“The sun shines on those who do not carry umbrellas.” D. Flounder

“All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?” – Buddha (563-483 B. C.)

“Nothing will benefit health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Vegetarian Week

“The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.” – Socrates (c470-399)

From the Atlantic Magazine:

Is it possible for your husband to come home from a business trip and have lipstick traces on his shirt collar and not be having an affair? – P. A.

Dear P. A.,

Yes, but only if your husband works for a lipstick company.

“Feel appreciation for those who provide examples of Well-being. How would you

know that prosperity was possible if there wasn’t some evidence of prosperity

around you? It’s all part of this contrast that helps you to sharpen your own

desires.”

“Make a decision and then make the decision right. Line up your Energy with it.

In most cases it doesn’t really matter what you decide. Just decide.

There are endless options that would serve you enormously well, and all or any

one of them is better than no decision.”

“If the world gives you lemons, make limoncello.”

My friend Leslie sent this to me today. An important message regarding our nation’s oil shortage:

A lot of folks can’t understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country.

Well, there’s a very simple answer. Nobody bothered to check the oil.

We just didn’t know we were getting low. The reason for that is purely geographical.

Our OIL is located in: Alaska, California, Coastal Florida, Coastal Louisiana

North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas

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Our dipsticks are located in DC.

The thing that is so outrageous to most Americans about the Goldman Sachs story isn’t their guilt or innocence of securities fraud. The whole story puts on public display what these big Wall Street banks actually do for a living. They don’t make loans to businesses or individuals — they gamble. People ask themselves, “We bailed these guys out so they could keep on gambling?” Might as well have bailed out a bunch of casinos or racetracks. —- Robert Creamer