Bet On it! Food For Thought - 56 - Exhaust The Mind, Dare To Be Ourselves

No One Expects You To Save The World. Otherwise You Would Have Been Born Wearing A Cape & Tights. Just Do The Best You Can.

Love The Earth & Sun & Animals, Despise Riches, Give Alms To Everyone That Asks, Stand Up For The Stupid & Crazy, Devote Your Income & Labor To Others … Re-Examine All You Have Been Told At School Or Church Or In Any Book; Dismiss Whatever Insults Your Own Soul; & Your Very Flesh Shall Be A Great Poem - Walt Whitman

The Only Way To Deal With An Unfree World Is To Become So Absolutely Free That Your Very Existence Is An Act Of Rebellion - Albert Camus

All Are Lunatics, But He Who Can Analyze His Delusions Is Called A Philosopher - Ambrose Bierce

A Dojo [practice hall] Is A Miniature Cosmos Where We Make Contact With Ourselves -- Our Fears, Anxieties, Reactions & Habits. It Is An Arena Of Confined Conflict Where We Confront An Opponent Who Is Not An Opponent But Rather A Partner Engaged In Helping Us Understand Ourselves More Fully - Joe Hyams

The Older I Get The More I Realize There Are No Real Adults & Practically Nobody Knows What The Hell They Are Truly Doing.

Still, Being Fragile Creatures, Humans Always Try To Hide From Themselves The Certainty That They Will Die. They Do Not See That It Is Death Itself That Motivates Them To Do The Best Things In Their Lives. They Are Afraid To Step Into The Dark, Afraid Of The Unknown, & Their Only Way Of Conquering That Fear Is To Ignore The Fact That Their Days Are Numbered. They Do Not See That With An Awareness Of Death, They Would Be Able To Be Even More Daring, To Go Much Further In Their Daily Conquests, Because Then They Would Have Nothing To Lose - For Death Itself Is Inevitable - Paulo Coelho

PSST! ... Repeat After Me ... I Can Do This. The Past Has Passed. Let It Fucking Go!

I Think I Fall In Love A Little Bit With Anyone Who Shows Me Their Soul. This World Is So Guarded & Fearful. I Appreciate Rawness So Much.
The Most Common Way People Give Up There Power Is By Thinking They Don't Have Any - Alice Walker

When Life Gives You Lemons. Squeeze Them In Peoples Eyes.

We Have All Got Both Light & Dark Inside Us. What Matters Is The Part We Choose To Act On. That's Who We Really Are - Sirius Black

I'm A Pessimist Because Of Intelligence, But An Optimist Because Of Will - Antonio Gramsci

Almost Thought I Was Trans-Dimensionally Shifting ... I Suddenly Realized I Just Stood Up Too Fast!

Don't ask kids what they want to be when they grow up but what problems do they want to solve. This changes the conversation from who do I want to work for, to what do I need to learn to be able to do that - Jaime Casap

You Don't Ever Have To Apologize For Feeling Sad. You Aren't Being Too Sensitive. You Aren't Imagining Things Or Being Over-dramatic. You're Being True To Yourself By Honoring Your Emotions & That Is Never Something You Have To Feel Ashamed Of. Whether You Are Having A Need That Isn't Being Met, An Old Wound That's Been Reopened, A Person In Your Life Who Is Making You Feel Small, A Painful Memory Of Something Of The Past, Or Am Emptiness From The Loss Of Someone You Care About - There Is Always Something Underlying Our Sadness, Whatever It Is, It Deserves To Be Expressed & Felt.

NEVER PLEDGE UNCOMPROMISING ALLEGIANCE TO A POLITICAL PARTY, A RELIGION, A FLAG, A SKIN COLOR OR RACE. THE ONLY THING YOU SHOULD EVER PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO IS UPHOLDING THAT WHICH IS MORALLY & ETHICALLY RIGHT -- THAT WHICH IS ALIGNED WITH INTEGRITY & TRUTH - GAVIN NASCIMENTO

There Is A Powerful Driving Force Inside Every Human Being That Once Unleashed Can Make Any Vision, Dream, Or Desire A Reality - Tony Robbins

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves - Carl Sagan

Imagine the people who believe such things & who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides & leaders of us all; who would force their feeble & childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools & libraries & homes. I personally resent it bitterly - Isaac Asimov

The Best Talent Is The Ability To Just ... Don't Quit.

Practice is the hardest part of learning & training is the essence of transformation - Ann Voskam

Our thoughts shape us. We become our obsessions. Our thoughts can enslave us or save us - Kilroy J. Oldster
We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination & when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it's worth - Terence McKenna
Knowledge is not some type of encounter, that you have to face the truth type of thing like Westerners think. It is more like the blossoming of a flower, knowledge being a nutrient that makes you grow & expand the mind - Alan Watts