Tree-hugging environmentalist, wine-drinking, cheese-eating, sushi-eating East Coast Elitist Liberal

Religion:
As one who leans towards Taoism, I believe in the natural order of the universe; however, I love the ESSENCE of ALL religions and believe that we are one holy community. Our paths may be different but the end (whatever that may be) is the same.

Reading, writing (6 books) , photography, dancing, live music
Animal Rights activist, American Indian Rights activist

Art, Music, Politics

Music: ALL
Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen
Amos Lee, Bonnie Raitt, Alicia Keyes, Melissa Etheridge
New Age: R. Carlos Nakai, Saggio, Anugama, Deuter, AeTopus, Marine Raye, Evren Ozan, Coyote Oldman, Lasar Mars
Classic Rock: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Jim Morrison, Chris Rea, Queen,
Gram Parsons, Jimi Hendricks
Outlaw Country: Waylon, Willie & Kris


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Reds
The Thin Man series
too many more to list

Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Poets:
Pablo Neruda
Rabindranath Tagore
Rumi
Claude McKay

Planning my future, but doing this in pencil. - Unknown

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. - Albert Einstein

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – Buddha

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Gandhi

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao-tzu

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot

There is no shame when you try and fail; there is only shame when you fail to try. - Anonymous

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. -- Muhammad Ali

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. --Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. - Ayn Rand

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. - -Carl Jung

ISuccess is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

Life is not about the number of breaths you take, rather the moments that take your breath away. – Unknown

“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?” - Rumi

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don';t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.” – Rumi

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. - Marie Curie

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow ~ Don't walk behind me, I may not lead ~ Just walk beside me and be my friend. -unknown

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds. - Jewish Proverb

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. -Mahatma Gandhi, 1931

A person is always liable for his actions, whether awake or asleep. - - Babylonian Talmud

Truth is the light by which to find your way out of darkness. Turn it on. - - Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it;s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts. - -His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Obey and respect everyone’s religion if you want your religion to be respected. - Unknown

See all the different religious traditions as paths for the development of inner peace, which is the true foundation of world peace. These ancient traditions come to us as a gift from our common past. Will we continue to cherish it as a gift and hand it over to the future generations as a legacy of our shared desire for peace? - -His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;
While he who walks in love may wander far, Yet God will bring him where the blessed are. - -Henry Van Dyke

Che
Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer
Dr. Martin Luther King, Ghandi