September 30, 2007 We are Staying Awake to our intentions, sensibilities and curiosities while attending our experiences at hand. Subscription Management — Quotes — Light Hearted for Starters Thoughtful New World Order Central Banking System Focused Excellence author, publisher, originator of this ezine, Staying Awake. Graphic and Web Design Newsletter Production Life Coaching DavidMoorhead.com 1+ 214 341 5599 Email Staying Awake I bring together fun-loving, thoughtfully curious and dynamically creative people! That’s the possibility I bring to clients’ businesses. ~ DM I think with intuition. The basis of true thinking is intuition. Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells a man his purpose in life. One never goes wrong following his feelings. I don’t mean emotions, I mean feelings, for feelings and intuition are one. ~ Albert Einstein (b 1879) It is called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. ~ George Dennis Carlin (b 1937), American actor, author, Grammy-winning stand-up comedian. Cosmology One of the three philosophies in metaphysics is cosmology: The study of the origin and evolution of Universe, especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and choice. You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis (b 1883), Greek author of poems, novels, essays, plays, travel books The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ~ Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (Coco Chanel) (b 1883), French couturier of modernist philosophy Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (b 1841), American jurist, USA Supreme Court 1902 Politics: n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. ~ Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (b 1842), American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer, satirist War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ~ Paul Thomas Mann (b 1875), German novelist, short story writer, essayist, social critic, philanthropist, Nobel Prize laureate 1929, noted for insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. ~ Albert Einstein (b 1879), German born theoretical physicist, author of the general theory of relativity, contributed to special theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology, Physics Nobel Prize 1921 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. ~ Ben Hecht (b 1894), Hollywood screenwriter, Academy Awards 1929 and 1936 But life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. ~ Bettye Naomi Goldstein (Betty Friedan) (b 1921), American feminist It’s going to happen very soon. The great event that will end the horror. That will end the sorrow. Next Tuesday, when the sun goes down, I will play the Moonlight Sonata backwards. This will reverse the effects of the world’s mad plunge into suffering for the last 200 million years. What a lovely night that will be. What a sigh of relief, as the senile robins become bright red again, and the retired nightingales pick up their dusty tails, and assert the majesty of creation! ~ Leonard Norman Cohen (b 1934), Canadian singer, songwriter, poet, novelist Absorbed in blazes of commerce, Awakened by instants of truth Descending surely and loudly upon us As whispers in falling snowflakes. © David Moorhead © 2004-2007 All rights in all media reserved. You may quote my words as long as you attribute my name. Staying Awake content may be forwarded in full without special permission for nonprofit purposes only, provided full attribution and copyright notice are given. Thank You. Staying Awake Archive and publication dates. My email database will not be given away, borrowed nor sold. This ezine distributed by EZezine.com Our constant curiosity is key to watching what’s being created. ~ DM

Dear Readers,

Welcome to our newest subscribers! You’ll find Staying Awake’s curiosities are so varied, not even the author knows into which worlds of thought the heart and mind will take us. This ezine is full of quotes, a quick summation of my personal worlds of studies over six years. More importantly, let’s remember we live in bodies, and our bodies frequently enjoy breathing, with some kind of exercise from time to time!

As was written last time, WE are a SPECIES, living on a PLANET, and the Sun nurtures nature for our nourishment. Part of our nourishment these days is our sense of humor, which we certainly enjoy while in the company of friends.

While we’re alone, however, humor is frequently lost after reading and pondering dilemmas humans on every continent are apparently facing. Designed by human-to-human experimentations, from language and agriculture to digital technologies in outer space, the world’s myriad cosmologies over millennia have accompanied our species’ civilizations into these historical years.

It seems many humans actually believe the end of the world is approaching. Many of us, on the other hand, don’t go that far; we’re thinking the closing of one age (or eon) is opening our entry into the next. We’re declining any notions of moralisms that disparage Earthlings; those olden philosophies and religiosities as trainings might be fading as well.

Unethical and exclusive ways of manipulating Earthlings’ imaginations appear to be drawing to a close or significantly altering. Notwithstanding, one ruthless battle royal after another, we taxpaying hirelings might expect manly rulers to become intensely embattled, creating curiosities even more difficult for us to comprehend, and, by design, obscures where we are heading.

Light Hearted for Starters

When I was born, I was so surprised, I didn’t talk for a year and a half.
~ Gracie Allen (b 1895)

Whatever women must do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
~ Charlotte Whitton (b 1896)

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
~ Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (b 1835)

We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.
~ William James (b 1842)

Laughter is like the human body wagging its tail.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
~ Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (b 1902)

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
~ Sue Taylor Grafton (b 1940)

Son, I love your strategy, but don’t let them get to know you.
~ Barbara Pierce Bush (b 1925)

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
~ William Penn Adair “Will” Rogers (b 1879)

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
~ Erma Bombeck (b 1927)

We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually produce a masterpiece. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
~ Eyler Coates

Thoughtful

We, student and teacher, master and novice are all on the same road. We have decided in our hearts, deeply, even secretly, that it’s worth it; that we are strong enough and tough enough to stay the course. Good. Because we are needed—have been needed for millennia. Even before Shakespeare shook the world, we went into the churches, and in the streets, helping to overcome the dark and laugh at the devils. The Athenians knew they needed us; behind the mask we went, our voices magnified searching into their very souls. And eons ago, when one of us in that cave stood up before the fire, his shadow cast large on the stone behind and acted out the hunt, the watchers better understood their courage. We were needed then; we are needed now.
~ Michael Howard Studios, Work and Study Center for the Professional Actor, New York

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
~ Albert Einstein (b 1879)

We know ourselves to be made from this earth. We know this earth is made from our bodies. For we see ourselves. And we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature speaking of nature to nature.
~ Susan Griffin, eco-feminist author

New World Order

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. […] The government of the present day must deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
~ Benjamin Disraeli (b 1804), First British Prime Minister

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
~ Woodrow Wilson (b 1856), 28th USA President

Most of his thoughts were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the Council on Foreign Relations—One World Money Group. The United Nations is but a long range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power. The One-World government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the USA via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve bank.
~ Curtis Dall (b 1896), Franklin D. Roosevelt’s son-in-law

Central Banking System

The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen. At the head of this octopus [is] a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually runs the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties. Brackets are mine.
~ John F. Hylan (b 1868), New York Mayor USA

If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless. I sincerely believe the banking institutions (having the issuing power of money) are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies. My zeal against these institutions was so warm and open at the establishment of the Bank of the United States (Hamilton’s foreign system), that I was derided as a maniac by the tribe of bank mongers who were seeking to filch from the public.
~ Thomas Jefferson (b 1743), 3rd USA President; Refer Phases Projected by Carol Warner Christen, Swans dot com

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance.
~ James Madison (b 1751), 4th USA President

Staying Awake an ezine with your awareness in mind. Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered. We see, now, events forced on which seem to retard or retrograde the civility of ages. But the world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves cannot drown him. He snaps his finger at laws: and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (b 1803), excerpt from his essay Representative Men: Montaigne; or, the Skeptic (1850)