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Post by withinsilence on Jan 8, 2013 18:17:37 GMT
Ego? I'd say there is no ego. I'd say there is nothing but ego. We don't need this duality of ego and non-ego. Everything is ego, and everything is non-ego. imqo. : this agrees with reply #133.
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Post by popee on Jan 9, 2013 1:20:02 GMT
The essence of love is unselfishness.
~~ Merriam Webster ;D
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Post by popee on Jan 9, 2013 14:00:23 GMT
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
~~ D.H. Lawrence
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Post by popee on Jan 15, 2013 20:09:59 GMT
"The joke that everything you know is wrong is not a joke."
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Post by withinsilence on Jan 17, 2013 13:25:36 GMT
"The joke that everything you know is wrong is not a joke." So then, that statement as well as this one "I" write is wrong, yet there is no right or wrong but only what is not, hence THAT WHICH sees not its wrongness, apperceives its non-factuality, and thus knows it IS NOT WHAT IS and IS WHAT IS NOT. When I write something trying to explain that there is not "you", it reminds "me" that I AM IS speaking to ITSELF! SO..................... "I" gave up trying to explain that there is not "you" because every-time "I" did IT made a fool out of BOTH OF US, but thank God there is no one here who knows not any fools. Whose explaining what to who and for who's benefit? Does anymore need to be said but these few words?
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Post by popee on Jan 17, 2013 15:10:51 GMT
it was simply a quote I found interesting ... and then copied it to the quotations thread
no need to take it personally
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Post by withinsilence on Jan 17, 2013 17:57:59 GMT
your assumption of me taking it personally is a case of mistaken identity. there is no thing here to take it. I simply stated the truth of the statement while adding words in such a way as to help their reader to apperceive who it isn't. just as this is not written from me to you, but from I to I which is fictional.
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Post by popee on Jan 17, 2013 18:24:17 GMT
nice patented answer .. hehe yeah, I imagined the whole thing, I'm still fond of that behavior on occasion
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Post by withinsilence on Jan 17, 2013 18:30:35 GMT
who can hold a patent? who is the originator of words so as to claim ownership? who can claim ownership of anything?
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Post by popee on Jan 17, 2013 18:53:45 GMT
my bad then, I wasn't aware that you weren't familiar with the phrase "a patented response"
replace the word with typical if you'd like
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Post by withinsilence on Jan 17, 2013 22:45:08 GMT
ha ha, damn assumptions get me every time! I assumed you were speaking as in the literal definition of patent, like ownership, as if no one else could use it, or as I was copying someone who owned the words. he he as far as typical, yes for sure, but when speaking about these "touchy" extremely difficult things to explain, there are not many other words to use, so yes it was a typical response. honestly, I am about done here. There is not much further one can go, and I am at the point of complete acceptance, contentment and simple living, ready to just flow through the rest of my days with the greatest of ease, simply relishing every experience whether it is good or bad because in truth there is none. I am not signing off, but will be spending less time here, not because I don't enjoy it, but because I have not been fair with "my" time with those I am committed to and who need "me" at the present to be a little more present in the "real" world. Actually, been trying to finish a website and a few books, but organization has never been "my" strong suite, so now I shall take the time to weed through all that has been written over the years and compile it into something simple and easy to understand. oh well, on with the show! peace-WS
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Post by popee on Jan 18, 2013 13:56:13 GMT
my last visit or post here:
namaste brothers
be well
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Post by gurthbruins on Jan 18, 2013 15:18:09 GMT
A quote from my favourite writer, Arnold Bennett:
The voice of this spirit says that it has lost every illusion about life, and that life seems only the more beautiful. It says that activity is but another form of contemplation, pain but another form of pleasure, power but another form of weakness, hate but another form of love, and that it is well these things should be so. It says there is no end, only a means; and that the highest joy is to suffer, and the supreme wisdom is to exist. If you will but live, it cries, that grave but yet passionate voice--if you will but live! Were there a heaven, and you reached it, you could do no more than live. The true heaven is here where you live, where you strive and lose, and weep and laugh. And the true hell is here, where you forget to live, and blind your eyes to the omnipresent and terrible beauty of existence....
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Post by withinsilence on Jan 27, 2013 13:42:17 GMT
"The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper--often only a spark--to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer--and have time to grab a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity-- it's poets, seers, and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law- givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth -tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.” Plato
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Post by gurthbruins on Jan 27, 2013 14:01:47 GMT
I said today: "It's the birthday of the greatest man who ever lived" (as dazzling source of light, or poet, to put it in the terms of your quote from Plato...) and then I wondered how many of the people I knew were aware of this fact... but then of course not everybody has my interest in birthdays...)
Judgements of that kind are not to be taken too seriously, one might allow a dubious exaggeration to be excused by enthusiasm (in-god-ding)
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