"It is far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life." - Federico Fellini
"You are an expression of the infinite creative flow, the infinite creative process. You have everything you need to achieve a life of abundance. You only need to access it by claiming your entitlement from within. Know that you are a center within an affluent universe, and guidance, ingenuity, and opportunities await you." --Eric Butterworth
"The jouney through the Valley of Death begins from the Apex of Self-Gratification... In the Valley of Death... the treasure of conciousness may be found... surrender... To emerge from the Valley... naked, free... behold the rainbow... the crystal lake... the deep sky" ~ Zuizo ~
A Taoist story tells of an old man who accidentally fell into the river rapids leading to a high and dangerous waterfall. Onlookers feared for his life. Miraculously, he came out alive and unharmed downstream at the bottom of the falls. People asked him how he managed to survive. "I accommodated myself to the water, not the water to me. Without thinking, I allowed myself to be shaped by it. Plunging into the swirl, I came out with the swirl. This is how I survived." ~Old Taoist Parable~
It has not been my experiences that are responsible for my lessons in this game, but my receptivity and capacity for those experiences...
"When your in the market for four years, you think you know everything there is to know. When you've been around twenty years you realize you don't know shit, naver have and never will..." ~Tom Robbins; 1/2 Asleep in Frog Pajamas~