For the record: I am *in complete accord* with the following statements.
Andrew Vachss:
"If you can't be counted on, you can't be counted in. Behavior is truth."
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From Lao Tzu's TAO TE CHING:
"31.
Now arms, however beautiful, are instruments of evil omen,
hateful, it may be said, to all creatures. Therefore they who have the Tao do not like to employ them.
The superior man ordinarily considers the left hand the most
honourable place, but in time of war, the right hand. Those sharp weapons are instruments of evil omen, and not the instruments of the superior man--he uses them only on the compulsion of necessity. Calm and repose are what he prizes; victory (by force of arms) is to him undesirable. To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.
On occasions of festivity to be on the left hand is the prized position; on occasions of mourning, the right hand. The second in command of the army has his place on the left; the general commanding in chief has his on the right;--his place, that is, is assigned to him as in the rites of mourning. He who has killed multitudes of men
should weep for them with the bitterest grief; and the victor in battle has his place (rightly) according to those rites."
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From the movie BOONDOCK SAINTS:
"Connor: Now, you will receive us.
Murphy: We do not ask for your poor, or your hungry.
Connor: We do not want your tired and sick.
Murphy: It is your corrupt we claim.
Connor: It is your evil that will be sought by us.
Murphy: With every breath, we shall hunt them down.
Connor: Each day we will spill their blood, 'til it rains down from the skies.
Murphy: Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.
Connor: These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior, and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost.
Murphy: There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the bounds and cross over, into true corruption, into our domain.
Connor: For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day you will reap it.
Murphy: And we will send you to whatever god you wish."
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Carl Jung:
"One does not attain enlightenment by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
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Caitlin R. Kiernan:
"Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It's not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer."
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"When the samurai Kikushi was ordained a bodhisattva by Master Daichi, this is what the master taught him: You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair."
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From the Reed Translation of Berlin Papyrus 3024:
"Brother, As Long As You Burn, You Belong To Life".
"If you can't be counted on, you can't be counted in. Behavior is truth."
*
From Lao Tzu's TAO TE CHING:
"31.
Now arms, however beautiful, are instruments of evil omen,
hateful, it may be said, to all creatures. Therefore they who have the Tao do not like to employ them.
The superior man ordinarily considers the left hand the most
honourable place, but in time of war, the right hand. Those sharp weapons are instruments of evil omen, and not the instruments of the superior man--he uses them only on the compulsion of necessity. Calm and repose are what he prizes; victory (by force of arms) is to him undesirable. To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.
On occasions of festivity to be on the left hand is the prized position; on occasions of mourning, the right hand. The second in command of the army has his place on the left; the general commanding in chief has his on the right;--his place, that is, is assigned to him as in the rites of mourning. He who has killed multitudes of men
should weep for them with the bitterest grief; and the victor in battle has his place (rightly) according to those rites."
*
From the movie BOONDOCK SAINTS:
"Connor: Now, you will receive us.
Murphy: We do not ask for your poor, or your hungry.
Connor: We do not want your tired and sick.
Murphy: It is your corrupt we claim.
Connor: It is your evil that will be sought by us.
Murphy: With every breath, we shall hunt them down.
Connor: Each day we will spill their blood, 'til it rains down from the skies.
Murphy: Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.
Connor: These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior, and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost.
Murphy: There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the bounds and cross over, into true corruption, into our domain.
Connor: For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day you will reap it.
Murphy: And we will send you to whatever god you wish."
*
Carl Jung:
"One does not attain enlightenment by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
*
Caitlin R. Kiernan:
"Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It's not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer."
*
"When the samurai Kikushi was ordained a bodhisattva by Master Daichi, this is what the master taught him: You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair."
*
From the Reed Translation of Berlin Papyrus 3024:
"Brother, As Long As You Burn, You Belong To Life".