What can we gain by sailing to the moon

if we are not able to cross the abyss

that separates us from ourselves?

This is the most important of all voyages of discovery,

and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

---Thomas Merton

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), August 19, 2001

Answers

There is only one true path in life.

I am not sure where it is or where it goes, but

I am sure that it is "not" in New Jersey.

Stein

Best Wishes,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), August 19, 2001.

For this is the journey

that men make:

To find themselves.

If they fail in this,

It doesn’t matter much

what else they find.

--James Michener

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), August 20, 2001.

TOO KNOW,we are just clay'and GOD is the potter!!

-- al-d. (dogs@zianet.com), August 20, 2001.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic

-- (cin@cin.cin), August 20, 2001.

You will see light in the darkness
You will make some sense of this
And when you've made your secret journey
You will find the love you miss

--Gordon "Sting" Sumner

-- (ha@ha.ha), August 20, 2001.

You like me, you really like me, you REALLY, REALLY like me!

--Sally Field

-- (nemesis@awol.com), August 20, 2001.

Beatniks are out to make it rich.
Oh, no! Must be the season of the witch!

-- Donovon Leitch

-- Break out the cookies and milk (aimless@national_raffle_association.org), August 20, 2001.

Daughter Carrie needed a poem to recite in the 4th grade. Ever helpful stepdad taught her this one. Sometime later it was an interesting PT meeting.

Put my monkey on a log and ordered him to do the dog.

He shook his tail and wagged his head then went and did the cat instead.

Wierd monkey. Very funky.

---Bob Dylan

How much Wordsworth and Longfellow can a kid put up with?

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), August 21, 2001.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

--Lactantius

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), August 21, 2001.

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.

--Groucho Marx

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), August 21, 2001.

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

-- Lyndon Johnson

I am not a crook.

-- Richard Nixon

Ow! My head!

-- Gerald Ford

That rabbit looked dangerous to me.

-- James Earl Carter

I am here to tell you mistakes were made.

-- Ronald Reagan

Read my lips. No new taxes.

-- George H. W. Bush

I did not have sex with that woman.

-- William Clinton

The question is seldom asked: is our children learning?

-- George W. Bush

-- Miserable SOB (misery@misery.com), August 21, 2001.

The Way isn't something that can be put into words. You have to practice before you can understand.

You can't force things, including practice.

Understanding is something that happens naturally.

It's different for everyone.

The main thing is to reduce your desires and quiet your mind.

-- Master Hsueh

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), August 22, 2001.

Your vision will become clear

only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

---Carl Jung

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), August 23, 2001.

Within man is the soul of the whole;

the wise silence; the universal beauty;

to which every part and every particle

is equally related; the eternal One.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), August 24, 2001.

You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you did.

~~Marilyn Peterson

-- abc (1@2.3), August 24, 2001.

If You Love Something Set It Free,
If It Comes Back, It Was And Always Will Be Yours.

If It Never Returns,
It Was Never Yours To Begin With


-- (Catherine__Linton@hotmail.com), August 24, 2001.

The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.

To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes.

---Ane Pema Chodron

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), August 25, 2001.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein

Best Wishes,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), August 25, 2001.

Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.

Robert Heinlein

-- Pammy (pamela_sue57@hotmail.com), August 25, 2001.

"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have."

--Life's Little Instruction Calender

-- (cin@cin.cin), August 26, 2001.

A girl phoned me the other day and said .... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home.

--Rodney Dangerfield

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), August 26, 2001.

Act as if what you do makes a difference.

It does.

---William James

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), August 26, 2001.

Not only a truer knowledge,

but a greater power comes to one

in the quietude and silence of a mind

that, instead of bubbling on the surface,

can go to its own depths and listen.

---Sri Aurobindo

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), August 27, 2001.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

--Redd Foxx

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), August 29, 2001.

Part of the problem is that everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. ..... So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they are busy doing things they think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

--Morrie Schwartz

-- (cin@cin.cin), August 29, 2001.

JESUS is Coming......look busy!

-- Feehan (its@your_turn.now), August 29, 2001.

All I want is a chance to prove that money means nothing to me!

-- =) (cin@cin.cin), August 31, 2001.

"It is very difficult to look at the possibility of lesbian sheep because if you are a female sheep, what you do to solicit sex is to stand still. Maybe there is a female sheep out there really wanting another female, but there's just no way for us to know it."

- Anne Perkins, U.C. Davis graduate student on her study of sexuality in sheep

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), August 31, 2001.

Keep love in your heart.

A life without it is like a sunless garden

when the flowers are dead.

The consciousness of loving and being loved

brings a warmth and richness to life

that nothing else can bring.

---Oscar Wilde

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 01, 2001.

This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good.

-- (cin@cin.cin), September 01, 2001.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,

nor the kindly smile,

nor the joy of companionship;

it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one

when you discover that someone else believes in you

and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

---Ralph Waldo Emerson

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 02, 2001.

"Life is like mail- sometimes you just don't get it!"

-- (cin@cin.cin), September 02, 2001.

Relaxation is the prerequisite

for that inner expansion that allows a person

to express the source of inspiration and joy within.

---Deepak Chopra

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 03, 2001.

Open yourself to your fellow humans. Allow yourself to experience what you feel toward them, and to hear what they feel. Your interactions with them form the basis of your growth. When you fear what you will find in yourself, or what you will find in others, if you allow yourself to hear what others have to say, you turn your back on the opportunities that the Universe is giving you to find the power of your heart, the power of compassion. It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow. ---Gary Zukav

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 05, 2001.

"Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy."

— Nathaniel Branden

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), September 05, 2001.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that hold your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy. Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.

---Kahlil Gibran

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 07, 2001.

While everything around me is every changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates....For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

--Mohandas K. Gandhi

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 08, 2001.

"The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith."

--Soren Kierkegaard

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 11, 2001.

Enlightenment cannot be attained, nor forced.

It can only happen…

It can appear only when it is given

a vacant space to appear in.

--Nisargadatta

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 11, 2001.

One can't be happy without knowing sadness.

--old chinese proverb

-- (cin@cin.cin), September 11, 2001.

THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT TRY MEN’S SOULS. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

~ Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 12, 2001.

"You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel." -Source Unknown

-- (cin@cin.cin), September 12, 2001.

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

- Winston Churchill

-- flora (***@__._), September 12, 2001.

"God Bless the USA"

--Lee Greenwood--

"Those mother fuckers"

--Tom Berringer's character in 'Platoon' (can't remember his name right now!)

I've never felt so much rage in my life. Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), September 12, 2001.

It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

--E.M. Forster

-- (cin@cin.cin), September 13, 2001.

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find there, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities"

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(Normally this is one of my favorite quotes, but I am hard put to not add qualifier upon qualifier today.)

-- Debbie (dbspence@pobox.com), September 13, 2001.

When I despair, I remember that all through history

the way of truth and love has always won.

There have been tyrants and murderers

and for a time they seem invincible

but in the end, they always fall ~

Think of it, ALWAYS.

~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

and his admonition . . .

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

- Mahatma Gandhi

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 15, 2001.

"Welcome to the 21st century. Welcome to the 12th century."

~ Lars

-- flora (***@__._), September 15, 2001.

''AND WHEN YOU SEE THESE THINGS COME TOO PASS, LOOK UP-YOUR REDEMPTION IS DRAWING NIGH''>HOLY-SPIRIT.

-- al-d. (dogs@zianet.com), September 15, 2001.

Forgive your enemies, but remember their names.

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), September 16, 2001.

The most beautiful things in the world

cannot be seen, nor touched…

but are felt in the heart. ~ Helen Keller

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 18, 2001.

YES It could happen any time,

tornado, earthquake, Armageddon.

It could happen.

Or sunshine, love, salvation. It could, you know.

That’s why we wake and look out~

No guarantees in this life. But some bonuses,

like morning,

like right now,

like noon,

like evening.

---William Stafford

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 19, 2001.

If I knew it would be the last time I would be there to share your day, well

I'm sure you'll have so many moreso I can let just this one slip away.

For surely there's always tomorrow to make up for an oversight, and we always get a second chance to make everything right.

There will always be another day to say our," I love you's," And certainly there's another chance to say our. " Anything I can do's"

But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get,

I'd like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget.

Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike,

And today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved one tight.

So if you're waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today

For if tomorrow never comes, you'll surely regret the day,

That you didn't take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish.

So always hold them dear.

Take time to say I'm sorry,

Please forgive me,

Thank you, or

It's okay.

And if tomorrow never comes, you'll have no regrets about today.



-- (cin@cin.cin), September 21, 2001.

It is not a word, nor a single action.
In truth, it can never be wrong
Like the sunrise, perfect in every possible way.
It is many things and yet it must exist
In the small space of the heart.
Once found it can bloom endlessly, with no cease.
It can choke one's throat, bring one to tears...
But it never hides in shadows or in darkness
It never feeds itself on deception.
It grows with trust, honesty and compassion.
Nothing less, always more.... --Unknown

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), September 21, 2001.

"May you live all the days of your life."

- Jonathan Swift

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), September 21, 2001.

Pay respect to others and be humble to them because humility and submissiveness adds to the value of a man

--Prophet Mohammed

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 22, 2001.

When you're weary, feelin' small,
when tears are in your eyes, I'll dry them all.
I'm on your side oh, when times get rough and friends just can't be found.
Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down.
Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down.

When you're down and out, when you're on the street,
when evening falls so hard I will comfort you.
I'll take your part, oh, when darkness comes and pain is all around.
Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down.
Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down.

Sail on silver girl, sail on by.
Your time has come to shine. All your dreams are on their way.
See how they shine, Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.
Like a bridge over troubled water, I will ease your mind.
Like a bridge over troubled water, I will ease your mind.

--Paul Simon

-- one more today (cin@cin.cin), September 22, 2001.

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.

---Mother Teresa

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 22, 2001.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

--Helen Keller

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), September 22, 2001.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

--The Koran

Made anyone laugh lately, Osama? Do you ever laugh yourself?

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 22, 2001.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. ---Malcolm X

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 22, 2001.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

-- Pammy (pamela_sue@hotmail.com), September 22, 2001.

There is something in--that happens to you when you play, and a moment comes, and it's not often--but a moment comes when you, the music--you're inside--all of it disappear into a oneness, of a unity.

And you feel the music going through you and coming out. And it is a--and it is a kind of personal ecstasy that only--that only performers who care desperately about music--not about the instrument, but about music--get to feel. It's what I learned from the time I was 15, to listen for in others.

- Isaac Stern

{Bless you}

-- flora (***@__._), September 22, 2001.

Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.

--- Miguel de Unamuno

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 23, 2001.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

I'd rather be blind than vaporized.

By the way, did you see that Larry King interview with the blind guy whose dog guided him down 50-some odd floors of the WTC? He did escape.

-- On Behalf of a Vaporized Victim (at@Ground.Zero), September 23, 2001.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

I'd rather be blind than vaporized.

By the way, did you see that Larry King interview with the blind guy whose dog guided him down 50-some odd floors of the WTC? He did escape.

-- On Behalf of a Vaporized Victim (at@Ground.Zero), September 23, 2001.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

I'd rather be blind than vaporized.

By the way, did you see that Larry King interview with the blind guy whose dog guided him down 50-some odd floors of the WTC? He did escape.

-- On Behalf of a Vaporized Victim (at@Ground.Zero), September 23, 2001.

Sorry, don't know how that happened.

-- On Behalf (etc.@Ground.Zero), September 23, 2001.

"In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."    ~Aeschylus

"Fear is natural. Fear is a normal human survival mechanism. But there are really only two types of people in this world: those that can control their fears, and those who allow their fears to control them; and each of us must decide for ourselves which type we will be..."  A crusty old sarge to my friends and I, in Jump School, the night before our very first parachute jump.

Yesterday is history, and tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift; that's why it's called it the present.    ~Anon

-- Zzzzz (asleep@the.wheel), September 23, 2001.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, ..........................

..............................................................

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

--W. B. Yeats (The Second Coming)

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 24, 2001.

Time to start a new thread. This one is getting too long to load. See you at version #8. Be well.

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 24, 2001.