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 * Love is the ultimate of holies, by which all else receives its worth.

This is a statement from a childhood dream which was actually expressed many times within the dream, in many ways, by many dream figures, with a few major variants that have stuck in my mind ever since, and which I have always thought both noteworthy and irrefutable. It was in such childhood dreams that I first envisioned a listing of many of the most important statements that have been made through the ages, and of calling it Worldsong.


 * In response to some activities and requests of which I am aware, I declare this assertion to be in the public domain, and that henceforth neither I nor any other person has any right to impede its expression, by anyone, in whatever ways they see fit, even if only to mock it. Mockeries of Love and Truth will forever pass into further mockeries and be forgotten or denied, but the Love and Truth and Beauty of such words will remain Eternal, beyond all denial.


 * I assert that all people certainly have the right to disagree with it, or what little they can understand or misunderstand of it, so fully as their own consciences and reasons impel them to do, but that I and others also have the right to assert that in the ways which I or they understand it, it is irrefutable, and has been and can be an irrefutably important key to far more forms of awareness and appreciation of Reality and Life itself.


 * I assert that there are many right ways to profoundly and beautifully understand it, and acknowledge that there are at least a few ways to profoundly and miserably misunderstand it, and to fail to appreciate many of the most profound and beautiful elements of its meaning and importance, but it is not my intention to elaborate upon them here.

All attempts to share wisdom with others is an expression of love for that which is truly essential.

Even after more than eight years, we are all just at the beginning of this endeavor, and there is certainly a great deal left to be done.
 * I have started a user sub-page Chronology to provide a summary of some of my activity here, as well as that of others. A few of my favorite quotes collected in the Wikiquote project, thus far, are presented below, on this page. For more extensive listings of my favorites expressions and ideas see:
 * Worldsong, a primarily chronological listing of authors or sources of quotes through the ages,
 * Restorations which includes selected quotes I had originally intended to present under various pseudonyms, or
 * Vox Box which also permits a more extensive and personal commentary upon some quotes and ideas than would be appropriate within articles.
 * Love is in my beginning and my ending. It is the beginning and ending of ALL which IS. It IS the ALL which is — For All forms of Awareness, Life, and Love are formed by Love, and abide with Love and through Love, In ways beyond ALL bounds of mortal minds. WE ALL begin and end IN LOVE. It has been said that God IS Love, and that Love is ALL. If so, what is there for the wise to hate but ignorance and confusion regarding such facts?  Whether one believes that the Ultimate Reality is all-knowing or all-ignorant, ultimately meaningful or meaningless, alive or dead, or even can or cannot exist — or whether one can or cannot believe or KNOW such things to be significant speculations, many can assert that the wise ever strive to dispel and diminish ignorance and confusion in themselves and others, often transcending many forms of it with an ever abiding love. Those who, at times, are most pathetically, tragically and dangerously ignorant and confused fall readily into fears which fuel hatreds and suspicions and their own lust to control or punish others, which they justify by observing or imagining and magnifying, exaggerating, how foul and loathsome others are, or "must" be — often exposing far more of their own propensities to the ways of needless destruction and error and terror than that which can ever truly be found in those they condemn. Forgiveness is an imperative of the wise, and gentleness a strong desire — but they know that harshness must sometimes arise when injustices are denied or ignored, and people regularly believe or pretend to believe that many things are what they are NOT, or are not what they ARE. This very truth has often been twisted and misused by people accustomed to making the good seem evil and the evil seem good, in ways that are detrimental to ALL concerned.  The wisest strive not to judge or to be judge by the ignorant and confused, but to make honest assessments, and abide in honest and respectful communion. Many remain so ignorant and confused about the nature of themselves and others and Reality itself that they believe this demands some form of absolute or absolutist control by someone. I am one of those who assert that such is a delusion of those most desiring excuses and reasons for their impulses to absolutely disregard the values and worth of others. The wisest know that ALL things have worth — and that NO thing has absolutely equal worth to ANY other — though in a truly just society of human beings ALL must have equal rights to assert and develop what worth they have. Such is the socially proper form of freedom known as Liberty — where all recognize the right of all to differ to the degree they feel proper — and thus no one accepts the presumption of ANYONE that they have the right or need to dictate to others what they MUST do, and where differences do arise sufficient to form clear hostilities of will, these should generally be acknowledged, but among the wise, ways to harmonize rather than conflict will be sought, and agreements reached as to what is best in any circumstances. It is only the very foolish who tend to hold that formulas can or must always be developed to determine what is "best" for all — usually these are little more than the ways to disguise from others and oneself one's presumptions or assumptions that what one desires oneself is best for all. Such formulas CAN be useful, and even necessary to develop many determinations of what is better or worse in various ways within any circumstances, but the wise know they should never be relied on AS IF they were ABSOLUTE.  A maintaining of the balances of what can or must be known or cannot yet be properly recognized and understood by themselves or others is nearly always of concern to the wise, but also always a desire and urge to promote awareness and appreciation among all of what usually can be recognized and accepted as truly beautiful and beautifully true by most.  ~ Kalki ~   Yorkshire rose.svg The imperialist ideology of force, from whatever side it comes, must be shattered for all time. ~ The White Rose ~





Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese ~



Themes: Tao · Love · Peace · Humility · Courage · Honesty · Compassion · Friendship

Works: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · The Ballad of the White Horse · Books of Magic · Dune · The Four Quartets · The God of Small Things · Idylls of the King · Leaves of Grass · Les Miserables · The Lord of the Rings · Mercy · Nineteen Eighty-Four · One Minute Nonsense · Principia Discordia · The Prophet · The San∂man · The Ship that Flew‎‎ · The Silmarillion · Stranger In A Strange Land · The Works of William Shakespeare · A Tale of Two Cities · Through the Looking-Glass

People: Douglas Adams · Eden Ahbez · Isaac Asimov · Richard Bach · Baha'u'llah · Black Elk · Emily Brontë · Thomas Browne · Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Robert Browning · Gautama Buddha · Richard Francis Burton · Leo Buscaglia · John Carder Bush · Kate Bush · G. K. Chesterton · Winston Churchill · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Confucius · Emily Dickinson · John Donne · Bob Dylan · Meister Eckhart · Albert Einstein · Dwight D. Eisenhower · George Eliot · T. S. Eliot · Buckminster Fuller · Eleanor Farjeon · William Faulkner · Richard Feynman · Benjamin Franklin · Robert Frost · Neil Gaiman · Mahatma Gandhi · Hermann Göring · Stephen Grellet · Robert Heinlein *Ernest Hemingway · Frank Herbert · Douglas Hofstadter · Elbert Hubbard · Aldous Huxley · Thomas Jefferson · Jesus Christ · Chief Joseph · The Emperor Julian · Julian of Norwich · Helen Keller · John F. Kennedy · Martin Luther King · Stephen King · C. S. Lewis · Abraham Lincoln · Marcus Aurelius · Andrew Marvell · Groucho Marx · Anthony de Mello · H. L. Mencken · Jim Morrison · Muhammad · Isaac Newton · Reinhold Niebuhr · Martin Niemöller · Friedrich Nietzsche · Anaïs Nin · Emperor Norton I · Thomas Paine · Louis Pasteur · Emo Phillips · Max Planck · Edgar Allan Poe · Yitzhak Rabin · Spider Robinson · Eleanor Roosevelt · Franklin Delano Roosevelt · Theodore Roosevelt · Arundhati Roy · Bertrand Russell · Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf · Antoine de Saint-Exupery · George Santayana · Dr. Seuss · William Shakespeare · George Bernard Shaw · Percy Bysshe Shelley · Robert Louis Stevenson · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · Henry David Thoreau · Mark Twain · Leonardo da Vinci · Voltaire · Andy Warhol · Bill Watterson · Morris West · Walt Whitman · Ella Wheeler Wilcox · Ludwig Wittgenstein · William Butler Yeats

Films: Groundhog Day · Harvey · It's a Wonderful Life · L. A. Confidential · The Matrix · The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) · They Might Be Giants

Theatrical Plays and Musicals: Into the Woods

Other Categrories: Quote of the Day Archives · Famous last words · Epitaphs · Famous Advertising Slogans · TV Shows · Electronic Games · Folk Proverbs · List of Wikiquotians · Utilities · Village pump · Votes for deletion

Most of the above are listed because they contain gems of positive inspiration, but some worthy articles such as Nineteen Eighty-Four provide a reminder of how nightmarish the misguided can be, and of such harm as can be done to individuals and to society whenever Liberty, Truth, and Love are not paramount concerns. There is always immense tragedy wherever the levels of oppression, dishonesty, and hatred of vital impulses that people are willing to manifest are the primary means to obtaining status, power, comfort, —and such apparent personal "safety" as exists without regard for the beauty or reality of the eternal soul which manifests only through Love.

Certainly many famous people, important themes, major literary works, and motion pictures remain to be added, and even more categories can be developed.

I was long one of the administrators here, which never gave me any special authority… only a bit more ability to keep others from misusing the privileges provided.

These are the people to contact if you observe any recurring abuse of Wikiquote privileges, and feel a user should be blocked or a page protected from edits, or a page deleted. Many of these people are no longer very active here, but I intend to be around most days, and remain involved to the extent which I can. Luckily, the problems that have occurred here thus far have been relatively minor, and some apparent abuse might have been accidents or novices to wikis amazed that they are actually permitted to do edits to the pages without the prior approval of anyone. Those who persist in vandalizing the wiki (or the wiki process itself, with the accumulation or development of needless rules or presumptions of authority), will need to be dealt with more vigorously, through various means of non-violent direct action.

I intend to do at least a little work on this project on most days; copying, editing, and formatting many quotations from many diverse authors and sources, and to simply observe the progress of it, and expect that many people will eventually be inspired to contribute an extensive amount to this developing compendium of wit and wisdom.

I do not intend to always respond promptly to queries and comments, but sometimes might just be carefully formulating my response in a way that takes into account the many considerations that I believe should be involved in any decisions upon many matters.

'''I send my best of wishes to all those who are prompted to increase the awareness potentials of themselves and others in respectful and beneficial ways.

There are some truths that I feel are rarely expressed or repeated often enough, and are too seldom thought upon by many, so I will end as I began, quoting a small portion of what I can remember from a childhood dream; one of the slight variants of the statement with which I began, and which my soul continually affirms:


 * Love is the ultimate of holies, by which all else derives its worth.
 * ~ Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:44, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

 This is the primary account of Kalki, who has also used many other account-names here, some since the very first days of this Wiki. "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." Foundational Principles against overly-controlling forces developing on the wikis. Even if you have read them before, PLEASE EXAMINE ANEW: Wikipedia:Ignore all rules, and the other links available there, including the links delineating much which Wikipedia was NOT.''' These were some of the earliest directives established by the founding workers on the Wikimedia projects. "Ignore all rules: If rules make you nervous and depressed, and not desirous of participating in the wiki, then ignore them entirely and go about your business." ~ RulesToConsider "IAR is policy, always has been" ~ Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales I am one of the administrators here, which doesn't give me any special authority… only a bit more ability to keep others from misusing the privileges provided. I am in a period of very intermittent but gradually developing activity here, and follow no set schedule. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:26, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

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You know when you have a dream and you're half-awake, but still in the fringe of your brain … then you open your eyes and you're so damned glad it was a dream? This was NOTHING like that. ~ Wesley, son of Cross, in Wanted ~



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 * Before agreeing to defer to an IMPOSITION to restrict editing here ONLY to the Kalki account, until such a time as the issues involved could be more thoroughly addressed and decided upon, in order to lift a PLAINLY IMPROPER and POLICY VIOLATING BLOCK by, this user had additionally made well over 11,444 contributive edits using many other names, for a present count of well over 147,000 edits in all. MANY of these names and associated restored userpage messages have been salvaged from defacement at Restorations. MANY of the thousands of articles either created or significantly worked upon by this user are listed at '''Kalki/index. ·