%%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Every night and every morn, Some to misery are born. Every morn and every night, Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. -- William Blake (1757-1827) Auguries of Innocence, from the Pickering MS, ca. 1803 -- quoted in Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% Mc Copies & D. Stribute 2125//2128//2129 =================================================================== This, too, will pass. =================================================================== %%% http://wda.tradivarium.at/words1.txt - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - EXPECT THE BEST, PREPARE FOR THE WORST. Aldous Leonard Huxley (1864-1963) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% edited by: a00@gmx.net - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - basic principles: RESPECT YOUR BODY. FOCUS YOUR MIND. LOVE YOUR HEART AND COOPERATE WITH ANYONE WHO DOES THE SAME. laura huxley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% Korrekturen, Verbesserungsvorschlaege, Kommentare willommen! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RELIGION IS FOR PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN HEAVEN OR HELL SPIRITUALITY IS FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN THERE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% text-only. fixed-font-formatted !!! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - WAR IS PEACE ! FREEDOM IS SLAVERY ! IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH ! STAYING APART KEEPS US TOGETHER PROTECTIONISM IS FREE TRADE ! PROTECTIONISM IS FREE TRADE ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHANGE BELIEF-SYSTEMS INTO SYSTEMS OF KNOWLEDGE ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% 7 ****************************************************************** aus KARL HEINZ KOLLER's Komp(l)ott im PhrasenSpeicher : * WEISSE MAEUSE IN VERSCHIEDENEN FARBEN ZU HABEN * NICHT-EKELIG, NORMAL-EKELIG, UNGEMEIN-EKELIG, GRAUENHAFT-EKELIG, UNVORSTELLBAR- EKELIG * MYSTIK DER IDIOTIE * EXISTENZFOTOGRAFIE * FERNOST- SURREALISMUS * GRENZBEREICHE DER CHINESISCHEN ETHIK * GESCHICHTE ALS FOLGE VON: STATISTIK * in den GRAUZONEN DER SPIELTHEORIE * POESIE DER GEOMETRIE * IM RAUSCH DER AXIOME * BILLIGE, PRACHT= VOLLE EGOPATHEN * 50 DOKTORARBEITEN MACHEN CA. 1 LAUFMETER IM REGAL NATURKATASTROPHE MENSCH * " ... alles ehrbare Gemueter. Gehirn wie gehabt. Fuer Erdarbeiten hervorragend geeignet [und auch das jetzt kaum noch -- wda (201x)]." -- Arno Schmidt (1914-1979) * IDIOTIE + INTELLIGENZ = IDEOLOGIE ****************************************************************** %%% 8 ****************************************************************** aus KARL HEINZ KOLLER's Komp(l)ott im PhrasenSpeicher : speisekalte: chinesisches tagesgelicht: ATS 65.- huehnelspiesschen mit ananas und leis: ATS 75.- chinesische fleischbaellchen mit leis: ATS 85.- --- * there is (KHK's) 3 ways to ruin a cooperation completely: 1) women (the most exciting one) 2) gambling (the fastest one) 3) computers (the safest one) --- parts of the vehicle were made out of artificially grown bone tissue, a material with excellent regenerative properties. ****************************************************************** %%% ****************************************************************** aus KARL HEINZ KOLLER's Komp(l)ott im PhrasenSpeicher : * GADAFFI LIVE ON STAGE ! * VOLLWERT-OPTIMISMUS * BILLIGHEIM - HEIMSHEIM - WEINHEIM - STEINHEIM - ALZHEIM - MARIENHEIM - REIZHEIM - HEILHEIM - REINHEIM - SCHLEIMHEIM - OHEIM - GEIZHEIM - WERTHEIM - EIGENHEIM - KLAMMHEIM - MANNHEIM. NATURKATASTROPHE MENSCH Brigitte und Otto NORMALVERBRAUCHER sind derartige VERDRAENGUNGSKRAFTMASCHINEN, dass nur noch eine >>> QUARTALSPFLICHTVERSCHREIBUNG <<< (etwa von 3 mal 100 plus einmal 250 microgramm) helfen koennte. ****************************************************************** %%% ******************************************************************** aus KARL HEINZ KOLLER's Komp(l)ott im PhrasenSpeicher : * HEAST, BIST TEPAT ? * STUPID STUDIOS LTD. * ERSATZLEITMOTIV * gesucht wird: ZUVERLAESSIGE PORNOTYPISTIN * MAMMADEAUS * GURKMUSIK * ER SAEGT SICH GERADE SEINEN KAFFEE AB. * DIESER EINDRUCK IST RICHTIG, WENN AUCH FALSCH. * KARDINAL DER HEILIGEN VERSANDKIRCHE KALIFORNIENS * alkoholfreies bier mit alkoholfreiem wodka aufbessern * KAPEX-Kapitalistischer Existenzialismus: "I SHOP. THEREFORE I AM" * Kritik an eines YES-platte: "NO" (das war zwar alles, ist dafuer aber schon lange her) * AGENTUR FUER BEWEISE ALLER ART, Inhaber: Prof. Dr. WEIBEL * LANGUAGE IS A VIRUS FROM OUTER SPACE: ein wucherndes, quasibiologisches System ******************************************************************** %%% ********************************************************************* aus KARL HEINZ KOLLER's Komp(l)ott im PhrasenSpeicher : Zen fuer Holzfaeller. Zerospace, Zenspace, Yenspace. Ah su kitzlar! (tuerk.: Oh, diese Frauen) - Neuronenbombe - Hellseh-Satelliten - Psychedelisches Apostolat - Recycling of Satan - Taoide Systeme - BRDigung - Grosze Chancen Drohen - Normmensch: maennlich, nichtschwanger, ca. 35 Jahre - Waffenschlussverkauf - Weltuntergangsbesoffenheit - Zensur nur noch mit Raketen moeglich. ********************************************************************* %%% 12 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - WHEN I BECOME DEATH - DEATH IS THE SEA FROM WHICH I GROW (?Burroughs) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% -------------------------------------------------------------------- T H E P R O D U C T I S: Y O U The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, Naked Lunch, 1958 -------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NO MORE SECRETS NO MORE LIMITS NO MORE EXCUSES (loompanics catalog, http://www.loompanics.com) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% ===================================================================== Our task must be to free from this prison [our illusion as a separate entity in this world] by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ===================================================================== %%% --------------------------------------------------------------------- A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. sHe experiences hirself, his/her thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) --------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I hope to see the development of a technique of >Applied Mysticism< - a technique for individuals to get the most out of their transcendental experience and to make use of the insights from the >Other World< in the affairs of >This World<. (Meister Eckhart wrote that 'What is taken in by contemplation must be given out in love'.) This is what must be developed - the Art of giving out in love and intelligence what is taken in from vision and the experience of self-transcendence and solidarity with universe. Aldous Leonard Huxley (1864-1963) 1962 Johannes 'Meister' Eckhart (?1260-?1327) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FASCHISMUS - das sind nicht nur die Tonton Macoute (oder SS), sondern vor allem auch jene, die sich allzu leicht unterdruecken lassen und dafuer ihrerseits die naechst-schwaecheren unterdruecken. -- ein Haitianer in einem Radiointerview (in der Vor-IN-Zeit) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE LARGER THE ISLAND OF KNOWLEDGE - THE GREATER THE SHORELINE OF WONDER. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHANGE YOUR MIND - AND MIND YOUR CHANGE ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city ... Gas-filled, noisy and hazardous, our streets have become the most inhumane landscape in the world. -- James M. Fitch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AVOID HANGOVER - STAY DRUNK ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SAVE A MOUSE - EAT A PUSSY ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SOME PEOPLE, WHO ARE -NOT VERY BRIGHT, CLOSE THEIR MINDS TO NEW INFORMATION. SOMETIMES OUT OF LOYALTY TO OPINIONS THEY'VE HELD FOR A LONG TIME. BUT THE REAL LOYALTY WE OWE IS - TO TRUTH. (bongwater : the power of pussy) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ABOLISH FEAR - ESTABLISH TRUST - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% -------------------------------------------------------------------- business as usual, 2015 ... The global inequality crisis is reaching new extremes. The F.richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world combined. Power and privilege is being used to skew the economic system to increase the gap between the richest and the rest. -- https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/economy-1 ...2010... The three F*richest men in the world own more than the forty-nine poorest countries together. F*richest ::= *Financially* richest, as these is virtually always the morally poorest and spiritually poorest, thus should not be called only 'rich'. (and if anyone should read F.rich as F*g rich Fascists, that would in no way be inappropriate, either.) business as usual, 1995 ... The poorer 10 % of all employees get only ca. 1.5 % of all earnings, and their part has been decreasing constantly. The richer 10 % of all employees take ca. 25 % of the total income, a share which has been increasing constantly for years. The F*richest thousand now own more than the poorest BILLION(S). *** PECUNIA OLET *** -------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ by sylvia nasar, new york times service international harald tribune, friday, march 6, 1992 Q: WHERE DID ALL THAT 1980's WEALTH GO ? A: M A I N L Y TO THE RICHEST 1% OF AMERICANS. -------------------- The richest thousand now own more than the poorest BILLION(S). $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - KEEP YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND - BUT KEEP REACHING FOR THE STARS! -- Only from the Heart can you touch the sky. -- Rumi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NATURE CAN SATISFY THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE, BUT NOT THE GREED OF PEOPLE. Mahatma Gandhi THE WORLD - SHE HAS ENOUGH FOR EVERYBODY'S NEEDS. BUT MAN HAS ALWAYS KILLED - TO SATISFY THE GREED. Public Enemy - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% -------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate ! -------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% *************************************************************** Reality is the crutch for those who can't face imagination. *************************************************************** %%% -------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't smoke pot... ...when you're stoned! You won't get much higher, but lower on dope. -------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ It's a fucking sad, - god damned beautiful world. -- "Down by Law" by Jim Jarmusch ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ LOVE, WORK, AND KNOWLEDGE ARE THE WELLSPRINGS OF OUR LIFE. - THEY SHOULD ALSO GOVERN IT. LIEBE, ARBEIT UND WISSEN SIND DIE QUELLEN UNSERES LEBENS. - SIE SOLLTEN ES AUCH BEHERRSCHEN. -- Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) Arbeit ist sichtbar gewordene Liebe. Work is Love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, It is better that you should leave your work And sit at the gate of the temple And take alms of those who work with joy. -- Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) "Der Prophet" / "The Prophet" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ************************************************************************* * The essential need is to seek, preserve, and transmit knowledge. * IDRIES SHAH's "Thinkers of the East" : applied specific experientialism topics include: the 'Sufi Secret' - nonlinear thinking - use and abuse of literature - the work of the people called 'The Designers' - reasons for 'selling knowledge' - subtle communications - real and imagined desire. ************************************************************************* %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Doubt may be an uncomfortable condition. But surety is ridiculous. The True Philosopher thinks,-- in order to change. -- Francois-Marie Arouet 'Voltaire' (1694-1778) Kein Zweifel, kein Erwachen / No doubt, no awakening. -- Po Shan ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ================================================================== PROHIBITION KILLS! Free drug users, help abusers...decriminalize & watch drug lords weep! (T.Green, the millennium whole earth catalog) In every moment, the only choice we make is love or fear. Be still and observe your choice. (David and Kay Hines, ibid.) It doesn't matter what happened, it's how you handle it. (~Jim A. Sanders, ibid.) AID YOUR LOVES / IGNORE THE REST. (Alex Funk, ibid.) LOVE IT, LEAVE IT, OR CHANGE IT. ================================================================== %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ \ | / I hear the sound of marching feet, down Sunset -- ¨ ¨ -- / Boulevard to Crescent Heights and there at Pandora's --uUU---U---UUu-- Box we are confronted with a vast quantity of plastic people. -- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993) === There's a lot of empty shells around today. At first sight they look like human beings, but go a bit closer and you'll see that they are not people but empty shells, with all the goodness inside eaten away. -- ?? in ADBUSTERS #33 (Jan/Feb.2001) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 39 ****************************************************************** Love, Work, and Knowledge are the Wellsprings of our Life. -- They should also govern it! Wilhelm Reich ****************************************************************** %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE WORLD - SHE HAS ENOUGH FOR EVERYBODY'S NEEDS. BUT MAN HAS ALWAYS KILLED - TO SATISFY THE GREED. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NO MORE SECRETS NO MORE LIMITS NO MORE EXCUSES (loompanics catalog) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% 42 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE LARGER THE ISLAND OF KNOWLEDGE - THE GREATER THE SHORELINE OF WONDER. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHANGE YOUR MIND - AND MIND YOUR CHANGE ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% 44 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx from: hyperreal.com/drugs/misc/drug_use.sta Estimated Per Capita Death Rates by Drugs ------------------------------------------------------------- Drug Users Deaths per Year Deaths per 100,000 ------------------------------------------------------------- Tobacco 60 million 390,000 650 Alcohol 100 million 150,000 150 Heroin 500,000 400 80 (400) Cocaine 5 million 200 4 (20) Pot X0 million 0 0 (zero) ------------------------------------------------------------- traffic deaths in 1991: 41,500 Mc Copies & D. Stribute 96/10 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx %%% xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx from: hyperreal.com/drugs/misc/drug_use.sta For your perusal -- U.S. Surgeon General's Actuarial info The following is a list of deaths by substance for 1990. Tobacco . . . . . . . . . . . . 360,000 [legal] Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . 130,000 [legal] Prescribed drugs . . . . . . . 18,675 [legal] Caffeine . . . . . . . . . . . 5,800 [legal] Cocaine . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,390 [illegal] Heroin . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,147 [illegal] Aspirin . . . . . . . . . . . . 986 [legal] Marijuana . . . . . . . . . . . 0 [illegal] Mc Copies & D. Stribute 96/10 Traffic Deaths (1991) . . . . . 41,500 Killed by guns (1997) . . . . . 34,000 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx %%% 46 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Common people have problems; A Warrior knows only of challenges. Gewoehnliche Menschen haben Probleme - Ein Krieger hingegen kennt nur Herausforderungen. EinE KriegerIn betrachtet ihr|sein Leben und jede Handlung darin als ihren|seinen letzten Tanz auf Erden. (nach C. Carlito's Don Juan) ---------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 47 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) " A U N A P R E N D O " labeled GOYA his 'portrait of the artist as an old man' schrieb GOYA in kraeftiger Handschrift unter sein 'Selbstbildnis als Greis' Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, 1746-1828 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 48 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - There was an old lady of liger Who went riding on the back of a tiger. They came back from the ride With the lady inside, And a smile on the face of the tiger. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The thinking human must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethic which will include the animals also. Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. -- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), physician/Nobel Laureate. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- How many Pentium programmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Only three: One to hold the ladder and one to turn the bulb. -- Why did Intel name the Pentium Pentium and not '586 ? Well, they let the chip calculate: 486 plus 100, and it returned: 585.9999..; so they called it Pentium, 'cause that sounds better. ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 51 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * EVERY MAN AND EVERY WOMEN IS A STAR * -- Aleister Crowley, Liber AL, 1904. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 52 ----------------------------------------------------------------- DO WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW ! THOU HAST NO RIGHT BUT TO DO THY WILL. -- Aleister Crowley, 1904. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- INVOKE ME UNDER MY STARS ! *** LOVE IS THE LAW, LOVE UNDER WILL. *** I GIVE UNIMAGINABLE JOY ON EARTH: CERTAINTY, NOT FAITH,.. SING THE RAPTUROUS LOVE-SONG UNTO ME! BURN TO ME PERFUMES! WEAR TO ME JEWELS! DRINK TO ME, FOR I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU! I AM THE BLUE-LIDDED DAUGHTER OF SUNSET; I AM THE NAKED BRILLIANCE OF THE VOLUPTUOUS NIGHT-SKY. Aleister Crowley, Liber AL, 1904. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 54 ----------------------------------------------------------------- There is no word in the English language that cannot be verbed. +++ Richard J H Warren +++ Verben skurrilt die Sprache. +++ Calvin & Hobbes +++ Verbing weirds language. / Verbing drollifies language. Hobbes' answer: Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 55 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime. John Philpot Curran (1759-1817) Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 56 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% 57 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Curiosity perhaps ? These days, we're getting a lot of advice on how to live longer, but amazingly little on WHY. -- Harold Emery ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 58 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A U N A P R E N D O Goya I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 59 ------------------------------------------------------------------- The future may teach us to exercise a direct influence, by means of particular chemical substances, on the amount of energy and their distribution in the mental apparatus. It may be that there are still undreamt-of possibilities of therapy. -- wrote Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) in 1938 Unbeknownst to Dr. Freud, LSD was first synthesized in 1938. Psychedelic experience can lead us to the deepest depths and the highest heights, to the boundaries of that which humankind is capable of experiencing. -- DDr. Albert Hofmann (1906-2008) (1996) MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES MAPS VI.3 http://www.maps.org info@maps.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 60 ------------------------------------------------------------------- There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. hehehehehehe... William James, under nitrous oxide, 1882; quoted in PIKHAL ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 61 ----------------------------------------------------------------- He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light, than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. William Blake (1757-1827) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 62 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Now I a fourfold vision see, And a fourfold vision is given to me; 'Tis foufold in my supreme delight And threefold in soft Beulah's night, And twofold Always. May God us keep From single vision and Newton's sleep! William Blake, in a letter to Thomas Butts 22 November 1802 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 63 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Children of the future Age Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time Love ! sweet Love ! was thought a crime. William Blake, A Litte GIRL Lost, Songs of Experience, ca. 1790 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 64 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Children of the future Age Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time Dope ! sweet Dope ! was thought a crime. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 65 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Children of a future Age Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time A path to God was thought a crime. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 66 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. -- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell etched 1790-3 (plate 14) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 67 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Youth is wasted on the young -- George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Youth is a gift of nature, age is a work of art. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 68 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Theoretically there's no difference between theory and praxis, whereas practically there's often a big difference. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 69 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- . "We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems" . . --- William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) . -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- %%% 70 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Nasrudin got a job at a busy granary, loading sacks onto trucks to be taken to market. The foreman, who was keeping an eye on the workers, soon came over to speak to him. "Why is it that you carry only one sack at a time while the other workers all carry two?" asked the foreman. Nasrudin looked around and said, "I suppose that they are too lazy to make two trips the way I do." ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 71 ----------------------------------------------------------------- One day, as Nasrudin was getting dressed, his wife said to him, "Mullah, you always put on your right shoe first. Why is that?" Nasrudin answered, "Wouldn't it be foolish to put on the wrong shoe first?" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 72 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mullah Nasrudin was sowing seed in his garden. His wife noticed that the further he went, the faster he sowed. "Mullah," she called out to him, "why are you scattering the seed so fast? It would be better to sow it more slowly and carefully." "I can't," Nasrudin called back as he rushed by. "There isn't much seed left and I want to get the job finished before it runs out." ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 73 ----------------------------------------------------------------- UUXIIIIINNNFTWYYYYZV VVVNNNFTWYYYYZPPPXUU UXXXPPLNNFFFTWWYZZZV VLNNFFFTWWYZZZPPXXXU UUXPPPLLLLFTTTWWZVVV VLLLLFTTTWWZIIIIIXUU ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 74 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Instead of all this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war? -- DDr. Albert Hofmann, Ph.D. (1906 - 2008) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 75 ----------------------------------------------------------------- TRADITION - das ist fuer die einen das Aufbewahren der Asche; fuer die anderen: das Weitergeben des Feuers. -- Karl Kraus (1874-1937) TRADITION - for some this means worshipping the ashes; for the others: passing on the Fire. (my transl.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 76 ----------------------------------------------------------------- My philosophy : Don't get caught with a fixed philosophy, a set of safe beliefs, a particular way of life. Experiment! With live, with love. Run an exploration of the real and the true degrees of freedom of life, of love, of the human condition, inside self and in one's style of life. Move! Into new spaces beyond one's present concepts of possible/ probable/certain real spaces. Far vaster than I now know are the innermost/outermost realities. Far more interesting than I now feel are the deeps of the space, the beyond within, the infinite without. Love and loving are basic. Hostility is redundant. Fear is non-sense. "Death" is a myth. I am I. -- John C. Lilly ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 77 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The task of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive authority with as much integrity as possible. The task of an activist is to confront and take down these systems of oppressive authority. -- Lierre Keith, quoted by Derrick Jensen e.g. in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnX2753q03g ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 78 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) in "The Significance of Emancipation in the West Indies" Speech, Canandaiuga, NY, August 3, 1857 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 79 ======================================================================== " Das Wenige, was in Tibet verblieben ist, muss geschuetzt werden, und es muessen Anstrengungen unternommen werden, um die Umwelt wieder in ihr Gleichgewicht zu bringen." " Mein Traum ist es, die gesamte tibetische Hochebene in ein freies Sanktuarium umzuwandeln, in dem Menschen und Natur in Frieden und Harmonie miteinander leben koennen. Tibet waere ein Ort, an dem Menschen aus aller Welt nach der wahren Bedeutung des inneren Friedens suchen koennen, fernab von der Hektik und den Spannungen des groessten Teils der uebrigen Welt. Tibet koennte in der Tat ein kreatives Zentrum fuer die Foerderung und Entwicklung des Friedens werden." Seine Heiligkeit, der XIV. DALAI LAMA, Tenzin Gyatso, ? anlaesslich der Entgegennahme des Friedensnobelpreises, 1989 ? ======================================================================== %%% 80 Ph'nglai mglw'nefh Cthulhu R'lyah wguh'nagl fhtagn! %%% 81 ======================================================================== Es ist richtig und heilsam auch von den unfasslichen Dingen zu reden. Die Menschen bilden sich ein, nur das zu sein, was sie von sich wissen! Nur wenn ich weiss, dass das Grenzenlose das Wesentliche ist, verlege ich mein Interesse nicht auf Futilitaeten. -- C.G.Jung (1875-1961) ======================================================================== %%% 82 ==================================================== LICHTUNG Manche meinen, Dass man Lechts und Rinks Nicht velwechsern koenne. Werch ein Illtum ! Ernst Jandl (1925-2000) ==================================================== %%% 83 ======================================================================== All religions carry same message. Message of love, compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, contentment, self-discipline. I think we need these qualities, irrespective of whether we are believer or non-believer, because these are the source of a happy life. -- Tenzin Gyatso, H.H. XIV. Dalai Lama, in "Rad der Zeit" (2003) ======================================================================== %%% 84 ======================================================================== Wer kaempft, kann verlieren, wer nicht kaempft, hat schon verloren ! Anyone who fights may lose, who does not fight has lost already ! ======================================================================== %%% 85 ======================================================================== When lions become historians, hunters will cease being heroes. ======================================================================== %%% 86 ======================================================================== The illiterate of the year 2000 will not be the individual who cannot read and write, but the one who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler (1928--2016) ======================================================================== %%% 87 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And Today? Today is a gift, that's why we call it 'The Present'. -- Babatunde Olatunji (1927-2003) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 88 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The point is to realize that by virtue of what you always are, have been and will be, there is no need whatsoever to defend yourself or prove yourself. -- Alan Watts foreword to The Secret Oral Teachings of Tibet ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 89 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Try to believe three impossible things before breakfast every day! Robert Anton Wilson ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 90 ----------------------------------------------------------------- We can do no great things -- only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 91 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I don't take your words merely as words; far from it. I listen to what makes you talk -whatever that is- and what makes me listen. Shinkichi Takahashi ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 92 ----------------------------------------------------------------- [W]e die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. -- Dag (Hjalmar Agne Carl) Hammarskjold (1905-61) - Markings (UNSecGen 1953-61, Nobel Peace Prize 61) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 93 ----------------------------------------------------------------- People are unreasonable, illogical and self centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. -- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 94 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Everyone of us has a unique talent; however we do not own it but serve as trustee; our talent must be used as much for the sake of others as for ourselves. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 95 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Miracles are not contrary to Nature but only contrary to what we know about Nature. -- Saint Augustine in 353 A.D. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 96 ----------------------------------------------------------------- BUTTERFLY EFFECT n. the idea that a very small difference in the initial state of a physical system can make a large difference to the state at some time later. 20th Cent.: from the theory that a butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world might ultimately cause a hurricane in another part of the world. (1994) Collins ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 97 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 98 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Why does not government legalize marijuana? Because this would be the sane thing to do! --- Not only do I think marihuana should be legalized - I think it should be mandatory ! -- Bill Hicks (1961-1994) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 99 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn, 1693 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 100 McCopies & D.Stribute ! 1998 updated 10/011