Tuesday, December 4, 2007

I understand wanting to be different and unique; I respect eccentricity as well but I swear most critics of the status quo are being so just for their own self gratification and therefore no different than those they critique.
_Scotty Reed 2007.12.04

Monday, November 26, 2007

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
__Dave Barry

Saturday, November 24, 2007

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
__Samual Johnson

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

When it's all gone it's only God
__Oprah Show Guest Comment 5.1.2007 (talking about meditation and quieting your mind)

Monday, November 12, 2007

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

Friday, November 9, 2007

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
__Lin Yutang

Thursday, November 8, 2007

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
__Stephen Roberts
God talks to everyone. The question is not "whom does god talk to but "who is listening"
__Neale D. Walsch Conversations With God Book I

I like to think of God as a direction rather than an object.
__Unknown

Monday, November 5, 2007

Nothing ends, without a new beginning. Life becomes death as well as death becomes life, and by losing something we often find ourselves.
__Scotty Reed 3.14.2000
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
__Mother Teresa

Sunday, November 4, 2007

When you change the way you look at things… the things you look at change.
__Wayne Dyer
You're not a Human Being having a spiritual experience you are a Spiritual Being having a Human Experience.
__Wayne Dyer
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
__Henry David Thoreau

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
__Buddha
An old Cherokee was teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves." "One is evil -- he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. " "The other is good -- he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. " "This same fight is going on inside you and inside every other person, too." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
__Unknown
If you are not part of the solution; you are part of the problem
__unknown
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
__Mahatma Gandhi
Do you want to play? You'll have to put your stuff down if you want to play. How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?
__What The Bleep Do We Know (Movie)

Friday, November 2, 2007

Who can estimate the elevating and refining influences and moral value of flowers with all their graceful forms, bewitching shades and combinations of colors and exquisitely varied perfumes? These silent influences are unconsciously felt even by those who do not appreciate them consciously and thus with better and still better fruits, nuts, grains, vegetables and flowers, will the earth be transformed, man's thought refined, and turned from the base destructive forces into nobler production. One which will lift him to high planes of action toward the happy day when the Creator of all this beautiful work is more acknowledged and loved, and where man shall offer his brother man, not bullets and bayonets, but richer grains, better fruit and fairer flowers from the bounty of this earth.
__Father George Schoener (1864 -1941),The Importance and Fundamental Principles of Plant Breeding
Everything you can imagine is real
__Pablo Picasso
I'd like to live like a poor man with lot's of money
__Pablo Picasso
Everything you can imagine is real. If there is something to steal, I steal it. Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money. We always have a lot of reasons but only one real one. I alway do what I cannot do so I can learn how to do it. I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot and there are others who transform a yellow spot into the sun. God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
__Pablo Picasso

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

We always condemn most in others, that which we most fear in ourselves
__Robert M. Pirsig Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
When faced with conflict always ask "What Would Love Do"
__Neale D. Walsch

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Dancing Leaves

The snow came early this year, burying the leaves beneath as if there was a different message to be given another time. I was partially sadden, for I felt I had missed my favorite season… and it continued for days after, covering the earth and it’s un-raked leaves.

Yet today the sun shown bright, and through the clouds the leaves rose to the sky… lifted by the wind, filling the blue air with heavenly beauty. Leaves everywhere… dancing with joy, the sun glistening on each of them. I had never seen anything like it and I wanted it to last forever.

Tears filled my eyes, music played and as I gazed at this magnificent beauty a voice whispered that I might die soon. I sat still, humbled and afraid, taking in what I thought could be my last breath of beauty.

And then suddenly… I was overwhelmingly filled with joy as I sat in amazement of the sky filled with dancing leaves, blue sky and bright light. For at this moment I realized that I was not to die, perhaps I had already had and too, as the leaves, arose to be reborn to dance in Gods beauty.

___Scotty Reed Emberton 11.20.2000

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Tears of strangers are only water
_Indian Proverb

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

It's often necessary to Breakdown in order to Breakout
__Oprah Show October

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Be careful of Destination Addiction (thinking you'll be happier when you get someplace other than you are now)
'Shame' is the most damaging emotion to your spirit. It darkens your soul.

_Scotty Reed 8.23.2007

Saturday, August 18, 2007

'Desire' is at the root of all suffering