Suffolk. London, with Elizabeth at her side. Mary, the country's first undisputed Elizabeth was brought to court and queen regnant, was determined to crush interrogated. the Protestant faith in which Elizabeth Though it is unlikely that she had had been educated. plotted with the rebels, some of them This included Elizabeth, who had to were known to have approached her. outwardly conform. Elizabeth's supporters in the Mary's initial popularity ebbed away government, including Lord Paget. when it became known that she planned On 22 May, Elizabeth was moved to marry Prince Philip of Spain. from the Tower to Woodstock, where Discontent spread rapidly through the she was to spend almost a year under country, and many looked to Elizabeth house arrest in the charge of Sir
98. Wishing makes it so what. 99. You're imperfect just the way you are. 100. Government always has a "good reason" for withholding the worst from the public and it's always wrong. 101. How smart is too smart to put up with tyranny? Pretty damn smart. 102. If you have to ask for it nicely, it's not a right. 103. I'm not a control freak; I'm a not-being-controlled freak. 3 104. It is demeaning to submit outwardly to unjust authority, but one sometimes has no choice. It is doubly demeaning to submit inwardly to unjust authority, and here one sometimes does have a choice; it is necessary to seize these moments. 105. Often it takes some shit disturbing before people wake up and see that their rights are being violated. 106. One of the fundamental aspects of freedom of speech is that it has to be permitted past the point where it begins to annoy others. 107
awareness as the most important thing that can happen to you. Opening yourself to the emerging consciousness and bringing this light into this world then becomes the primary purpose of your life. “I want to know the mind of God,” Einstein said. “The rest are details.” What is the mind of God? Consciousness. What does it mean to know the mind of God? To be aware. What are the details? Your outer purpose, and whatever happens outwardly. So while you are perhaps still waiting for something significant to happen in your life, you may not realize that the most significant thing that can happen to a human being has already happened within you: the beginning of the separation process of thinking and awareness. Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so