Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale...
"The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw
“When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’
Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’
Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say:
"Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next--and on and on."
"Some people believe that we process information during dreams. Quite the contrary. A dream is the mind having fun when there is no processing to keep it busy." ...Tom Robbins.
"Given a chance between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly-because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to God and there's always a chance that a folly will".....Erasmus
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pond
"Bible quotations are probably unavoidable,but keep them brief-they should be insights, not teachings.
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"Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God."
- Sirens of Titan
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sirguessalot
nice thread
a few from David Bohm...
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"Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty."
--Raisa Gorbachev
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--Herbert V. Prochnow
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coolchef
speaking of the usa{which i love}
"if democracry is so great why are we running all over the world shoving it down peoples throats with a gun"
i read this in a letter to the editor back in the 60's
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“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
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“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!”
~Albert Einstein~
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satori001
"Having resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die" -- Malachy McCourt
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"You wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you knew how little they ever did."
Originator listed as "anonymous" in "Quote for Today" in my local newspaper, circa 1982.
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"Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next--and on and on."
- Galapagos
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"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate." -- Steven Wright
(A little chemistry humor, there.)
George
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"Well you see, my friend, it's just an optical illu-u-u-u-u-sion!"
-drunk who tried to sell me wrong junkyard part
"Too frilly...too sparkly...no, I am not a gift-wrapped present."
-my daughter, turning the pages of a prom gown catalogue
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excathedra
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
Elbert Hubbard
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"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."
--Abraham Lincoln
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"Some people believe that we process information during dreams. Quite the contrary. A dream is the mind having fun when there is no processing to keep it busy." ...Tom Robbins.
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satori001
“Every man is a fool in some [other] man's opinion” Spanish Proverb
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“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.” Oscar Wilde
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“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion” Democritus
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“If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve” Ashleigh Brilliant
“Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story” Ashleigh Brilliant
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GeorgeStGeorge
"I AM WHO AM" -- God
"I yam what I yam" -- Popeye
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Belle
“Be Who You Are and Say What You Feel Because Those Who Mind Don't Matter and Those Who Matter Don't Mind.”
Usually attributed to Dr. Seuss.
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
~Pablo Picasso~
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
-Issac Asimov spoken by Salvador Hardin in "Foundation"
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. "
--Andre Gide
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"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."
-- Carl Sandburg
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lovematters
"Agitate, agitate, agitate"
Frederick Douglass
"Three Words Only"
satori
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The following quotes are taken from an essay by Audre Lorde entitled "Transformation of Silence into Language and Action".
Lorde wrote the essay shortly after she was faced with the diagnosis of breast cancer:
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared,
even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect.
In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for my life, however short it might be,
priorities and omissions became strongly etched in a merciless light, and what I most regretted were my silences.
Of what had I ever been afraid? To question or to speak as I believed could have meant pain, or death.
But we all hurt in so many different ways, all the time, and pain will either change or end.
Death, on the other hand, is the final silence.
We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.
For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence
for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt
to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
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GrouchoMarxJr
"Given a chance between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly-because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to God and there's always a chance that a folly will".....Erasmus
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