Posted 12 January 2006
We are men. We are different. We have only one word for soap. We do not own candles. We have never seen anything of any value in a craft shop. We do not own magazines full of photographs of celebrities with their clothes on.
—from The Girl With One Heart
Posted 12 January 2006
If you can’t take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid.
—Q, from Star Trek
Posted 12 January 2006
One of the things I routinely tell people is that if it’s in the news, don’t worry about it. By definition, “news” means that it hardly ever happens. If a risk is in the news, then it’s probably not worth worrying about. When something is no longer reported – automobile deaths, domestic violence – when it’s so common that it’s not news, then you should start worrying.
—Bruce Schneier
Posted 12 January 2006
We know we can’t know what we wanted to have meant…
—Steve Sparks
Posted 12 January 2006
Absolute self confidence comes from having no ego at all.
—Nathan Arthur
Posted 12 January 2006
...would most women enjoy giving the gift of their unclothed beauty to strangers, if it were truly safe?
—Vivamus
Posted 12 January 2006
... the ultimate goal of spiritual growth is for the individual to become as one with God. It is to know with God. Since the unconscious is God all along, we may further define the goal of spiritual growth to be the attainment of godhood by the conscious self.
—M. Scott Peck, in "The Road Less Traveled"
Posted 12 January 2006
The development of consciousness is the development of awareness in our conscious mind of knowledge along with our unconscious mind, which already possesses that knowledge.
—M. Scott Peck, in "The Road Less Traveled"
Posted 12 January 2006
... God wants us to become Himself (or Herself or Itself). We are growing toward godhood. God is the goal of evolution. It is God who is the source of the evolutionary force and God who is the destination. That is what we mean when we say that He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
—M. Scott Peck, in "The Road Less Traveled"
Posted 12 January 2006
Virtue is its own revenge.
—E. Y. Harburg
