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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold Wilson

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~W. Edwards Deming

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Victor Frankl

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. ~Shunryu Suzuki

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. ~Henry Miller

Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher

If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change. ~John A. Simone, Sr.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place. ~Washington Irving

When you are through changing, you are through. ~Bruce Barton

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ~John Kenneth Galbraith

What can we take on trust
in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness,
pride – nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
~Euripides, Hecuba

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius

Change always comes bearing gifts. ~Price Pritchett

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ~Ellen Glasgow

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one’s eternal peril. ~Laurens van der Post

Growth is the only evidence of life. ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864

Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed. ~Irene Peter

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~Faith Baldwin

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. ~William H. Seward

The birds are molting. If only man could molt also – his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. ~James Allen

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ~William Blake

Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability”

You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish. ~Author Unknown

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust

Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. ~Glen Beaman

If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown

Nowadays change is around every corner; in my day it was only around the expected ones. ~V.L. Allineare

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. ~George Carlin

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. ~Lynn Hall

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Charles Darwin

The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. ~Jawaharlal Nehru

We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
~W.H. Auden

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. ~Joan Wallach Scott

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. ~Ellen Glasgow

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! ~Andre Gide

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ~Woodrow Wilson

After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. ~Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. ~Pauline R. Kezer

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ~Saint Augustine

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. ~John Steinbeck, America and Americans

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ~John Ciardi

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. ~Ezra Pound

Every beginning is a consequence – every beginning ends some thing. ~Paul Valery

It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

People don’t change. Only their costumes do. ~Gene Moore

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me. ~Author Unknown

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. ~Harrison Ford

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times. ~Michel Montaigne

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. ~Kurt Lewin

Things do not change; we change. ~Henry David Thoreau

Our only security is our ability to change. ~John Lilly

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. ~Bertold Brecht

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ~Francis Bacon, “On Innovation,” Essays, 1597

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. ~Francis Bacon

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. ~Confucius, Analects

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicates nothing but the changeableness of the weather. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ~Stanislaw Lec

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. ~George Bernard Shaw

source: The Quote Garden

There are those who do not want you to speak, they do not want you to see pictures. They do not want you to know the truth.

Why? Because while suppression through violence and fear may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power and images speak a thousand words. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this picture.

Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors, systems of surveillance, entertainment and news media designed into coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.

How did this happen? Who’s to blame?

People just stood there, watched and did nothing.

Well certainly there are those more responsible than others but again truth be told, you were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War, terror, fear, disease, poverty, starvation, homelessness to name a few.

All these and more were engineered and conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your anxiety and panic you submitted to the false promises and empty words for order, stability, peace and wellbeing in return for your subdued silence and ever obedient consent.

Remember! that fairness, equality, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives.

So if you’ve seen nothing, if the crimes against humanity remain unknown to you then continue as you are; comfortably numb.

But if you see, if you hear, if you feel and if you would seek, then be an instrument of change. Be a conduit, no matter how minute for time is of the essence.

It begins with an up-and-coming politician. He pretends to be a deeply religious man but is a member of certain clandestine secret society. He is completely single-minded in convictions and has no regard for the political process, the constitution or its citizens. Eventually, a special project is launched and a war as a means to distraction in the name of ‘national security’.

At first, it is believed to be a search for biological weapons or similiar and it is pursued regardless of its cost. However, the true goal of the project is power, complete and total hegemonic domination.

Imagine a virus – the most terrifying virus you can, and then imagine that you and you alone have the cure. But if your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon?

The ends always justify the means and it is suggested that their target should not be an enemy of the country but rather the country itself. The citizens themselves.

Three targets are chosen to maximize the effect of the attack: a school, a tube station, and a water-treatment plant. Several hundred die within the first few weeks. Until at last the true goal comes into view. Before this crisis, no one would have predicted the outcome of the elections ending in null and void ending ending with the engineered result of military and marshal law enforced.

Almost immediately soon after a pharmaceutical and a security company controlled in proxy by certain party and military members are obscenely rich. However the true genius of the master plan was control and submission through fear.

A year later, several extremeists (scapegoats) are tried, found guilty, and executed while a memorial is built erected to canonize their victims. Fear and nothing but fear become the ultimate tool of this government and the rest will be history.

It is criminal to teach a person not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks; be it mental, emotional or physical.

Sex and Race are easy, visible differences and have been the primary way of organising human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen for you.

The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

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The above taken (with little edit) from the movie script “V for Vendetta”.

from: mission ignition

Tenho um buraco vazio, de vácuo sonoro nos ouvidos. Quem me dera que de entre a espuma da vida, surja ciclicamente uma confusão que provoque paz de mente, sem adivinhas, sem esconderijos, tal como a encontrou, repetidas vezes, o Sr. ‘Madchester’ Tony Wilson.

Morreu Anthony ‘Tony’ Wilson. Cunhou a frase “algumas pessoas fazem dinheiro, outras fazem história” e pelo caminho levantou do chão os Joy Division, os Happy Mondays e os New Order.

Reza a história que foi uma das 49 pessoas que viu ao vivo o primeiro concerto dos Sex Pistols e essa experiência transformou-o de jornalista semi-obscuro no maior promotor de cultura sónica que Manchester já conheceu.

Fundou dois clubes noturnos e introduziu a música electrónica na Inglaterra. Fundou um festival e uma convenção musical anuais em Manchester e ainda teve tempo de produzir os primeiro ‘live’ na Grã Bretanha dos Smiths, da Madonna, dos Oasis, dos …

Preferia a honra aos contratos e a sua produtora de música ‘Factory Records’ foi à falência, mas conquistou um lugar no abstracto musical mundial.

A sua candura e inocência revelou música que influenciou decisivamente as bandas e a música que ouvimos hoje, todos os dias, que nos deliciam e transportam para outro lugar, para longe do fundo e para a rarefacção da espuma em turbilhão que é o espírito humano em delírio sónico.

Morreu com 57 anos sem dinheiro, mas com um batalhão de amigos. Viveu 30 anos mais à idade legal de falecimento dos seres musicais intemporais.

Da minha parte, OBRIGADO.

Tony Wilson e Ian Curtis. Que estejam a janar juntos e na companhia de uma Cuba Libre no inferno dos santos.

Comecei a ir ao FMM há quatro anos. Desde então, venho sempre para casa com a certeza de que acabei de passar os melhores dias da minha vida. E isto acontece todos os anos! Portanto, o ano passado foi melhor que o anterior e por aí dentro. Este ano não foi excepção, foi mesmo o melhor de sempre.

Chego de Sines recheado de novos amigos, com imensos novos sons para ir ouvindo ao longo do ano, alma purificada, coração despedaçado, olhos abertos, sorriso estampado.

Em Sines e em Porto Côvo há magia suficiente para mudar o mundo. Tenho dito.

A quem partilhou tudo isto comigo: amo-vos!

O homem vai deixar-nos. Adeus. Sem outra bagagem, partiu para o futuro dele, deixando um vazio, essencial, no abstracto da consciência colectiva, como só um chato como ele sabe preencher.
Aqui lhe presto homenagem a ele e ao seu estado permanente de irreverência. Um turbilhão. Côr-de-rosa, mas diabólico.

Como dizia um amigo meu: “saúdinha e pau no olho!”

Good bye and goodspeed.

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há quem tenha 3 diopterias e há quem tenha 4 de miopia
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o literal significado da expressão stoned
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as pessoas às vezes são tão parecidas umas com as outras que dá ideia que são as mesmas que são parecidas umas com as outras que são as mesmas que são as mesmas as mesmas as
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descubra as diferenças: respirar debaixo de água, usar o sol como fonte de energia directa, ser Deus, ser Buda, ser Eu, ser Tu
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Albufeira do Maranhão, Avis, Julho 2007

So I guess it all has to do with how one defines “awakening” or “waking up.” And I guess I have quite a different definition than most!

So here’s a quick rundown of how I see it. And so as not to come across as “holier than thou,” there are still things on the following list that I’m guilty of myself, because I’m not there yet either. ;)

– Do you still believe that the President, Senate, Congress, etc. are really running things? If so….not awake.

– Do you still have a particular party that you allign yourself with and do you still vote? If so, not awake.

– Do you still watch entertainment programming on TV? Actually sit there through the commercials, vegging out? Follow particular sports teams? If so…...not awake.

– Do you still go to the doctor when you’re ill, or take prescription meds? If so….not awake.

– Are you concerned with having money or running out of money? Retirement plans and 401Ks? If so…...not awake.

– Do you still get caught up in petty gossip, friend/family/neighbor drama and workplace politics? If so…...not awake.

– Have you conquered your ego, and live every moment of your waking life in full awarness, and with the realization that you’re an extension of the Creator Source, out there in the world representing it in everything you do or say? If so….not awake.

(the last item with all it involves is the biggest bane of my awakening process at the moment. ;) I’m amazed at anybody who can arrive at that point. Very difficult to do.)

some more Clarissa’s thoughts

E eu, timidamente, vou tentando assinar por baixo. ;)

Lisboetas e afins, quem não fôr, como eu, rasgar a Avis, vá, por favor, aqui.

By deliberately eliminating other options, The Powers That Be (TPTB) have narrowed down the pool of choices for all aspects of our existence to ensure that we remain in the sheep pen, and then hope we don’t notice this and question anything. A major facet of this in modern developed nations involves working at a mainstream soul-sucking, energy depleting job, whether you like it or not, so you can pay your bills and acquire material goods. We’re not presented with other options for getting by in life – such as bartering and trading, or growing and producing our own food and goods, (for those who only know an urban life) or working for yourself, tax free. So we wind up following along with little, if any, resistance to the path that’s already been tread before us. It is time to realize that we are living in a world that is somebody else’s creation, and it is not in our best interest. But it doesn’t have to be this way. And people are starting to wake up to this, slowly but surely.

Carissa Conti, in in2worlds.net