Buddha Loves you
and so do i

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How to be an Artist
by SARK


STAY LOOSE. LEARN TO WATCH SNAILS. PLANT
IMPOSSIBLE GARDENS. INVITE SOMEONE DANGEROUS
TO TEA. MAKE LITTLE SIGNS THAT SAY YES! AND
POST THEM ALL OVER YOUR HOUSE. MAKE FRIENDS
WITH FREEDOM & UNCERTAINTY. LOOK FORWARD TO
DREAMS. CRY DURING MOVIES. SWING AS HIGH AS
YOU CAN ON A SWINGSET, BY MOONLIGHT.
CULTIVATE MOODS. REFUSE TO "BE RESPONSIBLE".
DO IT FOR LOVE. TAKE LOTS OF NAPS.
GIVE MONEY AWAY. DO IT NOW. THE MONEY WILL
FOLLOW. BELIEVE IN MAGIC. LAUGH A LOT.
CELEBRATE EVERY GORGEOUS MOMENT. TAKE
MOONBATHS. HAVE WILD IMAGININGS,
TRANSFORMATIVE DREAMS, AND PERFECT CALM.
DRAW ON THE WALLS. READ EVERY DAY. IMAGINE
YOURSELF MAGIC. GIGGLE WITH CHILDREN. LISTEN
TO OLD PEOPLE. OPEN UP. DIVE IN. BE FREE. BLESS
YOURSELF. DRIVE AWAY FEAR. PLAY WITH
EVERYTHING.
ENTERTAIN YOUR INNER CHILD. YOU ARE INNOCENT.
BUILD A FORT WITH BLANKETS. GET WET.
HUG TREES. WRITE LOVE LETTERS.
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THE DREAMERS


They are the architects of greatness. Their vision lies within their souls. They never see the mirages of Fact, but peer beyond the veils and mists of doubt and pierce the walls of unborn Time.

The World has accoladed them with jeer and sneer and jibe, for worlds are made of little men who take but never give—who share but never spare—who cheer a grudge and grudge a cheer.
Wherefore, the paths of progress have been sobs of blood dropped from their broken hearts.
Makers of the empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones. Fanfare and pageant and the right to rule or will to love are not the fires which wrought their resolution into steel. Grief only streaks their hairs with silver, but has never grayed their hopes.
They are the Argonauts, the seekers of the priceless fleece—the Truth.
Through all the ages they have heard the voice of Destiny call to them from the unknown vasts. They dare uncharted seas, for they are makers of the carts. With only cloth of courage at their masts and with no compass save their dreams, they sail away undaunted for the far, blind shores.
Their brains have wrought all human miracles. In lace of stone their spires stab the Old World’s skies and with their golden crosses kiss the sun.
The belted wheel, the trail of steel, the churning screw, are shuttles in the loom on which they weave their magic tapestries.
A flash out in the night leaps leagues of snarling seas and cries to shore for help, which, but for one man’s dream, would never come.
Their tunnels plow the riverbed and chain the islands to the Motherland.
Their wings of canvas beat the air and add the highways of the eagle to human paths.
A God-hewn voice swells from a disc of glue and wells out through a throat of brass, caught sweet and whole, to last beyond the maker of the song, because a dreamer dreamt.
What would you have of fancy or of fact if hands were all with which men had to build?
Your homes are set upon the land a dreamer found. The pictures on its walls are visions from a dreamer’s soul. A dreamer’s pain wails from your violin.
They are the chosen few—the Blazers of the Way—who never wear Doubt’s bandage on their eyes—who starve and chill and hurt, but hold to courage and hope, because they know that there is always proof of truth for them who try—that only cowardice and lack of faith can keep the seeker from his chosen goal, but if his heart be strong and if he dream enough and dream it hard enough, he can attain, not matter where men failed before.
Walls crumble and empires fall. The tidal wave sweeps from the sea and tears a fortress from its rocks. The rotting nations drop from off Time’s bough, and only things the dreamers make live on.
They are the Eternal Conquerors—their vassals are the years.
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Freedom is just chaos, with better lighting.

ALAN DEAN FOSTER
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“If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all”

Jacob Hornberger
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“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

Benjamin Franklin
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“There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions”

Anais Nin
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“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
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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

Mahatma Gandhi
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It is said that what is called the Spirit of an Age is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. In the same way, a single year does not have just spring or summer. A single day, too, is the same. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.
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There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.
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It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. It is the same for anything that is called a Way. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all ways and be more and more in accord with his own.
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Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall, there was this one: "Matters of great concern should be treated lightly." Master Ittei commented, "Matters of small concern should be treated seriously."
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Most people have heard this one: “God helps those that help themselves.” It’s another phantom scripture that appears nowhere in the Bible, but many people think it does. It's actually attributed to Benjamin Franklin, one of the nation's founding fathers.

The passage is popular in part because it is a reflection of cherished American values: individual liberty and self-reliance, says Sidnie White Crawford, a religious studies scholar at the University of Nebraska.

Yet that passage contradicts the biblical definition of goodness: defining one’s worth by what one does for others, like the poor and the outcast, Crawford says.

Crawford cites a scripture from Leviticus that tells people that when they harvest the land, they should leave some “for the poor and the alien” (Leviticus 19:9-10), and another passage from Deuteronomy that declares that people should not be “tight-fisted toward your needy neighbor.”
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“Too many people are using religion as a sword to fight those with whom they disagree, instead of as a plowshare to help their fellow neighbors tend the land and form a community,” said Minor, who retired as a United Methodist Church pastor after 23 years.

“Shouting louder than the other guys only results in more shouting, which never gets anything done,” he said. “The key is to go about your life, as one of the faithful, and to make sure you actually do at least one thing each day that reflects the faith in which you believe.”

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by Archbishop Desmond Tutu



Today I pray for people in Africa and throughout the world who long for freedom because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. It grieves me to be retiring at this crucial moment in history, so I write to you in this open letter, to invite you to pick up the work that remains to be done. More than 70 countries still imprison or execute gay and transgender people, and bullying and murders are all too common. This must change.

Each of you is called to respond to God's urgency for love and life. So whether you are in South Africa, the United States or anywhere else, humanity needs to accept its own diversity as a gift from our Creator. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are part of our family of God.

I have always striven for a life of love in action. Many told me to stop. They called me a communist or they told me that I might be killed. Now, I have lived long, and one choice that comes with age is how to deal with our own mortality. Should we be more careful or be more bold? Should we rest on our laurels or respond to the urgency of justice?

Boldly, I urge all faith leaders and politicians to stop persecuting people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Every day people live in fear because of who they love. We are talking about our family members, our flesh and blood, our humanity. LGBT people are in our villages, towns, cities, countries -- and our whole world.

In South African churches we have sung, "Oh freedom! Freedom is coming, oh yes, I know." We sang this chorus at the lowest points of our journey toward freedom against the racist and colonialist system of apartheid, and we still sing it to this day. Freedom is coming -- and those of us who have freedom must speak out for those whose freedom is under attack. We can and must make a difference.

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Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
It is not self-seeking, nor easily angered.
It keeps no record of wrongdoing.
It does not delight in evil,
But rejoices in the truth.
It always protects, trusts, hopes, and preserves.
There is nothing love cannot face;
There is no limit to its faith, hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things that last forever:
Faith, hope, and love;
But the greatest of them all is love.
-- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7


"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature." - Howard Thurman

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
-St. Augustine


"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down."
- Woody Allen,

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Not all cat people belong to the same team
What I mean is that not all of us are quite what we seem
You see, all of us inside have beating hearts that are warm
But some of have powers into cats we transform

Under a full moon or a quarter moon or a half moon
In a bad mood with bad breath yes cat food
Like werewolves but wolves are dogs
And we're cats so we're sleeky sneaking in through the fog
And we all have a little pink butt
So now tell me what you think of that - What?
Playing with our own cats as cats
That's a fact, together in packs we can track rats
We can play real mean chase each other up a screen
Or a tree or play sweet and even lick each other clean
Ravenous animals act a little wild
And we do it like humans, kitty-style
Fighting and fucking and hunting and sleeping
And breeding and eating and killing and that's
What we do when we're kitties next morning we're human
We laughed and we cried it was better than Cats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkZDj2UZ8Xw