Inspirational, Philisophical and Sprirtual Quotes

[Panda]

Pretty simple, just post your quotes from philosophers, religious figures, scientists or anyone who has said something thought provoking or inspirational so long as it is not vulgar or offensive.

[Panda]

It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. It's appeal is to the material part, and if allowed it's way it will in time disturb the balance of man. (Ohiyesa-Wahpeton Dakota)

[Sublime LIME]

Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.

By Peter Matthiessen

[Panda]

Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

[Sublime LIME]

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

By Gandhi

[Panda]

"We who are clay blended by the Master Potter, come from the kiln of Creation in many hues. How can people say one skin is colored, when each has its own coloration? What should it matter that one bowl is dark and the other pale, if each is of good design and serves its purpose well."

~Polingaysi Qoyawayma, Hopi ~

[Panda]

"The white people, who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call "assimilated," bringing the Indians into the mainstream and destroying our own way of life and our own cultural patterns. They believe we should be contented like those whose concept of happiness is materialistic and greedy, which is very different from our way.



We want freedom from the white man rather than to be integrated. We don't want any part of the establishment, we want to be free to raise our children in our religion, in our ways, to be able to hunt and fish and live in peace. We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, or bankers....we want to be ourselves. We want to have our heritage, because we are the owners of this land and because we belong here.



The white man says, there is freedom and justice for all. We have had "freedom and justice," and that is why we have been almost exterminated. We shall not forget this."




-From the 1927 Grand Council of American Indians

[Panda]

Among the Indians there have been no written laws. Customs handed down from generation to generation have been the only laws to guide them. Every one might act different from what was considered right did he choose to do so, but such acts would bring upon him the censure of the Nation.... This fear of the Nation's censure acted as a mighty band, binding all in one social, honorable compact.




-George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-bowh)(Ojibwa Chief 1818-1863)

[Sublime LIME]

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

By Dalai Lama

[Panda]

^^oh good one

[Panda]

When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

Cree Prophecy

[Melancholia]

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few people near us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

— Albert Einstein

[SinAngel]

Same shit, different smell - Albert Einstein.

[Sublime LIME]

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. - Walt Whitman

[Melancholia]

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.

http://www.bestspirituality.com/new/images/Paramahansa_Yogananda.jpg
By Paramahansa Yogananda

[SinAngel]

who digs a hole for his brother, falls in it - my grandfather.

[Sublime LIME]

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

[PaulNZ]

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

;-)

[belle]

Door de vleugels
Van de vriendschap
Worden wij gedragen
Zelf hebben wij geen adem
En geen kracht om iets
Te vragen.
Eenzaam loopt een mens
Door't leven
Niet goed wetend meer waarheen
Alleen de wens iets te
kunnen geven
Aan een ander
mens alleen.

[belle]

Laughter is the weapon... pleasure is the key...

[belle]

Love your enemies. It’ll make ‘em crazy

[Sublime LIME]

Be still and KNOW that I AM God

[belle]

If you dont understand my silence,you`ll never understand my words

[Newagemystic]

Humans are the least rational and logical of all creatures, they cannot speak without first knowing what it is they will say. And when speaking they cannot understand each other without learning first the language the other uses. So full of contradictions are humans that every act becomes an objective to accomplish, but they fail to realize they have no meaning beyond what meaning they gave in the first place.

Nothing has meaning if humans give it none.

[nicole]

Humans are the least rational and logical of all creatures, they cannot speak without first knowing what it is they will say. And when speaking they cannot understand each other without learning first the language the other uses. So full of contradictions are humans that every act becomes an objective to accomplish, but they fail to realize they have no meaning beyond what meaning they gave in the first place.

Nothing has meaning if humans give it none.

but u dont know that.

like srsly..how do u know that other creatures dont give stuff meaning?

[Newagemystic]

As I said: humans are full of contradictions ;)

[nicole]

oooooh


i wanna understand..

[Newagemystic]

Then you must think. I could explain it to you but then you would not have learned it for yourself, your understanding is not mine.

[nicole]

ok ill think..

[TeleFuzz]

I have two, one my own, one not.

The one that always pushed me forward, no matter what: Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful). This is of course, not mine.

My own: forward, no matter what the cost. Yesterday is gone, today is on its way out. All you have is tomorrow. Forward, if only for the sake of going forward.

[Newagemystic]

"Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born."
- Mark Twain in Eruption