h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The moon is one, but on agitated water it produces many reflections.
Similarly ultimate reality is one, yet it appears to be many in a mind agitated by thoughts.

-Maharamayana

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Thanks, Hypatia.

Not a good thing, to be barking at the moon!

Love, ed.

I wouldn't bark at the moon - it's American isn't it?

Now the sun is different

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun

Jazz

Here's one that popped up in my inbox this morning. I think it's lovely.

When the world arises in me,
It is just an illusion:
Water shimmering in the sun,
A vein of silver in mother-of-pearl,
A serpent in a strand of rope.

From me the world streams out
And in me it dissolves,
As a bracelet melts into gold,
A pot crumbles into clay,
A wave subsides into water.

-Ashtavakra Gita 2: 9-10
From "The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita," by Thomas Byrom, 1990. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston. www.shambhala.com.

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge (1909 - )

Never knew this was here. Alright if I join in?

I hardly knew it was here myself, but it seems to have taken on a life for the moment, momenta. Talk to yourself, and you get more sense....from others!

I smile a lot and laugh a lot, and feel closer for it.

Now for Tom Paine (1737-1809):-
"The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime; makes the ridiculous; and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again."

Love, both sublime and ridiculous, ed.

teehee

Yup!
I so agree.

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Hi Ed
This thread slipped off my radar.
My sister is here as you know. So but I will catch up here and with the new poster on fluid s. thread you have talked to Ed.

Saving some yummy stuff for Later!

When the tears roll down your cheeks unbidden and free and all of your emotions fuse into a One,ineffable. Then the one true Love has touched you to and at the core. That is healing.

Thank you, ed.

Healing is a matter of time, but it sometimes also a matter of opportunity Hippocrates

Jaz

Any road followed precisely to it's end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Frank Herbert
Dune

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street."

William Blake (1757-1827)

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

A great start to peaceful negotiation ?

Not if he got bushwhacked on the way!

A peceful lake
Is a meditation
For the mind,
And for the spirit.

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The pursuit of perfection is the pursuit of aweetness and light.

There's nowt much more charming than a gentle giant.

Shire Horse.


( Nothing gentle about Everest, though)

O ! It is excllent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Wm.Shakespeare (Measure for Measure)

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in, now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727.)

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi