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I couldn't come out to play last night.. I fell asleep early..

But in my dreams.. I played the game.. and I won...

I also had a dream that everyone missed me..

And it went on for hours..

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"I thank you, O Lord.
You illumined my face by your covenant.
I seek you,
As sure as the dawn you appear as perfect light.

Teachers of lies have comforted your people
and now they stumble, foolishly.
They abhor themselves
and do not esteem me through whom your wonders
and powers are manifest.

They have banished me from my land like a bird
from its nest, and my friends
and neighbors are driven from me.
They think me a broken pot.

They preach lies. They are dissembling prophets.
They devise baseness against me,
exchanging your teaching, written in my heart,
for smooth words.

They deny knowledge to the thirsty
and force them to drink vinegar to cover up error.
They stumble through mad feasts,
but you, God, spurn the schemes of Belial.

Your wisdom prevails.

Your hearts meditation prevails, established forever."

The Thanksgiving Psalms - Dead Sea Scrolls

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The more spiritual knowledge you have, the more you want. The less knowledge you have, the more satisfied one is with his/her intellect.

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” ~ Bertrand Russell

"Blessed is the wise person who has sought truth, and when it has been found, has rested upon it forever in faith, and has not been afraid of those who wish to trouble him."

-Jesus (The Book of Thomas:141)

“Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.” ~George Bernard Shaw

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

"When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable."

"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."

Rene Descartes

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“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
~ E. E. Cummings

"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bring you to enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.

The musician may sing to you of the rythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rythm, nor the voice that echoes it.

And he that is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth."

http://www.apocatastasis.net/OccultLibr ... ching.html

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'Only two things are infinite, the Universe, and human stupidity, and i'm not so sure about the former.....'
Albert Einstein, greatest inspiration to my life

“If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.”
~ Bertrand Russell

”Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.”

John Maynard Keynes

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"Thy words are but as thoughts; therefore, be bold." ~ William Shakespeare

Mine too..

"The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature.

For him neither the rule of human, nor the rule of divine will, exists as an independent cause of natural events.

To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted [italics his], in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am convinced that such behavior on the part of representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal.

For a doctrine which is to maintain itself not in clear light but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests.

In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task..."

Albert Einstein

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"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and the sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone. The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.

And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand. And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words. In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence.

When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market-place, let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue. Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear; For his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of wine is remembered. When the colour is forgotten and the vessel is no more."

http://www.apocatastasis.net/OccultLibr ... lking.html

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The peril of faith being reduced to the "God of the Gaps," a feeble deity retreating before the advance of science, whereas the true God is larger enough to accomodate any expansion of knowledge. A very interesting man, Albert Einstein, as well as a brilliant physicist. I believe there are conflicting quotes on Einstein's exact position on God. I fanything like me his ideas probably changed during the cause of his life.

I bet he was just in a foul mood when he said humans are infinitely stupid.