A Tribute to Robin Williams

   The death of this utterly fantastic comedian, actor, role model, and person is one which probably made us all stop, and take a moment to remember every time his words brought laughter into our lives, and out our mouths. A person which seemed happier than most, hid pain and suffering from us all. It really is heartbreaking that he thought nothing was worth pushing on for, or that he had enough of this life.

   As Plato stated; "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." It's never possible to reveal just how hard some are battling inside themselves. 

In memory of Robin Williams, I ask you to smile at every stranger you encounter for the next week or so. Who knows, your random display of kindness could turn someone who believes all hope is gone, around, and save them from themselves. You just never know how much a smile can do for someone......

A Little Krishnamurti for the Soul

"To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees, everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now, and we will have no wars."
-Krishnamurti

My Favorite Quotes

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation." 

- James A. Baldwin

“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”

“Analytical Chemistry is a scientific discipline that develops and applies methods, instruments and strategies to obtain information on the composition and nature of matter in space and time”-WP on AC of the EFCS 

“The great charm of all power is modesty” - Louisa May Alcott

“Atheism..., that bugbear of women and fools, is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.” – George Berkeley

“If you greatly deserve something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.” -Brendan Francis

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” -Albert Einstein

“Do not let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” -Earl Nightingale


“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte


"When death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering; what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility, and I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular, and each name a comfortable music in the mouth tending as all music does, toward silence, and each body a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth. When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened or full of argument. I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world."
 ~ Mary Oliver ~ (From New and Selected Peoms. 1992)


"The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are."- Echkart Tolle

"Out of this war, a new world must be born that would justify the sacrifices offered by humanity. This..... must be a world in which there is no exploitation of the weak by the strong, of the good by the evil, where there will be no humiliation of the poor by the violence of the rich, where product and intellect, science and art, will serve society for the betterment and beautification of life, and not the individuals achieving wealth.  A new world shall not be a world of the downtrodden and humiliated, but of free men and nations, equal in dignity and respect for man. " Nikola Tesla <3

"Our limited mind is our enemy and our unlimited mind is our best friend. When you become a slave of the mind, it will limit you. When you use it, it will bring you the whole universe."
Yogi Bhajan 7/10/75

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." —Plato

"I wonder if it's at all possible to have a love affair that lasts forever"- andy warhol

 “Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.. -Bob Marley

“Love would never leave us alone”- Bob Marley

Me only have one ambition, you know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. 
I like to see mankind live together.. black, white, Chinese, everyone.. that's all. - Bob Marley

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the 
truth within the soul.-Ghandi

I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love 
people.- Van Gogh

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Pablo Picasso 

Dawn and sunset are the times when Nature herself is unstable and in flux. 
The nocturnal world and the daytime world are meeting, and for a brief time coexisting. 
It's not a neat hard cut, but a blurred, irregular dissolve. These moments are the seams in existence 
through which we can get a glimpse of the deeper, fundamentally random, chance workings of 
a system in which we are only a small, insignificant player. -Bill Viola 

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so 
much work at something you don't always want to do. -Andy Warhol

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. -Gary Zukav 

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. -Rumi

Tomorrow is never promised.

What gives you comfort now might be the end of you then -Beck

-The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.- John Milton

-If I had observed all the rules, I'd never have gotten anywhere. -Marilyn Monroe

-If you can't handle me at my worst then you certainly don't deserve me at my best.-Marilyn Monroe

-I believe everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. 
Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.  You believe less so you 
eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. And sumtimes good things fall apart so better 
things can fall together.- Marilyn Monroe

"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is 
somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A 
mutual addiction. -Chuck Palahniuk

-You get what you put in, and people get what they deserve. -Kid Rock

-There's got to be something better than in the middle. - The Wallflowers

-Your mistakes are what made you who you are today.

-If everyone cared and nobody cried, if everyone loved and nobody lied, if everyone shared and swallowed their pride, then we'd see the day when nobody died. - Nickleback

-I just want to say that I have to upmost respect for all of you for surviving this week. - haha Donovan making a toast on our last night of spring  break in Panama

-I'm caucasian, hispanic, and an indian got fucked somewhere- me

"Why do all the good die young?"

"Never doubt that a small, handful of caring people can change the world. For indeed, it's all who ever have." - Margaret Mead

"An informed citizen is the only true repository of the American will" - Thomas Jefferson

"I fervently believe that no matter what self-seeking we all must do, we should do it in a way that inflicts the least pain on others. Random acts of kindness are essential along our paths; respect and consideration for everyone is important regardless of the paths they've taken or fate in life they've been handed; above all, forgiveness and redemption are key values never to be forgotten." Barbara Keck

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it.”
Mahatma Gandhi

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion." - Sir Arthur C Clarke

"The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information — in the sense of raw data — is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these." - Sir Arthur C Clarke

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."- Umberto Eco

"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives." 
Albert Schweitzer

"I may not understand it, I may not even necessarily agree with it, but I'll tell you what I've accepted: just sort of glide along. Go with the flow. The sea refuses no river. The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving. It saves on introductions and goodbyes. The ride does not require explanation, just occupants." -Waking Life

Good times, riches, and sons of bitches, Ive seen more than I can recall.

"They won’t get old or fat. They won’t get sick or feeble. They are beyond fear because they are forever young. They’re gods." RIP to all who've went before their time