Ok, this is not just a list of my favorite words, like fungus and ointment, but quotes, poems and song lyrics that mean something to me.
This was an accident
Not the kind where sirens sound
Never even noticed
We’re suddenly crumbling
Tell me how you’ve never felt
Delicate or innocent
Do you still have doubts that
Us having faith makes any sense
Staring at your photograph
Everything now in the past
Never felt so lonely I
Wish that you could show me love
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
‘Til you open the door
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
‘Til I’m up off the floor
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
‘Til it’s inside my pores
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
‘Til I’m screaming for more
Random acts of mindlessness
Commonplace occurrences
Chances and surprises
Another state of consciousness
Tell me nothing ever counts
Lashing out or breaking down
Still somebody loses ‘cause
There’s no way to turn around
Tell me how you’ve never felt
Delicate or innocent
Do you still have doubts that
Us having faith makes any sense
You play games, I play tricks
Girls and girls, but you’re the one
Like a game of pick-up-sticks
Played by fucking lunatics
Show me love, show me love
Give me all that I want
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook on life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us—sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.
One love, one heart
Let’s get together and feel alright
Hear the children crying (One love)
Hear the children crying (One heart)
Sayin’, “Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel alright.”
Saying’, “Let’s get together and feel alright.”
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Let them all pass all there dirty remarks (One love)
There is one question I’d really like to ask (One heart)
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own?
Believe me
One love, one heart
Let’s get together and feel alright
As it was in the beginning (One love)
So shall it be in the end (One heart)
Alright, “Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel alright.”
“Let’s get together and feel alright.”
One more thing
Lets get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (One love)
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One song)
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
There ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation
Sayin’, “One love, one heart
Let’s get together and feel alright.”
I’m pleading to mankind (One love)
Oh, Lord (One heart) whoa.
“Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel alright.”
Let’s get together and feel alright.
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation—some fact of my life—unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God’s world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.
What I thought wasn’t mine
In the light
Was a one of a kind
A precious pearl
When I wanted to cry
I couldn’t because I
Wasn’t allowed
Gomenasai
For everything
Gomenasai
I know I let you down
Gomenasai ‘til the end
I never needed a friend like I do now
What I thought wasn’t all
So innocent
Was a delicate doll
Of porcelain
When I wanted to call you
And ask for your help
I stopped myself
Gomenasai
For everything
Gomenasai
I know I let you down
Gomenasai ‘till the end
I never needed a friend like I do now
What I thought was a dream
A mirage
Was as real as it seemed
A privilege
When I wanted to tell you
I made a mistake
I walked away
Gomenasai
For everything
Gomenasai
Gomenasai
Gomenasai
I never needed a friend
Like I do now
Gomenasai
I let you down
Gomenasai
Gomenasai
Gomenasai ‘til the end
I never needed a friend
Like I do now
Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn't do for you
Hate me in ways
Yeah ways hard to swallow
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you
I’m sober now for 3 whole months it’s one
accomplishment that you helped me with
The one thing that always tore us apart is the one thing
I won’t touch again
In a sick way I want to thank you for holding my head up
late at night
While I was busy waging wars on myself, you were trying
to stop the fight
You never doubted my warped opinions on things like
suicidal hate
You made me compliment myself when it was way too hard
to take
So I’ll drive so fucking far away that I never cross
your mind
And do whatever it takes in your heart to leave me
behind
Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn't do for you
Hate me in ways
Yeah ways hard to swallow
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you
And with a sad heart I say bye to you and wave
Kicking shadows on the street for every mistake that I
had made
And like a baby boy I never was a man
Until I saw your blue eyes crying and I held your face
in my hand
And then I fell down yelling “make it go away!”
Just make a smile come back and shine just like it used
to be
And then she whispered “How can you do this to me?”
Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn't do for you
Hate me in ways
Yeah ways hard to swallow
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I am a dreamer and when I
wake,
You can't break my spirit - it's
my dreams you take.
And as you move on, remember me,
Remember us and all we used to
be
I've seen you cry, I've seen you
smile.
I've watched you sleeping for a
while.
I'd be the father of your child.
I'd spend a lifetime with you.
I know your fears and you know
mine.
We've had our doubts but now
we're fine,
And I love you, I swear that's
true.
I cannot live without you.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
And I still hold your hand in
mine.
In mine when I'm asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time,
When I'm kneeling at your feet.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so
hollow.
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow.
When one is walking, he comprehends: "I am walking," or when he is standing still, he comprehends: "I am standing still," or when he is sitting down, he comprehends: "I am sitting down," or when he is lying down, he comprehends: "I am lying down." So that, however his body is disposed, he comprehends that it is like that.
Again, when he is going or coming, he acts in a clearly conscious way; when he is looking in front or behind, when he has bent or stretched out his arm, when he is carrying his cloak, robe and bowl, he is one who acts in a clearly conscious way.
When he is eating, drinking, chewing and tasting, when he is going to the toilet, when he is walking, standing, sitting, asleep or awake, talking or silent, he is one who acts in a clearly conscious way.
While he is in this way - diligent, ardent, self-resolute - those memories and plans that are worldly are got rid of, and so by itself the mind is inwardly settled, calmed, focused and concentrated. In this way does one develop mindfulness of the body.
Conquer anger with love,
Evil with good,
Meanness with generosity,
And lies with truth.
"He abused me, he hit me,
He oppressed me, he robbed me."
Those who continue to hold such thoughts
Never still their hatred.
"He abused me, he hit me,
He oppressed me, he robbed me."
Those who do not continue to hold such thoughts
Soon still their hatred.
For in this world,
Hatred is never appeased by more hatred;
It is love that conquers hatred.
This is an eternal law.
The enlightened person serves as a guide to the blind, showing them the right path. He gives the deaf signals by hand gestures, and in that way benefits them with good. He does the same with the dumb. To cripples he gives a chair vehicle or other means of conveyance.
He strives to develop faith in the faithless, zeal in the lazy, mindfulness in the confused, concentration in those whose minds wander, and wisdom in the dull. He strives to dispel sense desire, ill-will, sloth and laziness, restlessness and worry, and doubt in those obsessed by these hindrances.
He strives to dispel thoughts of sensuality, ill-will and violence in those oppressed by such thoughts. Out of gratitude to those who have helped him, he helps and respects them with the same or greater benefits in return, his speech is friendly and his words are enduring.
At one time, the Lord was staying near Alavi, at the cow path in the Simsapa Grove, lodging on the leaf-strewn ground. Now, Hatthaka of Alavi was walking about, and he saw the Lord seated among the leaves. He approached him and asked: "Pray, sir, do you live happily?"
"Yes, my boy, I live happily. Of all the people in the world, I am the happiest."
"But sir, these winter nights are cold - the dark half of the month is a time of frost. The ground has been trampled hard by the cattle's hooves; the carpet of fallen leaves is thin. There are few leaves on the trees, your yellow robe is thin, and the winds blow cold."
"Despite this, I still live happily. I will ask you a question; answer as you wish. What do you think? Suppose a man has a house with a gabled roof, plastered inside and out with well-fitting doors and windows. Inside is a couch spread with a long fleeced woolen rug, a bedspread of white wool, a cover embroidered with flowers, spread with a costly antelope skin, with a canopy overhead, and scarlet cushions at each end. The lamp is burning and four wives wait on him with all their charms. Would such a man be happy or not?"
"Yes, sir, he would be happy."
"Well, what do you think? Is it not possible that distress of body and mind due to greed, hatred or delusion could arise in him, causing him to feel unhappy?"
"Yes, sir, that is possible."
"Well, my boy, that greed, hatred and delusion that could cause distress of body and mind has been abandoned by the Tathagata, cut off at the root, made like a palm tree stump that cannot grow again in the future. And that is why I live happily."
A dewdrop sticks not to a lotus leaf,
A lotus flower is untouched by water.
The sage clings to nothing at all,
not to the seen, the heard or the sensed.