X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=infobase%2Ffortunes.dat;h=bbc355c060c7b31602fabb91d1f0606a85a65650;hb=02f3a74a1e00cf3e8203cb1b5d78a80baf01c2a7;hp=fc1adeafb04705fd9314bf747195f558cb364d12;hpb=14b5b471d889240d0b2ce9acc899184942319e9c;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index fc1adeaf..bbc355c0 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -193,8 +193,8 @@ a byte too trite. ~ sasquatch in my breakfast cereal. -- fred t. hamster ~ -"what i say is unimportant." -- david w andrews -"i'll keep that in mind." -- chris koeritz +"what i say is unimportant." -- JDB +"i'll keep that in mind." -- fred ~ "are Israelis Catholic?" -- christine kelly ~ @@ -18228,8 +18228,6 @@ Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -- Thomas Alva Edison ~ -Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -- Benjamin Franklin -~ When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. @@ -28989,8 +28987,6 @@ failure of human wisdom. ~ Perfect nonviolence is the highest bravery. -- Mahatma Gandhi ~ -There never was a good war or a bad peace. -- Benjamin Franklin -~ There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending. -- Abraham Lincoln @@ -44119,5 +44115,143 @@ all fabrications will shatter and ooze away, that the manifest truths may shine free. -- fred t. hamster ~ +Anybody can become angry--that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, +and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and +in the right way--that is not within everybody's power; that is not easy. + -- Aristotle +~ +Mindfulness can evolve into an experience of attending to the world with the +world, not only infusing the body with more aliveness but also transforming +the entire world into a field of aliveness. Yes, biological aliveness has +always already been there, but every time I bring breath attention to it, I +augment and refine it. It's like the difference between watering a +houseplant and attending to it with a "green thumb." It's not quite +clear what a green thumb is. Some people have it, some people don't. Maybe +we can describe it as a mixture of extra nourishment and something intangible +like attention, love, and care. For the houseplant, the green thumb is the +difference between surviving and thriving. Mindfulness practice can have that +effect on your life. + -- Christian Dillo, from "The Path of Aliveness: A Contemporary Zen Approach + to Awakening Body and Mind", published by Shambhala Publications +~ +There never was a good war nor a bad peace. + -- Benjamin Franklin +~ +Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. + -- Benjamin Franklin +~ +He that speaks much, is much mistaken. + -- Benjamin Franklin +~ +To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends. + -- Benjamin Franklin +~ +The cat in gloves catches no mice. + -- Benjamin Franklin +~ +Does thou love life? +Then do not squander time; +for that's the stuff life is made of. + -- Benjamin Franklin +~ +There can't be good living where there is not good drinking. + -- Benjamin Franklin +~ +To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. + -- Benjamin Franklin +~ +Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. + -- Benjamin Franklin +~ +I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our +country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by +sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey +is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. + -- Benjamin Franklin +~ +Energy and persistence conquer all things. + -- Benjamin Franklin +~ +Benjamin Franklin's Thirteen Virtues + +Temperance + + moderation in food and drink +Silence + + mentioning only important matters +Order + + proper organization of time and space +Resolution + + accomplishing one's responsibilities +Frugality + + purchasing only worthwhile items and wasting nothing +Industry + + making the most of one's time and energy +Sincerity + + being honest and forthright +Justice + + practicing impartiality and refusing to wrong others +Moderation + + avoiding extremes +Cleanliness + + using good hygiene under sanitary conditions +Tranquility + + remaining calm and composed despite life's obstacles +Chastity + + refusing to allow sex to interfere with one's life +Humility + + avoiding excess pride and haughtiness +~ +In general, visualizing the projection and absorption of light takes place in +the following way. First, light streams forth from the mantra chain in the +heart center and emerges from the crown protuberance, the hair between the +eyebrows, the tongue, the endless knot at the heart center, the pores of the +skin, and other such places. The light pervades all the realms in the ten +directions, such as our present billionfold world system. At the tip of the +light rays are an inconceivable number of male and female bodhisattvas who +bring forth offering clouds, songs of praise, showers of flowers, and streams +of perfume. They make these offerings to all the buddhas and bodhisattvas and +sing their praises, entreating them to accomplish the welfare of sentient +beings. They all then assume the form of yidam deities of various sizes and +appearances, arising as a display that guides those in need. Then all the +deities project divine bodies and light from their navels, secret places, +hips, knees, soles of their feet with thousand-spoked wheels, and other such +places. This display utterly fills the entire world, which resounds with the +sound of mantra. In this way, the karmic actions, disturbing emotions, and +deluded perceptions, along with all habitual tendencies, of all six types of +beings in the three realms are purified, like frost melted by sunlight. +Everyone transforms into the form of the yidam deity and the mantra resounds +on its own, humming like bees from a broken hive. + -- Kunkyen Tenpe Nyima, from "Vajra Wisdom: Deity Practice in Tibetan + Buddhism by Shechen Gyaltsap IV" +~ +the code for the body is written in DNA. +the code for the soul is written in music. + -- fred t. hamster +~ +i am the universe, +and the universe is me, +but we don't have an exclusive. + -- fred t. hamster +~ +time flies like an arrow. +fruit flies like a banana. + -- Anthony Oettinger +~ +Time Flies Like an Arrow +An Ode to Oettinger + +Now, thin fruit flies like thunderstorms, +And thin farm boys like farm girls narrow; +And tax firm men like fat tax forms-- +But time flies like an arrow. +When tax forms tax all firm men's souls, +While farm girls slim their boyfriends' flanks; +That's when the murd'rous thunder rolls-- +And thins the fruit flies ranks. +Like tossed bananas in the skies, +The thin fruit flies like common yarrow; +Then's the time to time the time flies-- +Like the time flies like an arrow. + -- Edison B. Schroeder (1966)