I'm trying to write here!: The Power of Now

What does it mean to be in the moment? Can one truly live every moment of every day, appreciating that moment for what it is?
And should we?

Philosophies to Live By

"If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The important thing is not to stop questioning." -- Albert Einstein
"The world, we are told, was made especially for man--a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?" -- John Muir
"Listening looks easy, but it's not simple. Every head is a world." -- Cuban Proverb
"They say you can tell a lot about somebody by finding out who they admire. I want to tell you about a writer who fills me with admiration and envy, the woman I would like to be when I grow down." -- Anne Lamott
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." --Albert Einstein
“When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.” -- Anne Lamott
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

On God

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." -- Albert Einstein
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty." -- Albert Einstein
“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” -- Anne Lamott
“I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation." -- Albert Einstein
"Jesus wept." -- John 11:35
“It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.” -- Albert Einstein

You want to know why I'm a vegetarian?

"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals." -- Henry David Thoreau
"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more." -- Franz Kafka
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men." -- Leonardo da Vinci
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." -- Thomas Edison
"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." -- Pythagoras
"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." -- Albert Einstein
"What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?" -- Jeremy Bentham (philosopher)
"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble." -- Buddha
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral." -- Leo Tolstoy
"Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." -- Genesis 1:29
"In that day the wolf and the lamb will lie down together, and the leopard and goats will be at peace. Calves and fat cattle will be safe among lions, and the little child shall lead them all. The cows will graze among bears; cubs and calves will lie down together, and lions will eat grass like the cows. . . Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, for as the waters fill the sea, so shall the earth be full of the knowledge of the Lord." -- Isaiah 11:6-10
"Flesh eating is unprovoked murder." Benjamin Franklin
"When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give." -- Isaac B. Singer
"It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The Power of Now

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