That's Sprezzatura: May 2015

To the gnomist, aphorism is playful poetry of truthful observations. --Anton A.

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Life is a crucible of poetry with melding lava of love and loathe aboil.-- Anton A.

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So far, everybody who's been dead have been others.-- Anton A.

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We know nothing, but we don't know how we know that.--Anton A.

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A sad poem cheers it's poet's death. --Anton A.

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Your world is made out of the same raw materials of your thoughts.--Anton A.
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Hate another with some passion; you'll hate yourself with same fashion.--Anton A.
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A poem is deemed complete only when the poet dies.--Anton A.

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Bigger stupid! bigger cash cow! -- good for milking like no udder.--Anton A.
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A dictionary without the poet's diction is ordinary.--Anton A.
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Narrow path -- yes; narrow mind -- no.--Anton A.
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The rigid mind can be exercised without external weight.--Anton A.
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Don't mourn because you're old, celebrate because you're living.--Anton A.

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I love visiting cemeteries, but I do not like staying there too long.--Anton A.
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Organized religion is more organized and efficient than banks, for they usurp your wallet as well as your soul.--Anton A.

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What you say to others you say to yourself first, so be mindful.--Anton A.

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Foreigner is the one who calls you one; bare honesty of bigotry on full display. --Anton A.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal. Go ahead, break a leg! even if it's your own, sometimes.--Anton A.

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Comedy is tragedy born out of the loins of time.--Anton A.
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To a trailblazer, the path is behind while the way is ahead.--Anton A.
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Addiction is not so bad if you could do it once in a row.--Anton A.

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You can only spend time out of your own temporal bank account till you're broke or, more bluntly put, dead.--Anton A.
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The hand that takes also gives.--Anton A.
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All experiential paths lead back to you, so be there when you arrive.--Anton A.
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The purpose of living life is to be fully born when we die.--Anton A.
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Individuation, seemingly, separates, but in fact, it unites; space is necessary to experience compassionate mirroring of empathy between them. --Anton A.
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Follow a path, and you're automatically following someone else's footsteps. --Anton A.
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The nature of simultaneity cannot be defined nor understood without the tenseless language of thought.--Anton A.
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The longer you live, the shorter you'll live, from every moment of utterance.--Anton A.
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You could not be a guardian to others, lest you know how to guard yourself against yourself first.--Anton A.
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Owning "things" is impossible. We enter this world with nothing and shall exit it with the same amount. --Anton A.
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If you always want more than you have, you must either be greedy or mentally deficient. Take your pick.--Anton A.
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Money is NOT the most valuable currency -- time is. Spend it wisely.--Anton A.
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There are as many different worlds as there are people -- one for each.--Anton A.
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If you "love" your country, madly; you only love one country, sadly. --Anton A.
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To lie collectively [or institutionally] is darn easy; a lot of company for your mendacity. --Anton A.
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If you want to be heard, shut up and learn to listen first. --Anton A.
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Longevity is a bit overrated. The longer one lives, the greater the odds of dying gets.--Anton A.
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When a man hates another devoutly, he creates the enemy in his own spitting image behind the bars of his own rib cage. --Anton A.
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Patriotism has transmogrified into "hatredism." wa(o)rship the lands you stand on; abhor the ones you're not on, yet. --Anton A.
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One man's devolution is another man's evolution; a reverse-geared evolution of sorts.--Anton A.
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Simplicity is simple, but not simple enough to achieve simply.--Anton A.
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Height of hypocrisy deals with no highs, but lows.--Anton A.
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Deceivers need believers to fertilize their lies. Don't be an agent of their deceit by spreading their excrement around.--Anton A.
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The problem with institutional religion is that they put words in God's mouth then barf it out of their own mouths as divine.--Anton A.
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Authorize no one to make decisions for the only life that you own. It is your birthright to verbally and physically fend them off if violated. --Anton A.
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The ultimate insult to God, the creator, is when a bunch of poseurs declare that "All men are created equal," while owning slaves. --Anton A.
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When unhappy heart weighs heavy.--Anton A.
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Live your life purposefully. How? Have a purpose and live it fully. --Anton A.
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Be careful what you put in your mouth, and doubly careful what others put in your head. --Anton A.
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Life is to be lived not labored. --Anton A.
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Everything that you "own", you don't.--Anton A.
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The shadow cast on the ground must be attached to your feet, before declaring yourself independent.--Anton A.
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Any institution, religious or otherwise, that strips your ability to think for yourself is not needed. --Anton A.
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Coals and diamonds, however many generations removed from each other, are still cousins. --Anton A.
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Riding on coattails of others is comparable to kissing the behinds of those who get you to where they wanted to go.--Anton A.
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Even the highest waterfall aims low to rise again. --Anton A.
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The main ingredient of creation is nothing.--Anton A.
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You won't find a Savior anywhere, no matter how hard you look, lest you find yourself first.--Anton A.
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The ultimate insult to a teacher is when a pupil remains a pupil all his life.--Anton A.
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Do your best today so you may do better tomorrow. --Anton A.
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Even in a crowd, you are still alone; in other words -- it was just crowdy when you were there, not much else.--Anton A.
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The quality of a lie is not when it's uttered in the speaker's mouth, but when it's cluttered in the listener's mind. --Anton A.
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The first thing a thief steals is his self-worth, that's why he feels deficient, so continues to rob others to find it. --Anton A.
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When an imbecile discovers an old thing anew, he thinks he discovered something new.--Anton A.
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With each breath you take, let your life mean more than just a mere exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.--Anton A.
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To all of those everything-in-moderationists out there: if so, why don't you shit in your kitchen and eat in your bathroom half of the times before giving advice to others. Why could you not think of "Always Do Your Best," instead, Huh?--Anton A.
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When the priest lies, Jesus dies, again.--Anton A.
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No such thing as, "The Average Person". You are unique under any circumstance. You cannot be reduced to average from the bone stock of others' ribs. -- Anton A.
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Don't attach yourself to just one thing, lest you want to detach yourself from all other things. --Anton A.
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Above is below something above it; and below is above something below it, no matter where you look.--Anton A.
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Believe your lies today and they'll become your own truth tomorrow. --Anton A.
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Gossiping gives the rumormonger something to do, but nothing to say.--Anton A.
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"Here lies the discoverer of the remedies of all ailments but one," makes for a perfect-pitch epitaph in stone.--Anton A.
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The element of loss is what makes things precious. Such is life. --Anton A.
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Some people are willing to die in the name of God; well then, just die, don't kill!--Anton A.
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Prostitution is the oldest democratic institution, of the people, by the people, and for the people. Except, we call it "government," today.--Anton A.
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To speak of moderation, without understanding its limitations is pointless.--Anton A.
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Governments only solve the problems they didn't have to create. --Anton A.
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Those who search the things that they already have, will never find it.--Anton A.
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A donation cannot be asked; a donation cannot be priced. If it's asked or priced, it is not a donation -- it is a charge,--Anton A.
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Bad is good when standing next to worse.--Anton A.
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Those who advise others of "everything in moderation" are disrespectful to those who can do better than 50/50 easier than them. --Anton A.
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Even prostitutes admire fidelity in men, but to whom? is the question.--Anton A.
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The roots of your freedom are buried in the rhizome of your thoughts.--Anton A.
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Your "Cut 'n Burn 'n Poison"-trained doctor's most profitable diagnosis is -- to make you think you're sick, or sicker than sick.--Anton A.
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We live our past in protraction, our future in abstraction, and our present in distraction; reducing our lives to a fraction.--Anton A.
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Yes, ignorance is a bliss, but not to you; but only to those in position of power. Your ignorance makes them blissful. Got it! --Anton A.
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Technically, you're alone even when you're with someone -- get used to yourself.--Anton A.
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The moment you say yes, to you, and no, to "them", you're free.-- Anton A.
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You meet yourself once at any age. Enjoy every moment of it.--Anton A.
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Be no one's philosophical property but yours. You may stand alone as a result. But so what? you'll be free.--Anton A.
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Stop being HAPPY in swinish masochism; stop stuffing your face with the SAD diet.--Anton A.
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Survive a crisis -- you've gone to school; succumb to it -- you've dug your grave. --Anton A.
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Life with all of its pains is for your own pleasure.--Anton A.
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Don't feed the dog that bites, neither should you throw bones at it as a parting shot.--Anton A.
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True conservatism is an oxymoron. And speaking of a moron, "he" forgets that "he" once held different traditional values before embracing the current ones as if for the first time. --Anton A.
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Holes -- or absence of things -- is the most important negative component of a net to catch fish with.--Anton A.
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You may see other people's eyes straight, yet need reflective eyes to see yours.--Anton A.
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Thank "badness," for without it goodness couldn't exist nor be understood.--Anton A.
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Life is a living movie made and played in the viewer's mind. --Anton A.
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The mere mention of more than one god in an identical circumstance, proves by reason of sanity that all of the remaining ones are false, redundant, and unnecessary. --Anton A.
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Success is, all the other ones which, thankfully, failed.-Anton A.
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The all-seeing eye's biggest problem is: it cannot see itself -- lest it steps outside of itself. Only then, as a seeing eye dog does fulfill its master's vision quandary. --Anton A.
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That which we lose we value, and that which we value we lose. --Anton A.
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Always, view yourself as human-being, not as human-done, lest you're a "complete" doctrinaire idiot.--Anton A.
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You can't keep what you have, you can't have what you keep. Either way you're a slave.--Anton A.
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Organized religions are organized alright in dividing humanity into categories. No? Just look around -- same God ripped apart in my-god-is-better-than-yours dogmatic warfare.--Anton A.
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Stick to the demands of reason, not dogma.--Anton A.
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No two identical things are alike -- if that were to be true why would you need two.--Anton A.
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What good are your eyes if your mind can't see.--Anton A.
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A book you own but not read, is as good as the one you never owned.--Anton A.
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Living without aging has not been invented yet; damned if you live, damned if you don't.--Anton A.
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All the things that are not, give rise to what "is" is.--Anton A.
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Isn't it funny that the the truth is always "right" under our "knows", and still lack the nose to find it.--Anton A.
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You don't need to prove anyone wrong to know that you're right.--Anton A.
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Writing is like talking to yourself until you're read, after that it's like talking to others too.--Anton A.
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Loving back is easy, but loving first without the guarantee of being loved back is not.--Anton A.
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Don't be held back, you're beholden to no one except yourself.--Anton A.
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Evil builds its muscles when the just runs and keeps running -- away.--Anton A.
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Man creates god in his own image and suddenly all hell breaks loose.--Anton A.
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The witless penurious person lives poor, but dies rich. Hooray! --Anton A.
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All undertakers will be undertaken in due time, just as they did unto others while vertically standing tall.--Anton A.
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Life promises a lot; honors a few, ignores most, but fulfills one -- death.--Anton A.
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Money only earned but not spent, either on yourself or others, is self-slavery.--Anton A.
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Stupidity takes the path of least resistance cerebrally, and walks upon it with dumbstruck pride.--Anton A.
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All things constitute knowledge whether you know that or not.--Anton A.
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If your lunch is much, so is your haunch and paunch. --Anton A.
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The devil is more than your enemy, he's your spiritual sparing partner; without him you'll be weak, not meek.--Anton A.
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Hypothetical judge: Do you understand?
Hypothetical you: My honor, under no circumstance do I stand under anyone lower than God, that I do comprehend, do you understand? --Anton A.
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Dust conquers all, for it alone reposes eternally at the end. --Anton A.
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To constantly procrastinate plans, is to permanently cripple them.--Anton A.
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People load the guns; religions pull their triggers. All done in the name of some personal and equally mad god. --Anton A.
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Membership only proves that you are not worthy to that which you already belong.--Anton A.
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Some people are so clumsy that they can't even screw things up right. --Anton A.
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What conquerors "own" is thievery; they achieve it by butchery; sometimes they call it discovery; plagiarizers of history.--Anton A.
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Neither the present nor the future, but only the past is guaranteed -- In memory.--Anton A.
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The body that man dwells in has wisdom; but its tenant lacks the intelligence to know it. --Anton A.
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All religious institutions that we see before us today, are like outmoded telephone operators of yesteryear. Instead of engaging them, why don't you call God yourself with your own direct pray-phone from anywhere?--Anton A.
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It is unnatural to welcome just birth and not death, when they both, in their due time, do arrive.--Anton A.
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Our every word and act is recorded by the Almighty Scrivener's Hand, even those said and done in secrecy.--Anton A.
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Only the awakened knows how long a sleeper sleeps.--Anton A.
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For each day we live, equally, we die.--Anton A.
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Success often is found right at the edges of failure. So, look for them at that precipice.--Anton A.
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The Hippocratic allopath is the hypocrite. Does he not take the Oath of First Do No Harm? and yet needlessly cuts, burns, and poisons for mammon to no end. There's the harm!--Anton A.
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People often want to be remembered after they die, but seldom do the things worthy of remembrance while alive.--Anton A.
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Friendly fire is foe! no?--Anton A.
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To the second-hand thinker, the truth is how densely the smoke of lie was blown into their face. --Anton A.
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ONE. The world that you live in; the world that lives in you, IS the first word of this sentence. --Anton A.
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If you're blindly loyal, all that means is -- you're very blind.--Anton A.
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Don't lose your head to any institution, it is safest when left upon your own shoulders.-- Anton A.
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Understand everything, underwrite nothing. --Anton A.
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Salvation cannot be received nor given. You'll have to earn yours yourself and theirs themselves.-- Anton A.
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Own up! won't you? that which you own owns you.--Anton A.
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Holy? Hmm -- "O" religion is like Swiss cheese: To eat the Whole thing, one must also swallow all of its ecclesiastical holes.--Anton A.
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Divineward is inward. Enter! lest you're profane. --Anton A.
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Only out of meaningless ingredients could one constructs his or her own meaning.--Anton A.
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Find your own truth in your own depth.Don't go shallow on yourself.--Anton A.
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Clairvoyant? God; Blind? Not. Single eye? Yes; Two eyes? No.--Anton A.
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Hem and haw if you must, but never falter to tell the truth at the end.--Anton A.
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"Death" is not the last word in this life sentence, but the first in the next.--Anton A.
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Try to arrive at yourself with greater and greater understanding with each new day. Thus your journey! -- Anton A.
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Life is meant to be lived, not worked to death.--Anton A.
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Man cannot die even if he wanted to, for a dormant seed to awaken him is buried deep within him. -- Anton A.
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Till you study it, you know it not; till you use it, you own it not.--Anton A.
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Others? What others? Is everything not made in your own image? --Anton A.
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Alterations and accentuations of the same thing over and over again makes the old look different, fresh, and new once more.-- Anton A.
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The one-time occurrence of you reappears as new; out of your old self, it grew, and still don't know it's you. --Anton A.
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To follow someone, or to push someone who is towing you, is the same act. --Anton A.
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Everything outside is not. -- Anton A.
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The one thing that spirituality needs is the miracle of defamiliarity with institutional religion. --Anton A.
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To know everything is scarcely possible; to know everything else is impossible. --Anton A.
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Failure is an integral part of success, for that's where great learning takes place. -- Anton A.
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What you call new, is old, which was hidden from you till now. --Anton A.
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Pure knowledge, is to know without knowing how you know that which you know.-- Anton A.
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Experience is proof, first to self, of one's own ability in something.-- Anton A.
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If you're worshiping the wrong god, then you must be worshiping the right God wrongly.-- Anton A.
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Life is the same old song, sung over and over again in different keys.--Anton A.
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If you know what to say to God, but don't know how to say it, then use no words at all.--Anton A.
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Man is smart but does dumb things; builds his own temple and doesn't go in.--Anton A.
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Ground your children with solid roots so they may develop their own wings to fly.--Anton A.
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If there is any distance between you and Truth, guess who is off center? --Anton A.
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You won't find it without, lest you seek it within. --Anton A.
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Death only removes a couple of parentheses from the unbracketed life of the soul.--Anton A.
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Mortal part of man's existence is accomplished by living it right here on earth.-- Anton A.
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Many a soul have been sacrificed on the lofty rock of deception from sermons below.--Anton A.
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An acephalous biblicist is that abecedarian who surface-reads the scriptures, and knows it not.--Anton A.
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Those who preach the end, the only end that is coming is their own.--Anton A.
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Spiritually birthed Merkabah is a divine vehicle of light, which knows its way back home.--Anton A.
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Nothing is hidden from the eye that understands. --Anton A.
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It ain't occult nor a miracle to the mind that sees. -- Anton A.
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Religious hypocrites and ultramontane moralists crusade in dark ditches, not on open roads.--Anton A.
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The naked truth is so blinding that we cover it with a fig leaf to save our eyes.--Anton A.
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Dig deep for the truth in the bowels of knowledge, but forget not to come out of its hole. --Anton A.
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Behind the blinding light sits the naked truth.--Anton A.
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The perfect note from which all sounds arise, is silence.-- Anton A.
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The giver is always the recipient of the gift he or she departs with.--Anton A.

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Of a book -- If it did not transform you after turning its last page, perhaps you well had not bothered turning its first page either, but who knew? --Anton A.

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Knowledge is all the things that you see now which you did not see before while they were always there. --Anton A.
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The purest form of method-acting is the life we're living now; all Oscar-worthy performances, no matter how poorly we play our parts.--Anton A.
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Only an old sage could answer age-old questions no one asks.--Anton A.

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Doubt is an another way of saying that you're certain about your doubt; and doubting your doubt, makes you doubly certain about it. There's no doubt about that!--Anton A.

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If you think you're a believer -- listen up! You cannot believe in something without disbelieving first all the other things you chose not to believe. See how unbelievable you are?--Anton A.
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That which you call life is the part that you paid attention to. The other parts are virtually nonexistent to you.--Anton A.
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All-That-IS (է) created the "Other" in bits and pieces of IT'S own image to acknowledge the Is-ness of IT'S being.--Anton A.

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Those who want nothing are richer than those who own everything the former doesn't want. And less clutter, I might add.--Anton A.

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Either everything or nothing is a miracle -- no in-betweens; it all depends on the location of your point of view. Miracles never violate natural laws in the dimension that they occur.--Anton A.

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A great writer's characters speak more eloquently than the writer. Sometimes, the writer is not even there.--Anton A.

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Heaven and hell -- two different dreams, but the bed is the same.--Anton A.

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If you want to leave footprints, you too must walk, not talk.--Anton A.

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A strong will gets you ready to do the next work that you're not yet willing to do.--Anton A.

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Thoughts are the silent soliloquies of the mind.--Anton A.
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To whom the first and last step is the same, has not left nor arrived yet. You're home at last! --Anton A.

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The only sure thing about reality is the experience of its mirage, nothing else.--Anton A.
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The answer to a problem lies in the quality of the question in which it's asked.-- Anton A.
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Only that which ends can begin; death is no exception.--Anton A.
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There had never been a place that you'd gone to, which wasn't brought with you on arrival.-- Anton A.
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The ultimate catch 22: The universe mimics your mind and erroneously shows itself as an "out there" phenomenon. Per contra, you couldn't have seen it as an "in here" noumenon, had you not stepped out of the dense thicket of your mind.--Anton A.
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When life trips you and you fall down on your face, the first thing you need to pick up is your spirit. --Anton A.

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Two enemies are more closely related than two blood brothers, because enemies co-create each other, while brothers cannot, unless, of course, they happen to be enemies as well. --Anton A.
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"Opportunity makes a thief," once said Francis Bacon; what does, then, an opportunity-maker makes? A thief-maker? --Anton A.

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While sleep stops, dream continues.--Anton A.
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The good news about problems is that the solution of a problem is the problem of that solution. So, there is your problem. --Anton A.

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Hatred is no one else's poison, but yours; the flavor of which you taste first before dishing it out to others. --Anton A
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Just relax, life and death are in perpetual handshake within the same Eternal reality. -- Anton A
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In some ways, the present is where the future has already gone to, while the past is yet to come.--Anton A.
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The most meaningful journey is the one that leads you back to yourself as a changed man. --Anton A
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An effective tightrope has ends that pull itself apart in equal opposition.--Anton A
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Triumphant victories are recorded on the palimpsest of defeat. Anton A
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If you're not here now, you couldn't be anywhere else either. --Anton A.
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Questions that have no answers are questions that are not understood yet.--Anton A
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Heaven and hell share the same tiny plot. Upon which some stand and live, while beneath it some lie and die.--Anton A.
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If life's ups and downs have not yanked your chain yet, you must be "this is that and that is this" kind of a person.--Anton A
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Soul's compass is unlike other: To go forward proceed inward; to go backward stay outward.-- Anton A
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If you want to master cosmology on your own, a good place to start is yoUranus in bed tonight, pun intended.--Anton A
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Between a mighty tree and a fallen timber stands an ax. --Anton A
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You're not the one standing tall if your feet are dangling just below the shoulders of the person whose knees buckle sometimes under your weight. -- Anton A
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Creation is so selfless that it has given us all we need, but one -- MEANING -- so we may each create it ourselves. --Anton A
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The visible is hidden within the invisible right before our very eyes. -- Anton A
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Why bother worrying at all, when you could achieve the same or "better" results without one? --Anton A
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Married or not, your better half is your whole soul. -- Anton A
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If you miss the good old days of yesterday, well then, make some new ones today for tomorrow. --Anton A
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To the soulful ear, words have less meaning when spoken and more when they're not. -- Anton A
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All things are backward if you face them the wrong way.--Anton A
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If all the friends you say you knew are dead, you either lived too long -- Congratulations! Or you didn't have any -- Shame on you! -- Anton A
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Fix the things you don't like about others in you. -- Anton A
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STOP! -- The wheels that roll backward does so also forward -- GO! --Anton A.
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Those who no longer are capable of critical thinking, witlessly consult the wisdumb of a priest, a mullah, or a rabbi, who doesn't know them from Adam anyways.--Anton A.
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This ain't no glossolalia nor ziraleet, but Trinatarians are three times as odd as Unitarians in this dualistic world of theomathematics.--Anton A.
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When knowledge is ALL that you know, you have to unknow some of it first before getting back to the knowing of how you knew that which you know.--Anton A.
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What you focus on becomes your world.--Anton A.
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If you're gonna define, definitely define! don't let your definiens defy your definiendum. --Anton A.
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Inexperience in one right thing is better than all the experiences in a whole lot of wrong things.--Anton A.
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To the few thew is not new 9true)

Young man knows, but understands not; old man understands, but remembers not. -- Anton A.
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Don't do unto others that which there is no return from.--Anton A.
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It is best, when you do a good deed you didn't have to do, and especially, when no one else was around to see it take place.-- Anton A.
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For every good deed you do, there is a better one waiting to be done.--Anton A.
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Give to those who won't pay you back; lend to those who will. -- Anton A.
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A word is dead when it is said some say. I say it just begins to live that day.--Emily Dickinson.
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.--Jalaluddin Rumi.

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