todays_thought Mahayana "Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent." - Carl ¿[how will/did you spend yours]? 020202 ... Mahayana "I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." - Goethe [creating the climate, i shall weather you all...joyously ...as instruments of sweet inspiration...humor & healingistic ways... humanizing you in each & every opportunity available & when one is not i shall make it so...so as to sing towards the beautious being you are ... & so shall you deserve to be-just to be] 020204 ... oon i have pants like those, i do 020205 ... Mahayana strange sensations 020205 ... Mahayana "We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs." --- Francois Fenelon 020306 ... Mahayana exciting things are a'comin 020306 ... yummyC pink meow 020306 ... Grievance lost breathing 020306 ... Mahayana "We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping." --- Persian proverb 020307 ... Mahayana ~*10 dancing fishies*~ 020307 ... Mahayana solace in a fright 020318 ... Mahayana “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle 020318 ... Teenage Jesus "You know, I've often thought of becoming a golf club." 020318 ... Mahayana "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson [{ive really been questioning this lately [on a multitude of levels]... can one's actions far outshine or outmudd one as a person ... are one's actions greater/lesser than or merely one small fraction of "who" one is}] :: much to consider :: 020320 ... Teenage Jesus I think that depends on how you define yourself. If you are defined by others, your actions create "you" in the mind of the definer. If you take care of that important business of self-definition yourself, then you may or may not choose to disassociate yourself from your actions, at your leisure. Anyway, my thought for the day is: "Next time I go tiger huntin', I'm gonna take my tweasers." 020320 ... kerry my thought for the day: "i must kiss him" 020320 ... unhinged i wanted to leave her alone on her birthday like she left me 020320 ... Teenage Jesus "Do you know what a palmist once said to me? She said, WILL YOU LET GO! Gentleman, I am a bulldog and you will know my bite is worse!" 020321 ... Mahayana can anyone say "I love you sass" ¿[anymore perfect than she can]? [{i seriously doubt it}] 020321 ... Mahayana "Kindness is contagious. The spirit of harmony trickles down by a thousand secret channels into the inmost recesses of the household life." - Henry Van Dyke [ooooh i like this one] [nice name henry]:] 020321 ... Mahayana practicing love is far better than preaching it 020321 ... Teenage Jesus I know that's right! 020322 ... Mahayana "The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them." - Benjamin Jowett 020427 ... Mahayana today i am thankful for this lowness in life, for in my higher moments i shall have more compassion, understanding, and wisdom to drawn upon in others times of need 020427 ... Mahayana "The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured." - Dean Acheson 020618 ... Dafremen "But for an accident of fate, different paths through time and space, the material that is you could instead be in that keyboard you're typing on. Be grateful for all that you have, this glorious chance which you have been given. Be very grateful...I know I am." - Me 020618 ... Mahayana "Life is not holding a good hand. Life is playing a poor hand well." - Danish Proverb 020618 ... Dafremen "I am so grateful for this chance to gaze in wonder at that which created me. At this wonderful opportunity, to think, and feel and act and be. OH and I thank everything around me for the part it plays in making THIS the show to see, always. Thank you, oh thank you for this lucky break! This shot at it, this chance to prove myself worthy of it. Thank you all." - Again...me 020623 ... Dafremen "I am humbled by the fact that we're still here, with so much conspiring against us we are here. We are the 3,000 year old bottle, the 6,000 year old scroll, we are the serendipity and the treasure of our times, if we would play our part. If we would join the show. If we would be grateful. If we would be amazed. If we just could bring ourselves to be humbled for one short lifetime, by the glory of it all. The ease with which we can have happiness astounds me. The ease with which we could have it all by letting it go amazes me. It humbles me." - Yea, you guessed it...me again 020623 ... Dafremen "There is no spare time my little champagne bubbles. While there may be bubbles aplenty in the glass, for each of you, my precious bombitas, there is only the time it takes to reach the end of the journey. Barely enough time to appreciate the trip, let alone have any to spare. A toast: To bubbles, May the journey be all that you could ask for, and may you rise...slowly." - Uh huh 020623 ... Dafremen "The consciousness of the whole certainly remains a possibility, and we can entertain it all we like with little fear of retribution. After all, if all is NOT conscious, it's not going to know that we suggested it was, and even if it could find out, why would it hold a grudge against a compliment?" - A simple man who LOVES the_show 020623 ... Dafremen "More precious...are the things that we do have. For the memory, even the memory is fleeting. Lasting like the scent of a Hershey's Kiss on foil. Strong at first, ever diminishing until with time, even the MEMORY lingers no more. Indeed what we have is as precious and worthy of appreciation as you say. "If you don't appreciate what_you_do_have then who will?" Such a simple question, such a difficult answer to face." - Ok so this is getting a bit narcissistic. ¿And? 020623 what's it to you? who go blather from