"It's better to burn out, than to fade away" -Kurt Cobain "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" - "Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church?" - Bishop of Bath and Wells. "Cynicism can be the protector of innocence or its executioner" -Jvyyvnz Wnzrf Ubypbzo "Mysticism is a disease of the mind." -Stix "If I speak with the eloquence of men and angels, but have no love, I become no more than blaring brass or crashing cymbal." -Corinthians 13:1 "Only a brave person is able honestly to accept, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers." -Rodan of Alexandria "Interviewer: Well, then, can you destroy the Earth? The Tick: Egads, I hope not! That's where I keep all my stuff!" -_The Tick_ (cartoon) "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals." -Jerry Fallwell "God is a mountain, and each religion is a path to the Peak." - from the Vedas, Hindu scripture. "Q: How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? A: Four. Calling the tail a leg doesn't make it one." - Abraham Lincoln "To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure, to explain the known by the unknown is a theological lunacy. -David Brooks "she is in the shadows, ocean and the sand she is everywhere and noplace her church not made with hands not contained by man" -The Waterboys "An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true." -Doug Larson "Without Love in the Dream, it will never come True." -Grateful Dead "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." -Rumi "Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away." -Goethe "Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path" -Psalms 119:105 "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few." -Shunryu Suzuki (Zen master) "He furled once more his wing with its granite nails, And wrung his hands. And the star went out." -Victor Hugo's "Et Nox Facta Est" "Satisfaction comes not from knowing the answer, It comes from knowing why it's the answer." -Rosalind Franklin / ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \ | / ~ \ Si mihi Nausicaa patrios concederet hortos, / ~ \ | |\ \ | Alcinoo possem dicere: "malo meos". | / /| | \ /| -Marcus Valerius Martialis |\ / | | ~~ | | ~~ | | | | | | | | | \ |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| / \ __ / \ __ / "A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong." -Edgar Allan Poe "The Cask of Amontillado" "Copulation is spiritual in essence -- or it merely friendly exercise. On second thought, strike out "merely" -- even when it is just a happy pastime for two strangers. But copulation at its spiritual best is so much more than physical coupling that it differs in kind as well as degree. The saddest feature of homosexuality is not that it is "wrong" or "sinful" or even that it can't lead to progeny - but that it is more difficult to reach through it this spiritual union. Not impossible - but the cards are stacked against it. But - most sorrowfully - many people never achieve spiritual sharing even with the help of a male-female advantage; they are condemned to live life alone." -Robert Hienlien "Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and the execution is carried out automatically, and without pity." -Robert Heinlein FIRST SERIES OF POSTERS SECOND SERIES OF POSTERS 1st Poster If 14 A-bombs equal 100 I million ordinary bombs. 2nd Poster This extraordinary achievement And the H-bomb equals bears witness to man's 1500 A-bombs. scientific inteligence. 3rd Poster How much do the 40,000 II A- and H-bombs actually manufactured in the But it is regrettable that man's world equal? political intelligence is 100 4th Poster times less developed than his 10 H-bombs dropped on scientific intelligence. the world mean prehistory again. III 5th Poster What do 40,000 H- and Which keeps us from really A-bombs mean? admiring man. -Marguerite Duras "Hiroshima Mon Amour" " That summer he was an eagle. Free. Mating in the air. Never touching down. Never looking back. That summer. His hands that touched her were wings. And he flew and the feathers covered the scars that grew where their bodies had touched. He was of the air and she was of the earth. She muddied his dreams. She had a woman's body but lacked a woman's spirit. A star is a stone to the blind. She saw him through crippled eyes. She possessed. He shared. There was no life between them. He saw the stars and counted them one by one into her hand, that gift that all lovers share. She saw stones. And she turned away. He was free because he needed. She was a prisoner because she wanted. One day she was gone. And he folded his wings and the earth came rushing at him and he was an old man with a small son. And he lived in a cage and was three years dead. And his son was a small hope that had melted. He was his mother's son. He could see that in his son's eyes. It was something that the old man would always regret." -Craig Strete "Time Deer" "Do not try. Do or do not. There is no try" -Yoda "You are not here to verify, Instruct yourself, or inform curiousity Or carry report. You are here to kneel Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more Than an order of words, the conscious occupation Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying." -T.S.Eliot, "Little Gidding I" "It's the end of the war. I don't know if I feel sleepy or not. For some time now I haven't known what sleep is. I wake up, so I know I've been asleep." -Marguerite Duras "This is the true joy of life Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish, little clod of ailments & grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy" "I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what ever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for it's own sake." "Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for a moment. And I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." -George Bernard Shaw "I do not call it his sign, I do not call it becoming one with his sign. I do not call it union. I do not call it harmony with union. I do not say something has happened, I do not say nothing has happened. I will not name it You, I will not name it I. Now that the White Jasmine Lord is myself, What use for words at all?" -Mahadeviyakka (trans. Jane Hirshfield) "It was like a stream running into the dry bed of a lake," "like rain pouring on plants parched to sticks." "It was like this world's pleasure and the way to the other, both walking toward me." "Seeing the feet of the master, O lord white as jasmine, I was made worthwhile." -Mahadeviyakka (trans. A.K. Ramanujan) "I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought; So that darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing." -T.S. Eliot "East Coker III" ***NewsFlash!!**NewsFlash!!**NewsFlash!!**NewsFlash!!**NewsFlash!!*** *** *** *** Life Sucks Life Sucks Life Sucks Life Sucks *** *** *** ***NewsFlash!!**NewsFlash!!**NewsFlash!!**NewsFlash!!**NewsFlash!!*** "They can point their fingers Push me nearer to the flame God, You can save me from the fire I'm Yours, even if You don't Whatever comes I take this vow I will never bow..." -Rebecca St. James "What is going to happen to those of us who want to believe but aren't able to? And what is to become of those who neither want to nor are capable of believing?" -Antonius Block "The Seventh Seal" "How could anyone ever tell you You were anything less than beautiful How could anyone ever tell you You were less than whole?" "How could anyone fail to notice That your loving is a miracle How deeply you're connected To my soul?" -Libby Roderick "O Lord, grant that we may always be right, Thou knowest we will never change our minds." -Old Scottish Prayer "This thing is a man. Look at what you are, and what awaits. Gaze upon this image and learn what your own end will be." -Grave Epitaph in Greece "And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers, But all that lives is born to die, And so I say to you that nothing really matters, And all you do is stand and cry. -Led Zeppelin "That's the Way" "Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." -Karl Zwanzig "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." -Douglas Adams "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Eistein "Why am I a stranger in my own life?" -Sheryl Crow "Anyone who is content to merely to break with the past loses the life of the spirit. In the search for the living god you must sometimes shatter images that have become unworthy in order to create room for a new one." -Martin Buber "A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Caesar would have spared his country; America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed." -Mary Shelley "Frankenstein" "What I want is what I've not got, What I need is all around me." -Dave Matthews "Jimi Thing" "I got my bones beneath my skin, and mister... There's a skeleton in every man's house Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody There's a dead man trying to get out." -Adam Duritz