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  • #1
    “There was and still is a tremendous fear that poor and working-class Americans might one day come to understand where their political interests reside. Personally, I think the elites worry too much about that. We dumb working folk were clubbed into submission long ago, and now require only proper medication for our high levels of cholesterol, enough alcohol to keep the sludge moving through our arteries, and a 24/7 mind-numbing spectacle of titties, tabloid TV, and terrorist dramas. Throw in a couple of new flavours of XXL edible thongs, and you've got a nation of drowsing hippos who will never notice that our country has been looted, or even that we have become homeless ourselves.”
    Joe Bageant, Rainbow Pie

  • #2
    “What white middle America loathes these days are poor and poorish people, especially the kind who look and sound like they just might live in a house trailer. They will swear on a stack of Lands' End catalogs that they are not bigots, but, human nature being what it is, we are all kicking someone else's dog around, whether we admit it or not.”
    Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

  • #3
    “Republican or Democrat, this nation's affluent urban and suburban classes understand their bread is buttered on the corporate side. The primary difference between the two parties is that the Republicans pretty much admit that they grasp and even endorse some of the nastiest facts of life in America. Republicans honestly tell the world: "Listen in on my phone calls, piss-test me until I'm blind, kill and eat all of my neighbors right in front of my eyes, but show me the money! Let me escape with every cent I can kick out of the suckers, the taxpayers, and anybody else I can get a headlock on, legally or otherwise." Democrats, in contrast, seem content to catalog the GOP's outrages against the Republic, showing proper indignation while laughing at episodes of The Daily Show. But they stand behind the American brand: imperialism. They "support our troops," though you will be hard put to find any of them who have served alongside them or who would send one of their own kids off to lose an eye or an arm in Iraq. They play the imperial game, maintain their credit ratings, and plan to keep the beach house and the retirement investments if it means sacrificing every damned Lynndie England in West Virginia.”
    Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

  • #4
    “The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda”
    Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

  • #5
    Chris Matakas
    “If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live.”
    Chris Matakas

  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be empty of worrying.
    Think of who created thought!

    Why do you stay in prison
    When the door is so wide open?”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #8
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity?
    Why would you refuse to give
    this joy to anyone?

    Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups!
    They swim the huge fluid freedom.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “THE DREAM THAT MUST BE INTERPRETED

    This place is a dream.
    Only a sleeper considers it real.

    Then death comes like dawn,
    and you wake up laughing
    at what you thought was your grief.

    But there's a difference with this dream.
    Everything cruel and unconscious
    done in the illusion of the present world,
    all that does not fade away at the death-waking.

    It stays,
    and it must be interpreted.

    All the mean laughing,
    all the quick, sexual wanting,
    those torn coats of Joseph,
    they change into powerful wolves
    that you must face.

    The retaliation that sometimes comes now,
    the swift, payback hit,
    is just a boy's game
    to what the other will be.

    You know about circumcision here.
    It's full castration there!

    And this groggy time we live,
    this is what it's like:

    A man goes to sleep in the town
    where he has always lived, and he dreams he's living
    in another town.

    In the dream, he doesn't remember
    the town he's sleeping in his bed in. He believes
    the reality of the dream town.

    The world is that kind of sleep.

    The dust of many crumbled cities
    settles over us like a forgetful doze,
    but we are older than those cities.

    We began
    as a mineral. We emerged into plant life
    and into animal state, and then into being human,
    and always we have forgotten our former states,
    except in early spring when we slightly recall
    being green again.
    That's how a young person turns
    toward a teacher. That's how a baby leans
    toward the breast, without knowing the secret
    of its desire, yet turning instinctively.

    Humankind is being led along an evolving course,
    through this migration of intelligences,
    and though we seem to be sleeping,
    there is an inner wakefulness
    that directs the dream,

    and that will eventually startle us back
    to the truth of who we are.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #10
    Henry Kissinger
    “Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
    Henry Kissinger

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #14
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #15
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #16
    Albert Einstein
    “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #17
    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #18
    Sherman Alexie
    “Coyote, who is the creator of all of us, was sitting on his cloud the day after he created Indians. Now, he liked the Indians, liked what they were doing. This is good, he kept saying to himself. But he was bored. He thought and thought about what he should make next in the world. But he couldn't think of anything so he decided to clip his toenails. ... He looked around and around his cloud for somewhere to throw away his clippings. But he couldn't find anywhere and he got mad. He started jumping up and down because he was so mad. Then he accidentally dropped his toenail clippings over the side of the cloud and they fell to the earth. They clippings burrowed into teh ground like seeds and grew up to be white man. Coyote, he looked down at his newest creation and said, "Oh, shit.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

  • #19
    Sherman Alexie
    “I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?"
    Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood."
    I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

  • #20
    Paul Goble
    “We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and the winding streams with tangled growth, as 'wild'. Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness' and only to him was the land 'infested' with 'wild' animals and 'savage' people. To us it was home. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery." - Chief Standing River of the Lakota”
    Paul Goble, Dream Wolf

  • #21
    C.G. Jung
    “As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
    Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

  • #22
    C.G. Jung
    “The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #23
    C.G. Jung
    “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
    C.G. Jung

  • #24
    C.G. Jung
    “Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #25
    C.G. Jung
    “Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”
    C.G. Jung

  • #26
    C.G. Jung
    “Out of evil, much good has come to me. By keeping quiet, repressing nothing, remaining attentive, and by accepting reality - taking things as they are, and not as I wanted them to be - by doing all this, unusual knowledge has come to me, and unusual powers as well, such as I could never have imagined before.
    I always thought that when we accepted things they overpowered us in some way or other. This turns out not to be true at all, and it is only by accepting them that one can assume and attitude towards them.
    So now I intend to play the game of life, being receptive to whatever comes to me, good and bad, sun and shadow forever alternating, and, in this way, also accepting my own nature with its positive and negative sides. Thus everything becomes more alive to me.
    What a fool I was! How I tried to force everything to go according to way I thought it ought to.
    an ex patient of C. G. Jung (Alchemical Studies, pg 47)”
    C.G. Jung

  • #27
    C.G. Jung
    “But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”
    C.G. Jung

  • #28
    C.G. Jung
    “The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame that flares up quickly and then goes out.”
    C.G. Jung

  • #29
    C.G. Jung
    “Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol.

    Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938”
    Carl Gustave Jung

  • #30
    C.G. Jung
    “We only gain merit and psychological development by accepting ourselves as we are and by being serious enough to live the lives we are entrusted with. Our sins and errors and mistakes are necessary to us, otherwise we are deprived of the most precious incentives to development.”
    C.G. Jung, Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925



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