#non

In these modern times, the only sensible thing to be is nonsensical. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#modern-times #nonsensical #funny

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground? ↗

— Maria Rodale

#health #non-gmo #nutrition #organic #home

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #apartheid #around #corporate #could

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. ↗

— Katharine Anthony

#biographer #constructions #dramatic #lives #none

Consider the fact that no matter how many planets and stars are reflected in a lake, these reflections are encompassed within the water itself; that no matter how many universes there are, they are encompassed within a single space; and that no matter how vast and how numerous the sensory appearances of samsara and nirvana may be, they are encompassed within the single nature of mind (sem-nyid). ↗

— Dudjom Lingpa

#dzogchen #hungchenkara #nonduality #nature

Boy you really missed the boat. I’ll make it simple, so’s even fuckin you can understand. Papa God growed us up till we could wear long pants; then he licensed his name to dollar bills, left some car keys on the table, and got the fuck outta town”. Water rushes to his eye-holes. “Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers”. He takes hold of my shoulders, spins me around, and punches me towards the mirror on the wall. “You’re the God. Take responsibility. Exercise your power ↗

— D.B.C. Pierre

#faith #god #religion #vernon-god-little #faith

No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#anything #because #groups #i #i see

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either. ↗

— Robert Barany

#contemporaries #either #find #great #mystery

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#avoid #cannon #nations #precede #shots

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#head #himself #his #known #led