‘I quote others only in order to better express myself’
~ Michel de Montaigne

‘When people lose their reputation, they become despondent, like a child who cries when the sandcastle he has built is washed away by the tide’

‘If a person were to awake from a dream in which he had experienced a hundred years of happiness, and another were to awake from a dream in which he had experienced but a brief moment of happiness, once awake, the situation would be the same for both’

‘Just as people who travel have no attachment to a guesthouse where they stay for just one night, so I should not develop attachment to this body, which is the guesthouse for just one rebirth’

‘Since in its natural state the body smells foul, would it not be better to have no attachment for it? Why do those who crave the meaningless things of this world anoint this body with perfume?’

‘Those who cause me suffering are like Buddhas bestowing their blessings. Since they lead me to liberating paths, why should I get angry with them?’

‘Wherever the mind, infatuated by pleasures, finds enjoyment, there a thousand-fold suffering arises and falls to one’s share. Hence, the wise should not desire it. Fear arises from desire, yet it passes away by itself. Generate fortitude and look at it with indifference’

‘Consider wealth as an unending misfortune because of the troubles of acquiring, protecting, and losing it. Those who are distracted by attachment to wealth have no opportunity for liberation from the suffering of mundane existence’

‘All those who are unhappy in the world are so as a result of their desire for their own happiness. All those who are happy in the world are so as a result of their desire for the happiness of others’

‘On account of abandoning vices, one does not suffer, and on account of being wise, one does not become troubled in mind; for mental pain is due to false conceptions, and bodily pain is due to sinful actions’

‘And even if your enemy did suffer as you wish, how would that benefit you? If you say, ‘Well, at least it would give me some satisfaction’, how could there be a mind lower than that?’

Selected verses from A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life by Shantideva

‘All that we are is the result of what we have thought: If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. “He abused me, he beat me, he robbed me” – in those who harbour such thoughts hatred will never cease’

‘As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind’

‘Good men indeed walk warily under all circumstances; good men speak not out of desire for sensual gratification; whether touched by happiness or sorrow wise people never appear elated or depressed’

Selected passages from The Dhammapada

‘In getting your message out there, whilst being informative, always do your best not to feed the fear and paranoia, as this will act contrary to your intentions of raising the vibration to Positive. Deliver your message in a way that emphasizes the Hope, and the true beauty and reality of our inherent Oneness with our Infinite Creator. Be as a Light, shining in the Darkness. Do not burn others with your light, but rather, allow them to be drawn to your Light, and be of Service to those who come to you willingly. In other words, do not become ‘evangelical’ with your message, but rather, be the enigmatic and loving ‘wise old sage’, to whom others are drawn to because of the Quality of his vibration, rather than the volume of his rhetoric’

‘There is no “Messiah”. Stop looking outside of yourself for ‘salvation’’

‘The only real and lasting truth is a ‘self-realized’ one’

‘There is only one of us playing here. Understand that, and you will understand the game’

Hidden Hand, alleged Family member

‘Nothing is hidden’ [when asked about his favourite occult subject]

‘“Malicious” beings are from this realm, this is their home. You cannot hate them for they are doing their task, their rightful duty and it is connected to your behaviour. Understand, you are the perpetrator, they react. They never instigate, you do’

‘Recollect everything you used to know, devalue the things which were taught to you since you forgot the former and return’

‘We manipulate the world only as far as we are allowed to by Divine Law. We provide you with tools and then it is up to you to determine how you use it’

‘Do not pay attention to “world events”, they are all orchestrated to make you pay attention to them. The struggle you should pay attention to is on a personal level’

Insider, another alleged Family member whose thread is on the (rather atrocious) GLP forum

‘The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated’ [in a similar vein, I would also contend that the soul of an era is reflected by the quality of its architecture]

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian pacifist

‘If something is capable of destroying itself, then it probably shouldn’t have existed in the first place’

‘The man who has murdered his own self becomes a predator who lives to consume what others create. The self-murdered person is the greatest threat in the world and is both violent and destructive towards himself and everyone he encounters. He can occupy positions of importance or of the greatest importance. He can destroy a single life, or that of the world. He cares nothing for the trail of destruction and ruin that he leaves, only for the satiation of his insatiable appetite. He seeks you and all that is yours’

Michael Tsarion, Irish occultist [I am fond of the word that William Deagle uses to describe the act of ‘self-murder’ that Tsarion describes above: ‘Omnicide’]

‘Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we’

George W. Bush, speech in Washington on August 5th, 2005 [I believe that many of the sayings we consider to be ‘Bushisms’ are not unintended gaffes at all. Several of them, including this one, are delivered confidently and without apparent recognition of error, either by Bush or the smarter puppeteers flanking him. We know that the Family always display their plans and intentions in full view, and that presidents are fed responses and answers via earpiece. Therefore, because Bush is dumber than other presidents, he can explicitly reveal actual government intentions without being taken seriously. The public are willing to consider moronism a legitimate excuse for 'mistakes' that, in a neutral light, would be considered unforgivable]

‘When we know something is true, we don’t need to involve our egos. This is why we don’t really have much emotional attachment to the truth. It just is. It is when someone becomes emotional about a subject that I know they only ‘believe’ it. This usually comes up around religious or political beliefs. They are protecting their programming which has settled in the ego mind. The truth is foreign to anyone who argues those two subjects. It is their not knowing which causes the emotional response. Anyone who has certainty, which is from their experience, has no emotional charge on it. Arguing, by definition, is a reaction of the ego. This is why no one wins an argument. There is no win when the ego thinks it has won’

Mary Elizabeth Croft, American author

‘There is a utilitarian case for free expression. It recognizes that the freedom to speak must also be insisted on for the person who thinks differently, because it is pointless to support only free speech for people who agree with you. It is not only unprincipled to want that, but also self-defeating. For your own sake, you need to know how other people think’

Christopher Hitchens, British author

‘I hate patriotism. I can’t stand it. There’s only one world the last time I checked’

Bill Hicks, American comedian

‘Service is effective to the extent it is requested’

‘Dealing with the self without otherselves is akin to living without mirrors. Then the self cannot see the fruits of its beingness’

‘To the truly balanced entity, no situation would be emotionally charged’

‘Could your planet polarize towards harmony in one fine, strong, moment of inspiration? Yes, my friends. It is not probable; but it is ever possible’

‘It is absolutely necessary that an entity consciously realize it does not understand in order for it to be harvestable. Understanding is not of this density’

Ra, sixth density social memory complex

‘The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself’ [I would take this a step further and state that only those who are uncomfortable with themselves feel loneliness]

Mark Twain, American author

‘If you get your morals – uncritically – from scripture, you’re no better than a dog who’s afraid to steal the meat because he knows he’ll be whipped’

Pat Condell, British comedian

‘Stanton Friedman, CIA; John Lear, CIA (Lear’s father was named as having participated in antigravity research); William Moore; John Keel; Charles Berlitz; Bruce Maccabee, ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence); Linda Moulton Howe, Phillip Klass, CIA; James Moseley, CIA (Moseley’s father was discussed in a very complimentary manner); Virgil Armstrong, CIA (listed as Postlethwaite): Wendelle Stevens, CIA; Dr. J. Allen Hynek, CIA’ (pg. 228)

The names William Cooper remembered from an official document listing counterintelligence agents. From Behold a Pale Horse

‘A sceptic is someone who has a preconceived idea about something and then filters all evidence on the contrary’ [I've always found it interesting and amusing that the ‘sceptical’ belief is always the belief that conforms to the official story, even when the official story is that which is most easily debunked. Scepticism isn't about embracing the most plausible theory, but rather about taking a cowardly and fearful refuge in consensus]

‘People laugh at sheep because they always follow the one in front. But humans have ‘outsheeped’ the sheep, because whereas sheep need a sheepdog to keep them in line, humans keep each other in line’

‘We are living in a world that is governed by people who have cleverness but not wisdom. It takes a great deal of cleverness to construct an atom bomb, but it is not wise to do so’

‘The aim of the Illuminati sausage machine, called ‘education’, is to activate, stimulate and reward the left brain while suppressing the right and because the most successful victims of this process end up administrating the system, so society is formed in their image’ [Official newsletter, 02/03/08]

‘Real freedom is the ability for others to say something with which you disagree, and that’s why the vast majority don’t want it. The ‘freedom’ they babble on about is not freedom, but their freedom – their right to do and say what they choose while denying the same rights to others’ [About the despicable hypocrisy expressed by the ‘anti-fascist’ Oxford students who wished to prevent Holocaust revisionist David Irving from speaking at their university]

‘We have been manipulated to see power where it isn’t and thus powerlessness where it isn’t. The two, in terms of the pyramid and global society, are the wrong way round in our perception of ‘power’’ [Official newsletter, 11/01/09]

‘What you fight, you become’

David Icke, British conspiriologist

‘In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilise us’

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk [Thich Nhat Hanh is the closest I’ve seen on Earth to a pure STO being]

‘This teacher once said that if you can tell an audience something about God so that the whole audience can understand it, then that will prove conclusively that you don’t know anything. Because any pea-sized, ignorant, ill-informed, unread brain like yours cannot represent the divine presence in the universe’ [Ra claims that third density is not the density of understanding, and I agree. We simply cannot comprehend that which occurs on higher densities, though it is fun to try!]

‘The world is filled with violence, bloodshed, disorder, good people are dying, there are children starving, our world is in trouble, and people are calling out to God for protection [...] and never realising for one moment that the divine presence in the universe is not listening. Why? Because you have your own concept of whatever you think is true, whatever you believe to be true, but you have never confronted the real truth’ [I don’t agree with the full implications of this, but it is a valid statement on the necessity of achieving objectivity]

Jordan Maxwell, American conspiriologist

‘The purpose of relationships is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness’

Neale Donald Walsch, American author

‘Learn to conserve energy and to control the emotional and mental expenditure and wastage continually taking place in everyday life. A Master has learned the supreme lesson of the conservation of energy; he will never waste his energy, the vital force, the God-life. He trains himself to remain calm and tranquil in spite of the storms of life’ (pg. 43)

‘We advise you to love not only your fellow man, but also the conditions of your life. Bear no resentment. Nothing happens out of order or by chance, and the great Law brings those very conditions in your life which you need for growth. So accept with love all that happens. Look for the lesson that has to be learnt from the experience’ (pg. 79)

White Eagle, The Quiet Mind

‘Neither those who are graduating service to self nor those who are graduating service to others are caught in fear. The entities that are caught in fear are those who have not yet chosen how to polarize; that are simply, shall we say, resting in the cultural milieu’

‘It was intended that you be imperfect. You and your guidance system, before incarnation, selected not only your gifts and talents but your limitations and perceived faults. You wanted this opportunity to come and serve and yet also you wanted to do work in consciousness in the fiery furnace of planet Earth and consensus reality. You risked so much to come to planet Earth as an incarnated being because all that you knew before incarnation had a gentle but firm cover laid over it’

‘To gaze at the pride within an entity is to gaze upon that portion of the self that has been created by the self for the purpose of self-defense. That is, one who has pride has attempted to discover a good, right or noble way to think or behave or speak. Then one adopts the mask that is most efficient, most in line with the desired making of an impression on others. It is as though a man with a modest garden were to put a wall twenty feet high around the garden, certainly more than the garden needed in order to be a protected plot’

‘When one is attacked it is natural to defend, and yet in the sense of psychic greeting the defense creates the prolongation of attack’

Q’uo, sixth density social memory complex

‘Accept joy and sorrow as if they were the same thing. Accept the rocky place and the oasis as if they were equal gifts, for these are your home. You shall learn comfort in suffering, and you shall find undertones of sadness in the most joyful moments, for that which in within you is whole and entire. You are not an experiencer of isolated events or a chronicle of segmented stories, but rather eyewitness to a present moment which this illusion shall suggest to you often to be more than one thing, longer than one moment, fragmented and broken. Yet if the road goes on forever, how can it be fragmented?’

Latwii, fifth density social memory complex

‘Anything can fall down, but not everything can fly up. It takes little effort to fall into darkness but considerable effort at times to withstand the pull of this spiritual gravity and even more to rise higher. Just as weight determines how strongly something is pulled downward by gravity, so does the level of dominance held by our lower aspect determine how strongly we are affected by negative influences. These weigh us down for as long as we are chained to them via our repeated indulgence in negative reactions and thoughtless mechanical behavior. But by consistently identifying and choosing that which uplifts and originates from our higher noble aspects, the chains rust away from neglect and the possibility of flight becomes a reality’ (pgs. 110-111)

Montalk, Fringe Knowledge for Beginners

‘To be sure, government schemes and UFO cover-ups, black-budget technology and ET customs are interesting, but are they essential primary teachings? Do they lead to our liberation and freedom from needless suffering? Do they help us achieve self-integration, fusion with true self, and the flowers of love and wisdom? Of course not – and it is important to remember it’ (pg. 216)

‘True love is no less than perfect receptivity, and it is blocked the very moment we have calculation in mind, the idea that something at all should, or must, or needs to be done – or said, or conveyed, or whatever. [...] Love is shallow without wisdom, and wisdom icy without love. But the true meeting place of self-and-other union takes place only in the sanctified space of stillness. It is the only starting-place where real love as perfect acceptance, and real wisdom as perfect knowing vision, can be unfurled in their true intertwined state. As a unified expression, this love-wisdom coupling is a fine and refined way of being in service. It is also a development of character that we can truly deem mature’ (pg. 234)

Scott Mandelker, Universal Vision: Soul Evolution and the Cosmic Plan

‘The time is surely coming when we could all be free
When eyes for so long blinded
In opening shall see
That children may grow happily
Safe in the love of all
The earth a fertile garden where nobody need crawl’

From Twelfth Night’s Love Song. Lyrics by Geoff Mann