“When sleeping women wake, mountains move.”               – Chinese Proverb

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.”

-Mel Brooks

“The imagination is not interested in two-dimensional reductions or naively pitting one side against another, dark against light. It is interested in the place where the two sides meet, and what they give birth to when they cross-fertilize each other. That is the heart of creativity: it is not fantasy, not invention. Creativity is listeing in on the places where the opposites are dancing with each other.”

-John O’Donohue as reported byDiane Covington in

“The Unseen Life that Dreams Us”, The Sun, Issue 376, April 2007

“A cloud does not know
why it moves in such a direction
and at such a speed,
It feels an impulsion…This is the place
to go now. But the sky knows
the reasons and the patterns
behind all clouds,
and you will know, too, when
you lift yourself high enough
to see beyond
horizons.”

-from Illusions by Richard Bach

“There was no harm in foolishness, he beleived, but the prospect of madness worried him a little.” The Year of Silence by Madison Smartt Bell

“In December of 2001, the Bush administration…authorized the secret seizure, detention, and interrogation of persons and subjected them to torture.

“In January of 2002, the Bush administration declared that Geneva Conventions protection will not be honored for the ‘War on Terror.’

“In August 2002, the administration attempted to redefine torture to escape liability.”

– International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes against Humanity by the Bush Administration

 

“Let us be clear: torture can never be an instrument to fight terror, for torture is an insturment of terror.”

- United Nations former Secretary General, Kofi Annan

“Nothing on earth
Is more gentle and yielding than water,
Yet nothing is stronger.
When it confronts a wall of stone
Gentleness overcomes hardness:
The power of water prevails.”

- Lao-tzu in Te-Tao Ching, Chapter 78

“Looking up is as scary as looking down.” -Jim Bishop

“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.” -John Lennon

“There are no sane people left on the planet, only Earthlings that remain undiagnosed.”

-David Franks