Quote of the day....

We, the famished, ragged ragamuffins of

the East are to win freedom for all humanity!

We have no word for 'nation' in our language.

-- Vishwa kavi Rabindranath Tagore.
Nobel laureate.
His reflections on pre-independence India's
 contribution to the first world war.

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Author of the greatest anti-war poem in the

English language, Dulce et Decorum Est.

The great British poet Wilfred Owen

was to return to the front to give his life

in the futile First World War, he recited

Tagore's Parting Words to his mother

as his last goodbye.

When he was so tragically and pointlessly killed,

Owen's mother found Tagore's poem copied out

in her son's hand in his diary:


When I go from hence

let this be my parting word,

that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus

that expands on the ocean of light,

and thus am I blessed

---let this be my parting word.

In this playhouse of infinite forms

I have had my play and

here have I caught sight of him that is formless.

My whole body and my limbs

have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch;

and if the end comes here, let it come

- let this be my parting word.

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Quote of the day....

Absolute, arbitrary power

over the lives, liberty and property

of freemen exists nowhere in a republic,

not even in the largest majority.

-- Kentucky Declaration of Rights - Art. I, Sec. 2
also found in the Wyoming Declaration of Rights Art. I, Sec. 7

Quote of the day..

Ever since the beginning of modern science, 

the best minds have recognized that 

"the range of acknowledged ignorance will 

grow with the advance of science." 

Unfortunately, the popular effect of 

this scientific advance has been a belief, 

seemingly shared by many scientists,that

the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and

that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and 

deliberate control of all human activities. 

It is for this reason that those intoxicated by 

the advance of knowledge so often become 

the enemies of freedom."

-- Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974

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"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."

-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(1729-1781) German Dramatist

Quote of the day..........

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy:

it assumes its own correctness.

-- Walter Bagehot.
(1826-1877)

Towards a Right action....

Lacking in any kind of principle is 

One's inability to define oneself.

Self identity...........

Say religion,faith,and one's identity etc

is not defined by inheritance, 

or even  by a tradition, where 

All life forms are one and the same.


It is in one's conscious efforts and 

becoming aware of the self that which is 

in constant realization, One gets to 

define one's identity....


Where one's identity is nothing but 

To be responsible for Who one is 

To begin with.

To know / Who are You....?

The most enlightened revelation 

One can ever have is to know 

the nature of one's imperfections.

Quote of the day.....

On May 25th, 2012, Biden spoke to families of 

fallen soldiers and described the appeal of suicide.

"I probably shouldn’t say this with the press here,

" Biden said, "but no, but it’s more important, 

you’re more important. 

Just when you think, 

‘Maybe I’m going to make it,’ 

you’re riding down the road and 

you pass a field, and 

you see a flower and it reminds you. 

Or you hear a tune on the radio. 

Or you just look up in the night. 

You know, you think, 

‘Maybe I’m not going to make it, man.'

For the first time in my life, 

I understood how someone could 

consciously decide to commit suicide. 

Not because they were deranged, 

not because they were nuts, because 

they had been to the top of the mountain, and 

they just knew in their heart 

they would never get there again."

-- Joe Biden.

47th Vice president of United States.

Quote of the day.....

People want it. People can get it.

We live in a capitalistic democratic society,

So we get what we want.

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To Will......

To will that is most enduring and fruitful..

Is to know the true nature of one's imperfections.
     

Navigating the present...

The present moment is ever present in its movement,

Hence there is no circumventing it.

Confession / clarification.........

Confession/clarification is one of the cleansing process of 

Inner thought ( self) and actions of a person :

A choice there remains is how one chooses to address it, 

Not a mear ( insignificant/simple /indifferent) 

manipulation of  the conscious self,  

that leads one to be delusional with distortions of reality, 

where one is lost even more in to 

The trappings of falsehood 

But, is a journey to regain one's innocence

that is humble and vulnerable.

An undoing, where nothing is left for imagination... 

And  with out such cleansing

There is neither transcendence nor 

Evolution of the self.

Acts...

Albeit with all the good intentions and to do good 

and serve the fellow human beings ,

One had indeed done nothing , except to be thankful 

for being in such privileged position and 

Yet to face the absurdity of the fact that 

One is indeed in no less need of salvation and

As such there is neither virtue or vice  

in those contrasting lives, 

The server and the served,while both are not free 

Of their respective bondage (miseries), 

where in the possibility or a potential for 

any true meaning lies only 

when life is made free of such ( conditional )

banalities of existence. 

In Faith............/ Stalker...

In faith one is Always alone.

-Stalker

Quote of the day.....

Integrity has no need of rules.

-- Albert Camus
(1913-1960) French Algerian author

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It is the first responsibility of 

every citizen to question authority.

-- Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790) US Founding Father

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Laws control the lesser man. 

Right conduct controls the greater one.

-- Chinese Proverb

Quote of the day........

The simple step of a courageous individual

is not to take part in the lie.

One word of truth outweighs the world.

-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(1918-2008) Nobel Prize for Literature, 1970

Quote of the day..........

Much more is needed. 

At least as important is that 

( THE PERSON DESIGNATED) 

the criminal must be debased. 

He must be seen to suffer not just from 

a deprivation of liberty, but also to be 

emotionally, psychologically, mentally anguished. 

The punishment can’t just physically 

restrain his body, but 

must inflict suffering in his mind, 

on the deepest level of his soul.

-- Glenn Greenwald.

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The prosecutor-dictated plea bargain system, 

by creating such inordinate pressures to 

enter into plea bargains, 

appears to have led a significant number of 

defendants to plead guilty to crimes 

they never actually committed.

---Judge Jed S. Rakoff.

Privacy.......

privacy is the cornerstone of freedom and Liberty 

Though may not be private,

Yet it is the grace and essence of human self

In its interaction with the very nature of existence.

What is... and Will be.....and A homage to The chambered nautilus....

In time space continuum what has been.... 

( neither intelligence nor experience) 

is not same in the present ...

nor It will be in future 

even in similarities / parallels. 

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                         A Homage to..

    The Chambered Nautilus

This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,

Sails the unshadowed main,— 

The venturous bark that flings

On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings

In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,

And coral reefs lie bare,

Where the cold sea-maids rise 

to sun their streaming hair.


Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;

Wrecked is the ship of pearl!

And every chambered cell,

Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,

As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,  

Before thee lies revealed,—

Its irised ceiling rent, 

its sunless crypt unsealed!


Year after year beheld the silent toil

That spread his lustrous coil;

Still, as the spiral grew,

He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,

Stole with soft step its shining archway through,

Built up its idle door,

Stretched in his last-found home, 

and knew the old no more.


Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
   
Child of the wandering sea,

Cast from her lap, forlorn!

From thy dead lips a clearer note is born

Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn!

While on mine ear it rings,

Through the deep caves of thought 

I hear a voice that sings:


Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,

As the swift seasons roll!

Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Let each new temple, nobler than the last,

Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,

Till thou at length art free,

Leaving thine outgrown shell by 

life’s unresting sea!

--By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Easter and in Rememberence of PassOver......

In a shadowy corner of the self

In each one of us, there resides

An infomer who aids in self preservation

and in one's insecurities. Albeit

An informer is not only inauthentic

but also is the one that lends oneself

to distortion of truth ,adding to chaos.

Quote of the day.........

Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,

That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,

How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,

Your looped and windowed raggedness, 

defend you From seasons such as these? 

Oh, I have ta'en Too little care of this! 

Take physic, pomp.

Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,

That thou mayst shake the superflux to them

And show the heavens more just.

----King Lear.

The storm...

Nothing he had ever seen before of life 

in the city or anywhere else had prepared him

for the stories they told him or

the chilling matter of fact-ness  of their telling,

as though the world that described was

the way the world has always been

as far as they knew would always go on being.

He came to realize that more often than not

their homelessness was not worse than the homes,

if they had ever had any, that they had fled or

be thrown out of a simply seen

fall pieces around their ears.

If the police would not let them sleep

in the subway, they simply moved on to

some boarded- up tenement or public latrine.

If they could get hold of drugs,

they injected oven cleaner, maybe , or 

sniffed glue or or gasoline, or

anything else that came their way.

If panhandling did not pay off they stole,or

if they weren't too battered looking,

they found somebody who would pay them

for the use of their bodies and may be even

take them in ,feed them and buy them cloths

and treat them decently for while,

often they would find themselves

a professional who would handle

such transactions for them,

enjoying themselves for free from time to time

and may be literally throwing them out

the window or off a fire escape when

they stopped bringing money.

If they were resourceful ,

they might pick up the price of a meal

by tearing out in to rush hour by traffic

when the lights turned red and swabbing off

wind shields with a wet rag, or

scourging the coin return slots of pay phones.

He suspected that beneath their opaque gaze,

they were asking them selves how

they might be able to make use of him

and wondering , if he in turn was asking

himself how and in what ways

he might be able to make use of them.

A girl would drop her eyes or a boy give

a knowing smile, when there did not seem

to be anything to smile at,and he suddenly

felt something that approached terror.

What terrified him was that

they were all of them for sale.

--- Fredric Buechner.

Quote of the day..........

"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment 

on our liberties.

We hold this prudent jealousy to be 

the first duty of citizens,

and one of the noblest characteristics of 

the late Revolution.

The freeman of America did not wait till 

usurped power had strengthened

itself by exercise, and entangled 

the question in precedents.

They saw all the consequences in the principle,

and they avoided the consequences 

by denying the principle."

-- James Madison (1751-1836)
Father of the Constitution for the USA.
4th US President
Source: "A Memorial and Remonstrance".

Equal among Humans....Tu Tu.. Mi Mi.....

In matters of Human equality... 

One's actions are as arbitrary as that of others. 

Confession / Clarification...

Confession/clarification is 

One of the cleansing process of 

Inner thought ( self) and actions of a person :

A choice there remains is how 

One chooses to address it....

As a journey to regain 

One's lost innocence

That is humble and vulnerable.

Not as being insignificant Or indifferent Or

A manipulation of  the conscious self

That leads one to be delusional 

With a distortions of reality 

Where one is lost even more 

In to the trappings of falsehood 

An undoing.......

Where nothing is left for imagination 

And without such cleansing

There is neither freedom nor 

Evolution of the self

From its past.

The myth of wolf child......

Every intelligent life form 

Is equally capable of knowing 

what is known and that is to be known.

Commonsense....

Lacking in commonsense

Even the most complex calculations fall short.

Quote of the day..........

Our ultimate freedom

is the right and power to decide

how anybody or anything

outside of ourselves will affect us.

-- Steven R. CoveyAmerican author

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Let them stand undisturbed as monuments of

the safety with which error of opinion

may be tolerated,

where reason is left free to combat it.

-- Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826), US Founding Father,
3rd US President.
Drafted the Declaration of Independence.

Quote of the day.........

I think what motivates people is not great hate,

but great love for other people.

-- Huey P. Newton (1942-1989) 
Founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Source: paraphrasing Che

Quote of the day........

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet 

broke a chain or freed a human soul.

-- Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens1835-1910]

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Reaching consensus in a group is often 

confused with finding the right answer.

-- Norman Mailer(1923-2007) American novelist, 
journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, 
screenwriter, and film director.

Quote of the Day.........

There is a principle which is a bar against

all information,

which is a proof against all argument, and

which cannot fail to keep a man

in everlasting ignorance --

that principle is condemnation

before investigation.

-- Herbert Spencer(1820-1903) .
British author, economist, philosopher

Quote of the day.....

Education is not to reform students or 

amuse them or to make them expert technicians. 

It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, 

inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, 

if possible.

-- Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1977).

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"The capacity to learn is a gift; 

The ability to learn is a skill; 

The WILLINGNESS to learn is a choice.

-- Unknown

Quote of the day.........

To act without clear understanding,

To form habits without investigation,

To follow a path all one's life

Without knowing where it really leads --

Such is the behavior of the multitude.

-- Mencius
[Mengzi Meng-tse] (c.371 - c.288 B.C.) 
Chinese Confucian philosopher

Quote of the day.........

An Idler says , A lion in the street !

A fierce Lion in the alley....!

---Sant Kabir.

How long? Not long.............

 Like an idea whose time has come, 

not even the marching of mighty armies can halt us. 

We are moving to the land of freedom.

  How long? Not long,  

  because no lie can live forever. 

  How long? Not long,  

  you shall reap what you sow.

  How long? Not long ...  

  How long? Not long, 

 Because the arc of the moral universe is long, 

But it bends toward justice.

-- Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote of the day.........

Free inquiry requires that we tolerate 

diversity of opinion and that we respect 

the right of individuals to express their beliefs,

however unpopular they may be, 

without social or legal prohibition or 

fear of success.

-- Paul Kurtz
Source: “A Secular Humanist Declaration,”
 in On The Barricades, 1989

Quote of the day.........

Without freedom of thought,

there can be no such thing as wisdom;and 

no such thing as public liberty,

without freedom of speech.

-- CatoJohn Trenchard (1662-1723) & 
Thomas Gordon (169?-1750)
Source: Letters, 1720
    
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If a man will begin with certainties, 

he shall end in doubts,but 

if he will be content to begin with doubts, 

he shall end in certainties.

-- Francis Bacon(1561-1626) Philosopher, 
British Lord Chancellor.

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Compared with the totality of knowledge 

which is continually utilized in 

the evolution of a dynamic civilization, 

the difference between the knowledge 

that the wisest and that which the most 

ignorant individual  can deliberately employ is 

comparatively insignificant.

-- Friedrich August von Hayek(1899-1992), 
Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974

Quote of the day..........

To forbid us anything is to make us

have a mind for it.

-- Michel De Montaigne(1532-1592) 

Quote of the day........

It is not the critic who counts;

 not the man who points out how

the strong man stumbles, or where 

the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man

who is actually in the arena,

whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;

who strives valiantly; who errs,

who comes short again and again,

because there is no effort without error and

shortcoming;

but who does actually strive to do the deeds;

who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;

who spends himself in a worthy cause;

who at the best knows in the end the triumph of

high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, 

at least fails while daring greatly, so that 

his place shall never be with those cold and timid

souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

-- Theodore Roosevelt(1858-1919)
26th US PresidentApril 23, 1910

Exodus.......Quote of the day.....

"Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat,

populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth --

 are never basic criteria.

The human race divides politically into those

who want people to be controlled and those

who have no such desire."

~ Rober t A. Heinlein
(1907-1988) American writer
Source: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Violence..........Andha Yug....

All violence,

for it to make sense to Human condition

Is not only to be witnessed but experienced

As tragic loss...

Even that of slaying the villains and

beings that are irredeemable..

Otherwise it entails oneself to folly.

From the book of My name is Asher lev............

He should be careful of 

the influence of those 

with whom he consorts,

and he runs a great risk in 

becoming a member of 

a large society,

for large bodies then towards 

the leveling of individuality to 

a common consent,

the forming and adherence to 

a creed.

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You can do anything you want to do,

what is rare is this actual wanting 

to do a specific thing:

wanting it so much that you are 

practically blind to

all other things,

that nothing else will satisfy you.

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An artist has got to get acquainted 

with himself

just as much as he can.

It is not easy job

for it is not a present-day 

habit of humanity.

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Every great artist is a man

who has freed himself from 

his family

his nation, his race.

Every man who has shown 

the world the way to beauty,

to true culture, has been rebel

A "universal with out patritiosm", 

with out home"

Who has found 

his people every where.

Quote of the day..........

Liberty and Love, 

They are all I need. 

For Love I sacrifice my Life 

For liberty I sacrifice my Love. 

--Sandor Petofi. 1823-1849.
Hungary's National poet.
His Twelve point manifesto called for
the Civil Liberties embodied in the US Bill of Rights.

In Propagand..........

Sometimes In propaganda

Imitations far outweigh

The original in rhetoric.