past Quotes of the week

July 2007

A human being is part of the whole, called by us “universe”...He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings 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     

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May 21, 2007

In our chatty world, in which the word has lost its power to communicate, silence helps us to keep our mind and heart anchored in the future world and allows us to speak from there a creative and recreative word to the present world.

- Henri J.M. Nouwen    

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April 15, 2007

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. We do not discover the secret of our lives merely by study and calculation in our own isolated meditations. The meaning of our life is a secret that has to be revealed to us in love, by the one we love. And if this love is unreal, the secret will not be found, the meaning will never reveal itself, the message will never be decoded. At best, we will receive a scrambled and partial message, one that will deceive and confuse us. We will never be fully real until we let ourselves fall in love - either with another human person or with God.

Thomas Merton

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April 6, 2007

I mean, a black woman is alright to get with, but as for marriage, never!  I need a light skinned or blonde woman to have my kids...

besides, if i did end up having children with a “negra” i’d end up loving the lighter children more anyways.

-(black) Man from San Pedro de Macoris, Republica Dominicana

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March 25 2007

THE PEOPLE of cold countries generally, and particularly those of Europe, are full of spirit, but deficient in skill and intelligence; and this is why they continue to remain relatively free, but attain no political development and show no capacity for governing others.

-Aristotle

The Politics of Aristotle, 1946