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NOTHING IS TRUE, EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED

IF STRANGERS MEET

if strangers meet
life begins-
not poor not rich
(only aware)
kind neither
nor cruel
(only complete)
i not not you
not possible;
only truthful
-truthfully,once
if strangers(who
deep our most are
selves)touch:
forever

(and so to dark)

-ee cummings-

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny -Alexander Solzhenitsyn-

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.
-Boyd Rice

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
-Buddha-

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace things, but burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."

- Jack Kerouac

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money."- Cree Indian Proverb


"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree."- Joyce Kilmer

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."- Native American Proverb

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."- Rachel Carson

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen." - Henry David Thoreau

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."- Frank Lloyd Wright

"To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour."- William Blake

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
-Albert Einstien

"When you are living the truth of one reality, every secret reveals itself without effort or struggle."
-Deepak Chopra

"I have no desire what-so-ever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me..."
-Carl Paniram

Mystery and wisdom have I brought to my children;
knowledge and power descended from old.
Know ye not that all shall be opened
when ye shall find the oneness of all?
-The Keys of Life and Death, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth-

gone to the realms of the unknown
with visions of the outside world
I'm green and blue without you
made to be the shades of water envy
and sad made in shades of blues and greens
like water colors painted across thoughts...

shades of me
like sunset on water
loves and passions
liquid and changed
My words
my vocal phrases mean little and express nothing of what I mean....
what is true and from my heart.....
you paint me....
your water color love in shades of fire across my breast
across my soul and dripping into my heart
melting me with each stroke....
you make your love
our love into an art
expressing feelings past the mundane
past the physical.....
I'm an expression of your love
the art which you create is real and true....
I love you.....
-Pear M. Renfroe-

When one can reside within, without identification or attachment to the ever-changing externals, then the supreme truth can be realized.
-kalima

This body is Nature. I am Consciousness, the silent witness of the actions of Nature. I am not the performer. This body acts according to its nature, because that is its nature. Remembering this, I am free, one among the audience in a theater watching the drama of life.
-Kalima

Saturn's Tourinquet

The tightening straps constrict the flow.
The only option with no control.
Nothing moving, yet nothing calm,
i lost control of the bitter psalms.
A new regret, another scab.
Another step i shouldnt have.

Saturn's tourinquet twists with hate.
Another phase of twisted fate.
A bleeding slice with no blood.
Antifreeze and kerosine
Stain the squeezing glove.

Licking the wound i try to heal,
But a burning taste is all i steal.
Horus beckons with wicked spite.
These broken Wings deny my flight
Decaying in an empty sky
Rotted Apples spoil the Pi.

Saturn's tourinquet twists with hate.
One more scar on a twisted face
-an empty chunk of No God.
A resin fusing splinters
Devoid of Ya's love.

Frater Ocularum [2003.09.07]

SPEAK ONLY WELL OF PEOPLE, AND YOU NEED NEVER WHISPER

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure”
-Abraham Cowley

"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.”
-Abraham Cowley

held in your warmth....in a haze of emotions...lost in a gaze.... 'whats wrong with me?' The thought that rings in my mind.... only a moment is that thought in my mind when it is pushed out in to shadows by the word "Nothing".... and I swim away into the moments......
-pearl renfroe

Passion
it is the source of our finest moments the joy of love clarity of hatred and ecstacy of grief
it speaks to us guids us passion rules us all and we obey what other choice do we have if we could live w/o passion maybe we'd know some kid of peace but we'd be hollow. empty rooms shuttrered and dank w/o passion we'd be truely dead
-arilyn martin

And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor,
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted -- nevermore!
-poe

Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
-poe

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored”
– Evelyn Waugh

“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else says (or does),
I guess you do have a problem”
– Richard Bach

“The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them”
– Henry Miller


“We seldom regret talking too little, but very often talking too much. This is a well-known maxim which everybody knows and nobody practices”
– La Bruyère

oh i found eternal darkness and all the color that it brings. i fear not death but the loss of living it to the fullest. i embrace the uncertainty of it all and the tangerine sky. we search daily for happiness and it is hellbound in the web that we weave from out own minds.
-Anon-nona-

God wants to be born in the flame of man's conciousness, leaping ever higher. And what if this has no roots in the earth? If it is not a house of stone where the fire of God can dwell, but a wretched straw hut....
-Carl Gustav Jung-

This theme of order and chaos illistrates as clearly as anything can the complete revolution in our view of the world that has been brought about by the achievments of physical science in this century. Briefly stated, the new view is a view of chaos beneath order -or, what is the same thing, of order imposed upon a deeper and more fundemental chaos. This is in starteling contrast to the view developed and solidified in the three centuries from Kepler to Einstien, a view of order beneath chaos
-Kenneth W. Ford-

i died and came back to life again.. literally. i love death, i love life, i love it all... i love the tubulare existance. i have yet to decipher the difference between dreams and reality. i had a heart attack on monday. today is my favorite day so far. i love being god and creating my existance. i see so much beauty in it all
-Anon-nona-

WHATEVER doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of these latter, those who doubt, are your mere doubters by profession- an unprofitable and disreputable tribe. There can be no more absolute waste of time than the attempt to prove, at the present day, that man, by mere exercise of will can so impress his fellow as to cast him into an abnormal condition, of which the phenomena resemble very closely those of death, or at least resemble them more nearly than they do the phenomena of any other normal condition within our cognizance; that, while in this state, the person so impressed employs only with effort, and then feebly, the external organs of sense, yet perceives, with keenly refined perception, and through channels supposed unknown, matters beyond the scope of the physical organs; that, moreover, his intellectual faculties are wonderfully exalted and invigorated; that his sympathies with the person so impressing him are profound, and, finally, that his susceptibility to the impression increases with its frequency, while in the same proportion, the peculiar phenomena elicited are more extended and more pronounced
-poe-

"The imagination is not a State: it is the Human existence itself"
-William Blake-

If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ‘I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.’ If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane.
- Ramtha

Oxymoron
I find that if you hold a pessimistic point of view you often find yourself pleasantly suprised.

The most important factor in using your gifts is that they are to be used for the good of the Universe and mankind. Be clear of your intent and reasons as to why you are using these gifts. REMEMBER: What we do and send out, can and will return to us 100 fold. ' OUR ' suggestion is that you are consciously aware and follow GOOD and PURE INTENT! We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Each of us must find our own Path and Holy Grail

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." —William Blake

Look down on me, you will see a fool.
Look up at me, you will see a lord.
Look straight at me, AND YOU WILL SEE YOURSELF.

-Charles Manson-


All good things are cheap; all bad are very dear.

-Henry David Thoreau-

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throught the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul. -- Carl Jung


If the Creator were conscious of Himself, He would not need conscious creatures; nor is it probable that the extremely indirect methods of creation, which squander millions of years upon the development of countless species and creatures, are the outcome of purposeful intention. Natural history tells us of a haphazard and casual transformation of species over hundreds of millions of years of devouring and being devoured. The biological and political history of man is an elaborate repetition of the same thing. But the history of the mind offers a different picture. Here the miracle of reflecting consciousness intervenes -- the second cosmogony [ed. note: what Teilhard de Chardin called the origin of the "noosphere," the layer of "mind"]. The importance of consciousness is so great that one cannot help suspecting the element of meaning to be concealed somewhere within all the monstrous, apparently senseless biological turmoil, and that the road to its manifestation was ultimately found on the level of warm-blooded vertebrates possessed of a differentiated brain -- found as if by chance, unintended and unforeseen, and yet somehow sensed, felt and groped for out of some dark urge.
In other words, a "meaningful coincidence."


As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious.
-Carl Gustav Jung-

"It is done unto you as you believe"
-Jesus Christ-