#sm

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it. ↗

— John Pilger

#media #politics #journalist

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it. ↗

— Julius Robert Oppenheimer

#pessimism #pessimism

He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#male #behavior

And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems. ↗

— Donna George Storey

#japan #poetry #tourism #travel #japan

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#enlightenment #mind #zen #enlightenment

Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate. ↗

— Huang Po

#dharma #enlightenment #mind #spirituality #zen

Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness. (14) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#awakening #breath #buddhism #christianity #community

Fame is not so impossible for people with charisma, passion and talent. Being famous just means you have fans, and even one or two is enough to make you someone special. Ask a music fan who the best guitarist of all time is, and while one group insists that it was Jimmi Hendrix, another group swears that it was Eddie Van Halen instead. There will never be a time when everyone on this planet agrees on something like that, but luckily that's not important. All that matters is that both sides remain loyal, which they will assuming you continue to be who you are and do your thing. This is all that you need to be immortalized. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#fame #fans #guitar #loyalty #music

I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. ↗

— William T. Sherman

#glory #journalism #military

John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don't believe [...]. No atheist is principally that. What we'd want to call ourselves is humanist or materialist, or biologist or linguist, or for that matter socialist, because one or more of these, or something else again, is what we do and think and are. We have 'purely and simply finished with God', to adapt a phrase of Engels's. ↗

— David Craig

#atheists #biologists #friedrich-engels #god #humanists