Jesse's Internet Cage

Jesse's Internet Cage

Here are some of my favorite quotes from various readings:
Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother. - Matthew 12:50

The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates, (from Plato's Apology)

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you If you do not act upon them? -- the Buddha

Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are ot forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? -- Peter Cheeke

Good and bad, pleasure and pain, life and death, are not absolute experiences belonging to different categories, but are merely two sides of the same reality. -- Fritjof Capra, author The Tao of Physics

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. -- H.D. Thoreau

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever. . . . If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. -- Tao Te Ching

To one whose mind is free, there is something even more intolerable in the suffering of animals than in the sufferings of humans. For with the latter, it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the person who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any person were to refer to it, they would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. That alone is the justification of all that humans may suffer. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. If God exists and tolerates it, it cries vengeance upon God. -- Romain Rolland

When they lose their sense of awe, people turn to religion. When they no longer trust themselves, they begin to depend on authority. -- Tao Te Ching

Colors blind the eye. Sounds deafen the ear. Flavors numb the taste. Thoughts weaken the mind. Desires wither the heart. --Tao Te Ching

Have faith. Do not be bewildered. For you are beyond all things, the heart of all knowing. You are the Self. You are God . . . There is no one separate from yourself. -- Ashtavakra Gita, 15:

What interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the universe. -- Albert Einstein

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. -- H.D. Thoreau

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. 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 preson by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. -- Albert Einstein

No experiences, ordinary, everyday, usual or unusual, whether impressions, ideas, dreams, visions or memories, strange, bizarre, familiar, weird, psychotic or sane are objective facts. -- R.D. Laing

Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. -- Tao Te Ching (note: I like to talk a lot, but I would still like to think that I also know a lot -- J.D.)

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity [is] absolutely disgusting. -- Sir Victor Gollancz

Comparing the suffering of animals to that of blacks (or any other oppressed group) is offensive on ly to the speciesist: one who has embraced the false notions of what animals are like. Those who are offended by comparison to a fellow sufferer have unquestioningly accepted the biased worldview presented by the masters. to deny our similarities to animals is to deny and undermine our own power. It is to continue actibely struggling to prove to our master, past or present, that we are similar to those who have abused us, rather than to our fellow victims, those who our masters have also victimized. -- Marjorie Spiegel, The Dreaded Comparison

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. -- Einstein

His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?" "It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it." -- Thomas 113:1-2

In this world hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. -- the Buddha

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