This Evenings Thoughts

If anger be the basis of our political activities, the excitement tends to become an end in itself, at the expense of the object to be achieved. Side issues then assume an exaggerated importance, and all gravity of thought and action is lost; such excitement is not an exercise of strength, but a display of weakness.
Tagore

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

And finally in light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'

/\ Namaste
When there have been so many wise men from everywhere in the world for so many, many years who have written so eloquently on subjects that are as relevant today as they've ever been, why is it that ignorance and downright stupidity still flourish and even seems on the rise? I have no comments to make on these three quotes because they speak so clearly, so eloquently on their own.

I leave you with a field of tulips from Skagit Valley and another breathless look at Snoqualmi Falls.

May you all have a beautiful tomorrow.