From 9c4b330590aa82d1e30c38965d63ad19457189d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 16:18:54 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortunes --- infobase/fortunes.dat | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+) diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index f5848fe8..332f19ec 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -41592,4 +41592,78 @@ Compassionate Life", published by Shambhala Publications. Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. -- Walter Bagehot +~ + In reality, nothing can save us from a state of chaos or confusion unless +we have acknowledged it and actually experienced it. Otherwise, even though +we may be in the midst of chaos, we don’t even notice it, although we are +subject to it. On the path of meditation, the first real glimpse of our +confusion and the general chaos is when we begin to feel uncomfortable. We +feel that something is a nuisance. Something is bugging us constantly. + What is that? Eventually we discover that we are the nuisance. We begin +to see ourselves being a nuisance to ourselves when we uncover all kinds of +thought problems, emotional hang-ups, and physical problems in meditation. +Before we work with anyone else, we have to deal with being a nuisance to +ourselves. We have to pull ourselves together. We might get angry with +ourselves, saying, "I could do better than this. What’s wrong with me? I +seem to be getting worse. I’m going backward." We might get angry with +the whole world, including ourselves. Everything, the entire universe, +becomes the expression of total insult. We have to relate to that experience +rather than rejecting it. If you hope to be helpful to others, first you have +to work with yourself. + -- Chögyam Trungpa, from "Mindfulness in Action", published by Shambhala + Publications +~ +If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered +as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, +that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers +against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious +persecution. + -- George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia (1789) +~ +Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, +he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. + -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr (1787) +~ +In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof +is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by +precept and example inculcated on mankind. + -- Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists (1771) +~ +Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the +strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Take away the +law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity. + -- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1791) +~ +Congress has no power to make any religious establishments. + -- Roger Sherman, Congress (1789) +~ +The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. + -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758) +~ +I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people +build a wall of separation between Church & State. + -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Danbury Baptists (1802) +~ +To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering +medicine to the dead. + -- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No. V (1776) +~ +Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than +our opinions in physics or geometry. + -- Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779) +~ +Christian establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which +facilitate the execution of mischievous projects. + -- James Madison, letter to William Bradford, Jr. (1774) +~ +There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of +science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of +public happiness. + -- George Washington, address to Congress (1790) +~ +During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity +been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride +and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, +superstition, bigotry and persecution. + -- James Madison, General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia (1785) -- 2.34.1