"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." - James Arthur Baldwin
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else. — Gloria Steinem
I somehow missed some earlier quotes, but are now seeing them at the appropriate time. Spoiler: the usual deal... - Had an epic dream last night, in anime style; this one the first dream I've ever had that had sound: got the chills as I write this post thinking about the last 24hrs. - Watched some old TED type vids on me USB stick attached to me smart tv. One was on healing the bod via thought alone. Take away knowledge: Attitude determines your state of Being and the things you'll achieve. - I've already achieved the "impossible" by healing my 2 types of Depression, amongst all the other soul dysfunctions I had, so doing the "impossible" is not new to me. - I've been tormented for a couple of months now about a situation that is a living nightmare. The C.S. Lewis quote syncs up with my new attitude to which I'm now embarking on making, what any sane rational person would judge as an "impossible dream", to come true. - The torment has ended, the nightmare has become a dream I'm joyfully engaged in making a reality. - Don't ask, this one will remain known only to me. And no, whatever you think the problem might be, I'm confident you're eleventee hundreds of miles away from even being in the same ball park. - This post is an expression of my excitement and openly speaking about it anchors it into the reality were it's meant to manifest. I can divulge one aspect; it involves being struck by lightning.
Agreed, but only by folks who avoid themselves, who avoid taking responsibility for their part of their life journey. "There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung "By attempting to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we are giving away our power to some other individual or organization. In this way, millions daily attempt to escape from freedom." - M. Scott Peck "Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us." - Stephen R. Covey
From experience, I think folks avoid dealing with this type of soul pain because it's self created, which means there's aspects of one's Being that needs fixing. "If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year." - Horace
Fairness is an illusion of the weak and ignorant; it is the insincere promise made by those who manipulate the masses for gain. - Dean Koontz, The Night Window
Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll. - Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto
"Affirmations are anything that we say or think. Our thoughts create our feelings, beliefs, and experiences. Too often they are negative. we say, "I don't want this in my life" or "I don't want to be sick anymore" or "I hate my job". If we want to change or manifest something in our lives, we must state what we do want. We must affirm that we are willing to see ourselves or our lives in a different perspective. Thus, we can change our experiences by first changing our thoughts." - Louise L. Hay Thus, I'm no longer suffering a nightmare; I'm enjoying a dream, that I'm working on making a reality. "A sailboat's destination (thus experiences along the way) can be dramatically changed by a slight adjustment of the sail; so too can a small shift in attitude profoundly change the experiences you'll have and their quality." - Alexander Stillwater
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. - John Donne
"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men." - Honore' de Balzac "The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal peace." - Bhagavad Gita
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Mankind has a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it." - Samuel Johnson
“Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.” - Grant Morrison.
Spiderman can't shoot webs without canisters of a formulated substance that makes the 'web' that he does shoot. So he would only be able to climb everything and be super strong, without the added manufactured pressurized chemical for web slinging.
Depends on the version. Raimi's movies and some comics give him spinnerets in his wrists. But that's nasty.
"Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long and fine life indeed." - Richard Bach "The behavior of others isn't a reason to be immobilized. That which offends you only weakens you. If you're looking for occasions to be offended, you'll find them at every turn. This is your ego at work convincing you that the world shouldn't be the way it is. You can't reach the power of intention by being offended. By all means, act to eradicate the horrors of the world, which emanate from massive ego identification, but stay in peace. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place and leads to attack, counter-attack, and war." - Wayne Dyer ( though I do not share his negative attitude towards the Ego)
