < Theresa Humphrey < Piotrek Starchild) 25 January 2011 at 00:30 · Like Alexander Braun "In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him." ~ Chris Jameson 26 January 2011 at 01:49 · Like Alexander Braun "Well-being is my natural state of being. Reach for the feeling of Well-being first, and everything else will fall into place. Be selfish enough to follow your bliss, and you will tap in to the natural, Pure, Positive Essence of You." ~ Abraham-Hicks (via Power of Positivity) 26 January 2011 at 03:49 · Like Alexander Braun "Learn to know thyself! He who has understood himself has understood God." ~ The Prophet Muhammad (via John Ajina Sesay) 30 January 2011 at 22:33 · Like Alexander Braun "Reality is like that annoying guest who wouldn't leave." ~ alexander braun 30 January 2011 at 23:36 · Like Alexander Braun "Nowadays, in order to get ahead in life one needs to drop out of school." ~ alexander braun 30 January 2011 at 23:38 · Like Alexander Braun "All religions are full of it. the point is one not many." ~ alexander braun 31 January 2011 at 14:54 · Like Alexander Braun "That which remains is a memory of the universe, long memory." ~ alexander braun 31 January 2011 at 20:15 · Like Alexander Braun "one is made with two." ~ alexander braun 4 February 2011 at 19:18 · Like Alexander Braun "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." ~ Ayn Rand (via Punk Rock Libertarians) 10 February 2011 at 11:36 · Like Alexander Braun "On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time." ~ George Orwell (via Chris Jameson) 13 February 2011 at 00:36 · Like Alexander Braun “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” - Japanese Proverb (via Jerry Provost) 14 February 2011 at 01:08 · Like Alexander Braun "if i knew what i was doing i wouldn't be alive." ~ alexander braun 5 March 2011 at 02:05 · Like Alexander Braun "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish." -- unknown (via Atheist Quotes Of The Day) 9 March 2011 at 02:07 · Like Alexander Braun "The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars." - Khalil Gibran (via Sandra D. Sabatini) 11 March 2011 at 00:55 · Like Alexander Braun "i am starting to get confused who's alive and who is dead. boy oh boy." ~ alexander braun 26 March 2011 at 02:47 · Like Alexander Braun "love is gravity. that's why falling in love is like falling into a black hole where time slows down to a crawl and even light can't get out." ~ alexander braun (140 characters) 27 March 2011 at 03:17 · Like Alexander Braun "And the so-called sovereigns, in these different governments, are simply the heads, or chiefs, of different bands of robbers and murderers."-- Lysander Spooner, The Constitution of No Authority (via Punk Rock Libertarians) 31 March 2011 at 23:24 · Like Alexander Braun "i am that i am, not us vs them." ~ alexander braun 3 April 2011 at 03:31 · Like Alexander Braun "People exclaim "that's impossible" (until it isn't). People whine "that'll never happen" (until it does). People sneer "You're wasting your time" (until it it pays off). History books are filled with people who were called Crazy by those who were Lazy." ~ Don Snyder (via Positively Positive) 5 April 2011 at 20:10 · Like Alexander Braun "The surest way to remain poor is to be honest" - Anatole France (via Tomtom Tom) 6 April 2011 at 02:34 · Like Alexander Braun "truth will set you free, not if you did it." ~ proverb (via alexander braun) 6 April 2011 at 02:35 · Like Alexander Braun "The Hopi Elder went on to explain that it makes no difference whether your spirituality falls in line with an organized philosophy or religion, or if it is something that you have come up with and practice on your own. "Practice your spirituality, whatever it may be, like you have never practiced it before." And realize that your consc...iousness affects the outcome. Your consciousness effects everything." (via Michael DancingEagle Cassidy) 9 April 2011 at 01:59 · Like Alexander Braun "for most parts, life is a good idea gone nuts." ~ alexander braun 9 April 2011 at 23:16 · Like Alexander Braun "My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there." — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi (via Omm LLavender) 10 April 2011 at 22:13 · Like Alexander Braun "Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!" (via Chris Jameson) 10 April 2011 at 22:30 · Like Alexander Braun "vote not in political elections but vote with your time, love, and money." ~ alexander braun 12 April 2011 at 02:54 · Like Alexander Braun "if one to want to vote a lot, then vote oneself to be free thought, if it is group, then rank all choices to hear most popular of voices." ~ alexander braun 26 April 2011 at 13:42 · Like Alexander Braun "all becomes from the heart to the brain, the love of pure pleasure or the fear of pure pain." ~ alexander braun 28 April 2011 at 18:41 · Like Alexander Braun "Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way." - Native American Proverb (via Power of Positivity) 3 May 2011 at 22:19 · Like Alexander Braun "Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are." ~ Author Unknown "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt "To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice." ~ Confucius "Never, Never, Never Give Up!" ~ Winston Churchill (via Spirited Daydreams) 4 May 2011 at 02:43 · Like Alexander Braun "An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind." ~ Kahlil Gibran (via Alexandra Von Streer Henderson) 4 May 2011 at 03:54 · Like Alexander Braun "A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. ~ xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox ☆Love `.¸¸☆´¯)Peace ¸.☆´¯)Always (¸☆´ (¸.☆´´¯`☆.¸¸.♥Spirit Bless You Precious Soul*•.¸¸♥" ~ (via Sophia Whitney-Rothschild via Robert Weiland) 4 May 2011 at 18:13 · Like Alexander Braun "peace and love, or lack of thereof, is the cause of how life evolves." ~ alexander braun 4 May 2011 at 19:16 · Like Alexander Braun "~Navajo Prayer~ Beauty is before me, and the beauty behind me, Above and below me hovers the beautiful. I am surrounded by it, I am immersed in it, In my youth I am Aware of it, And in old age I shall walk quietly The Beautiful Trail." ~ (via Come on the peace train, 1 million members needed) 4 May 2011 at 19:49 · Like Alexander Braun "Life is a journey not a marathon." ~ proverb 4 May 2011 at 19:55 · Like Alexander Braun "healing is a process, not an event." ~ proverb 4 May 2011 at 19:56 · Like Alexander Braun "think twice before doing something once and you will be twice better off." ~ proverb 4 May 2011 at 19:58 · Like Alexander Braun "change is the currency of time. no change means no time, where time is soul and change is heart. change the heart and the mind will follow." ~ alexander braun 6 May 2011 at 03:45 · Like Alexander Braun "as an old proverb told about a heart of gold." ~ alexander braun 6 May 2011 at 04:08 · Like Alexander Braun " the bigger the load the slower time got, the lighter the weight the faster times get, away from the attracting love of the gravity, while in a black hole the time slows to a crawl, when the last black hole moves on then the photons of light remain to party for trillions, trillions, and many many trillions of years on. when the last of light fades away in eternal dark, then the change will come to the calm end and the time itself will arrive to its resting place. r.i.p." ~ alexander braun 6 May 2011 at 05:04 · Like Alexander Braun "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." ~ (Buddha) Siddhārtha Gautama 563 BC-483 BCE. (via Sandra D. Sabatini) 7 May 2011 at 05:09 · Like Alexander Braun "the earth is for the living, not dead." ~ alexander braun 8 May 2011 at 23:05 · Like Alexander Braun "We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality, we are that reality, when you understand this you see that you are nothing, and in being nothing you are everything." -The Buddha- 10 May 2011 at 10:22 · Like Alexander Braun "the universe is made of lives, hot, warm, or cold, some short, some long, good, bad, or nice." ~ alexander braun 10 May 2011 at 10:52 · Like Alexander Braun "FUN & LOVE is the root of the tree, the FOOL of the top arcana, the zero seed, a ticket, however, i think life, as it is, has its eternal goal to ultimately be in PEACE and feel nothing. although no rush, life is a journey, not a marathon. at birth it is a stage of the freedom baby, then the unity child, then the beauty youth, then the adult wisdom, then the mature happiness, and then the old peace, hence the r.i.p. final blessings to the dead. metaphysically, to feel good or bad is an extent of feeling pleasure or pain, caused as a result of being conscious, or not, of ones heart rhythm beating in fear or love." ~ alexander braun 10 May 2011 at 10:53 · Like Alexander Braun "The soul of a nation is shown in how we treat each other and the world which gives us Life." ~ Mitakuye Oyasin (via Geoff Waltrip) 12 May 2011 at 23:48 · Like Alexander Braun "We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance." ~ Harrison Ford (via Chris Jameson) 13 May 2011 at 00:08 · Like Alexander Braun "beware of those who always cry wolfs." ~ alexander braun 14 May 2011 at 11:14 · Like Alexander Braun "basically you've got three choices: you can either work, play, or breed." ~ The Devil's Advocate (movie) 15 May 2011 at 01:01 · Like Alexander Braun "at the stage of final age, when the time is done, rest in peace the universe after all is gone. amen." ~ alexander braun The Last High Priest Of The Universe. 16 May 2011 at 17:29 · Like Alexander Braun "an ignoramus cannot be pious. A shy person cannot learn, and an impatient person cannot teach." -- talmud, ethics of the fathers (2:6) (via David Carasso) 17 May 2011 at 14:03 · Like Alexander Braun "in a monastery one monk says to another, "after all these years and it was mistranslated: it says here celebrate not celibate, oh brother!!" " ~ folklore 18 May 2011 at 14:04 · Like Alexander Braun "Pride is a spiritual trap. many have bought into it. the simple truth is: i am that i am, not us vs them. good luck." ~ alexander braun 18 May 2011 at 14:05 · Like Alexander Braun "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." ~ Dalai Lama (via Vadim Melikh) 18 May 2011 at 14:38 · Like Alexander Braun "it is the ultimate blasphemy to call any word written by man "the word of god." " ~ Austen Brown 18 May 2011 at 14:38 · Like Alexander Braun "water is liquid light or dark." ~ alexander braun 19 May 2011 at 18:49 · Like Alexander Braun "it is as simple as night and day, love gives pleasure, fear takes pain." ~ alexander braun 22 May 2011 at 14:52 · Like Alexander Braun "there are four archetypes of people: the shepherd (earth/body), the sheep (water/mind), the dog (air/space), and the wolf (time). and then there are three choices: to play, to work, and to breed. do what thou wilt." ~ alexander braun 22 May 2011 at 15:31 · Like Alexander Braun "the glorious sun looked at the earth as a tear rolled down her sides, she tried to wipe it off quietly in her silent somber but more tears came pouring out and now the earth wept like a child while the sun became heartbroken and very concern." ~ alexander braun 22 May 2011 at 23:41 · Like Alexander Braun "42. 21+21, this makes much sense, 21 being the last of the top arcana tarot cards -- the world -- as above so is below, thus two mirror worlds of two mirror universes. 8]" ~ alexander braun 23 May 2011 at 22:25 · Like Alexander Braun “Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes.” - Irish Saying (via Power of Positivity) 23 May 2011 at 23:27 · Like Alexander Braun " "youre headed nowhere fast!" - DMX, Keep Your Shit The Hardest" ~ Robert Chrysler 24 May 2011 at 18:41 · Like Alexander Braun "That which you can walk away from, you have mastered, that which you cannot walk away from has mastered you" [Anonymous] ~ (via Sophia Whitney-Rothschild < Tonny K. Brown) "It takes more of a man to walk away from a fight than it does to stand and fight" ~ (via Sophia Whitney-Rothschild) 24 May 2011 at 20:28 · Like Alexander Braun "i remember when the first time my money and i met the whole world seems to seize to exist and the time crawled to a halt as the angels rejoiced singing Hallelujah!" ~ alexander braun 26 May 2011 at 14:39 · Like Alexander Braun "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." – H.L. Mencken (via Punk Rock Libertarians) 28 May 2011 at 16:38 · Like Alexander Braun "Language is a virus from outer space" - W Burroughs (via Bruce Becker) 28 May 2011 at 23:23 · Like Alexander Braun “Promise me you will always remember – You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think” - Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh (via Power of Positivity) 29 May 2011 at 14:55 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "I don't think there's too much normal out there anymore. Though there's still plenty of average to go around." ~ John David Anderson (via Christopher Betamax) 4 June 2011 at 02:47 · Like Alexander Braun "freedom is free, if you are paying for it then you are getting a bad deal, for real." ~ alexander braun 6 June 2011 at 08:07 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "The one and only true God of all and any has no devoted followers." ~ alexander braun 7 June 2011 at 13:03 · Like Alexander Braun "what does one need/want/able to do alone, with others, or by others." ~ alexander braun 7 June 2011 at 19:56 · Like Alexander Braun "some people speak of consciousness as something outside and separate from the human body, they say that matter does not matter and that it does not even exist, per say, that everything in the world is a forethought of an empty space before time which holds all atoms in the universe together. to that i say that such thinking is utter nonsense. matter exists and it is a fact and for many people their body is the only manifestation of the universal consciousness. such an arrogance! as though they know how their bodies work and direct its activities like a symphony orchestra. the whole point is to get your mind to the same level of consciousness as your body already has and knows. get real!" ~ alexander braun 8 June 2011 at 00:07 · Like Alexander Braun "as long as the body is being marginalized and the mind is being exalted everybody is going to be in the grave danger of somebody's mind ruling over everybody else. one is the body, many are the states of the mind." ~ alexander braun 8 June 2011 at 00:21 · Like Alexander Braun . "in the world of I AM THAT I AM (the singularity) -- the one and only is the body, many are the states of the mind. in the world of US vs THEM (the plurality) -- the many bodies make up one collective mind, such as religions, governments, corporations, gangs, military, socio-economic elites, etc..., usually they are not very deep and predominately focused on insatiably consuming all available, limited, and non renewable resources to accumulate power and money at any cost to the human and the natural environments. that is why they may come across sounding smart, or being scary, but the collective beast is utterly unconscious." ~ alexander braun 8 June 2011 at 00:36 · Like Alexander Braun "this one sad little lizard was boasting once how he is a brontosaurus on his mother's side, i didn't say anything, because it made him happy and happiness is in such a short supply." ~ folklore 9 June 2011 at 22:21 · Like Alexander Braun "the ego is the inner love child who is as young as now here having fun playing and is formed and representing the state of separation, the person (mask in Greek) is the outer parent who is as old as the universe planning for then and there and is formed and representing the state of connection." ~ alexander braun 10 June 2011 at 03:33 · Like Alexander Braun "And man created Gods in his own image: power hungry, jealous, petty and incredibly flawed."-- Dave Morton (via Atheist Quotes Of The Day) 20 June 2011 at 08:34 · Like Alexander Braun "A picture worth a thousand words" because it's the geometrical patterns that precisely convey the right message by providing the clarity of the totality. The duality-based and linear-time-and-space input mechanism human languages are not designed to communicate such message due to its nature of polarity biased, 1 view at a time. (-.-)" - Antonio Ooi (via Jesse William) 20 June 2011 at 09:22 · Like Alexander Braun "Buddhist Wisdom. We have the wisdom and compassion of a universal monarch lying within us like dormant seeds waiting for the sun. We think that we’re 180 degrees from enlightenment, but we’re only a few degrees off. I’ve always found this bit of wisdom and encouragement heartening, because there are days when the qualities of a Buddha might as well be in a different galaxy. In fact, our wisdom and compassion are always available. What is takes to see this is not a trip to the Far East or a radical change in lifestyle, but a subtle shift in our attitude. Learning to rule is a matter of developing confidence in basic goodness." ~ Sakyong Mipham (via http://www.elephantjournal.com/.../how-far-off-from.../) 23 June 2011 at 14:43 · Like Alexander Braun "law of gravity: to go down is easy, to go up requires a bit more effort." ~ alexander braun 4 July 2011 at 21:29 · Like Alexander Braun http://www.rogerdarlington.co.uk/Thoughts.html 6 July 2011 at 01:43 · Like Alexander Braun "my oh my have i slept well... *sigh* where were we... ah! right right, the day seven i rested... well very well then, onwards to the day eight; if good can happen then it will happen. which reminds me, let there be no parasites. *sigh* coffee/smoke time... ;| mm *puff gone*" ~ alexander braun (fb status) 9 July 2011 at 17:20 · Like Alexander Braun “They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~ Andy Warhol (via Billy Warhol) 10 July 2011 at 20:41 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good" ~ Gautama Buddha ✿ (via Dawning Golden Crystal Age) 10 July 2011 at 21:49 · Like Alexander Braun "Begin to listen to what you say. Don't say anything that you don't want to become true for you." - Louise L. Hay (via Power of Positivity) 11 July 2011 at 19:17 · Like Alexander Braun Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica. ~ Abraham Lincoln (via Patrick Ira DonEgan) 13 July 2011 at 02:02 · Like Alexander Braun "success has many parents, failure is an orphan." ~ proverb 14 July 2011 at 19:01 · Like Alexander Braun "If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design to do me good, I should run for my life..." -- Henry David Thoreau (via Punk Rock Libertarians) 16 July 2011 at 20:29 · Like Alexander Braun "in my humble opinion, what God is are the Virtues of I AM THAT I AM, what God isn't are the Sins of US vs THEM. simple in theory. " ~ alexander braun 18 July 2011 at 20:17 · Like Alexander Braun "people who don't care about life will have no life to care about." ~ alexander braun 19 July 2011 at 22:43 · Like Alexander Braun "you either don't fuck around and be the judge or don't judge and fuck around, you can't have both at the same time. i am the judge." ~ alexander braun 20 July 2011 at 13:00 · Like Alexander Braun "God is, it is on or off that is the question. if God is then body is as well and it takes time and space to make up our mind, thus God is the body." ~ alexander braun 26 July 2011 at 03:31 · Like Alexander Braun "strange but true, people who know the least preach the loudest." ~ alexander braun 26 July 2011 at 14:19 · Like Alexander Braun " . . : .: :.: :::: :::.::: .::.::.::.::. " ~ alexander braun 31 July 2011 at 15:00 · Like Alexander Braun Someone asked the Dalai Lama what surprises him most. This was his response. "MAN, BECAUSE HE SACRIFICES HIS HEALTH IN ORDER TO MAKE MONEY. THEN HE SACRIFICES MONEY TO RECUPERATE HIS HEALTH. AND THEN HE IS SO ANXIOUS ABOUT THE FUTURE THAT H...E DOES NOT ENJOY THE PRESENT; THE RESULT BEING THAT HE DOES NOT LIVE IN THE PRESENT OR THE FUTURE; HE LIVES AS IF HE IS NEVER GOING TO DIE, AND THEN HE DIES HAVING NEVER REALLY LIVED." http://www.elephantjournal.com/.../someone-asked-the.../ Someone asked the Dalai Lama what surprises him most. This was his response. www.elephantjournal.com Someone asked the Dalai Lama what surprises him most. This was his response. 31 July 2011 at 21:25 · Like · Remove Preview Alexander Braun . "one has only the love for oneself and one's world to share it with others. if one does not love oneself and thy world then one has no love to give. if one says they love everything they are lying, for love is discerning what we out to love that which brings us pleasure; in body, mind, space, and time, and what we out to fear for the sake of our survival; in body, mind, spirit, and soul. forever and ever. amen." ~ alexander braun (inspired by Prince Mohammed Abdel Wahab) 1 August 2011 at 10:20 · Like Alexander Braun "many people mistake lust for love or misplace passion of love to focus on money and power, whatever that means. people CAN make others love them if they want, but that would be missing the whole point!!! When you have love in your heart, other can get it from you. If you don't have love then you can't give it. the whole point is that you have to love yourself, and when you do then you can start loving the greater world around yourself, which is the macro body of your greater universal being." ~ alexander braun 1 August 2011 at 10:51 · Like Alexander Braun "listening is like eating fish, got to be mindful of the bones." ~ alexander braun 1 August 2011 at 15:41 · Like Alexander Braun . Every child has known God, Not the God of names, Not the God of don’ts, Not the God who ever does Anything weird, But the God who knows only 4 words. ...And keeps repeating them, saying: “Come Dance with Me , come dance.” -- Hafiz (via John Mohamed) 1 August 2011 at 22:47 · Like Alexander Braun "The truth is this: In the air the potential increases at the rate of about fifty volts per foot of elevation, owing to which there may be a difference of pressure amounting to twenty, or even forty thousand volts between the upper and lower ends of the antenna. The masses of the charged atmosphere are constantly in motion and give up electricity to the conductor, not continuously, but rather disruptively, this producing a grinding noise in a sensitive telephonic receiver." ~ Nikola Tesla http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jul/teslaauto06.html My Inventions - Chapter 6—The Magnifying Transmitter www.lucidcafe.com No subject to which I have ever devoted myself has called for such concentration... See more 5 August 2011 at 18:21 · Like · Remove Preview Alexander Braun "regrets the loss of his "Hello Kittyhawk" name because of a picky Facebook pinhead. Also, beware of Geeks bearing GIF's ..." ~ Bruce Becker 6 August 2011 at 00:10 · Like Alexander Braun "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball "Happy 100th Birthday Lucille - We still love you. - PoP" (via Power of Positivity) 6 August 2011 at 16:51 · Like Alexander Braun i would rather take my chances with the anarchy than live in the order established by the evil and complete idiots. their own lives sucks, even with debt money and so-called dark power, and they want everyone else to be dragged into their miserable, dumb, evil existence, on their merry way to hell to rot in it for eternity, may the road be the table cloth for them, as an old Russian proverb says. 8 August 2011 at 15:52 · Like Alexander Braun "time is a rate of the perceived change, frequency, from a point of perception, the soul in spiritual terms, the infinity." ~ alexander braun 16 August 2011 at 09:31 · Like Alexander Braun . "according to zen teaching, the whole point is to live in the present, to be at the source of now and here -- love and peace -- and not some hypothetical futures and the pasts." _\|/_ ~ ab 16 August 2011 at 09:33 · Like Alexander Braun "Mariya: 5000 years ago, Moses said, "Pick up your shovels, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the Promised Land." When Welfare was introduced, Roosevelt said, "Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, and light up a Camel, this is the Promised Land." Today, the government has stolen your shovel, taxed your asses, raised the price of Camels and mortgaged the Promised Land to China." (via VickyandMariya RSistersjoon) 23 August 2011 at 13:14 · Like Alexander Braun "the monotheism is the believe in yourself, that is all, anyone telling you otherwise is either a liar or a fool, or both." ~ alexander braun 24 August 2011 at 11:22 · Like Alexander Braun "the law of one: stay away from the other." ~ alexander braun 25 August 2011 at 10:54 · Like Alexander Braun "I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love." ~♥~ Red Cloud {Makhipiya~luta} Sioux Chief (via Levi James) 25 August 2011 at 11:01 · Like Alexander Braun "one cannot copyright the universe, verily so, or else be elsewhere forever." ~ alexander braun 28 August 2011 at 14:04 · Like Alexander Braun "iam not, therefore i think...." ~ Robert Chrysler 24 September 2011 at 12:48 · Like Alexander Braun "at first i wanted to fit in, then i thought, fuck it, there is no way i can master such mediocrity." ~ alexander braun 25 September 2011 at 23:45 · Like Alexander Braun "I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my value system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal." –Milton Friedman (via Punk Rock Libertarians) 4 October 2011 at 14:55 · Like Alexander Braun "for every asshole there is a dick." ~ alexander braun 8 October 2011 at 12:41 · Like Alexander Braun "if you don't respect the dead in life then my advice to you is don't ever die, you will not enjoy it." ~ alexander braun 8 October 2011 at 12:58 · Like Alexander Braun "the matter of fact is, it is the matter that matters no matter what." ~ alexander braun 13 October 2011 at 14:41 · Like Alexander Braun "The world will not be free until the last plutocrat is strangled with the entrails of the last religious extremist." Voltaire (via Donna Damage via Paxdora Kosmosian) 16 November 2011 at 17:44 · Like Alexander Braun "The hell is full of the minds who thought that they can do better than their body. God IS the body. Take care of it and it will take care of you." ~ Alexander Braun 19 November 2011 at 09:22 · Like Alexander Braun “We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.” ~ Tom Waits (via Joe Sieber) 26 November 2011 at 12:44 · Like Alexander Braun "Keep your mind inside your heart." ~ Mooji (via Dennis James Gannon) 27 November 2011 at 19:34 · Like Alexander Braun "Those who lack imagination cannot imagine what is lacking." (via Anarchism) "Another poignant piece of 1968 graffiti. (Thanks Mark!)" 28 November 2011 at 14:47 · Like Alexander Braun "living is breathing, coming together and coming apart, in and out, one and all, private and public, individual and collective. one can organize their own life and participate in the organisation of life around as one becomes aware along the way of enlightenment." ~ alexander braun 1 December 2011 at 02:56 · Like Alexander Braun “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” ― Albert Einstein (via Ravi Mitchell) 5 December 2011 at 15:07 · Like Alexander Braun "what we're running from isn't as important as what we're running to" ~ Bruce Becker 13 December 2011 at 12:53 · Like Alexander Braun "love is kindness towards the others." ~ proverb (via Alexander Braun) 13 December 2011 at 12:54 · Like Alexander Braun "I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person." ~ Oscar Wilde (via Spiritual Awakening Radio) 16 December 2011 at 16:30 · Like Alexander Braun "'i'll believe coprorations are persons when texas executes one" - old saying (via Bruce Becker) 21 December 2011 at 03:23 · Like Alexander Braun "Somebody said to me once, what's so progressive about the mainstream media -- it is spreading the darkness with the speed of light." ~ Terence McKenna 21 December 2011 at 03:45 · Like Alexander Braun "It is time to end the war on drugs worldwide. Portugal’s 10 year experiment shows enough is enough..." ~ Richard Branson - Dec 19, 2011. 21 December 2011 at 04:10 · Like Alexander Braun "I know you don’t believe in an old bearded man sitting on a cloud, so let’s not waste any more time on that. I am not attacking any particular version of God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, wherever and whenever they have been or will be invented." ~ Richard Dawkins The god Delusion (via Billy Warhol) 21 December 2011 at 14:20 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "sono questo che sono, non noi contro loro." ~ Alexander Braun 21 December 2011 at 22:47 · Like Alexander Braun "As a kid I vowed to my father "I'll be the greatest artist of tomorrow!" Many years later my kids cheered "Dad, you are the greatest artist of tomorrow!" I hear demons whispering inside me: "Even today you are the Greatest Artist of Tomorrow!" That's how I want to be remembered: "Forever The Greatest Artist of Tomorrow!" " ~ Monty Cantsin Amen 22 December 2011 at 00:04 · Like Alexander Braun "We do not set boundaries with negative or abusive people to change them, we do so to change us - to create better, more positive lives for ourselves." ~ Spiritual Bliss (via Gail Trotman) 27 December 2011 at 14:17 · Like Alexander Braun "change is the only constant." ~ Alexander Braun 30 December 2011 at 01:37 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "art is in the creation and exploration of the new frontiers of knowledge and culture by venturing into the unknown, the science interprets and integrates these artistic discoveries within the big picture of what is already known and understood, thus progress is made." ~ Alexander Braun 30 December 2011 at 01:56 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "love is caring for others. simple." ~ Alexander Braun 1 January 2012 at 17:36 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "i don't give a fuck how big you think you are, my curse is bigger." ~ Alexander Braun 2 January 2012 at 15:39 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "beware of whomever weighs heavy compliments upon yee." ~ Alexander Braun 2 January 2012 at 18:28 · Like Alexander Braun "We are upping our standards ---- up yours too!" -- Pat Paulsen ( while running for President 1988 ) 4 January 2012 at 17:11 · Like Alexander Braun art is in, science is out. ~ Alexander Braun 4 January 2012 at 17:32 · Like Alexander Braun (via Justin Salter) "It's better to fight for something than live for nothing." - Gen. George Patton "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather action in spite of it." - Mark Twain "You've got to go through Hell before you get to Heaven." - Steve Miller 5 January 2012 at 05:45 · Like Alexander Braun "the parents are the body (earth/matter) and the spirit (air/space), they are as old as the universe and are here to care for their twin children; the mind (water/senses), and soul (fire/time), who are as young as now and are here to play, to grow, to learn, and to have fun. http://about.me/theUniverse" ~ Alexander Braun 6 January 2012 at 03:58 · Like Alexander Braun "How the earth rotates: people every day running around the globe in search of gold or a golden goose and with their feet push the earth's surface into the rotation around its axis. While people in the night time hemisphere are resting from this important activity on the other side of the globe the divinely enthused mission is on into a full swing, thus from dawn to dusk the search for gold makes the world go round." ~ Alexander Braun 7 January 2012 at 20:50 · Like Alexander Braun "when kids are not forced to work they play." ~ Alexander Braun 7 January 2012 at 21:17 · Like Alexander Braun "people consciously reconnecting with their subconscious and unconscious self, one and all, happens differently at different times and different places and perceived and experienced differently for different reasons and ability to relate and sympathies at different stages of that journey highlighted by different events forming overall different personal memories along with different personalities, that much is in common. " ~ Alexander Braun 8 January 2012 at 01:41 · Like Alexander Braun "we have in common that we're all different." ~ Bruce Becker 8 January 2012 at 02:01 · Like Alexander Braun "we ourselves are different from moment to moment. change is the only constant." ~ Alexander Braun 8 January 2012 at 02:16 · Like Alexander Braun "true leaders lead themselves and others by example." ~ Alexander Braun 8 January 2012 at 02:22 · Like Alexander Braun "what is love? that fussy feeling of happiness or being desired or a desire being satisfied, love of fame, fortune, great life... but then there are many other words that can be used to describe it all. what is it that love everyone is so obsessed about... rhetorical of course. people say that they fall in love like it is some black hole of sorts to avoid if it is at all possible. some gurus warn that it is like a disease that one can catch from those who have it, as Meher Baba was describing that condition. it is an ambiguous term and its cultural archetypal stereotypical interpretation is extremely diverse, ranging a full spectrum of devotional sacrifices of which Taj Mahal is a beautiful example, thus the word love itself becomes a pointless metaphor without a clear meaning and definition and it only can be truly understood, as any word, in a context of a sentence and either knowledge or trust of good intent, as any word would do, and that's the word. ;)) peace.." ~ Alexander Braun 8 January 2012 at 03:36 · Like Alexander Braun "If necessity is mother of inventions, the father would be an opportunity." ~ Alexander Braun 10 January 2012 at 04:14 · Like Alexander Braun "the more one knows the less one wants. one doesn't think hard when eating or breathing, so it comes naturally in time the providence of life." ~ Alexander Braun 13 January 2012 at 16:29 · Like Alexander Braun " . God has no devoted followers. . i am this i am, not us vs them. . " ~ Alexander Braun 25 January 2012 at 23:29 · Like Alexander Braun "life is an achievement" ~ Alexander Braun 26 January 2012 at 00:07 · Like Alexander Braun "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's the other way around." ~ a Russian proverb 26 January 2012 at 01:14 · Like Alexander Braun “Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.” ~ Christopher Hitchens (via Atheist Republic) 26 January 2012 at 02:06 · Like Alexander Braun “A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing”--Robert Green Ingersoll (via Atheist Quotes Of The Day) 26 January 2012 at 02:34 · Like Alexander Braun "God clothed himself in vile man's flesh, that so He might be weak enough to suffer woe." ~ John Donne, Holy Sonnets p.1567 Divine Meditations, 'atoned for', first printed in 1633 edition, "which, according to Helen Gardner, represents Donne's order." excerpt from The Longman Anthology British Literature volume one. 31 January 2012 at 18:45 · Like Alexander Braun "the state of the modern art is dire. as is, it cultivates the swine amidst the pearls, metaphorically speaking, it is utter nonsense and useless for most part, even as decoration, the abolition of the original thought and taste, generally, in exchange for the consumer mass culture." ~ Alexander Braun 31 January 2012 at 19:16 · Like Alexander Braun "i know it's impolite to ask a girl about her age, so, how much do you weigh?" ~ Jan Haust 3 February 2012 at 13:11 · Like Alexander Braun "Rari Quippe Boni." "Rari quippe boni, numera, uix sunt totidem quot Thebarum portae uel diuitis ostia Nili." "Rare, naturally, are the good, count [them], hardly they are just so as many as the Gates of Thebes or even the mouths of the fertile Nile." from Juvenal, Satire XIII (via http://latindiscussion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2096) 14 February 2012 at 14:27 · Like Alexander Braun "according to Darwin, the survival of the fittest in the animal kingdom is due to the competition, his Welsh friend Alfred Russel Wallace thought it was due to environmental conditions, both tried to apply their ideas to explain the human behaviour without much success, but with humans, unlike in the animal world, collaboration is the way for the winning game." ~ Alexander Braun 16 February 2012 at 16:54 · Like Alexander Braun "You create your own Universe as you go along." ~ Veronika Slator 17 February 2012 at 02:13 · Like Alexander Braun "body/mind/space/time = earth/water/air/fire = north/east/south/west = God/Lord/Spirit/Soul = solid/liquid/gas/plasma etc etc and we are on top right at the centre of it all travelling through eternal infinite energy." ~ Alexander Braun 17 February 2012 at 03:49 · Like Alexander Braun "If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having." ~ Henry Miller (via Billy Warhol) 26 February 2012 at 13:32 · Like Alexander Braun "I'll get us that oil from Canada that we deserve." ~ Mitt Romney (via Tim Lynch) 29 February 2012 at 15:56 · Like Alexander Braun "If you hear a voice within you say "You cannot paint", then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced" ~ Vincent Van Gogh (via Spirited Daydreams) 1 March 2012 at 21:56 · Like Alexander Braun "the truth is simple, it is the lies that are complex." ~ Alexander Braun 1 March 2012 at 23:08 · Like Alexander Braun "laws are for the idiots." ~ Alexander Braun 24 March 2012 at 13:32 · Like Alexander Braun "think global, act local." ~ proverb 24 March 2012 at 14:22 · Like Alexander Braun "nationalism is for the children, mentally ill, idiots, and the poor." ~ Alexander Braun 24 March 2012 at 14:23 · Like Alexander Braun "Seek for those who are seeking the truth, run from those who have found it." ~ via Celia Farber 25 March 2012 at 03:56 · Like Alexander Braun "Sovereignty is your right.... Ignorance is your choice. We are a nation at war with ourselves...." ~ Brian Goff 25 March 2012 at 19:31 · Like Alexander Braun "Sovereignty is: i am this i am, not US vs THEM." ~ Alexander Braun 25 March 2012 at 19:33 · Like Alexander Braun "Greater dooms win greater destinies." ~ Geoff Waltrip "right, as in getting closer or farther apart from your conscious self, a universal journey of cosmic proportions or a marathon deep down into a rabbit hole, whatever which way there is no shortage of change since it seems to be the only constant around." ~ Alexander Braun 25 March 2012 at 19:53 · Like Alexander Braun "Don't judge what you don't understand. ♥•*´¨♥¸.• ´*.*♥¸.•dotsie" ~ "gr8quotes" "naw, that would mean to have no opinion about anything new, as an artist i must reject such a proposition." ~ Alexander Braun 25 March 2012 at 20:07 · Like Alexander Braun "all is well that ends well." ~ old proverb. "in cultural politics, it's all fun & games until someone loses an i" ~ Louann Mcmarshall (via Bruce Becker) 25 March 2012 at 21:40 · Like Alexander Braun "Maybe Art is a Truth that makes us realize the Lies xo:)" ~ Christine Madona 28 March 2012 at 23:11 · Like Alexander Braun "art is in (new), science is out (old)." ~ Alexander Braun 28 March 2012 at 23:13 · Like Alexander Braun "why let people drive you crazy when you know it is within a walking distance." ~ proverb 28 March 2012 at 23:39 · Like Alexander Braun "time will tell. sure we won a bottle but we haven't yet won the wall. " ~ Alexander Braun after first round of Saatchi Online Abstract Art Showdown with The Birth of Time painting. 29 March 2012 at 19:14 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "gravity - point of attention." ~ Alexander Braun 2 April 2012 at 16:23 · Like Alexander Braun "I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me." ~ Henri Matisse (via Limón Fine Art) 2 April 2012 at 16:30 · Like Alexander Braun "Everything you focus on, you energize." ~ COCO 5 April 2012 at 15:52 · Like Alexander Braun "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell." ~ Edward Abbey (via Free World Charter) 6 April 2012 at 12:34 · Like Alexander Braun "HUMAN BEING: what one does, thinks, says, and feels to be right." ~ Alexander Braun 6 April 2012 at 12:55 · Like Alexander Braun "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." ~ J. K. Galbraith 6 April 2012 at 14:12 · Like Alexander Braun "all religions are evil by definition. save your soul, run for your eternal life, leave their Evil Dark Lords now and join your Lord God of love and peace -- your soul (time), your spirit (space), your Lord (mind), and your God (body). The truth is simple, it is the lies that are complicated. Verily so. Now run from the religious zealots no matter how sweet and welcoming they may sound. I AM THIS I AM, NOT US VS THEM. When it comes to religion -- two is too many." ~ Alexander Braun 7 April 2012 at 15:32 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "the great artists are all aliens!" ~ Herb Stalk "heh, it sure felt like that at times when the world gone mad made the living dead trumpet how everything is great in the zombie land. 8/" ~ Alexander Braun 7 April 2012 at 20:55 · Like Bruce Becker "the great artists are all aliens!" ... more dam racism eh 7 April 2012 at 20:58 · Unlike · 1 Alexander Braun "the great artists are all aliens!" i think it's a compliment. 7 April 2012 at 21:05 · Like Alexander Braun "Balls to Picasso!" ~ Marc Christopher Hohmann 8 April 2012 at 17:30 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun good -- being conscious vs evil -- being unconscious. "When you become conscious of Being, what is really happening is that Being becomes conscious of itself. When Being becomes conscious of itself--that's presence." ~ Eckhart Tolle (via Norma Sun) 8 April 2012 at 20:27 · Like Bruce Becker consciousness is evil since it is a distraction from total enmeshment with the all 8 April 2012 at 20:43 · Like Alexander Braun well, that would be a matter of perspective. 8 April 2012 at 20:49 · Like Bruce Becker there is no perspective in the all, there is no "outside" 8 April 2012 at 21:38 · Like Alexander Braun the universe has its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere. one can be conscious and have an individual point of view. as when a wheel spins between two people, clockwise and counterclockwise is a matter of perception, from the universe' point of view the wheel is spinning in both directions. becoming more conscious and connecting with the universal consciousness raises one's vintage point vs becoming unconscious and separating from the whole and sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss. if you are unconscious you are separated from the whole and hence got an ego, a sense of self, not a bad thing however in most cases it is disproportionately large and at times hinders farther advancement. 8 April 2012 at 21:48 · Like Bruce Becker give up your attachment to "consciousness", it hinders your full participation 8 April 2012 at 21:53 · Like Alexander Braun contrary, it is absolutely necessary, living unconsciously would be an equivalent to driving with the eyes closed. you can go right ahead and do what thou wilt. to each their own. eternity is a long time, some of it is spent asleep some is awake. 8 April 2012 at 22:03 · Like Bruce Becker give up your dichotomy between "being unconscious" and "consciousness" - the more you try to distance yourself from that which you feel you should abhor, the more you participate in its recreation ... 8 April 2012 at 22:07 · Like Alexander Braun the dichotomies are the way of this world, pick your sides and God speed. 8 April 2012 at 22:08 · Like Bruce Becker they are the way of this world only if you choose it so 8 April 2012 at 22:10 · Like Alexander Braun we already unconscious enough the whole point is to grow in self realization and connect with your subconscious universal self. the only choice which is always available is your attitude. to stay unconscious while alive is to waste your life. 8 April 2012 at 22:15 · Like Bruce Becker that concept of "unconscious" describe peoplel who have nothing to do with any sense of the all ... nonetheless their very cells have 4 billion years of experience which they already particpate in even during their "worst" moments eh ;p 8 April 2012 at 22:19 · Like Alexander Braun the difference is between a stone Buddha and a living one. the conscious or unconscious is reference to the self. one cannot be aware of their whole while being unconscious of their own self and thus being separated from their own universal all. 8 April 2012 at 22:36 · Like Alexander Braun Bruce, i hear you, don't be too hard on yourself. 8 April 2012 at 22:36 · Like Alexander Braun "There is no sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes." ~ Renee Pittman M 8 April 2012 at 23:27 · Like Bruce Becker is not being hard on anyone, quite the opposite! 8 April 2012 at 23:52 · Like Alexander Braun (via Chris Jameson) "We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations." ~ Anais Nin http://youtu.be/SoYkxKWNzoo Solar Fields - Discovering (HD) www.youtube.com Artist : Solar Fields Album : Movements Genre : Electronic Style : Downtempo, Experimental, Ambient Year : 2009 8 April 2012 at 23:58 · Like · Remove Preview Alexander Braun "reality is canny, more than by political elections the real voting is done with money." ~ Alexander Braun 12 April 2012 at 19:35 · Like Alexander Braun "if it is too complex to explain then it must be a lie." ~ Alexander Braun 12 April 2012 at 22:49 · Like Alexander Braun "The ArT of ComMuNiCaTiOn... So fraught with misunderstanding yet so crucial to our existence." ~ Gail Trotman 12 April 2012 at 23:25 · Like Alexander Braun "i like spending some time on my wall processing data i have fetched while my strolls along the news streams. " ~ Alexander Braun 12 April 2012 at 23:58 · Like Alexander Braun "every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want" ~ Anna Lappe (via Lactarius Indigo) 14 April 2012 at 15:30 · Like Alexander Braun "TRUST NOTHING" ~ Alexander Braun 14 April 2012 at 19:51 · Like Alexander Braun "You are not sep­arate from nature. We are all part of the One Life that man­i­fests itself in count­less forms through­out the uni­verse, forms that are all com­pletely inter­con­nected. When you rec­og­nize the sacred­ness, the beauty, the incred­i­ble still­ness and dig­nity in which a flower or the tree exists, you add some­thing to the flower or the tree. Through your recog­ni­tion, your aware­ness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacred­ness through you!" ~ Eck­hart Tolle. 14 April 2012 at 23:42 · Like Alexander Braun "Fremin Focus on what you want…..otherwise let in the light and the darkness disappears…..Please get this now…." ~ Ellen Murphy Campbell 14 April 2012 at 23:57 · Like Alexander Braun "the desire to run for a public office nowadays is like running for a high school class president, sheer nonsense and is a complete waste of time since the bureaucracy is there for life shielded by lawyers, fat, and deadwood, and nothing ever changes, except of course the politicians." ~ Alexander Braun 15 April 2012 at 01:44 · Like Alexander Braun "in retrospect, i am glad to have realized in time, while making my vegetable soup de sublime, that i had had some nutmeg seed whose fragrance i amply enjoyed to eat." ~ Alexander Braun 15 April 2012 at 02:09 · Like Alexander Braun "the human brain is the fractal real-time copy of the whole universe and the body is right smack in the middle of micro and macro cosmos." ~ Alexander Braun 16 April 2012 at 14:22 · Like Alexander Braun "the truth is that governments cater to the expectations of the private corporate world and not the people, which is not good for you if you are a human being." ~ Alexander Braun 16 April 2012 at 15:53 · Like Alexander Braun "i do not consider wrong opinions of many stupid people worth more than a correct opinion of one smart person. it is all relative. democracy means mob rule and masses are wrong pretty much about everything, such is the nature of information, the larger the crowd the more generalized and disassociated with reality it becomes." ~ Alexander Braun 23 April 2012 at 01:06 · Like Alexander Braun "t is the parent in us who is growing up, the kid remains the same." ~ Alexander Braun 23 April 2012 at 01:45 · Like Alexander Braun "both the science and the religion have believes and are equally based on faith." ~ Alexander Braun 24 April 2012 at 11:48 · Like Alexander Braun . "The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity" - Abraham Lincoln (via David Malmo-Levine) 25 April 2012 at 00:25 · Like Alexander Braun " the first law of physics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. there goes your big bang nothing." ~ Alexander Braun 25 April 2012 at 14:23 · Like Bruce Becker big bang has nothing to do with creation or destruction of energy, it's just a phase change like ice-water-steam etc 25 April 2012 at 14:25 · Like Alexander Braun big bang theory - something out of nothing - i don't think so, the energy is there always. 25 April 2012 at 14:30 · Like Bruce Becker that's what i just said. also, the universe is a shape-shifter - "big bang" is just one of the shapes it takes on from time to time 25 April 2012 at 14:32 · Like Alexander Braun i think the big bangs are happening all the time on different scale. 25 April 2012 at 15:50 · Like Alexander Braun "religion is concerning the human condition in the world, whereas science is concerning the facts of the world that the humans are conditioned with, and enlightenment is when the two meet." ~ Alexander Braun 25 April 2012 at 15:51 · Like Alexander Braun "Don't believe everything you think, see, say, feel, and/or hear. As a matter of fact, don't believe anything -- live the truth, experience it, know it by heart." ~ Alexander Braun 29 April 2012 at 13:19 · Like Alexander Braun "anybody who goes to a psychiatrist should have their head examined" - me old dad (via Bruce Becker) 1 May 2012 at 22:37 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "Enlightenment is being awake to who we truly are. ... For the spirit in me is the same one in God. ... I am Creator." ~ PRN [08:57 PM EST] 2 May 2012 at 21:00 · Like Alexander Braun "deep down inside i want to consume this entire galaxy with one byte." ~ Alexander Braun 3 May 2012 at 13:27 · Like Alexander Braun "when one creates something over and over again one can't help but to evolve at it, one would think. creation does not exclude evolution, as a matter of fact both are necessary for progress." ~ Alexander Braun 3 May 2012 at 23:20 · Like Alexander Braun "Your being is rooted in your body, and your body is not just something separate from existence. It is part of it. Your body is the whole universe." ~ Osho p.489 The Sutras, The Book of Secrets. 11 May 2012 at 05:14 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "ALL know the way; FEW actually walk it." ~ Buddha (via Prince Kumar) 14 June 2012 at 20:15 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "When bankers get together for dinner, they talk about art. When artists get together for dinner, they talk about money." - Oscar Wilde (via Billy Warhol) 5 September 2012 at 08:48 · Like Alexander Braun “The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.” ― Kurt Vonnegut (via Dada Base) 8 September 2012 at 11:26 · Like Alexander Braun "* Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill, he jumped out the window 'cause he couldn't sit still. -- Elvis Costello" ~ (via Bob Kirshner) 10 September 2012 at 14:55 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "art is creating something new, nature is maintaining it." ~ Alexander Braun 16 September 2012 at 21:23 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "if government exists not because of what one can do alone but what we can do together, then spirituality is something one can do better alone than together in a group with other people, hence all the religious drama and fighting raging on for ages to no avail." ~ Alexander Braun 24 September 2012 at 19:14 · Like Alexander Braun "to die or not to die, that's not the option." ~ Alexander Braun 24 September 2012 at 22:07 · Like Alexander Braun "there is a lineup to get here and another one to get out." ~ Alexander Braun 24 September 2012 at 22:07 · Like Alexander Braun "purpose defines the medium of the message." ~ Alexander Braun 30 September 2012 at 19:51 · Like Alexander Braun "it is not the past but the future one should look for while standing on the shoulders of giants." ~ Alexander Braun 2 October 2012 at 22:12 · Like Alexander Braun "Love is actually a murderer! Yes, it kills negativity. " "The powers of corruption want your mind, don't give it to them. Hold fast in your love for a positive timeline where we are truly free to be planetary beings." "When one acquires the secrets of universal energy, then is one truly free. We are all cells of a vast universe, keep your cell thriving for the good of the whole." (via Jane Evershed) 5 October 2012 at 11:35 · Like Alexander Braun "behind every powerful man is even more powerful woman. it is not matriarchal vs patriarchal rather good vs evil that is more closer to the truth and reasons of human struggle." ~ Alexander Braun 5 October 2012 at 11:35 · Like Alexander Braun "for every action there is equally powerful no reaction." ~ Alexander Braun 5 October 2012 at 16:09 · Like Alexander Braun "the politics is what one can not do alone but can do with the others, the religion is the other way around." ~ Alexander Braun 7 October 2012 at 16:08 · Like Alexander Braun "artist is someone who is doing the same thing expecting different results." ~ Alexander Braun 9 October 2012 at 16:19 · Like Alexander Braun "without doing the work one can't get fish out of a pond." ~ Russian proverb translated by Alexander Braun 13 October 2012 at 12:13 · Like Alexander Braun "the eyes look, the mind perceives, the heart feels, the I sees." ~ Alexander Braun 13 October 2012 at 20:56 · Like Alexander Braun "About the Hermetic Principles. i care to disagree with the first statement: "THE ALL IS MIND" i think the all is body, which is the cause, the mind is the effect of having the body, not the other way around. As a matter of fact at any moment the mind is only consciously aware of two to three thousand operations out of five to six billion that are happening in the background. all atoms are points of order of matter whose very existence supersedes the formation of mental sensory awareness that these Hermetic principles, along with most traditional religious canons, claim to be the initial root of all that is. which is not, the body is at the root of all that is, as the matter of fact, regardless what mind chooses to think about it, thus the first principle should be changed to: "THE ALL IS BODY; The Universe is Physical." " ~ Alexander Braun 18 October 2012 at 01:36 · Like Alexander Braun "it is ridiculous to suggest that the human beings are some ethereal proto-thought around which the body has converged like a deadly disease, temporary or not is besides the point." ~ Alexander Braun 21 October 2012 at 22:12 · Like Alexander Braun "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." (via Geoff Waltrip) 22 October 2012 at 01:32 · Like Alexander Braun "we inevitably embody the divinity we possess." ~ Michel Brabant (via Michael DancingEagle Cassidy) 22 October 2012 at 01:41 · Like Alexander Braun "Be Wise about What Is Good, Innocent about what is Evil." ~ Romans 16:19-20 22 October 2012 at 02:43 · Like Alexander Braun "religion is something one should do alone, politics is something one can't do alone but can do together." ~ Alexander Braun 22 October 2012 at 14:32 · Like Alexander Braun "We are happy because we are mature to be the joy of life, to be wise and have a good laugh when all said and done, to be at peace in harmony as one being, one family, one kingdom, one planet, one universe live now here nowhere and everywhere, big and small expressions of the whole and appreciating it all." ~ Alexander Braun 23 October 2012 at 15:03 · Like Alexander Braun "art is how to live well, die fast, and rest in peace thereafter." ~ Alexander Braun 23 October 2012 at 19:16 · Like Alexander Braun "Haha. Good old Bohr. While the field of string theory is complete lunacy and is basically theology disguised as science, because it is not based on any experiments and is purely math fantasy, the field of quantum mechanics, while heavily based on the lab experiments it however leaves a wide open door for interpretation of those results, majority of which, in my opinion, are incorrect conclusions largely due to the fact that most of the so-called scientists today, i just call them retards, look at the data through the thick lenses of the gravitational theory, which is wrong, instead of electromagnetism, a force many billions times stronger than gravity. The gravitational theory is commonly attributed to Einstein who actually had nothing to do with it, aside from placing his name and face on it. Same is with that famous equation E=mc2 "of his" or is it? A glimpse into that claim would reveal that E=mc2 was not produced by Einstein and that it was quiet wide-spread and known formula of his day which was used in many equations and by many scientists to average energy potential. To attribute it to Einstein is simply wrong and has nothing to do with the facts. The Universe is Electric and the gravity lets us down." ~ Alexander Braun 25 October 2012 at 11:37 · Like Alexander Braun "the symbol of wealth is good health." ~ Alexander Braun 25 October 2012 at 16:52 · Like Alexander Braun "Aliens or not, they all are governed by the same universal laws. We have to rely on ourselves first and help ourselves to be in good consciousness and live well guilt-free in symbiosis with the universe, big and small, inner and outer, then we can do better at helping others as well. cheers." ~ Alexander Braun 3 November 2012 at 17:50 · Like Alexander Braun "Obviously the electromagnetism is the dominant force in the universe, not the gravity." ~ Alexander Braun 3 November 2012 at 19:59 · Like Alexander Braun "money is a medium of exchange, and as such it has little to nothing to do with love, which is care, it is like comparing chairs and apples, therefore if money is properly used as a resource of the economic activity, along with the nature of personal interest, it can be utilized very effectively to provide the means for care and happiness, granted that the invested intent will define the overall outcome of what that medium of money can procure to deliver the anticipated, or not, sense of satisfaction and content." ~ Alexander Braun 4 November 2012 at 12:37 · Like Alexander Braun "When one votes for a politician one does not vote for oneself." ~ Alexander Braun 4 November 2012 at 14:33 · Like Alexander Braun "the fact that making art for most part is attached to the survival of making a living is in itself revealing true cause of the copyright act" ~ Alexander Braun 25 November 2012 at 15:03 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "fools are not those who make mistakes but ones who do not learn from them." ~ proverb 25 November 2012 at 15:06 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "Some medicines taken in large amounts become poisons; some poisons taken in small doses becomes medicines." p.65 Healing, Magic Dance -- The Display of the Self-Nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis by Thinley Norbu. 26 November 2012 at 10:52 · Like Alexander Braun "Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work." - Andy Goldsworthy (via Old Soul) 26 November 2012 at 11:52 · Like Alexander Braun "The nationalism is for either the poor, stupid, or naive." ~ Alexander Braun 26 November 2012 at 12:49 · Like Alexander Braun "the old is new now." ~ Alexander Braun 6 December 2012 at 20:57 · Like Alexander Braun ""the universe has its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere." now + here = nowhere. you are the entire universe, micro and macro, at its centre -- your soul -- and as such you are enormously significant. take good care of yourself and your environment. obviously the first sentence, "the universe has its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere," is a famous proverb which William Blake has so eloquently paraphrased in his book Songs of Innocence and of Experience. I did some research about this proverb and here is what I have found: *1 - "The Universe has its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere", William Blake wrote in 'Songs of Innocence and Experience'. *2 - Pascal wrote in 'Pensees' #199, Penguin tr., "Nature is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere". Nicolas of Cusa wrote similar things. Reference by Dan Lusthaus. *3 - St. Bonaventure wrote in 'Itinerarium Mentis in Deum' "Chapter 5. The Consideration of the Divine Unity Through Its Primary Name Which Is BEING." ... "8. ... As eternal and most present, it encompasses and enters all duration. existing, as it were, at one and the same time as their center and their circumference. Likewise, because it is the most simple and the greatest, it is wholly within all things and wholly outside them; hence it is "an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere". ...". Latin: "Cap V. De speculatione divinae unitatis per eius nomen primarium, quod est esse". ... "8. ... Quia aeternum et praesentissimum, ideo omnes durationes ambit et intrat, quasi simul existens earum centrum et circumferntia. - Quia simplicissimum et maximum, ideo totum intra omnia et totum extra, ac per hoc "est sphaera intelligibilis, cuius centrum est ubique et circumferentia nusquam".[14] ...". [14]Alan. aab Insulis, Theolog. Regul., 7. http://web.sbu.edu/theology/apczynski/courses/CLAR 101 Intellectual Journey/Itinerarium/lat5.html#para8 *4 - "God is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere", appears in Bartholomaeus Anglicus' De proprietatibus rerum, as referenced in Bartholomaeus Anglicus and His Encyclopedia by M.C. Seymour et al. edition of the Trevisa translation. The source is popularly attributed to the XXIV Philosophers, see notes at the tail end of Book XIX. The Hermetic 'Liber XXIV philosophrum' (ed. C. Baumker in 'Beitrage' XXV. 208), found in the 'Summa' of Alexander of Hales (I. 19a and 60a); on which see M.-T. d'Alverny in P.O. Kristeller, 'Catalogus translationum et commentatiorum' (Washington DC, 1960), pp. 151-4. In DPR I. 16 (p. 53) BA cites Trismegistus as the author of the definition here ascribed to Secundus. Vincent, 'Speculum naturale' I. 4 (Venice 1591, IV. 4 va) attributes the first definition to Empedocles and gives the second as 'mens immortalis'. Within the metaphor of the rational soul as a circle of perfection BA joins these two Hermetic statements with an orthodox restatement of the philosophical concept of the Trinity, cf. DPR I. 2 and III. 13 (pp. 44-5, 103), which depends on Innocent III, 'Liber extra' published with his other decretals at the Fourth Lateran Cuncil of 1215. See further, A. Garci'a y Garci'a, 'Constitutiones concilii quarti lateranensis' (Vatican, 1981), pp. 41-6, and notes to 44/15 and 53/1. Reference by Juris G. Lidaka. www.georgetown.edu *5 - "God is a circle whose center is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere", popularly credited to St. Augustine writing in the 'Confessions' (I am still trying to verify this. I haven't found it yet in the 'Confessions'). *6 - Oxford Dictionary of Quotations places it under "anonymous" and attributes the source to the "lost work of Empedocles". The dictionary also notes that the quotation is found in the 'Roman de la Rose' in the form "The nature of God is....". Reference by Norman Hinton. *7 - it's also in Alan of Lille's Sermon on the intelligible sphere. See M-T d'Alverny's (wonderful) 'Alain de Lille: Textes inedits', p.297: "Deus est spera intelligibilis cuius centrum ubique, circumferentia nusquam." She cites also the Regulae theologiae, 7 (PL 210, 627). Reference by Jeffrey Fisher. *8 - "God is a circle..." is also attributed to Plotinus in 'Enneads' VI, 5.4. Reference by Mark Murphy. *9 - "An infinite sphere, the centre of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere." God being defined by St. Augustine according to Henry Miller in 'Black Spring' p.103. *10 - God is my centre when I close him in; My circumference when I melt in him. -- Silesius 'Cherubinischer Wandersmann' (1657 A.D.) 3.148: Gott ist mein Mittelpunkt, wenn ich ihn in mich schliess: Mein Umkreis dann, wenn ich aus Lieb in ihn zerfliesse. (Source: Joseph Campbell 'The Mythic Image' Bollingen Series C, p. I.64 (1974 A.D.) Princeton University Press, assisted by M. J. Abadie.)" ~ Alexander Braun 12 December 2012 at 14:58 · Like Alexander Braun "Ego - Clean it .... Love - Be it ... Smile - Shine it ... Gossip - smile at it .. Sucess - believe it ... Jealousy - Understand it ... Knoledge - be careful with it ... Confidence ... shine it/be it/smile with it/believe it" ~ Leon Phythian "Right on Leon. The ego means "I am" in Latin. It is our inner child with our consciousness forming to serve as the inner parent/caretaker of that inner ego star child of ours, as most adults will confirm the ego is with us from birth to death. I think it is important to keep your ego child healthy and happy. Hence the need for obtaining the consciousness, which is good in itself, vs loosing consciousness, which is evil in itself. When dealing with one's ego, is as in the old proverb, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater." ~ Alexander Braun 18 December 2012 at 12:24 · Like Alexander Braun "You absolutely must be your own Light in all relationship." ~ Galo Chan 20 December 2012 at 13:03 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun “Peace is the only battle worth waging.” ~ Albert Camus 25 December 2012 at 15:20 · Like Alexander Braun "In the round of our rational and mournful year one festival remains out of all those ancient gaieties that once covered the whole earth. Christmas remains to remind us of those ages, whether Pagan or Christian, when the many acted poetry instead of the few writing it. In all the winter in our woods there is no tree in glow but the holly." -- GK Chesterton (via Michael Vipperman) 25 December 2012 at 16:24 · Like Alexander Braun "I would rather have a void than what nature decides to fill it with." ~ unknown 29 December 2012 at 21:56 · Like Bruce Becker what if nature decides to fill your void with another bigger one? 29 December 2012 at 21:58 · Unlike · 1 Alexander Braun "Most spiritualists would agree that when it comes to the sexual energy, it will manifest as either love through sex or aggression through violence." ~ Alexander Braun 8 January 2013 at 15:22 · Like Alexander Braun "The past is nice because I know it. The future is nicer because I imagine it. The present is difficult because I choose it." ~ Frank Arts 8 January 2013 at 16:29 · Like Alexander Braun "If all the humans would disappear the plants would be quite happy, if the all the plants would disappear so would all the humans." ~ Steve Banfield 11 January 2013 at 03:23 · Like Alexander Braun "Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal." -- Albert Einstein (via Dmytri Kleiner) 11 January 2013 at 13:00 · Like Alexander Braun "great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, mediocre minds talk about people." ~ proverb 18 January 2013 at 14:50 · Like Alexander Braun "School is the advertising agency that makes you believe that you need society as it is" ~ Some guy (via Joey Arsenault) 18 January 2013 at 16:12 · Like Alexander Braun "God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in humans." ~ Arthur Young (I have substituted word "man" with "humans" to make it more gender neutral. This saying is also attributed but not verified to an ancient proverb in Sanskrit, an Indo-Aryan language.) 22 January 2013 at 19:35 · Like Alexander Braun "For every soul there is a grain of sand waiting for it to come home." ~ Alexander Braun 23 January 2013 at 04:24 · Like Alexander Braun "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." ~ Oscar Wilde (via Billy Warhol) 7 February 2013 at 14:08 · Like Alexander Braun "I don't take drugs. I am drugs." ~ Dalí (via Tim Lynch) 10 February 2013 at 14:04 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "I declare that I renounce the ministry of bishop of Rome, successor of St. Peter." ~ Pope Benedict XVI 11 February 2013 at 18:18 · Like Alexander Braun "When the world will not welcome the universe then the universe will not welcome the world. Such simple truth is sometime very hard to comprehend, especially when the ego is blocking one's view and senses distort and cloud the reason." ~ Alexander Braun 19 February 2013 at 13:45 · Like Alexander Braun "No, I will not budge nor forgive anyone anything. The price is right for those whose heart is light, or it will cost dear for those who are arrogantly evil. No soul shalt pass my universal gates if even minor debt awaits to be repaid." ~ Alexander Braun 19 February 2013 at 14:06 · Like Alexander Braun "put your love where your mouth is. " ~ Alexander Braun 19 February 2013 at 21:48 · Like Alexander Braun "The navel, clinically known as the umbilicus, colloquially known as the belly button, i call it an irritatingly bad idea. The whole bloody mess is fucking ridiculous. I want my money back! ;p" ~ Alexander Braun 20 February 2013 at 00:11 · Like Alexander Braun "i have done better with nothing than some with everything." ~ Alexander Braun 20 February 2013 at 23:37 · Like Alexander Braun "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." -- Oscar Wilde (via Billy Warhol) "to be one who is, is not to be someone else." ~ proverb (via Alexander Braun) 28 February 2013 at 14:12 · Like · 1 Bruce Becker show yr tits to everyone but th cops 1 March 2013 at 03:31 · Like · 2 Alexander Braun "fun is zero in tarot, the fool of the royal court, the root of the tree, the seed of the truth. cheers! " ~ Alexander Braun 6 March 2013 at 20:57 · Like · 2 Alexander Braun “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” ~ Albert Pine (English author, d.1851) 16 March 2013 at 16:53 · Like Alexander Braun "If you study evolution long enough and hard enough, you going to find out in the end, it takes more faith to believe in evolution than it does in God. If you believe that." ~ 36:36 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded...#! The Illuminati Protocols of Zion: The Plot Against Israel (Part 1 of 2) www.youtube.com http://www.cuttingedge.org/ The Purpose of the Protocols of the Learned Elders o... See more 17 March 2013 at 03:41 · Like · Remove Preview Alexander Braun "Reality must be avoided at all costs!" ~ Alexander Braun 18 March 2013 at 15:26 · Like Alexander Braun "Awaketh from her somber sleep the mother nature stretched a bit." ~ Alexander Braun (via Ciaran Shaman) http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=366547140124478... 19 March 2013 at 21:37 · Like Alexander Braun "still, life makes no sense, no matter how you spin it." ~ Alexander Braun 23 March 2013 at 17:04 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "i once arted in public." ~ Alexander Braun 25 March 2013 at 15:58 · Like · 2 Alexander Braun "Can't wait to get off this stupid fucking planet." ~ Alexander Braun 31 March 2013 at 22:07 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "One giant leap for me is one small step for the human kind. Hopefully forward. ;p" ~ Alexander Braun 31 March 2013 at 22:58 · Like · 2 Alexander Braun "i think most of the universe is in state of the ionized plasma, the so-called dark matter i presume so hard searched for, and its interactions bring about electromagnetism, the so-called dark energy perhaps also so much in need of discovery, and light along with plasma discharges form the rest of the spectrum of detectable forces, with their effects real, nonetheless their origin and independent status in the big picture is much debated. However it is safe to conclude since as above so is bellow line of thinking would reveal that the universe is electric and since electromagnetic force is to a great magnitude stronger than gravity one can deduce that the gravitational force is more of an effect than a cause and the big picture is in the electromagnetism of the energized plasma." ~ Alexander Braun 6 April 2013 at 01:47 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "cherubim at the gates when the soul plans to escape, the flesh is a miserable state, better is pass that cherubim fate." ~ Alexander Braun inspired by Mat Brown fb status. 14 April 2013 at 18:12 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "We're judged by how we finish things not by how we start them." ~ Steve Banfield 26 April 2013 at 00:51 · Like · 1 Bruce Becker we're also judged by the questions we ask not by the answers we give 26 April 2013 at 01:39 · Unlike · 1 Alexander Braun "we are judged by the company we keep." ~ proverb 26 April 2013 at 01:49 · Like Alexander Braun "Success has many parents, failure is an orphan." (via Jan Haust) 26 April 2013 at 01:50 · Like Alexander Braun "good artist are like the trees, it is easier to breathe and live around them and they look great." ~ Alexander Braun 31 May 2013 at 12:23 · Like Alexander Braun "great minds drink a lot." ~ Alexander Braun 31 May 2013 at 12:26 · Like Alexander Braun "my relationship with humanity is mixed emotions somewhere between love and hate, sometimes can't live with it, other times can't live without it. It makes perfect nonsense." ~ Alexander Braun 31 May 2013 at 12:27 · Like Alexander Braun "I don't need you to tell me how great I am, I can do it myself just fine." ~ Alexander Braun 31 May 2013 at 12:27 · Like Alexander Braun "Conscience is the best ethics book we have, it is worth to check with it frequently." "Совесть- лучшая нравоучительная книга из всех, которыми мы обладаем, в нее следует чаще всего заглядывать." ~ Svetlana Braun 15 July 2013 at 10:43 · Like Alexander Braun "Tough experience makes a healthy soul empathetic, hence more patient and diligent, or a sick soul apathetic, hence more angry and sloth-like." ~ Alexander Braun 17 July 2013 at 09:25 · Like Alexander Braun "God Bless God." ~ Alexander Braun 17 July 2013 at 19:21 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "thinks that if there are any limitations on questions... lines of inquiry etc... the interviewer should tell the interviewee to piss off." ~ Geoffrey Young 19 July 2013 at 20:23 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "look at the light and see nothing, look in the direction of light and see everything." ~ Alexander Braun 22 July 2013 at 08:59 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "the holiest of the temples is the one that gives a shit." ~ Alexander Braun 25 July 2013 at 12:38 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "that's the tricky part, the human pain and pleasure is God's own." ~ Alexander Braun 29 July 2013 at 22:42 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "i never forget, i learn, grow, correct and keep no regret. " ~ Alexander Braun 30 July 2013 at 16:32 · Edited · Like · 1 Alexander Braun “This unnatural standard tuning frequency (440 Hz), removed from the symmetry of sacred vibrations and overtones, has declared war on the subconscious mind of Western Man.” ~ L. C. Vincent “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in ter...See More 6 August 2013 at 10:09 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "When you get far enough "out", it becomes indistinguishable from "in" " ~ Bruce Becker 8 August 2013 at 11:48 · Edited · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." ~ James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion (1926). 14 August 2013 at 09:09 · Like Alexander Braun "keep your cash close and cash of your customers even closer. " ~ Alexander Braun 20 August 2013 at 09:25 · Like · 1 Billy Warhol thass me problem i don't have enuf CASH $$$* I need more Liquid a$$ets* I'm converting all my Guvverment Stocks n War on Drugz Savings Bonds + GOLD + Platinum + Laudunum n such to Bit Coins fer the Car Wash* 20 August 2013 at 11:16 · Like Alexander Braun "those who hate, the hate loves. " ~ Alexander Braun 21 August 2013 at 15:13 · Like Alexander Braun "U kogo chego bolit tot a tom i govorit." ~ Russian proverb "people speak about what ills them." 21 August 2013 at 17:12 · Like Alexander Braun "There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience." ~ French proverb "net podushki mygche chem nevinnaya sovest'." (via Alexander Braun)...See More 21 August 2013 at 19:07 · Like Alexander Braun "God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in the plants, walks in the animals, and thinks in the humans." ~ ancient Sanskrit. 21 August 2013 at 20:11 · Like Bruce Becker "god" is also yr titties & the grit in yr sandals 22 August 2013 at 04:27 · Like Alexander Braun right, very perceptive Bruce. 22 August 2013 at 09:59 · Edited · Like Alexander Braun "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (via Billy Warhol) 22 August 2013 at 10:00 · Edited · Like Alexander Braun "notice to my one white hair: the dress code is black in case you didn't get a memo. i will tolerate none of it! " ~ Alexander Braun 22 August 2013 at 11:58 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "In theory, the capitalist system is here to provide for the different wants represented by the private sector and the Big Business, and the communist system is here to provide for the same rights and responsibilities for needs represented by the public sector and the Big Brother government. In practice it is both." ~ Alexander Braun 24 August 2013 at 11:08 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "Lust is lust no matter who has sex with whom -- it will still be lust. Love is love no matter who is in love with whom -- it will still be love. Judge a tree by its fruit. Where there is love there is no hate. Hate obliterates whatever love one might posses. Many people confuse being horny for being in love or righteous." ~ Alexander Braun 24 August 2013 at 13:38 · Like Alexander Braun "to make a straight point about who is gay: even if one had gay sex it doesn't mean that one is gay, all it means is that one had gay sex, the same way is the opposite, even if one had only straight sex it does not mean necessarily that one is straight...See More 26 August 2013 at 16:18 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "i had a dream: rich at last! rich at last!! Thank God almighty I am RICH AT LAST!!! " ~ Alexander Braun 28 August 2013 at 00:16 · Like Alexander Braun "to limit your own future self-determination is to limit others self-determination now. the universe works in the mysterious ways and all has its purpose." ~ Alexander Braun 29 August 2013 at 10:51 · Like Alexander Braun "In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." ~ Buddha 29 August 2013 at 11:55 · Like Alexander Braun "about the pride. pride is for the others, like parents and friends, to acknowledge one's good performance by and not something to show off and shove at the others for no good reason. Humility is the way to be when someone is proud of you. the word." ~ Alexander Braun 29 August 2013 at 13:31 · Like Alexander Braun "This ain't Texas where women are second class citizens." ~ Elaine Casavant 8 September 2013 at 09:44 · Like Alexander Braun "[I have conceived] a means that will make it possible for man to transmit energy in large amounts, thousands of horsepower, from one planet to another, absolutely regardless of distance. I think that nothing can be more important than interplanetary c...See More 10 September 2013 at 17:57 · Like · 1 Billy Warhol anything to get us to Sochi on time* 11 September 2013 at 00:55 · Unlike · 1 Alexander Braun “We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal,” ~ President Vladimir Putin. 11 September 2013 at 22:44 · Like Alexander Braun "philosophy is the recipe for success." ~ Alexander Braun (via Dale Martin Howe Caragata) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151881857866885&set=p.10151881857866885&type=1&theater Dale Martin Howe Caragata's photos by: Dale Martin Howe Caragata 13 September 2013 at 17:16 · Edited · Like · Remove Preview Alexander Braun "Ignorance is the root and stem of all evil." ~ Plato https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151895300655482&set=a.10151370153765482.525168.175719755481&type=1&theater Timeline Photos via @[202859009728184:274:Choice and Truth] — with Neon Noir Art. by: Truth Theory 15 September 2013 at 18:29 · Edited · Like · Remove Preview Alexander Braun "most of art, if not all, is either religious/dogma propaganda, cultural superiority propaganda, traditional artifacts/victor's historical propaganda, political/ideological propaganda, commercial/corporate propaganda, industrial design/manufacturing pr...See More 25 September 2013 at 16:43 · Like Alexander Braun "Everything You Need ..Will Come to You.. At the Perfect Time." ~ ancient Egyptian proverb (via Vill Gormoon) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=630444116999658&set=a.629003247143745.1073741826.628954750481928&type=1&theater Timeline Photos by: Quotations for all occasions 25 September 2013 at 22:17 · Edited · Like · Remove Preview Alexander Braun " upgrade or not upgrade, that is the question, old Lucid Lynx to new Precise Pangolin,...See More 27 September 2013 at 02:04 · Edited · Like Alexander Braun "A painting, usually, is a product of labour of love, just like the human birth, it preceded by long periods of flirting with an idea, then fertilizing and developing it during the gestational period, eventually metamorphosing into the precocial partur...See More Birth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org Birth, also known as parturition, is the act or process of bearing or bringing f... See more 1 October 2013 at 15:03 · Like · 1 · Remove Preview Alexander Braun "it is very simple in principle: the government should focus on what people need and taking care of what we all collectively own, hence the socialist/communist ideology applies here, while business should focus on what people want, hence the capitalist...See More 13 October 2013 at 13:12 · Like Alexander Braun "the negative effect of human nature is such that it is waging war against itself and all life on earth. not surprising that only few benefit from the activities of many." ~ Alexander Braun 13 October 2013 at 13:12 · Like Alexander Braun "the long forgotten fine art has quietly died alone in poverty due to the increasingly oblivious masses. RIP." ~ Alexander Braun 13 October 2013 at 13:13 · Like Alexander Braun "Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." ~ Monty Cantsin Amen 18 October 2013 at 12:28 · Like Alexander Braun "Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart." ~ Victor Hugo (via Frank Arts) 18 October 2013 at 12:29 · Like Alexander Braun "i don't age, i just get bored." ~ Alexander Braun 21 October 2013 at 22:27 · Like Alexander Braun “The government is designed to protect us from each other and should have no rights deciding what we can or cannot do for ourselves. I should be able to make any decision for myself as long as it doesn't negatively affect others.” ~ Joey McGuire 4 November 2013 at 22:01 · Like Alexander Braun "The only free will is the attitude." ~ Alexander Braun 9 December 2013 at 12:49 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "Control is the ability to make best decisions out of available options." ~ Alexander Braun 19 December 2013 at 23:07 · Like Alexander Braun "i am not convinced that the whole human life is not just some hallow'en-like party in another dimension. 8/" ~ Alexander Braun 22 December 2013 at 22:10 · Like Alexander Braun "fresh bread is so deliciously fleeting. i usually cut the square slices diagonally into triangles because i think the squares represent the past, triangles the present, and circles the future....See More 22 December 2013 at 22:48 · Edited · Like Alexander Braun "it's not the medium, it's the message." ~ Alexander Braun 23 December 2013 at 23:35 · Like Alexander Braun (via Ali Garrison) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=615876548450015&set=a.262899447081062.55525.166989286672079&type=1&theater Timeline Photos by: TabooJive.com 26 December 2013 at 15:04 · Like · 1 · Remove Preview Alexander Braun “God and Buddhas in the Orient are not final terms like Yahweh, the Trinity, or Allah, in the West—but point beyond themselves to that ineffable being, consciousness, and rapture that is the All in all of us. And in their worship, the ultimate aim is t...See More 30 December 2013 at 15:27 · Like Alexander Braun (via Moms for Marijuana International) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=629505140441131&set=a.581032685288377.1073741833.100001449535050&type=1&theater Life Lessons by: Serra Frank 30 December 2013 at 16:24 · Like · Remove Preview Alexander Braun "All good things in life are either free or very affordable, while all bad things are not free and are rather costly." ~ Alexander Braun 31 December 2013 at 14:08 · Like Alexander Braun Amen. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151973975589877&set=a.491496584876.279827.95454689876&type=1&theater...See More Timeline Photos THE GOLDEN RULE || HINDUISM || This is the sum of duty: do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you. ~ Mahabharata 5:1517 || ABORIGINAL SPIRITUALITY || We are as much alive as we keep the Earth alive. ~ Chief Dan George || BAHA'I FAITH || Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourself. ~ Baha'u'llah, Gleanings || BUDDHISM || Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. ~ The Buddha, Udana-Varga 5.18 || CHRISTIANITY || In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets. ~ Jesus, Matthew 7:12 || CONFUCIANISM || One word which sums up the basis of all good conduct . . . loving kindness. Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself. ~ Confucius, Analects 15.23 || ISLAM || Not one of you truly believes until you wish for others what you wish for yourself. ~ The Prophet Muhammad, Hadith || JAINISM || One should treat all creatures in the world as one would like to be treated. ~ Mahavira, Sutrakritanga || JUDAISM || What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. ~ Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a || SIKHISM || I am a stranger to no one; and no one is a stranger to me. Indeed, I am a friend to all. ~ Guru Granth Sahib, pg. 1299 || TAOISM || Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain and your neighbor's loss as your own loss. ~ T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien, 213-218 || UNITARIANISM || We affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of all existence, of which we are a part. ~ Unitarian principle || ZOROASTRIANISM || Do not do unto others whatever is injurious to yourself. ~ Shayast-na-Shayast 13.29 http://global-forum.org/goldenrule.html by: sacredtexts 2 January at 16:18 · Edited · Like · Remove Preview "All good things in life are either free or very affordable, while all bad things are not free and are rather costly." ~ Alexander Braun Alexander Braun "Know the love and the good in you and life." ~ Alexander Braun 7 minutes ago · Like "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." ~ Leo Tolstoy Alexander Braun "words, ultimately expressed in the context of the sentence formed by the intent, along with the instinct, the intelligence, and the intuition, sometimes describe the truth, and/or conceal the truth, and/or reveal the truth of what was, and/or is, and/or can be." ~ Alexander Braun 8 January at 00:28 · Edited · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "Thinking is skilled work. It is not true that we are naturally endowed with the ability to think clearly and logically—without learning how, or without practicing... People with untrained minds should no more expect to think clearly and logically than people who have never learned and never practiced can expect to find themselves good carpenters, golfers, bridge-players, or pianists." – Alfred Mander (via Gordon Jones < I fucking hate pseudoscience) https://www.facebook.com/hatepseudoscience/posts/280305555450647 9 January at 01:47 · Like Alexander Braun "i think gravity, strong, and weak forces is an effect of the electromagnetic force produced by the ionized plasma." ~ Alexander Braun "Most of the matter in stars is in a plasma state. Thus, although what we refer to as "normal matter" consists of at...See More 11 January at 15:06 · Edited · Like Alexander Braun "What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth." ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey "Success is to become better than your former self." ~ Alexander Braun "Success has many parents but failure is an orphan" ~ Count Caleazzo Ciano, "La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso." - The Ciano Diaries 1939-1943. Vol. 2. "Stupid are not the ones who make mistakes but the ones who do not learn from it." ~ proverb "One does not really knows oneself until one confronts oneself." ~ Alexander Braun "You don't really know someone until you fight them." ~ Oracle guardian, The Matrix Reloaded (2003) "/// body : live mind : light spirit : life soul : love" ~ Alexander Braun (22 January 2014) "The Waste Land, let us say then, is any world in which (to state the problem pedagogically) force and not love, indoctrination, not education, authority, not experience, prevail in the ordering of lives, and where the myths and rites enforced and received are consequently unrelated to the actual inward realizations, needs, and potentialities of those upon whom they are impressed." Joseph Campbell, Creative Mythology (Vol. IV of The Masks of God), p.388 "The only way out is in." - Leonard Jackson "i am in. O:) I am out. 3:)" ~ Alexander Braun "the trick is to distinct the right from wrong and if mistake is made then learn from it and move along." ~ Alexander Braun (23 January 2014) "...and then Jesus told them to hate all gay and different people and take pride in your freedoms while preventing others with a tiresome mindless dribble and violent rage." 3:) "no, he didn't you liar, he said love each other, and do not onto others what thou want not be done onto thee." <3 O:) ~ Alexander Braun 18 March 2014 "Myths formulate things for you. They say, for example, that you have to become an adult at a particular age. The age might be a good average for that to happen––but actually, in the individual life, it differs greatly. Some people are late bloomers and come to particular stages at a relatively late age. You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live, and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it." ~ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (with Bill Moyers) 2 April at 13:29 · Like · 1 Alexander Braun "the trick is not to still try to be part of the animal kingdom, acting like an animal and surviving through competition, but to become human and conscious/thinking member of the human kingdom, who are surviving through collaboration, -- the universal cap stone completing with the four other kingdoms: mineral (earth/body/God), fungi (water/mind/Lord), plants (air/space/Spirit), and animals (fire/time/Soul) the pyramid of life." ~ Alexander Braun 13 April at 19:01 · Like Alexander Braun "the heroes make villains out of otherwise peaceful monsters." ~ Alexander Braun "many people confuse the ethics and morals of the individual human being on this planet in the universe with ethics and morals of the group, such as a country. while the individual has to discriminate to a certain extent to look after self interests and has the freedom of choice and association of doing so, the democratic state, on the other had, cannot discriminate against particular group of people or individuals without becoming dictatorial regime and should not for its main purpose is to fairly represent different individuals engaged in mutual interests. Therefor, to expect the individuals to be politically correct is futile while to expect the democratic state to be politically correct is a necessity for good governance. eventually, with the help from family and friends, travels and trials, religions and spirituality, education and nurturing, good luck and good fortune, space and time, and then some, many individuals develop proper political correctness, one would hope so, and move on on their marry way in the great universe, while civilizations rise and fall, same as the egos that are built up upon all the wrong reasons and assumptions will end in ruins." ~ Alexander Braun Thursday, 17 April, 2014. "time is perception of change: the more there is change the slower the time, and vise versa, the less there is change the faster the time." ~ Alexander Braun "when the spiritual leaders gone evil they can't think clearly and rationally. the union of marriage suppose to represent forming a greater body than its individual parts make up alone, as well as a social contract for forming a family and raising children. one has to do what it takes to protect the integrity of its core body of existence, that includes their own, their family and friends, and their greater communities and environments." ~ Alexander Braun in response to: "An Egyptian preacher has issued a fatwa – an Islamic legal opinion – according to which rape is like robbery and a husband should not risk his life protecting his wife’s honor from another man." ""i think therefore i am." ~ some idiot. it is actually the other way around -- i am therefore i think, hopefully." ~ Alexander Braun "Art is the creative process. When it comes to art, it is not about what "they" think, but all about what I think, and intend to do, that defines the outcome." ~ Alexander Braun http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/08/27/oscar-wilde-on-art/ "i am <3 i am, not US O:) vs THEM 3:)" ~ Alexander Braun "Guaranteed Minimum Income Now!!!! People shouldn't do art because their survival is depending on it, art is a tribute not a chore." ~ Alexander Braun 23 October 2015 "Better to Die Standing than "live" Kneeling before your Owners.. Complete quote by OSHO .. “No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced in a mechanical life, to live like robots. They will assert their individuality. They will have the fragrance of rebellion around them. They will like to live in freedom. Freedom comes with wisdom, intrinsically. They are inseparable, and no society wants people to be free. The communist society, the fascist society, the capitalist society, the Hindu, the Mohammedan, the Christian — no society — would like people to use their own intelligence because the moment they start using their intelligence they become dangerous — dangerous to the establishment, dangerous to the people who are in power, dangerous to the ‘haves’; dangerous to all kinds of oppression, exploitation, suppression; dangerous to the churches, dangerous to the states, dangerous to the nations. In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. But he cannot sell his life, he cannot serve them. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.” ~Osho (via fb Jerry Hadlock) "the more things change, the more they stay the same. it's an old proverb, meaning, "turbulent changes do not affect reality on a deeper level other than to cement the status quo." although, not so long ago, most people believed that they lived on a spinning globe type of world, not anymore." ~ Alexander Braun 08 November 2015 If the cup is full, one can't fill it. ~ Alexander Braun 14 March 2016