“They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.” ― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

William Shakespeare :

The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. ‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes The thronèd monarch better than his crown.

A woman often walked In the garden all alone And when I passed along the linden-bordered road We almost talked.

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)

Annie

Japanese poem by Lady Koshikibu from Ogura 100 poems (early 13th century)

大江山　いく野の道の　遠ければ　まだふみもみず　天の橋立

“By Oe Mountain / The road to Ikuno is far away, / And neither have I beheld / Nor crossed its bridge of heaven. .” 

Proverbs 23:20-21 ESV : Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

 

 

 

Woroni (Canberra, ACT : 1950 – 2007), Thursday 15 June 1967

“When we drink, we get drunk.
When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
So, let’s all get drunk, and go to heaven!”
— Irish Toast

“Heaven! that’s another tale. Mightn’t let me chew there. Gotta have me a pot of ale; would I like the brew there?

Robert Service,Grandad

Beer Quotations

Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden. ~ Akan

http://afritorial.com/the-best-72-african-wise-proverbs/

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

– Calvin Coolidge (30th US president, 1872-1933)

http://www.californiaindianeducation.org/inspire/world/

Faith is the pierless bridge supporting what we see unto the scene we do not. Emily Dickinson

Japanese poem by Lady Koshikibu

from Ogura 100 poems (early 13th century)

大江山　いく野の道の　遠ければ　まだふみもみず　天の橋立

By One Mountain / The road to Ikuno is far away, / And neither have I beheld / Nor crossed its bridge of heaven. .

“If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.”

 

 

― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

 

This poem by Grant Hervey was published in Australians Yet and Other Verses, 1913.]

Going Blind

Is this the end of every hope,
Of all the plans I made,
To shut mine eyes and sadly grope
Through life in gloom arrayed ?
No more to see the shining stars,
No more to see the sun ;
My cry goes up to Heaven’s bars :
“What have I done ?”

http://www.instituteofaustralianculture.com/going-blind-grant-hervey/

There’s joy in the mountains; There’s life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, The rain is over and gone!” –

William Wordsworth,

“Hell wasn’t a major reservoir of evil, any more than Heaven, in Crowley’s opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind.”

― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.”

–   English Proverb

http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm

“I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me.”

― Moon Unit Zappa

It’s only a matter of inches, but skipping gets me just that much closer to heaven.

~Terri Guillemets

http://www.quotegarden.com/skipping.html

Adults aren’t generally struck with the urge to skip because their worries and burdens weigh them down and they forget that they can take themselves lightly.

http://www.fancyquote.com/skipping_2.html

I found myself praying: “May I love and accept myself just as I am.”

― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination, which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God, they leave it cold and languishing. –Jeanne Guyon

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

Climb a tree – it gets you closer to heaven.

“Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!
When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!”

― Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, Why I Make Myself Unhappy

The path to paradise begins in hell. ― Dante Alighieri

“Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you don’t want to repeat what happened.”

― Desmond Tutu

People in general would rather die than forgive. It’s THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I’m giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

― Sue Monk Kidd

“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

If life on earth is not a road to heaven, then it is a treadmill, a merry go round minus the merry. Peter Kreeff

 

“Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?”

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

http://www.squidoo.com/zen-proverb-quotes

"We meditate on the transcendental glory of the Deity Supreme,
who is inside the heart of the earth,
inside the life of the sky,
and inside the soul of the heaven.
May He stimulate and illumine our minds. "

The Gayatri Mantra.

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. Rabindranath Tagore

A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.

Heman Hesse.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/27688

foto- tree seen from the xpt in august 2010 mid north coast nsw

A man should avoid these six evils: lust, anger, avarice pleasure, pride, and rashness, for free of these he may be happy. (Sanskrit).

I Came to buy a smile—today—But just a single smile—The smallest one upon your faceWill suit me just as well—The one that no one else would missIt shone so very small—I’m pleading at the “counter”—…

Source: A man should avoid these six evils: lust, anger, avarice pleasure, pride, and rashness, for free of these he may be happy. (Sanskrit). | THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY

Bunny’s Excuse. There was once a wicked old sinner Who fancied a rabbit for dinner, But the bunny he met Said: “Don’t kill me yet, For I really am still a beginner.”

My living problems also cease to be struggles.

Heaven designs to suit our trials to our strength.

Though the sun shines, leave not your cloak at home.

” The queen’s mocking laughter cut in. “This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?”

“Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt—a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom.”
― Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Mara, Daughter of the Nile

RISE TOGETHER

ADAM T NA SPEAKER

IF DRINKING DON’T KILL ME

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM

SMALL TRIBUTE FOR IZZY FOREAL BY PETER CARRUTHERS

RISE TOGETHER

ADAM T NA SPEAKER

IF DRINKING DON’T KILL ME

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM

SMALL TRIBUTE FOR IZZY FOREAL BY PETER CARRUTHERS