quotation debate, part II

[β cyg]

[MoJoRiSin]

'before i wake"

[12"razormix]

then ah then i would awake
to the terror of the lone lake
yet that terror was not fright
but a tremulous delight
a feeling not the jewelled mine
could teach or bribe me to define
nor love
although the love were thine

ea poe

[MoJoRiSin]

and the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
so that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
" 'tis some visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door —
some late visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door; —

This it is, and nothing more
edgar allan p

[zero]

someone's knockin' at the door
somebody's ringin' the bell
someone's knockin' at the door
somebody's ringin' the bell

do me a favor,
open the door
and let 'em in

sister suzie,
brother john,
martin luther,
phil and don,
brother michael,
auntie gin,

open the door, let 'em in.

- paul mcartney

[MoJoRiSin]

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[MoJoRiSin]

Didn't Lady Gaga already figure the solution out?
~me

[zero]

trees are sanctuaries. whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. they do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

a tree says: a kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, i am life from eternal life. the attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. i was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.

a tree says: my strength is trust. i know nothing about my fathers, i know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. i live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and i care for nothing else. i trust that god is in me. i trust that my labor is holy. out of this trust i live.

when we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: be still! be still! look at me! life is not easy, life is not difficult. those are childish thoughts. let god speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. you are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. but every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. home is neither here nor there. home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

a longing to wander tears my heart when i hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. if one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. it is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. it is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. it leads home. every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

so the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts. trees have long thought, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives that ours. they are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. but when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve and incomparable joy. whoever has leaned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. he wants to be nothing except what he is. that is home. that is happiness.

- herman hesse

[MoJoRiSin]

to be(e) or not to be(e)
that is the question
~ws

[MoJoRiSin]

How many plays did William Shakespeare write?

Was he influenced by other Elizabethan Poets and Authors?
How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?
When were Shakespeare's plays performed and published? In which theater ?
What was life like for William Shakespeare during the Elizabethan era?

What are the known facts about William Shakespeare the great Stratford Bard?
What of William Shakespeare the actor, and what is known about his fellow actors and their theater ? What facts are known about the Elizabethan Stratford Playwright and his family? See Biography section
What exactly was the 'First Folio'? Is Shakespeare's picture an accurate portrait?
Why is there so much controversy about the biography of the playwright?
What is the so-called William Shakespeare Identity Problem about?
What facts are available?

Which plays did William Shakespeare the actor perform in?

Which sonnet and play quotes attributed to William Shakespeare are most memorable?

What pictures of Shakespeare are available ?

[MoJoRiSin]

[i]in 1862 90%
of Americans were
farmers
today only 2% work as farmers

Originally Posted by YsaPur EsChomuw

... the rest is silence.

Shakespeare

[MoJoRiSin]

Wisdom is more valuable than jewels; nothing you could want can compare to it.
~Proverb3:15

[MoJoRiSin]

as the twig is bent
so is the tree is inclined.
~Virgil (?) or someone

[trisherina]

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

-- Robert M. Pirsig

[MoJoRiSin]

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
~Robert M. Pirsig
.................................................> >> huh?
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
in his great mercy he has given us new birth into living hope through the resurection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into an inheritance that can never perish spoil or fade
-kept in heaven for you.
1 peter 1:34
Stand straight and do not follow in the path of those who do not know.
Surah 10:89
But the Lord abides forever. He has set up his throne for judgement; it is He who judges the world with righteousness, rules the people with equity.
Proverbs 9:8
The damage done by oneself born of oneself, arising from oneself, grinds the unthinking person like a diamond grinds a jewel made of stone.
TheDhammapada
~Houston Chronicle 6.11.2010