The Jeffersonian (without imported items)

My Night Tonight!

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:03:51 GMT

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Stephen_DillaneLed_FOUR_QUARTETS_Opens_Tonight_at_Lincoln_Center_122_20091203

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated..."

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:00:05 GMT

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time. This expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

–Martha Graham

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"Way to be handicapped, dude!"

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:30:51 GMT

"Way to be handicapped, dude!"

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The way the world would be if we made life simpler.

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:45:22 GMT

The way the world would be if we made life simpler.

Recently Purchased, a Must Listen

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:06:58 GMT

"Surrendering does not involve preparing for a soft landing. It means just lan..."

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:52:05 GMT

"Surrendering does not involve preparing for a soft landing. It means just landing on hard, ordinary ground, on rocky, wild countryside. Once we open ourselves, then we land on what is."

–Chogyam Trungpa

"The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with c..."

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:07:15 GMT

"The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives. The only method of doing this is to assume a perfect resignation to the Divine will, to consider that whatever does happen, must happen; and that, by our uneasiness, we cannot prevent the blow before it does fall, but we may add to its force after it has fallen."

–Thomas Jefferson

"Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot o..."

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:04:24 GMT

"Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I have steadfastly believed."

–Thomas Jefferson

Incredible photograph. I s artistic eye!

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:54:35 GMT

[Reposted from kniepuder]

Incredible photograph. I <3 Kniepuder's artistic eye!

On the soundtrack of my life. Sweet FA...

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:53:00 GMT

On the soundtrack of my life. Sweet FA...

America has just elected her first black president.And in honour, here is the...

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:45:05 GMT

America has just elected her first black president.

And in honour, here is the treatise on slavery from America's original Declaration of Independency, which was deleted from the copy that eventually passed and was published by the Continental Congress. It is perhaps now, looking at the history of African Americans and what they have achieved today, more relevant now than ever.

On slavery, and speaking of the King (and, by association, all that oppressed colonial peoples):

"He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people for whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another."

My question today.

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:31:48 GMT

My question today.

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:50:37 GMT

"No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him..."

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:49:23 GMT

"No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it."

–Thomas Jefferson

Video: Christian the Lion (amazing)

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:15:15 GMT

What a tearjerker, but worth the watch.

http://videos.komando.com/2008/06/26/christian-the-lion/

Changing the Molecular Structure of Water with our Thoughts

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:00:51 GMT

http://weblog.xanga.com/JeffersonianChic/673494971/changing-the-molecular-structure-of-water-with-our-thoughts.html

The passion of a president: Jefferson's gardens at Monticello.

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:23:48 GMT

The passion of a president: Jefferson's gardens at Monticello.

"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always opp..."

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:18:24 GMT

"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

–Thomas Jefferson

"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a..."

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:18:05 GMT

"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."

–Thomas Jefferson

"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to righ..."

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:43:36 GMT

"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

–Thomas Jefferson

"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to..."

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:43:10 GMT

"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."

–Thomas Jefferson

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I..."

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:03:35 GMT

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am not for others, what am I?
And if not now, when?"

–Rabbi Hillel

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Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:10:37 GMT

"With all my heart, I cannot declare myself to be of one religion to the exclu..."

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:50:55 GMT

"With all my heart, I cannot declare myself to be of one religion to the exclusion of the people of others. With all my heart, I cannot exclude anyone from the wholeness of that absolute reality called truth, divine, god, or those other many names that state the nondual one without a second.

If one day I say I am a Buddhist, the next a Christian, the next a Hindu, the next a Jew, the next a Muslim, and the next something else, has the "I" actually changed, or only the opinions of the mind? Who am I? That cannot be answered with a mere opinion of mind. It can only be experienced in the stillness and silence of direct experience, wherein these divisions evaporate."

–Swami Jnaneshvara

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads no..."

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:30:28 GMT

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

–Thomas Jefferson

"The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only..."

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:30:10 GMT

"The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the tracts which favor that theory."

–Thomas Jefferson

You'll need to remember all this, but you'll forget all this.

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:28:36 GMT

http://guruandmasters.com/blog/archives/ten-rules-for-being-human/

Everything about this is perfection. The anticipation as he builds up steam.....

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:00:13 GMT

Everything about this is perfection. The anticipation as he builds up steam...the stunning air bass performance as only Alan Partridge could do it...his facial expressions and body language in time to the best air bass tune ever. And the camera, panning and angling as if it's a real music clip. It's less than a minute of sheer brilliance.

Haunting living display of Elizabeth Bathory.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:02:04 GMT

Haunting living display of Elizabeth Bathory.

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, a..."

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:50:09 GMT

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."

–Thomas Jefferson