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Monday, December 20, 2010

A #Lunar #Eclipse On #Solstice Day- @nasa @apod #peace #p2 Sagan, Bohm, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Tzu, Starhawk, & Rumi <3





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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

~ Mahatma Gandhi



Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

- Lao Tzu



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I was persuaded and am, that God's way is first to turn a soul from its idols, both of heart, worship, and conversation, before it is capable of worship to the true and living God.

~ Roger Williams (Born December 21, 1603)



http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_(theologian)



All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence. ~ Benjamin Disraeli in Coningsby



There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (died 21 December 1940)



If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished. ~ Rebecca West (born 21 December 1892)



This is the stillness behind motion, when time itself stops; the center is also the circumference of all.

We are awake in the night.

We turn the Wheel to bring the light.

We call the sun from the womb of night.

Blessed Be!

~ Starhawk



i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday... ~ e. e. cummings



We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. ~ Thomas Jefferson



http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/December#21



Faith is the force of life.

- Leo Tolstoy



Joy is what happens to us when we ALLOW ourselves to recognize how GOOD things really are.

- Marianne Williamson



‎"When traveling on the ocean, one comes upon areas, here or there, where the sea is calm. Even so, on the great ocean of delusion one finds, occasionally, areas of exceptional calmness. This happens when an avatar, or divine incarnation, is sent to earth with a special dispensation. All who come to him and tune in to his spirit find it relatively easy to escape delusion's power."



‎"Obedience must be to the highest that is in your own self. Spiritual instruction, too, must proceed from that high level of consciousness. It must be attuned to the guidance for which your own soul is longing."



‎"Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another."



‎"The real You is the prolific source of all power; the basic you is infinite in its potentiality."



‎"God cannot be attained by so simple an act as merely dying! To die is easy, but it is very difficult to attain that high level of consciousness in which the soul can merge back into Infinity."

- Paramahansa Yogananda



All that we are is a result of what we have thought.

- Siddhartha Gautama Buddha



Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

~ Jonathan Swift



It is possible to live in peace.

- Mahatma Gandhi



WE MUST GET RID OF THE LIFE WE PLANNED AND HAVE THE LIFE THAT IS WAITING FOR US.

- JOSEPH CAMPBELL, THE HERO'S JOURNEY



The Universe is one big, cosmic celebration. How you choose to enjoy your stay in this reality is entirely up to you. Remember, life is not coming at you, it's coming from you. Your thoughts, feelings, and actions are generating the vibration that attracts the circumstances of your life. If you are not enjoying your life, go within to find out why.

- Dorothy Mendoza Row



Peace, like charity, begins at home.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt



The universe operates through dynamic exchange… giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. and in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

- Deepak Chopra







We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.







There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.



Of course, we must avoid postulating a new element for each new phenomenon. But an equally serious mistake is to admit into the theory only those elements which can now be observed. For the purpose of a theory is not only to correlate the results of observations that we already know how to make, but also to suggest the need for new kinds of observations and to predict their results. In fact, the better a theory is able to suggest the need for new kinds of observations and to predict their results correctly, the more confidence we have that this theory is likely to be good representation of the actual properties of matter and not simply an empirical system especially chosen in such a way as to correlate a group of already known facts.



The weekend began with the expectation that there would be a series of lectures and informative discussions with emphasis on content. It gradually emerged that something more important was actually involved — the awakening of the process of dialogue itself as a free flow of meaning among all the participants. In the beginning, people were expressing fixed positions, which they were tending to defend, but later it became clear that to maintain the feeling of friendship in the group was much more important than to hold any position. Such friendship has an impersonal quality in the sense that its establishment does not depend on a close personal relationship between participants. A new kind of mind thus begins to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue. People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change. In this development the group has no pre-established purpose, though at each moment a purpose that is free to change may reveal itself. The group thus begins to engage in a new dynamic relationship in which no speaker is excluded, and in which no particular content is excluded. Thus far we have only begun to explore the possibilities of dialogue in the sense indicated here, but going further along these lines would open up the possibility of transforming not only the relationship between people, but even more, the very nature of consciousness in which these relationships arise.

Unfolding Meaning: a weekend of dialogue with David Bohm (1985)



During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale...



Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Every thinking requires attention, really. If we ran machines withinout paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.



We probed into the nature of space and time, and of the universal, both with regard to external nature and with regard to mind. But then, we went on to consider the general disorder and confusion that pervades the consciousness of mankind. It is here that I encountered what I feel to be Krishnamurti's major discovery. What he was seriously proposing is that all this disorder, which is the root cause of such widespread sorrow and misery, and which prevents human beings from properly working together, has its root in the fact that we are ignorant of the general nature of our own processes of thought. Or to put it differently it may be said that we do not see what is actually happening, when we are engaged in the activity of thinking.

"A Brief Introduction to the Work of Krishnamurti"

- David Bohm (Born December 20, 1917)



http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Bohm



Man is his own star, and the soul that can

Render an honest and a perfect man

Commands all light, all influence, all fate.

Nothing to him falls early, or too late.

Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,

Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

~ John Fletcher (baptized 20 December 1579)



I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ~ John Steinbeck



This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost. ~ John Steinbeck



Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy. ~ Edwin Abbott Abbott (Born 20 December 1838)



For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions, and by the depth of our answers. ~ Carl Sagan (died 20 December 1996)



The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. ~ Joseph Campbell



http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/December#20



When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix



All works of love are works of peace.

~ Mother Theresa



The whole purport may be stated thus: Act so that ye have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves; and hold fast to this rule.

- Milarepa



Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

~ Vincent Van Gogh



Every wall is a door.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

~ Henry Miller



Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

♥ William James



Be generous with kind words, especially about those who are absent.

♥ Goethe



Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

- Mother Teresa



That's Capitalism, but they prefer you to call it "freedom.”

~ Paul Nicholson



Never complain and never explain.

~ Benjamin Disraeli



To do is to be

- Nietzsche



To be is to do

- Kant



Do be do be do

- Sinatra



‎"Nobility of spirit is the grace—or ability—to play, whether in heaven or on earth."

~ Joseph Campbell



Monitor your inner dialogue, and match your thoughts to what you want and what you intend to create.

- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer



Genuine love and peace come from loving & being peaceful not from a sense of duty guilt or morality.

- Deepak Chopra



I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.

~ Kathleen Quinlan



Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

~ Picasso



Man is not made for defeat.

~ Ernest Hemingway



A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

~ Chinese Proverb



I can't imagine where I would be today were it not for a handful of friends who gave me a heart-full of JOY.

~ C.R.Swindoll



'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!

- William Wordsworth



One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

~ Loren Eiseley



"Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of..." Lydia M. Child http://bit.ly/fip2ge



Imagination is more important than knowledge.

~ Albert Einstein



I believe a proper use of our time is to serve others if we can or at least refrain from harming them. That is the basis of my philosophy.

- Dalai Lama



I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

~Jim Morrison



Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker. Action Priority Matrix



People only see what they are prepared to see.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson



The years teach much which the days never knew.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson



Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.



Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

~ David Gerrold



Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

- Emma Lazarus



When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn't confuse that with an insensitive state of apathy. Having a calm or peaceful state of mind doesn't mean being spaced out or completely empty. Peace of mind or a calm state of mind is rooted in affection and compassion and is sensitive and responsive to others.

- Dalai Lama



‎Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

- Siddhartha Gautama Buddha



Jean-Dominique Bauby : I decided to stop pitying myself. Other than my eye, two things aren't paralyzed, my imagination and my memory.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly



The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

~ Henry Morton Stanley



Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

- Michael Caine















And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm gone

And I can't question how or when or why when I'm gone

Can't live proud enough to die when I'm gone

So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.

~ Phil Ochs ~



After the final no there comes a yes

And on that yes the future world depends.

No was the night. Yes is this present sun.

~ Wallace Stevens ~



In such an ugly time the true protest is beauty. ~ Phil Ochs



It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life. ~ Phil Ochs (born 19 December 1940)



The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ~ Emily Brontë (died 19 December 1848)



In the winter season, for seven days of calm, Alcyone broods over her nest on the surface of the waters while the sea-waves are quiet. Through this time Aeolus keeps his winds at home, and ocean is smooth for his descendants’ sake. ~ Ovid



http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/December#19



Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!

Hail the Sun of Righteousness!

Light and life to all he brings,

Risen with healing in his wings.

Mild he lays his glory by,

Born that man no more may die,

Born to raise the sons of earth,

Born to give us second birth.

Hark! the herald angels sing,

"Glory to the new born King!"

~ Charles Wesley ~ (born 18 December 1707, and song for the Christmas season)





I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For I reside just as much with the dead as with the unborn. Somewhat closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough. ~ Paul Klee



Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are many more other, latent realities. Things appear to assume a broader and more diversified meaning, often seemingly contradicting the rational experience of yesterday. There is a striving to emphasize the essential character of the accidental. ~ Paul Klee (born 18 December 1879)



It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die. ~ Steve Biko (born 18 December 1946)



The Tree that was withered shall be renewed, and he shall plant it in the high places, and the City shall be blessed. Sing all ye people! ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

(From The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King (Book VI, Chapter 5, "The Steward and the King"); in the novel this is a song of a great Eagle heralding the victory of Aragorn's forces against those of Sauron and the Dark Tower.)



That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess. ~ Henry David Thoreau



http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/December#18



Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~ Bertrand Russell



From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring,

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.

~ "Arwen" in the film The Return of the King ~ (in relation to the opening of the movie based upon The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien; In the novel The Lord of the Rings this statement first occurs in The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 10, "Strider", in a letter by Gandalf to Frodo.)



The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ~ G. K. Chesterton



Fear... can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don't commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. ~ Philip K. Dick (born 16 December 1928)



What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art. ~ George Santayana (born 16 December 1863)



Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future. ~ Arthur C. Clarke



Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. ~ Philip K. Dick



The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C. Clarke (Date of birth)



Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ George Santayana



http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/December#16



Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

~ Mary Webb



"In friendship's fragrant garden,there are flowers of every hue.Each with its own fair...

-Friendship's Garden



To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson



That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess. ~ Henry David Thoreau



Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. ~ Paul Klee



Oaks are the true conservatives; They hold old leaves till summer gives A green exchange.

~ Roy Helton, Come Back to Earth



‎Ben dostalarımı ne kalbimle ne de aklımla severim. ♥

I love my friends neither with my hearth nor with my mind. ♥

Olur Ya .... ♥

Just in case ... ♥

Kalp durur... ♥

Hearth might stop... ♥

Akıl unutur ... ♥

Mind can forget... ♥

Ben dostlarımı ruhumla severim. ♥

I love them with my soul. ♥

O ne durur ne unutur. ♥

Soul never stops or forget.

- Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi



The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

- Albert Schweitzer



One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

- Albert Schweitzer



Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

~ Goethe



Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke



A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

- Henry Louis Mencken



All is not butter that comes from the cow.

- Proverb



Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

~ Doris Mortman



Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

~ Roy Lichtenstein



Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

~ John Muir



Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

- Helen Keller



It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

- Margaret Thatcher



Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

~ Mahatma Gandhi



Imagination is more important than knowledge...

- Albert Einstein



An enormous amount of energy becomes available once we give up the need to be right.

- Deepak Chopra



The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

~ Voltaire



Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

~ Philip James Bailey



Your life is always perfect: you are always at the right place at the right time.

~ Salerno



The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose.

- William Wordsworth



LOVE is my gift to the world.

- Wayne Dyer



The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

~ Saint Teresa of Avila



I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

- Socrates



The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary efforts.

- Blaise Pascal



Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself

- Mark Twain



Be realistic: Plan for a miracle!

~ Osho



I light my candle from their torches.

~ Robert Burton



History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

- Abba Eban



Every second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe. A moment that will never be again.

- Pablo Picasso



Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.

~ Charles Dickens



Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

- Albert Einstein



People who do not experience self love have little or no capacity to love others.

- Nathaniel Branden



We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

- Sibel Edmonds



We must not bring one war to an end... but the idea of war itself.

- Deepak Chopra



An education that does not cultivate the will is an education that deprives the mind.

- Anatole France



We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our Divine courage, freedom and light!

- Hafiz



There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,

There are thousands to prophesy failure;

There are thousands to point out to you one by one,

The dangers that wait to assail you.

But just buckle it in with a bit of a grin,

Just take off your coat and go to it;

Just start to sing as you tackle the thing

That "couldn’t be done," and you’ll do it.

- Edgar A. Guest



The seas are the heart's blood of the earth

~ Henry Beston



Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

~ Eckhart Tolle



A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

- Albert Einstein



For me, loving you and your life has never been a function of what you do or don't do, have or don't have, are or are not. That would be rather ridiculous, don't you think? Not to mention superficial, judgmental, and thoroughly dim-witted.

I think you should adopt the same policy.

~ Tallyho, The Universe



A place for everything, everything in its place.

~ Benjamin Franklin



Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision WITH action can change the world.

~ J. Barker







Inside a lover's heart, there is another world.. and yet another.

- Rumi



Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

- Corita Kent



Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.



Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.



Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.



You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression ... If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. And if we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.



Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.



Love is an eternal light. Infinite. The thread that binds every beautiful memory & every amazing moment.

~ Toni Carmine Salerno



Don't give up. I believe in you all. A person's a person no matter how small.

~ Dr. Seuss



If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be! Now put foundations under them.

- Henry David Thoreau



Queen and huntress chaste and fair

Now the sun is laid to sleep

Seated in a silver chair

State in wanted manner keep



Earth let not an envious shade

Dare itself to interpose

Cynthia's shining orb was made

Heaven to cheer when day did close



Lay the bow of pearl apart

And the crystal-shining quiver

Give unto the flying heart

Space to breath how short so ever



Hesperus entreaty thy light

Goddess excellently bright

Bless us then with wished sight

Thou who makes a day of night

- Mike Oldfield, Incantations #4



Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

- Martin Luther King, Jr



This nation will be difficult to govern when one political party insists on creating its own reality.

~ Paul Krugman



Challenge yourself to ask for even more, not just for yourself, but for ALL of humanity.

~ Sanaya Roman







The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation of a distant memory, as if we were falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.



The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.



We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

- Carl Sagan



http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10538.Carl_Sagan



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http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/top100/



Dream always of a peaceful, warless, disarmed world.

- Robert Muller



Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.

~ Rumi



There is no loneliness to the clear-eyed mystic in this luminous, brimming playful world.

~ Hafiz



I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

- Maya Angelou



I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

- Abraham Lincoln



Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.~ Arabian #Proverb



It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

~ Henry Ward Beecher



Contrary to appearances, the Earth is in an ascending cycle, and good will triumph.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda



‎Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all.

~ Emily Dickinson



Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.

- Napolean Hill



Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. ~ Mother Teresa



The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have.

- Brian Koslow



At the top of the mountain, we are all snow leopards.

- Hunter S. Thompson



Dance, when you're broken open... Dance, when you're perfectly free.

~ Rumi



The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's JOY.

~ Henry Ward Beecher



‎Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear or let go.

- Cory Booker



Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga



Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Mohandas Gandhi



Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Phyllis McGinley



One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

David Borenstein



Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson



Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight D. Eisenhower



Peace begins with a smile.

Mother Teresa



Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

John Greenleaf Whittier



Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Lyndon B. Johnson



Peace is its own reward.

Mohandas Gandhi



Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero



Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza



Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

George Bernard Shaw



Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

John Keble



Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Maria Schell



People always make war when they say they love peace.

David Herbert Lawrence



The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Dag Hammarskjold



The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

Silvia Cartwright



The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Peace Pilgrim



Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

William Hazlitt



Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy



To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Peace Pilgrim



War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

H. L. Mencken



We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle



We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

Black Kettle



Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes



You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf



You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Geraldine Ferraro



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Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

- Thoreau



If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.

- Chinese Proverb



No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

- Albert Einstein



Now I know what love is.

- Virgil



That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

- Joan Baez



There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

- César Chávez



If you cannot find #peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

~ Marvin Gaye



It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war;but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

- Aristotle



For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt



There was never a good war or a bad peace.

- Ben Franklin



A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

- Thomas Carlyle



Awaken your true nature. Reach for the stars! True wisdom lies in the empty space between each thought. ~ Salerno



Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

- Swami Sivananda



He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

- Benjamin Franklin



For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

- Irving Babbitt



Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

- Sydney Madwed



An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

- Mohandas Gandhi



A people free to choose will always choose peace.

- Ronald Reagan



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Not only do we inherently possess the potential for compassion but I believe that the basic, underlying nature of human beings is gentleness.



Even our physical structure seems more suited to feelings of love and compassion. We can see how a calm, affectionate, wholesome state of mind benefits our health and physical well-being. Conversely, feelings of frustration, fear, agitation, and anger can be destructive to our health. This is why we are impelled to seek happiness.

- Dalai Lama



Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

~ Maya Angelou



One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable!

~ Richard Bach



I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

~ Whoopi Goldberg



The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

~ Norman Vincent Peale



Optimism is positive thinking lighted up!

- Norman Vincent Peale



If you cannot find #peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

~ Marvin Gaye



"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



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‎I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror...I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways...And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer... If You Wanna Make The World

A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change...

- Michael Jackson



True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

~ Albert Einstein



Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

~ Voltaire



The more time spent running the deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peaceful our planet will be.

~ Taylor



You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

~ Naguib Mahfouz

Amplify’d from apod.nasa.gov

A Lunar Eclipse on Solstice Day

Credit & Copyright:
Jerry Lodriguss
(Catching the Light)



Explanation:
Sometime after sunset tonight, the Moon will go dark.

This total lunar eclipse, where the entire Moon is engulfed in the shadow of the Earth, will be visible from all of
North America, while the partial phase of this eclipse will be visible throughout much of the rest of the world.

Observers on North America's east coast will have to wait until after midnight for totality to begin, while west coasters should be able to see a fully
darkened moon
before midnight.

Pictured above is a digital prediction, in image form, for how the
Moon and the surrounding sky could appear near maximum darkness.

Rolling your cursor over the image will bring up labels.

Parts of the Moon entering the circle labeled
umbra will appear the darkest since the Sun there will be completely blocked by the Earth.

Parts of the Moon entering the circle labeled
penumbra will be exposed to some direct sunlight, and so shine by some degree by reflected light.

The diminished glare of the normally full Moon will allow unusually good viewings of nearby celestial wonders such as the supernova remnant
Simeis 147, the open star cluster
M35, and the Crab Nebula
M1.

By coincidence this eclipse occurs on the day with the shortest amount of daylight in the northern hemisphere -- the Winter Solstice.

This solstice eclipse is the first in 456 years, although so far it appears that no one has
figured out when the next solstice eclipse will be.

Read more at apod.nasa.gov
 

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