Deep Thought

Marianne Williamson
The miracles lies not in the past or future, but in your complete acceptance and embrace of this moment. It offers everything you want, in that it offers you an opportunity to expand fully into the totality of your real self. That experience -- the experience of being who we truly are -- is the peace we long for and from which all miracles flow.

Janis Joplin's Deep Thought

When everyone in the world wants the same damn thing
i don't understand why half the world is still crying when the other half of the world is still crying too
and they can't get it together
if you got a cat for one day
say maybe you want a cat for 365 days
you ain't got 365 days
you got him for one day
I'll tell you that one day better be your life
because you can cry about the other 364
but you're gonna lose that one day
that's all you got
you gotta call that love
that's what it is
if you got it today you don't wear it tomorrow
'cause you don't need it
'cause as a matter of fact as we discovered on the train
tomorrow never happens
it's all the same fucking day man

-Ball & Chain

Marilyn's Deep Thoughts

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Thoughts on the revolutions

-Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Deep Horoscope

"To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth," said science fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. The clear implication of this statement is that there's always a sense of loss that comes with discovering the way things really are. I protest this perspective. I boycott it. As proof that it's at least partially wrong, I offer up the evidence provided by your life in the days ahead. From what I can tell, the gratification that you feel while hunting down the truth will be substantial, and yet it will ultimately seem rather mild compared to the bliss that arrives when you find what you're looking for.


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When you come home after a day of triumphs, take out the garbage. Dream you're a red-tailed hawk soaring over a shopping mall. Forgive yourself for the blindness that put you in the path of those who betrayed you.
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Deep Horoscope

Happy Valentine Daze, Gemini! Here's my prescription for making best use of the current cosmic currents: Be enchanting, but in an understated way. Be slyly charismatic and innocently flirtatious and serenely wild. Show how sexy it is to be sublimely relaxed. Make judicious use of small acts of friendly mischief. Be affectionately unpredictable, always in the service of showing how much you care.


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I want to remind you, in case you've somehow forgotten, that you'll never be able to bask in the love you want to receive from another person until you master the art of loving yourself with great skill and imagination. I'll go so far as to say that it's pointless to search for a perfect partner if you're not already your own perfect partner. Here's what Buddha had to say about the subject: "You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, but that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anyone, deserve your love and affection."

Same difference

Odd how when you think about it. Personal responsibility and empowerment are the same thing. Though when progressives say it, it sounds like 'you can do it'. When conservatives say it, it sounds like 'fuck you'.

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Deep thought

Reynolds Price died on January 20, 2011. He was 77, and he often wove his Christian faith into his writings. He also published two biblical translations. All the great religious creeds, he said, “have known forever that if we’re ever to arrive at the state of anything called wisdom, pain seems to be the way we get there.”