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pablokabute
Hari ng Amag



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Well... because you do not talk about fight club.
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Fermented Mushrooms!! --- https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/23378638/fpart/1/vc/1 'The second seal: “All CONTAMINATED things and events are unsatisfactory.”' "I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all - you live in THE HEART OF THE BEAST." --Anonymous Guerilla, or is he..
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: pablokabute]
#22529640 - 11/15/15 09:22 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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You've redeemed yourself.
-------------------- Vi Veri Universum Vivus Vici
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DisoRDeR
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He had also made the discovery that, in a certain peculiar manner, men of thought gave offense and aroused the repugnance of their fellows. They might be valued at a distance and called on in emergencies, but others neither love them nor accept them, rather give them a wide berth. He had also learned that the sick and unfortunate are far more receptive to traditional magic spells and exorcisms than to sensible advice; that people more often accept affliction and outward penances than the task of changing themselves, or even examining themselves; that they believe more easily in magic than reason, in formulas than experience. These are matters which in the several thousand years since his era have probably not changed so much as a good many history books claim. But he had also learned that a seeking, thoughtful man dare not forfeit love; that he must meet the wishes and follies of men halfway, not showing arrogance but also not truckling to them; that it is always only a single step from sage to charlatan, from priest to mountebank, from helpful brother to parasitic drone, and that the people would by far prefer to pay a swindler and be exploited by a quack than accept help given freely and unselfishly. They would much rather pay in money and goods than in trust and love. They cheat one another and expect to be cheated themselves. You had to learn to see man as a weak, selfish, and cowardly creature; you also had to realize how many of these evil traits and impulses you shared yourself; and nevertheless you allowed yourself to believe, and nourished your soul on the faith, that man is also spirit and love, that something dwells in him which is at variance with his instincts and longs to refine them.
--Herman Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
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Elff
Abyss Full of Love


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: DisoRDeR]
#22558336 - 11/22/15 03:58 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Hold up, hold up, you don’t do drugs? What’s that mean? More for us!"
- Meechy Darko
"The seeker is he who is in search of himself. Give up all questions except one: “Who am I?” After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The “I am” is certain. The “I am this” is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality. To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. Discover all that you are not - body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that - nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive. The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realise that you are the limitless being."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"No drug causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs— we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power." - PJ O’Rourke
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saintdextro
Entheogen psychonaut



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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Elff]
#22562769 - 11/23/15 10:24 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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"you will die"
-Saintdextro
-------------------- "He who finds peace and joy And radiance within himself That man becomes one with God And vanishes into God's bliss." -Bhagavad Gita, 5.24 One 21 - Building Better Bombs One 21 - Pacified One 21 - Two Sides Is Fine "Respectability is a cloak for the hypocrite" - Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: saintdextro]
#22588344 - 11/28/15 09:16 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Grace is the acceptance of the unacceptable" - Eckhart Tolle
"You are a song, a wished-for song" -Rumi
"Discard all traditional standards. Leave them to the hypocrites. As long as you worry about sin and virtue you will have no peace." -Nisargadatta
"Truth is not a reward for good behavior nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the uborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own...Stand still, be quiet." -Nisargadatta
"We are ignorant of many beautiful things" -Log Lady
"“I was left alone a lot after Dad and the boys died.... And it was just me and Mom for a long time,” he said. “And by her example am I not bitter. By her example. She was not. Broken, yes. Bitter, no.” Maybe, he said, she had to be that for him. He has said this before—that even in those days of unremitting grief, she drew on her faith that the only way to not be swallowed by sorrow, to in fact recognize that our sorrow is inseparable from our joy, is to always understand our suffering, ourselves, in the light of eternity. What is this in the light of eternity? Imagine being a parent so filled with your own pain, and yet still being able to pass that on to your son. “It was a very healthy reciprocal acceptance of suffering,” he said. “Which does not mean being defeated by suffering. Acceptance is not defeat. Acceptance is just awareness.” He smiled in anticipation of the callback: “ ‘You gotta learn to love the bomb,’ ” he said. “Boy, did I have a bomb when I was 10. That was quite an explosion. And I learned to love it. So that's why. Maybe, I don't know. That might be why you don't see me as someone angry and working out my demons onstage. It's that I love the thing that I most wish had not happened.” I love the thing that I most wish had not happened. I asked him if he could help me understand that better, and he described a letter from Tolkien in response to a priest who had questioned whether Tolkien's mythos was sufficiently doctrinaire, since it treated death not as a punishment for the sin of the fall but as a gift. “Tolkien says, in a letter back: ‘What punishments of God are not gifts?’ ” Colbert knocked his knuckles on the table. “ ‘What punishments of God are not gifts?’ ” he said again. His eyes were filled with tears. “So it would be ungrateful not to take everything with gratitude. It doesn't mean you want it. I can hold both of those ideas in my head.” He was 35, he said, before he could really feel the truth of that. He was walking down the street, and it “stopped me dead. I went, ‘Oh, I'm grateful. Oh, I feel terrible.’ I felt so guilty to be grateful. But I knew it was true." -Rolling Stone interview with Stephen Colbert
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Sse
Saṃsāra

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: saintdextro]
#22593573 - 11/30/15 07:00 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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"All of the 'properties, functions, qualities' that one might think make up 'I' are merely ways in which I limit myself by attaching to some aspect of this body-mind entity."
-------------------- "Springs of water welling from the fire" "Life may seem to flee in a moment, but when the mind is freed of the veil of ignorance, and illusion that comes between the mind and the truth, life and death are only opposite sides of the same coin - "water welling from the fire."
"Within us, we carry the world of no-birth and no-death. But we never touch it, because we live only with our notions." -Thich Nhat Hanh instant "Experience always goes beyond ideas"
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Sse] 1
#22595815 - 11/30/15 06:14 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Heaven is in this life; it is not a place but an experience of living in quantum nonlocality." --Dr. Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
-------------------- Vi Veri Universum Vivus Vici
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Middleman

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Amid Birds of Prey
Whoever tends to descend here, How quickly The depths swallow them! — But you, Zarathustra, Still love the abyss — Do you, just as the spruce?
Its roots shoot down, where The rock itself tremors Gazing into the depths — It tarries at abysses, Where everything around Tends to fall: Amid the impatience Of the rough boulders and torrential streams Patiently enduring, firm, silent, Solitary ...
Solitary! Who would even venture To be a guest here, To be your guest? ...
A bird of prey perhaps: who might well hang, the steadfast patient sufferer, Gloating delightfully in its coat, With mad laughter, A bird of prey's laughter ...
Why so steadfast? — Cruelly, it scoffs: One must have wings, if one loves the abyss ... One must not remain suspended, Like you, hanged one! —
Oh Zarathustra, Cruelest nimrod! Recently still a hunter of God, The snare of all virtue, The arrow of evil! Now — Hunted by yourself, Your own prey, Bored into yourself ...
Now — Alone with yourself, Paired in your own knowledge, Amid a hundred reflections Before your false self, Amid a hundred dubious Memories, Weary from every hurt, Chilled by every frost, Strangled by your own rope, Self-knower! Self-hangman!
Why did you bind yourself With the rope of your wisdom? Why did you seduce yourself Into the paradise of the ancient serpent? Why did you crawl into yourself In you—into you?
An invalid now, One who is sick from snake venom; A prisoner now, One who drew the hardest lot: In your own shaft Laboring bent over, Excavating yourself, Digging into yourself, Without aid, Stiff, A corpse — Overpiled by a hundred burdens, By your overburdens, One in the know! A self-knower! The wise Zarathustra! ...
You sought the heaviest burden Yet found yourself — Cannot cast off yourself from you ...
Lurking, Crouching, One who no longer stands upright! You are deeply rooted in your tomb, Tangled spirit! ...
And yet recently so proud, Upon all your stilted pride! Recently still the godless hermit, The co-settler with the devil, The scarlet prince of all arrogance! ...
Now — Between two voids One who is twisted, A question mark, A weary enigma — An enigma for birds of prey ...
They'll certainly "dissolve" you, They no doubt hunger after your "dissolution," Indeed they flutter about you, their enigma, Around you, hanged man! ... Oh Zarathustra! ... Self-knower! ... Self-hangman! ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Floyd70

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman]
#22613156 - 12/04/15 02:36 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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all that arises passes away ..unknown buddhist monk
-------------------- If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [...] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman]
#22614635 - 12/04/15 08:17 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Rev. Morton said: Amid Birds of Prey
Whoever tends to descend here, How quickly The depths swallow them! — But you, Zarathustra, Still love the abyss — Do you, just as the spruce?
Its roots shoot down, where The rock itself tremors Gazing into the depths — It tarries at abysses, Where everything around Tends to fall: Amid the impatience Of the rough boulders and torrential streams Patiently enduring, firm, silent, Solitary ...
Solitary! Who would even venture To be a guest here, To be your guest? ...
A bird of prey perhaps: who might well hang, the steadfast patient sufferer, Gloating delightfully in its coat, With mad laughter, A bird of prey's laughter ...
Why so steadfast? — Cruelly, it scoffs: One must have wings, if one loves the abyss ... One must not remain suspended, Like you, hanged one! —
Oh Zarathustra, Cruelest nimrod! Recently still a hunter of God, The snare of all virtue, The arrow of evil! Now — Hunted by yourself, Your own prey, Bored into yourself ...
Now — Alone with yourself, Paired in your own knowledge, Amid a hundred reflections Before your false self, Amid a hundred dubious Memories, Weary from every hurt, Chilled by every frost, Strangled by your own rope, Self-knower! Self-hangman!
Why did you bind yourself With the rope of your wisdom? Why did you seduce yourself Into the paradise of the ancient serpent? Why did you crawl into yourself In you—into you?
An invalid now, One who is sick from snake venom; A prisoner now, One who drew the hardest lot: In your own shaft Laboring bent over, Excavating yourself, Digging into yourself, Without aid, Stiff, A corpse — Overpiled by a hundred burdens, By your overburdens, One in the know! A self-knower! The wise Zarathustra! ...
You sought the heaviest burden Yet found yourself — Cannot cast off yourself from you ...
Lurking, Crouching, One who no longer stands upright! You are deeply rooted in your tomb, Tangled spirit! ...
And yet recently so proud, Upon all your stilted pride! Recently still the godless hermit, The co-settler with the devil, The scarlet prince of all arrogance! ...
Now — Between two voids One who is twisted, A question mark, A weary enigma — An enigma for birds of prey ...
They'll certainly "dissolve" you, They no doubt hunger after your "dissolution," Indeed they flutter about you, their enigma, Around you, hanged man! ... Oh Zarathustra! ... Self-knower! ... Self-hangman! ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
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Hobozen


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"May not you and I be confluent in a higher consciousness, and confluently active there, though we now know it not? We finite minds may simultaneously be co-conscious with one another in a super-human intelligence." William James
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Hobozen


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Hobozen] 2
#22615590 - 12/05/15 01:11 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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"That Light whose smile kindles the Universe, That Beauty in which all things work and move, That Benediction which the eclipsing Curse Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love Which through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for which all thirst; now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality." Percy Bysshe Shelley
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nuentoter
conduit



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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Hobozen]
#22616143 - 12/05/15 08:58 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken" - Oscar Wilde
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The geometry of us is no chance. We are antennae, we are tuning forks, we are receiver and transmitters of all energy. We are more than we know. - @entheolove "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for" - Georgia O'Keefe I think the word is vagina
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Hobozen


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: nuentoter]
#22619789 - 12/06/15 02:12 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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i was going to post a quote from this song but figured i might as well just post the song-
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Sse
Saṃsāra

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Floyd70]
#22619999 - 12/06/15 06:22 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sse
Saṃsāra

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#22620006 - 12/06/15 06:32 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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“From everything, nothing looks to nothing.” ― Dejan Stojanovic
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Sse
Saṃsāra

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Sse]
#22620258 - 12/06/15 09:03 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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..."To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light. Once one has experienced a few times what it is like to stand judgingly between the opposites, one begins to understand what is meant by the self. Anyone who perceives his shadow and his light simultaneously sees himself from two sides and thus gets in the middle." ~Carl Jung...
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Sse
Saṃsāra

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Sse]
#22620282 - 12/06/15 09:12 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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It is I, Osiris. I am joyful as a stone. It is not the joy of men I feel; it is the joy of matter. I am a presence. I am of the world. I am magic. I went the circuitous path of the unseen, from nothing but thought into becoming. I am anointed in oil. The power shivers from my heart down into my arms. Self-sacrifice is only learning to make one’s self holy, to be the sum of a man, more than his parts. These breaths I release to the wind, make me one with the wind. This blood flows back to the river like water. This flesh dries, it cracks and scatters, dust again. When the light in my eyes flickers out, the spark flies back to the flaming heart of gods. It is only flesh and breath, blood, bones and hair. I come and go out of the fire unchanged.”
Edited by Sse (12/22/15 07:18 AM)
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Sse
Saṃsāra

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Sse]
#22620287 - 12/06/15 09:13 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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When we begin to understand that we are everything, our fear begins to disappear. We have deeply touched the dimensions of space and time. But to really be free of fear, we must look deeply into the ultimate dimension of no birth, no death. We need to free ourselves from these ideas that we are our body, and that we die. This is where we will discover the place of no fear.
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