Quotes"He Who is contented is rich"Lao Tsu "Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader." Nostradamus, 1555  "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."GEORGE WASHINGTON Treaty of Tripoli 1796 "I never told my religion, nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives, and not from our words, that religion must be read." Thomas Jefferson People who offend easily should be offended more often." Mae West "The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." J. B. S. Haldane "The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature." Jacques-Yves Cousteau "The sky is round, and I have heard that, the Earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for their religion is the same as ours...Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing and always coming back again to where they were." Black Elk (1863-1950) 
"Men, women, and children worked from dawn to dusk in order to eat and maintain shelter. Everything in their world was handmade. So too was their religion and magic. These people were of the Earth. They lived, breathed, and worked with it everyday. And they left a legacy which is only now being rediscovered: Natural Magic." Scott Cunningham (?-1993) "They came with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other. First they stole gold. Then they stole the land. Then they stole souls." Ginger Hills (Navajo nation, date ?)
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"You grieve for those beyond grief and you speak words of insight, but learned men do not grief for the dead or the living. Never have I not existed, nor you, nor these Kings; and never in the future shall we cease to exist. Just as the embodied self enters childhood, youth, and old age, so does it enter another body..." Lord Krishna as quoted in the Hindu holy book, the Bhagavad-Gita |
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