I'm just taking a break from watching "What the bleep do we know" again, and I'd thought I'd share some quotes with you that I stumbled upon. It's weird, there must be some hostility towards quotes coming from somewhere, cuz I always seem to feel guilty for looking at quotes. Then I try to rationalize as to why that might be and I get all sorts of answers, but I just can't pinpoint a reason. Whatever, I like these ones. On a side note, I'd like to mention that I haven't really felt a big change since I went vegan about a month ago, except for what I'm about to mention. It wasn't like i was really eliminating that much. The only animal products I was still using at the time was about 15% of the cheese I used to eat, the occasional egg, parmesan, and a bit of butter every few days, plus desserts. So it wasn't as huge as a step as it would be for some people, but I'm still stoked on it and will continue on this path. I would like to note however, that I've had a cold for a week, but it's remained dormant almost the whole time. My throat felt swollen last night, but other than that, most days I don't even know I'm sick, and other days I just cough up some shit in the morning. The rest of my family (meat-eaters) got the full effects of the cold and while we've been sick the same length of time, I've definintely gotten lucky, which I'm gonna thank my new diet for. Drew mentioned to me once that he felt that dairy products greatly magnified a cold he once had. Getting sick has actually been kinda fun, cuz I get to try my best to fight it off by eating ridiculous amounts of onions, garlic, and spicy foods. As a side note, after an in-depth conversation with a beekeeper buddy, I've decided that there is absolutely nothing wrong whatsoever with eating honey, and as long as it's unpasteurized, it certainly won't affect my health adversely and in fact, the rawer the honey, the more nutrients it retains. Pollen is incredibly nutritious. I think Jolene was taking pollen as a multi-vitamin substitute last year (correct me if I'm wrong). But yeah, quotations. Sometimes I enjoy reading who's quote it is just as much as the quote itsef:

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality.
- Ramtha

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
- Stephen W. Hawking

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always.
- Mahatma Gandhi

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
- Niels Bohr

If those who lead you say to you, "See, the Kingdom is in the sky," then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, "It is in the sea," then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.
-Jesus

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
- William James

The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
- Chang-Tzu

All speech, action, and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.
- Albert Einstein

In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
- Marianne Williamson

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
- Dogen