"I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the 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."
Red Cloud,
Oglala Lakota Sioux
Our planetary garden still grows many flowers, many different ways of looking at the world. Are we really intending to mow down every one except our own; are we really going to allow none other ever to seed again - just so the vultures can grow fleetingly fatter from the spoils? - Stephen Corry - Article
Excess wealth, widespread poverty and inequality are all poisonous to our nation. These poisons threaten our economy, our democratic process, academic integrity, our justice system and our culture. Richard Waddell
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. ...Ludwig Wittgenstein
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ...Aldous Huxley
All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary. ...Jiddu Krishnamurti
Article - The only alternative - impossible as this may seem right now - is to overthrow this global economic system and all of the governments of the 1% that prop it up and replace them with a global economic democracy, a radical bottom-up political democracy, an ecosocialist civilization. I argue that, although we are fast approaching the precipice of ecological collapse, the means to derail this train wreck are in the making as, around the world, we are witnessing a near-simultaneous global mass democratic "awakening," as the Brazilians call it, almost a global uprising from Tahir Square to Zuccotti Park, from Athens to Istanbul to Beijing and beyond such as the world has never seen. ...By Richard Smith
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." ...Henry David Thoreau
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." ...Alan Watts
"You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms." ...Terence McKenna
"All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society. As human beings living in this monstrously ugly world, let us ask ourselves, can this society, based on competition, brutality and fear, come to an end? Not as an intellectual conception, not as a hope, but as an actual fact, so that the mind is made fresh, new and innocent and can bring about a different world altogether? It can only happen, I think, if each one of us recognises the central fact that we, as individuals, as human beings, in whatever part of the world we happen to live or whatever culture we happen to belong to, are totally responsible for the whole state of the world."
...Jiddu Krishnamurti
| There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. ...Aldous Huxley |
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. ...Jiddu Krishnamurti
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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. ....Alan Watts
"The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination." ...Alan Watts
"If both the conventional banking system and the shadow banking system are being maintained by government guarantees, then we the people are bearing the risk. We should be directing where the credit goes and collecting the interest. Banking and the creation of money-as-credit need to be made public utilities, owned by the public and having a mandate to serve the public. Public banks do not engage in derivatives." ...By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Blog
The dinosaurs of humanity gobble up all that is good and leave a giant shit in it's place for everything to die in..... Robert Heston
"I have a very simple creed: that life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death, and I think when we listen to music we must all of us feel that the capacity to produce such music, and the capacity to hear such music, is a thing worth preserving and should not be thrown away in foolish squabbles. You may say it's a simple creed, but I think everything important is very simple indeed." ...Bertrand Russell
"No one can live happily who has regard for himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility," wrote the first-century Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca in his Moral Letters to Lucilius