In Buddhism, the most important precept of all is to live in awareness, to know what is going on. To know what is going on, not only here, but there. For instance, when you eat a piece of bread, you may choose to be aware that our farmers in growing the wheat, use chemical poisons a little too much. Eating the bread, we are somehow co-responsible ( Read more... )

"One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him." - Horseradish - Lemony Snicket

 RANDOM LINES

"Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested." A Single Man ; Christopher Isherwood
"I was with her for way too long."
"Were you in love with her?" Ragins asks.
"I think that's what ( Read more... )

 "Deciding whether, or not to trust a person is like deciding whether, or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter ( Read more... )

"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction." ; Choke ( Read more... )

While Anne and I drove down the freeway today, Just Like Heaven came on the radio. "This was my first CD," I said. "I know," she said. "You tell me that every time we hear a song from it." "And one day, you'll hear it, and I won't be here for some reason or another, and you'll wish I was here to tell you." - wilwheaton"Sometimes the appropriate response to ( Read more... )

RANDOM FILMS
"One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp." - Bride of the Monster

"Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams." - Ed Wood

"You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken. You've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say ( Read more... )

"I'm tired of fighting." - Harry Houdini

"I can't sleep." - James M. Barrie

"Pardonnez-moi, monsieur." - Marie Antoinette

"Now comes the mystery." - Henry Ward Beecher

"The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive." -Frederic Chopin

"I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you." - James K. Polk

"Am I ( Read more... )

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