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Smear in the shale Registered: 07/16/12 Posts: 16,431 Loc: Florida Last seen: 1 year, 4 months |
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No specific subject, let it flow. I understand that material I/you find profound are not profound to everyone, or anyone but myself/yourself. It's entirely a matter of perception. Perception is point of view specific and dynamic in it's interaction with time; the epitome of subjectivity. That's a good thing, I would like everyone to ignore what they think they should post, and post what they actually find important, beautiful, or profound to themselves. All serious contributions will be added to the compilation. Feel free to rate our contributors, or become one: Contributors: Morrowasted∞❤ Nemmies∞❤ TheGreenArrow∞❤ Akira_akuma∞❤ Tmethyl∞❤ AyKaye47∞❤ Mykes_logos∞❤ Illustrain∞❤ Berdinwall∞❤ NWlight∞❤ 444∞❤ Mnj∞❤ Evileye001∞❤ HeartAndMInd∞❤ r00tuuu123∞❤ Sse∞❤ Ellis Dee∞❤ Nemodeus∞❤ ShredKIll∞❤ Bryguy27007∞❤ dr_gonz∞❤ Does∞❤ Sheekle∞❤ Beside The Garden∞❤ Channeling_spirit∞❤ Tripp23∞❤ ![]() Click, or scroll down. Edited by Tmethyl (06/06/14 01:03 AM)
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Smear in the shale Registered: 07/16/12 Posts: 16,431 Loc: Florida Last seen: 1 year, 4 months |
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![]() ![]() ![]() -1) Some people say that you’ve crossed the line, but I don’t think that there is a line, I think people draw the line in just after you have traversed it. -Russel Brand 0) ![]() 1) I don't have to be anything at all. I don't even have to be myself, because there is no such thing as not being myself. I am inescapably myself. ~Mooji 2) Ego is a ghost who is terrified of dying ~Mooji 3) I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. -Alexander the Great 356–323 BC 4) I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians. -Alexander the Great 356–323 BC 5) And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt You wanna peer down here survey my narcissism I must crucify the ego before it's far too late I pray the light lifts me out Before I pine away. -Tool, Reflection 6) If you are depressed, you are living in the Past. If you are anxious, living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the moment -Lao Tzu 7) ![]() 8) Try not to take things personally. What people say about you is a reflection of them, not you. -Unknown 9) The two most beautiful days in your life are the day you go to sleep and never wake up, and the day you woke up having never gone to sleep. -Alan Watts (reworded) 10) You are something the whole universe is doing, in the same way that a single wave is something the whole ocean is doing. The real you, the deep deep down you, is the universe. -Watts 10.5) ![]() 11) To get lost, is to learn the way -African proverb 12) "And wise men are hiding in mountains While most of us are working too hard" -Tea Leaf Green, Kali Yuga 13) ![]() 14) I go, ego, I go, we all go! This Piety-Identity Chipped, but yet still chortled, Indemnified the first stones. Paved in iridescence, and Caged in Hell (Happier memories) Disgraced in harmony, empty white shells Moving roves of eyes Seeking nothing, reaping remains of truth Listless calm, breathing night sky, Unveiling Death, alone in a shadow of the mind Waking dim dreamless nightmare neverending and winding Winding Winking Smiling Seeking nothing in the remains of a sheltered hope Regret fawning petty-worthy Decadence petty-mighty consciousness. -akira_akuma 15) The Dismemberment Plan - Change(Full Album) 16) "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth." -Nietzsche 17) Also Frightened - Animal Collective 18) ![]() 19) ![]() 20) Spirituality does not come from religion -Unknown 21) The problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude about the problem. -Cptn.Jack Sparrow 22) “We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.” –Terence McKenna 23) “The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.” –Terence McKenna 24) You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. -C.S.Lewis 25) “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.” ―Henry David Thoreau, Walden 26) “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” ―Henry David Thoreau 27) “Not till we are completely lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves.” ―Henry David Thoreau 28) It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. -Marcus Aurelius, 121 AD - 180 AD 29) The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. -Marcus Aurelius, 121 AD - 180 AD 30) Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. -Marcus Aurelius, 121 AD - 180 AD 31) 32) ![]() 33) You're it 34) Tool - Lateralus (The Fibonacci Sequence) 35) δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω - "Give me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth". -Archimedes 36) ![]() 37) ![]() 38) ![]() 39) STS9 - "Glogli" - Atlanta, GA - Dec 2005 15 40) Árstíðir - Heyr himna smiður (Icelandic hymn) 41) MandelTrap by Illustrain ![]() 42) "No." -Rosa Parks 43) Let me take you a button-hole lower. -William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost" 44) ![]() 45) Symbiosis, by Mihkal [flash=480,81]http://player.soun 46) ![]() 47) Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. -Dalai Lama 48) This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. -Dalai Lama 49) So then, let's suppose that every night you were able to dream any dream you wanted to dream. And suppose that you had the power to dream, for example, 75 years of time in one night. Or any length of time. As you began on this adventure of dreams, you would naturally, fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure, you see. After several nights of 75 years of pleasure each, you would say: "woow.. that was pretty great". But now, lets have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control; where somethings going to happen to me, and I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that, and come out of that saying: "wooow, that was a close shave wasn't it?". Then you would get more and more adventurous.. and you would make further and further gambles as to what you would dream. And finally you would dream, where you are now. You would dream the dream that you were living the life that you're actually living today. Playing.. that you aren't god. -Alan Watts 50) ![]() 51) ![]() 52) 53) I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. -Voltaire 54) It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -Voltaire 55) Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. -Voltaire 56) It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. -Voltaire 57) Sacred Geometry Explained 58) Maestra Olivia from Temple of the Way of Light 59) "Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you." -Eckhart Tolle 60) Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted. -Neil DeGrasse Tyson 61) [It's] curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. -Neil DeGrasse Tyson 62) Lots of people think, well, we’re humans; we’re the most intelligent and accomplished species; we’re in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That’s what’s going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook. -Neil DeGrasse Tyson 63) There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. -Neil DeGrasse Tyson 64) Color of String, by Illustrain ![]() 65) Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening. –Terence McKenna 66) We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together. ―Terence McKenna 67) We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. –Terence McKenna 68) Into a soul absolutely free From thoughts and emotions Even the tiger finds no room To insert its fierce claws. One and the same breeze passes Over the pines on the mountain And the oak trees in the valley; And why do they give different notes? No thinking, no reflecting, Perfect emptiness; Yet therein something moves, Following its own course. The eye sees it, But no hands can take hold of it- The moon in the stream. Clouds and mists, They are midair transformations; Above them eternally shine the sun and the moon. Victory is for the one, Even before the combat, Who has no thought of himself, Abiding in the no-mind-ness of Great Origin. -A Taoist Priest 69) "to realize freedom, the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness." -Bruce Lee 70) "He who binds himself a joy does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise." -William Blake 71) "Being in, being not, being not nothing, nothing in nothing, sensing non-sensing, Its being in non-being, nothingness in non-nothingness, it is sense in non-sense, emptiness is where it is. Where sense is, there is sense, emptiness is where it is. Where there is no sense of rightness, there the sense is emptiness" -Tripitaka 72) All the limitless one (must watch) 73) Neither space, nor air is the reality. Neither Earth nor fire, is the reality. If there's only the limitless one, all is Shiva(pure consciousness). -Avadhuta Gita 74) The Immoral Proposition If you never do anything for anyone else you are spared the tragedy of human relation- ships. If quietly and like another time there is the passage of an unexpected thing: to look at it is more than it was. God knows nothing is competent nothing is all there is. The unsure egoist is not good for himself. -Robert Creeley 75) Giraffes Giraffes! - I Am SH(im)e[r] As You Am SH(im)e[r] As You Are Me And We Am I And I Are All... 76) ![]() 77) ![]() 78) "Circumstances don't matter, only states of being matter." -Bashar 79) Once you have seen [infinity] you can return to the world of practical affairs with a new spirit. You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate 'you' to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real 'you' is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For 'you' is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new. What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is. Anyone who brags about knowing this doesn't understand it, for he is only using the theory as a trick to maintain his illusion of separateness, a gimmick in a game of spiritual one-upmanship. Moreover, such bragging is deeply offensive to those who do not understand, and who honestly believe themselves to be lonely, individual spirits in a desperate and agonizing struggle for life. For all such there must be deep and unpatronizing compassion, even a special kind of reverence and respect, because, after all, in them the Self is playing its most far-out and daring game—the game of having lost Itself completely and of being in danger of some total and irremediable disaster. This is why Hindus do not shake hands on meeting, but put their palms together and bow in a gesture of reverence, honoring the Godhead in the stranger. -Alan Watts 80) http://www.shroomery.org/forums/ -Alan Watts 81) Nothing is more fertile than Emptiness -Alan Watts 82) Coming Online by: Justin Brosey ![]() 83) Djam Karat - Scary Circus 84) Metanoia - Simon Powell 85) "How do I experience nothingness?" Drop I. -Mooji 86) "...It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul..." -William Henley, "Invictus" 87) 'The iridule -when, beautiful and strange, In a bright sky above a mountain range One opal cloudlet in an oval form Reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm Which in a distant valley has been staged-- For we are most artistically caged.' Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov 88) How Wolves Change Rivers 89) “We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past.” -Alan Watts 90) Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. Richard P. Feynman 91) Fire, by Feyman 92) ![]() 93) ![]() 94) ![]() 95) i am no lion to overpower my enemies winning over myself if i can is enough ~Rumi 96) If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream---and not make dreams your master; If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same:. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son! 97) little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn’t know where to find them(and found a secondhand set which click)little gould used to amputate his appetite with bad brittle candy but just(nude eel)now little joe lives on air Harvard Brevis Est for Handkerchief read Papernapkin no laundry bills likes People preferring Negroes Indians Youse n.b. ye twang of little joe(yankee)gould irketh sundry who are trying to find their minds(but never had any to lose) and a myth is as good as a smile but little joe gould’s quote oral history unquote might(publisher’s note)be entitled a wraith’s progress or mainly awash while chiefly submerged or an amoral morality sort-of-aliveing by innumerable kind-of-deaths (Amérique Je T’Aime and it may be fun to be fooled but it’s more fun to be more to be fun to be little joe gould) -- ee cummings 98) “The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars appeared. Soon, however, they too began to pale before a splendour in the east, and the advent of the dawn declared itself in the newborn blue of heaven. Quieter and yet more quiet grew the sea, quiet as the soft mist that brooded on her bosom, and covered up her troubling, as in our tempestuous life the transitory wreaths of sleep brook upon a pain-racked soul, causing it to forget its sorrow. From the east to the west sped those angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light from breast and wing. On they sped out of the darkness, perfect, glorious; on, over the quiet sea, over the low coast-line, and the swamps beyond, and the mountains above them; over those who slept in peace and those who woke in sorrow; over the evil and the good; over the living and the dead; over the wide world and all that breathes or as breathed thereon.” ― H. Rider Haggard, She 99) "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." 100) BlackCloudTV - Prose - Blow The Smoke 101) For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made to notice. The wind envelops you with a certain purpose in mind, and it rocks you. The wind knows everything that's inside you. And not just the wind. Everything, including a stone. They all know us very well. From top to bottom. It only occurs to us at certain times. And all we can do is go with those things. As we take them in, we survive, and deepen.” ―Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing 102) “Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.” ―J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit 103) “Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.” ―Ikkyu 104) ![]() 105) Naruto Song: Wind with lyrics 106) “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ―Oscar Wilde 107) “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence – whether much that is glorious – whether all that is profound – does not spring from disease of thought – from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.” ―Edgar Allan Poe 108) “Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.” ―Golda Meir 109) “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” ―Pablo Picasso 110) “A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.” ―Ezra Pound 111) The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. H.L. Mencken 112) "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." -John Adams 113) "We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us." -John Locke 114) "Government has no other end, but the preservation of property." -John Locke 115) Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine... Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sunlike, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful. —Plotinus (204-270), The First Ennead Sixth Tractate, Part 9, "On Beauty" translated by Stephen MacKenna, 4th Edition revised by B.S. Page Faber & Faber Ltd., London, 1969, p. 63 116) Things here are but signs that show to the wise how the Supreme God is known; the enlightened sage reading the sign may enter the holy place and make the vision real. This Term, attained only by those that have overpassed all, is the All-Transcending. There is thus a converse in virtue of which the essential man outgrows Being, becomes identical with the Transcendent of Being. He that knows himself to be one with This, has in himself the likeness of the Supreme; if from that heightened self he can pass higher still— image to archetype— he has won the term of all his journeying. This is the life of gods and of godlike and blessed men— liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth— a flight of the alone to the Alone. —Plotinus (204-270), The Sixth Ennead Ninth Tractate, Part 11, Closing Lines The Essence of Plotinus Based on the translation of Stephen MacKenna, Compiled and Edited by Grace H. Turnbell, Oxford University Press, NY, 1948, p. 222 117) "there is no such thing as "this" is better than "that." should there be one thing we must guard against, let it be partiality that robs us of our pristine wholeness and makes us lose unity in the midst of duality." -bruce lee 118) “Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.” ―Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan 119) ![]() 120) I slept, and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke, and found that life was duty. I acted, and behold: Duty was joy! -Rabindranath Tagore 121) Be not arrogant because of your knowledge, and have no confidence in that you are a learned man. Take counsel with the ignorant as with the wise, for the limits of art cannot be reached, and no artist fully possesses his skill. -Ptah-Hotep, 2500 B.C. 122) "Before you asked me, I understood just what time was. Now I'm not so sure..." -Socrates 123) "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 124) Alan Watts - The Cosmos 125) “It's time that I stop referring to myself, thinking about myself, planning for myself, according to the gridlines and the timelines and the guidelines of people. I will expand in this universe, I will not stay on the lines nor within the lines written by this world.” ―C. JoyBell C. 126) ![]() 127) “Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.” ―Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper 128) ![]() 129) He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. -Socrates 130) Beware the barrenness of a busy life. -Socrates 131) “I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 132) Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet. -Bob Marley 133) I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer. -Bob Marley 134) Alan Watts - The Human Game 135) ![]() 136) ![]() 137) “The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” ―Emily Dickinson 138) “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” ―Groucho Marx 139) “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ―Mark Twain 140) “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ―C.G. Jung 141) “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.” ―J.R.R. Tolkien 142) “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the Gods made for fun.” -Watts 143) Alan Watts - What do you desire? 144) ![]() 145) ![]() 146) ![]() 147) 9 thinkers on 'not taking to existence too seriously' http://www.refinethemind.com/9-t 148) "In order for anything to exist so must its opposite How can there be left if there was never right? How can something know death if it never knew life? How can you lose if nobody won? How can it be dark if there was never a sun? For that which is not grandeur the soul is still blessed The former must exist for part of itself to manifest" --Kirk Jones 149) In an entheogen influenced moment of clarity I came to understand that reality manifests as a dream from the collective subconscious minds of all conscious entities. Nothingness made something because we collectively believe it into being, and physical laws given power by the reinforcement of conscious observation. Creation, destruction, and even time itself are but an aspect of ourselves and we of them. Life and death, simply illusions we face from a limited grasp of our own existence. We are one, all is eternal. -Nomodeus 150) “Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.” -William Shakespeare 151) “Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It’s more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.” -Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr.Seuss 152) The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal name The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth The named is the mother of myriad things Thus, constantly without desire, one observes its essence Constantly with desire, one observes its manifestations These two emerge together but differ in name The unity is said to be the mystery Mystery of mysteries, the door to all wonders When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises When it knows good as good, evil arises Thus being and non-being produce each other Difficult and easy bring about each other Long and short reveal each other High and low support each other Music and voice harmonize each other Front and back follow each other Therefore the sages: Manage the work of detached actions Conduct the teaching of no words They work with myriad things but do not control They create but do not possess They act but do not presume They succeed but do not dwell on success It is because they do not dwell on success That it never goes away -Tao Te Ching 153) ![]() 154) ![]() 155) He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts.” ―Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter 156) Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. -Neil Degrasse Tyson 157) There are 2 kinds of people in the world -- those who divide everybody into 2 kinds of people & those who don't. -Neil Degrasse Tyson 158) ![]() 159) ![]() 160) ![]() 161) ![]() 162) ![]() 163) ![]() 164) ![]() 165) ![]() 166) ![]() 167) ![]() 168) ![]() 169) ![]() 170) ![]() 171) ![]() 172) ![]() 173) ![]() 174) ![]() 175) ![]() 176) ![]() 177) ![]() 178) ![]() 179) ![]() 180) ![]() 181) ![]() 182) ![]() 183) ![]() 184) ![]() 185) ![]() 186) ![]() 187) ![]() 188) ![]() 189) ![]() 190) ![]() 191) ![]() 192) ![]() 193) ![]() 194) ![]() 195) ![]() 196) ![]() 197) ![]() 198) ![]() 199) ![]() 200) "Human Behaviour" If you ever get close to a human and human behaviour be ready to get confused there's definitely no logic to human behaviour but yet so irresistible there is no map to human behaviour they're terribly moody then all of a sudden turn happy but, oh, to get involved in the exchange of human emotions is ever so satisfying there's no map and a compass wouldn't help at all -Bjork I know by now that you'll arrive by the time i stop waiting -Bjork "All Is Full Of Love" You'll be given love You'll be taken care of You'll be given love You have to trust it Maybe not from the sources You have poured yours Maybe not from the directions You are staring at Twist your head around It's all around you All is full of love All around you All is full of love You just ain't receiving All is full of love Your phone is off the hook All is full of love Your doors are all shut All is full of love! -Bjork "Pagan Poetry" Pedalling through The dark currents I find An accurate copy A blueprint Of the pleasure In me Swirling black lilies totally ripe A secret code carved He offers A handshake Crooked Five fingers They form a pattern Yet to be matched On the surface simplicity But the darkest pit in me It's pagan poetry -Bjork "Mutual Core" I shuffle around the tectonic plates in my chest. You know I gave it all, Try to match our continents To change seasonal shift, To form a mutual core. As fast as your fingernail grows, The Atlantic ridge drifts To counteract distance. You know I gave it all, Can you hear the effort of the magnetic strife? Shuffling of columns To form a mutual core. This eruption undoes stagnation. You didn't know I had it in me, Withheld your love, an unspent capsule. I didn't know you had it in you, You hid the key to our continuity. I didn't know you had it in you. This eruption undoes stagnation. You didn't know, you didn't know. What you resist persists, nuance makes heat To counteract distance I know you gave it all, Offered me harmony if things were done your way. My Eurasian plate subsumed, Forming a mutual core -Bjork (More Bjork here) 201) Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. -Morhei Ueshiba 202) “I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.” ― Raymond Carver 203) “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” ― Blaise Pascal 204) “One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche 205) What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.” ― Jeanette Winterson 206) https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe 207) I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 208) Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. -Soren Kierkegaard 209) A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. -Soren Kierkegaard 210) Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. -Soren Kierkegaard 211) “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.” ― John Henry Newman 212) “You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go! 213) “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” ― C. JoyBell C. 214) “By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.” ― Christian Dior 215) “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ― Haruki Murakami 216) “We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.” ― C. JoyBell C. 217) Amazing words from Beethoven(shroomery member) http://www.shroomery.org/forums/ 218) Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussel - Floating in infinity https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe 219) "It's true that the Earth is the cradle of mankind, but you don't remain in the cradle forever" "The construction of the flying saucer is not so much a dilemma of hardware as it is a poetic challenge" "You must come to terms with your uniqueness" "You are light, and nothing can bring you harm" "Fate is doing willingly that which I must do" "I have come to believe that under certain conditions the manipulative power of consciousness moves beyond the body and into the world. The world then obeys the will of consciousness to the degree that the inertia of pre-existing physical laws can be overcome. This inertia is overcome by consciousness determining the outcome of the normally random micro-physical events. Over time the deflection of micro-events from randomness is cumulative so that eventually the effects of such deflections is to shift the course of events in larger physical systems as well. Apparently when wanting wishes to come true, patience is everything" "Our destiny was apparently to be the human atoms critical to the transformation of Homo sapiens into galaxy-roving Bodhisattvas" -Terence McKenna 220) “When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.” ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha 221) “They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.” ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote 222) “Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind and blacken to the heart: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey of peace in old poems.” ― Robinson Jeffers, Selected Poems 223) Viginti Tres by Tool https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe 224) “The World is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round, and it has thrills and chills and is very brightly colored, and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they've begun to question, 'Is this real, or is this just a ride?', and other people have remembered, and they've come back to us and they say 'Hey, don't worry. Don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.' and we KILL THOSE PEOPLE. "Shut him up! We have alot invested in this ride! SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family. This just has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that. You ever noticed that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because ... It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear wants you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world right now, to a better ride: Take all that money we spent on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and WE CAN EXPLORE SPACE, TOGETHER, BOTH INNER AND OUTER, forever ... in peace..” ―Bill Hicks https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe Back To Top Edited by Tmethyl (06/06/14 12:37 AM)
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![]() ![]() "Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities — the political, the religious, the educational authorities — who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing — forming in our minds — their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself." -Timothy Leary ![]() The Matrix - There is no spoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." - Tyler Durden ![]() Causality https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe "Look at his practice swing. Almost like he's searching for somethin'. Then he finds it. Watch how he settle hisself right into the middle of it. Fell his focus. He got a lot of shots he could choose from. Duffs and tops and skulls. But there's only one shot that's in perfect harmony with the feild. One shot thats his...authentic shot. And that shot is going to choose him. There's a perfect shot out there tryin' to find each and every one of us. All we gotta do is get ourselves out of its way. Let it choose us. Mmm. Look at him. He in the feild. Can't see that flag as some dragon you got to slay. You got to look with soft eyes. See the place where the tides and the seasons ans the turnin' of the earth all come together.Where everything that is becomes one. You got to seek that place with your soul, Junuh. Seek it with your hands. Don't think about it. Feel it. your hands is wiser that your head will ever be. I can't take you there, Junuh. Just hopes I can help you find a way. Juts you, that ball, that flag, and all you are-- seek it with your hands. Don't think about it. Feel it. You're looking at it, Junuh." - The Legend of Bagger Vance "The reason why a thing is sweet I do not know, but I confess that the fact of sweetness is evident" - Pyrrho of Elis “When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.” ― Tom Robbins ![]() “Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.” ― Tom Robbins ![]() "Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing." -Maynard James Keenan “The rastaman has THAT, and the rastaman don't even have to teach his child, because every rastaman's child is born with a concept of creativity within him. Is just for him to be opened, so he can get to motivating his faculties.” - Reasoning With Tosh, Reggae Times Newspaper, 1980 “Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. Of course it’s important to know what’s right and what’s wrong. Individual errors in judgment can usually be corrected. As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form, and continue to thrive. They’re a lost cause, and I don’t want anyone like that coming in here.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore ![]() “Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.” ― W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems ![]() “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” ― Bob Marley “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” ― Bob Marley “It's never too late to have a happy childhood.” ― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker “Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections” ― Bob Marley “Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!” ― Bob Marley ![]() Wake up and Live - Marley & Wailers https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe They said you were bright Had stars in your eyes They said you were bright Had all the ideas in your head Under the wheel For all those years Under the wheel For all those tears But now they all stand back and shout Go on you creep, go on get out Oh my god what are they on about And I think I'll get on back home to my mother Yes I think I'll get on back home to my mother It doesn't seem real The way things turned out It doesn't seem real Now your heads full of doubt But now they all jump back in fear As if I really care They just stand and stare It's not fair... It's not fair. It's not fair!!... Cold and silent you lie in the dark waters of the stream Shame and suffering have passed But death, glorious death is just another bed to sleep Yes death, glorious death Is just another appointment to keep - Under the Wheel https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence." Sholom Aleichem ![]() Wah mi rhwari titari https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe ![]() “Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.” ― Bob Marley “It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge.” ― Bob Marley ![]() “You just can't live that negative way. You know what I mean. Make way for the positive day. Cause it's a new day...” ― Bob Marley ![]() "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us , universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” ― Albert Einstein “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” ― Albert Einstein "there's work to be done so let's do it little by little!" - bob marley “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.” ― Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory ![]() "I knew this girl with a son who dreamt of actin' in plays Demonstration with her man had her trapped in a maze Tryin' to find herself again, much of that she'd have gave Love can free us, to it some of us react as a slave" -Common Common "be" https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spaceprobe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40 AU) from Earth, as part of the solar system Family Portrait series of images. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a fraction of a pixel (0.12 pixel in size) against the vastness of space. The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and to take a photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of Carl Sagan. ![]() ![]() ![]() love's function is to fabricate unknownness (known being wishless;but love,all of wishing) though life's lived wrongsideout,sameness chokes oneness truth is confused with fact,fish boast of fishing and men are caught by worms(love may not care if time totters,light droops,all measures bend nor marvel if a thought should weigh a star —dreads dying least;and less,that death should end) how lucky lovers are(whose selves abide under whatever shall discovered be) whose ignorant each breathing dares to hide more than most fabulous wisdom fears to see (who laugh and cry)who dream,create and kill while the world moves;and every part stands still - ee cummings ![]() “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.” ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight “trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” ― e.e. cummings Common Kings "wade in your waters" https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe ![]() Go deeper in to natures arms, Yeah Cascade like Waimea falls, Oh Pipe line through her open sea I'm in love with her currently, Yeah "suffering is made entirely of things that are not suffering." -thich nhat hanh "A tune of non-being Filling the void: Spring sun Snow whiteness Bright clouds Clear wind." -Daido Ichi'i 1370 ![]() "When most of us think of “suffering” we think of some sort of physical or emotional anguish. While this is truly a form of suffering, the Buddhist concept of suffering can be much more subtle. In Buddhist philosophy “suffering” includes regrets, desires, worries, depression, anger, and any other form of unhappiness (no matter how subtle), that is preventing you from living a happy and fulfilled life, and ultimately reaching a state of enlightenment(aka liberation -sse)." - thich nhat hanh I write to discover what I know. -Flannery O'connor ![]() It always seems impossible until it's done. -Nelson Mandela ![]() The work you're doing while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing the rest of your life. -Jessica Hische The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. -Flannery O'Connor The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it. Carl Jung Not for a moment dare we succumb to the illusion that an archetype can be finally explained and disposed of. -Jung ![]() We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. -Jung Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. -Carl Jung ![]() The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. -Carl Jung ![]() ![]() ![]() Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. -Carl Jung ![]() We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. -Carl Jung I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth. -Flannery O'Connor ![]() There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -Flannery O'Connor At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. -Flannery O'Connor ![]() ![]() "The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are." -Eckhart Tolle Mind Over Matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe You are not simply crossing the bridge from animal to Over-man, you are the “bridge” itself. Indeed, you understand – from balls to bones, ovaries to marrow – that the glue that binds finitude with infinity is the human torn between being both an animal and a god. -Unknown ![]() "we should be able to substitute perceptions with prajna, true vision, true knowledge." -thich nhat hanh “The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "Rediscovering Lost Values")” ? Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. "the problem is not with the empirical data of science but with the contention that these data alone constitue the legitimate ground for developing a comprehensive worldview or an adequate means for responding to the world's problems. There is more to human existence and to reality than current science can ever give us access to." - dalai lama ![]() "set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns." - bruce lee ![]() Tool - "Parabol" So familiar and overwhelmingly warm This one, this form I hold now. Embracing you, this reality here, This one, this form I hold now, so Wide eyed and hopeful. Wide eyed and hopefully wild. We barely remember what came before this precious moment, Choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside... This body holding me, reminding me that I am not alone in This body makes me feel eternal. All this pain is an illusion. ![]() ![]() The Doors "ghost song" https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe "And we laugh like soft, mad children Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy" When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the heart, the names and forms disappear. Not letting the mind go out, but retaining it in the Heart is what is called “inwardness”. Letting the mind go out of the Heart is known as “externalisation”. Thus, when the mind stays in the Heart, the ‘I’ which is the source of all thoughts will go, and the Self which ever exists will shine. - ramana ![]() The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind. This is the direct path for all.” -Sri Ramana Maharshi "Look for a mind and you can find only thoughts." -unknown "The mind is a wondrous power residing in the Self. It causes all thoughts to arise. Apart from thoughts, there is no such thing as mind" - ramana What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul, and God are appearances in it like silver in mother-of-pearl. These three appear at the same time, and disappear at the same time. The Self is that where there is absolutely no “I” thought. That is called “Silence”. The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is “I”; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self. -ramana “Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.” ― Margaret Atwood ![]() Boards of Canada "tears from the compound eye" https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe "What if our religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the Temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water—the rivers, lakes and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was self-knowledge? If love was the center of our being." -Ganga White "The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him." -Arthur Schopenhauer "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." -John Ruskin "As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become." -Jean-Paul Sartre "Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world? Because, properly attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion. Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit to no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness begins with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of- indolence, or action. Be ignited, or be gone." -Mary Oliver “Existence precedes essence...” -Friedrich Nietzsche "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." -John Muir "It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.” -John Locke "What worries you, masters you." -John Locke "If you have nothing nice to say about anyone, come sit next to me." -Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Men are so simple, and yield so readily to the desires of the moment, that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked." -Niccolo Machiavelli "Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form." -Karl Marx "Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination." -Immanuel Kant "I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief." -Immanuel Kant "Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another." -Immanuel Kant "Time is a face on the water." -Stephen King (from the Dark Tower series) "Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs." -Martin Heidegger "The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking." -Martin Heidegger "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." -Mahatma Gandhi “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Mahatma Gandhi "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "People of humor are always in some degree people of genius." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge "A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there." -Meister Eckhart "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us , universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." -Albert Einstein “Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.” -Francis Bacon "The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope." -Wendell Berry "Imagination rules the world." -Napoleon Bonaparte "I like songs about drifters- books about the same. They both seem to make me feel a little less insane." -Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse) "I was in heaven, I was in hell, believe in neither, but fear both as well." -Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse) "Changed my mind so much I can’t even trust it. My mind changed me so much I can’t even trust myself." -Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse) “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” -William Burroughs "The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live." -Leo F. Buscaglia "By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more." -Albert Camus “Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.” -Francis Bacon “I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.” ― Terry Pratchett “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche “My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four “At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.” ― James Patterson “I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.” ― G.K. Chesterton Our minds are full of things our hearts do not understand and that my love, is why the world is filled with so much chaos.” ― Testy McTesterson The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh “The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows” ― Stephen King Quote: ![]() We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. -Mother Teresa ![]() ![]() “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ― Rumi Tool - "Wings for Marie" Pt. 1 Day light dims leaving cold fluorescence. Difficult to see you in this light. Please forgive this selfish question, but What am I to say to all these ghouls tonight? She never told a lie. Well might of told a lie. But never lived one. Didn't have a life. Didn't have a life. But surely saved one. Saved on. Alright, now it's time for us to let you go. Pt 2. We listen to the tales and romanticize, How we follow the path of the hero Boast about the day when the rivers overrun, How we'll rise to the height of our halo. Listen to the tales as we all rationalize Our way into the arms of the savior Feigning all the trials and the tribulations, None of us have actually been there, Not like you... ignorant fibbers in the congregation Gather around spewing sympathy, Spare me... None of them could even hold a candle up to you Blinded by choices, hypocrites Won't see But enough about the collective judas Who could deny you were the one who illuminated Your little piece of the divine This little light of mine, a gift your passed onto me, I'm gonna let it shine to guide you safely on your way Your way home... Ohh, what are they gonna do when the lights go down Without you to guide them all to Zion? What are they gonna do when the rivers overrun Other than tremble incessantly? High is the wave But our eyes are upon the ground. You are the light and the way They'll only read about I only pray heaven knows when to lift you out 10,000 days in the fire is long enough. You're going home... You're the only one who can hold your head up high, Shake your fist at the gates saying, "I have come home now!" Fetch me the spirit, the son and the father, Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended. It's time now! My time now! Give me my Give me my wings! You are the light, the way, that they will only read about Set as I am in my ways and my arrogance Burden of proof tossed upon non-believers. You were my witness, my eyes, my evidence, Judith Marie, unconditional one. Daylight dims leaving cool flourescence. Difficult to see you in this light. Please forgive this bold suggestion: Should you see your maker's face tonight Look him in the eye Look him in the eye and tell him I never lived a lie, never took a life, But surely saved one ![]() In a world where all is borrowed, and time like elusive dust seems to just slip through our fingers, all we realy have are these precious moments where we can make fertile the soil in the garden of our hearts, that love may make its home and here the mortal seed may flourish. Only love can free us from the womb of time for life... like a magnificent mysterious cloud holds its shape and from only long enough for us to blinks, and all our precious memmories are but shadows of time that will drift away like fallen returning to the emptiness from which they came. Thus we are,like innocent children flowering in the garden of souls -Vas About Cancer, very informative commentary from a real survivor https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe Bill Hicks on plants and evolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe "I stick my hand into his shadow To pull the pieces from the sand. Which I attempt to reassemble" -Tool ![]() ![]() “It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.” ― Blaise Pascal "Words sometimes get sick and we have to heal them. We have been using the word "love" to mean appetite or desire, as in "I love hamburgers." "Love is a beautiful word; we have to restore its meaning. The word "maitri" has roots in the word mitra, which means friend. In Buddhism, the primary meaning of love is friendship." -thich nhat hanh ![]() “Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands.” ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence" With solitude...we learn to depend on God, who calls us together in love, in whom we can rest, and through whom we can enjoy and trust each other even when our ability to express ourselves to each other is limited. With solitude, we are protected against the harmful effects of mutual suspicions, and our words and actions become more joyful expressions of an already existing trust, rather than a subtle way of asking for proof of trustworthiness. With solitude we can experience each other as different manifestations of a love that transcends all of us." -Henri Nouwen ![]() ![]() Through the discipline of solitude we discover a space for God in our innermost being. Through the discipline of community we discover a place for God in our life together. Both disciplines belong together precisely because the space within us and the space among us are the same place." -Henri Nouwen Making All Things New "Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship." -bruce lee "Understanding oneself happens through a process of relationships and not through isolation." -Bruce Lee ![]() "The God who dwells in our inner sanctuary is also the God who dwells in the inner sanctuary of each human being. Intimacy with God and solidarity with all people are two aspects of the indwelling presence of God. These two realities can never be separated." -henri nouwen Henri Nouwen: "community is solitude greeting solitude" "Electrons are both waves and particles. They are both and neither. Its hard to pin down. Just like we are neither one nor separate." -Lama Surya Das ![]() ![]() ![]() "Unity and the duality. God in us and all beings, all beings in god... if u want to use those words... its like finger painting... imprecise... watered down when put in language. Rational thought very imprecise." -lama surya das "The intellect is an excellent servant/tool but a poor master. We are to much under its thrall. " - surya das “During moments of strife and 'dis-ease', check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good.” ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence" ![]() ![]() “What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.” ― Mario Puzo, The Last Don "The deep truth is that our human suffering need not be an obstacle to joy and peace we so desire, but can become, instead, the means to it. The great secret of the spiritual life...is that everything we live, be it gladness or sadness, joy or pain, health or illness, can all be part of the journey toward the full realization of our humanity." -Henri Nouwen Who we are - Imagine Dragons https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe ![]() Objective and subjective are corollary. 1. that which we perceive (outside of our bodies) is empirical, i.e., objective. Why? It is the "object" of our perceptions. Such objects are called "cognoscenti," or "objects of cognition." 2. Cognition is consciousness which perceives cognoscenti. Since cognition is not in the cognoscenti, it must be in you. You are the subject who perceives the object. The "subjective nature of perception" is simply that perception in in the subject, not the object. -Yaoi Shonen-ai “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” ― Henry David Thoreau ![]() ![]() ![]() “It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” ― Henry David Thoreau “be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.” ― Henry David Thoreau Russel Brand - Awakened Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe ![]() ![]() Objective and subjective are corollary. 1. that which we perceive (outside of our bodies) is empirical, i.e., objective. Why? It is the "object" of our perceptions. Such objects are called "cognoscenti," or "objects of cognition." 2. Cognition is consciousness which perceives cognoscenti. Since cognition is not in the cognoscenti, it must be in you. You are the subject who perceives the object. The "subjective nature of perception" is simply that perception in in the subject, not the object. -Yaoi Shonen-ai “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” ― Henry David Thoreau “It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” ― Henry David Thoreau “be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.” ― Henry David Thoreau Russel Brand, Awakened Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe ![]() No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it’s an artificial idea. Really, people aren’t that worried about what you’re doing or what you’re saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. -Russell Brand The most insightful thing I ever heard, was overheard. I was waiting for a rail replacement bus in Hackney Wick. These two old women weren’t even talking to me – not because I’d offended them, I hadn’t, I’d been angelic at that bus stop, except for the eavesdropping. Rail replacement buses take an eternity, because they think they’re doing you a favour by covering for the absent train, you’ve no recourse. Eventually the bus appeared, on the distant horizon, and one of the women, with the relief and disbelief that often accompanies the arrival of public transport said, ‘Oh look, the bus is coming.’ The other woman – a wise woman, seemingly aware that her words and attitude were potent and poetic enough to form the final sentence in a stranger’s book – paused, then said, ‘The bus was always coming. -Russell Brand ![]() ![]() "I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity - through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Thus Spake Zarathustra "Only dead fish follow the stream" "If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word." -Margaret Atwood “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey Quote: “Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.” ― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler “Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing- if it is only yours it won't wake the dead, it will simply disturb the neighbours.” ― W. Ian Thomas “Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head.” ― Sōichirō Honda ![]() “You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.” ― Homer Hickam, Rocket Boys “There’s this thing about shadows. They mimic us. They are a constant reminder of the fact that we are not alone, we are never alone. They follow and they obey much like a disciple and his teacher. But when in darkness, they abandon us and are as lost as we are, they seek the same light we seek for only light can bring back their identity and ours.” ― Chirag Tulsiani “Silence is the language of inertia.” ― Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why we ignore the obvious at our peril You need nothing to be happy, you need something to be sad ~ Papaji If you want to be happy nobody can stop you ~ Mooji ![]() Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclap. Do not fear being misunderstood and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal. Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do, and then, as the days go gliding away, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the element it needs. Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual... Thought is supreme. Preserve a right mental attitude-the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer. To think rightly is to create. All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Carry your chin in and the crown of your head high. We are gods in the chrysalis. -Elbert Hubbard ![]() This is for you [flash=480,81]http://player.soun The Hustler - Paul Newman https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe "Freedom from knowing is death; then you are living." -bruce lee ![]() ![]() "the classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. when he acts, he is translating every moment in terms of the old." -bruce lee "To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the "old", you derive security; from the "new", you gain the flow." -bruce lee "when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is." -bruce lee "one can function freely and totally if he is "beyond system." the man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. he lives only in what is." - bruce lee ![]() "if one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is." -bruce lee "when you are uninfluenced, when you die to the conditioning of classical responses, then you will know awareness and see things totally fresh, totally new." -Bruce Lee Dissolve in the seeing - Mooji https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe “Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.” ― Sue Grafton, M Is for Malice “In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls ![]() “I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.” ― Beth Gutcheon, More Than You Know “Ghosts have a way of misleading you; they can make your thoughts as heavy as branches after a storm.” ― Rebecca Maizel, Infinite Days “Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.” ― Jim Carroll Where there is no sense of rightness, there the sense is emptiness" -Tripitaka ![]() “Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book “We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.” ― Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas "Go to the very core. Is it something personal? .... Go past assumptions." -Mooji “Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see.” ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall ![]() “It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.” ― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones “There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The boy is walking through the street of his town. He is thinking of the future and of the figure he will cut in the world. Ambitions and regrets awake within him. Suddenly something happens; he stops under a tree and waits as for a voice calling his name. Ghosts of old things creep into his consciousness; the voices outside of himself whisper a message concerning the limitations of life. From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy. With a little gasp he sees himself as merely a leaf blown by the wind through the streets of his village. He knows that in spite of all the stout talk of his fellows he must live and die in uncertainty, a thing blown by the winds, a thing destined like corn to wilt in the sun.” ― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life “This is no exaggeration: you were born to put death to death.” –Leonard Perlmutter “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” ― Plato, The Republic “For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets ![]() Reports of My Death were Greatly Exaggerated. -Mark Twain ![]() If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. ~ by The Talmud Alexander - Truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered. -Dan Flavin “As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.” “A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.” “I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.” “If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.” “You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.” “You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer". “Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.” “Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.” “In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.” “We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.” ― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life ![]() Suffering - Rebelution https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe "The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds." - Georg Cantor "They don't think it be like it is, but it do" -Oscar Gamble 15 things to be happy http://www.spiritscienceandmetap “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt “Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?” ~Wayne Dyer ![]() “By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond winning.” ~Lao Tzu “The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.” ~Eckhart Tolle “A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind.” ~Elly Roselle “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” ~Joseph Campbell ![]() “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” ~Wayne Dyer Spirals, Fibonacci, and being a plant p1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe p2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe p3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe "It seems pretty cosmic and wondrous, but the cool thing about the Fibonacci series and spiral is that it's not this big complicated mystical magical super-math-thing beyond the comprehension of our puny human minds that shows up mysteriously everywhere. We'll find that these numbers aren't weird at all, in fact it would be weird if they weren't there." ![]() [flash=480,81]http://player.soun "to practice is to go beyond ideas, so you can arrive at the suchness of things. "No idea" is the path of non-conception. As long as there is an idea, there is no reality, no truth." "relatively speaking, there are right views and there are wrong views. But if we look more deeply, we see that all views are wrong views. No view can ever be the truth. It is just from one point; that is why it is called a "point of view." If we go to another point, we will see things differently and realize that our first view was not entirely right. Buddhism is not a collection of views. It is a practice to help eliminate wrong views. The quality of our views can always be improved. From the viewpoint of ultimate reality, Right View is the absence of all views." "we go beyond outward appearances or signs and come to "signlessness" "we used to think the universe contains millions of separate entities. Now we understand "the nonexistence of signs." "neither perception nor non-perception. we recognize that everything is produced by our perceptions, which are, at least in part erroneous. Therefore, we see that we cannot rely on our old way of perceiving, and we want to be in direct touch with reality. we cannot stop perceiving altogether, but at least now we know that perception is perception of a sign. Since we no longer believe in the reality of signs, our perception becomes wisdom." "We go beyond signs ("no perception"), but we do not become perceptionless("no non-perception") "the seeds that used to cause you to be caught in self and nonself are transformed, alaya(consciousness) is freed from the grip of manas(war of consciousness/afflictions; which always discriminates self from other), and manas no longer has the function of making a self. "Manas becomes the Wisdom of Equality that can see the interbeing and interpenetrating nature of things. It can see that others' lives are as precious as our own, because there is no longer discrimination between self and other." "When manas loses its grip on store consciousness, store consciousness becomes the Wisdom of the Great Mirror that reflects everything in the universe." -thich nhat hanh ![]() ![]() In the air https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” ― Aristotle ![]() Amelie http://www.primewire.ag/watch-40 Russel Brand - Messiah Complex 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe ![]() Antz - No Idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ―Søren Kierkegaard "Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion." -Bruce Lee “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ―Albert Einstein "Not just understandin' but overstandin' is the objective" -Deadprez ![]() ![]() Infinite Third - Suchness https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe “I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.” ― Haruki Murakami ![]() “How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations “Comparison is the death of joy.” ― Mark Twain ![]() “I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.” ― Daisaku Ikeda, Discussions on Youth “Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.” ― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life Dead Prez - No Way As The Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe ![]()
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![]() ![]() "The following is the introduction[to the means of experiencing] this [single] nature [of mind] Through the application of three considerations: [First, recognize that] past thoughts are traceless, clear, and empty, [Second, recognize that] future thoughts are unproduced and fresh, And [third, recognize that] the present moment abides naturally and unconstructed. When this ordinary, momentary consciousness is examined nakedly [and directly] by oneself, Upon examination, it is a radiant awareness, Which is free from the presence of an observer, Manifestly stark and clear, Completely empty and uncreated in all respects, Lucid, without duality of radiance and emptiness, Not permanent, for it is lacking inherent existence in all respects, Not a mere nothingness, for it is radiant and clear, Not a single entity, for it is clearly perceptible as a multiplicity, Yet not existing inherently as a multiplicity, for it is indivisible and of a single savour. This intrinsic awareness, which is not extraneously derived, Is itself the genuine introduction to the abiding nature of [all] things. For in this [intrinsic awareness], the three Buddha-bodies are inseparable, and fully present as one: Its emptiness and utter lack of inherent existence is the Buddha-body of Reality; The natural resonance and radiance of this emptiness is the Buddha-body of Perfect Resource; And its unimpeded arising in any form whatsoever is the Buddha-body of Emanation. These three, fully present as one, are the very essence [of awareness] itself. -Tibetan Book of the Dead ![]() ![]() "When the introduction is powerfully applied in accordance with the [above] method for entering into this [reality]: One's own immediate consciousness is this very [reality]! [Abiding] in this [reality], which is uncontrived and naturally radiant, How can one say that one does not understand the nature of mind? [Abiding] in this [reality], wherein there is nothing on which to meditate, How can one say that, by having entered into meditation, one was not successful? [Abiding] in this [reality], which is one's actual awareness itself, How can one say that one could not find one's own mind? [Abiding] in this [reality], the uninterrupted [union] of radiance and awareness, How can one say that the [true] face of mind has not been seen? [Abiding] in this [reality], which is itself the cogniser. How can one say that, though sought, this [cogniser] could not be found? [Abiding] in this [reality], where there is nothing at all to be done, How can one say that, whatever one did, one did not succeed? Given that it is sufficient to leave [this awareness] as it is, uncontrived, How can one say that one could not continue to abide [in that state]? Given that it is sufficient to leave it as it is, without doing anything whatsoever, How can one say that one could not do just that? Given that, [within this reality], radiance, awareness, and emptiness are inseparable and spontaneously present, How can one say that, by having practiced, one attained nothing? Given that [this reality] is naturally originating and spontaneously present, without causes or conditions, How can one say that, by having made the effort [to find it], one was incapable [of success]? Given that the arising and liberation of conceptual thoughts occur simultaneously, How can one say that, by having applied this antidote [to conceptual thoughts], one was not effective? [Abiding] in this immediate consciousness itself, How can one say that one does not know this [reality?] -Tibetan Book of the Dead ![]() “What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?” ― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come "In India they use the example of a grain of salt that would like to know how salty the ocean is. How can a grain of salt come to know this? The only way is for it to jump into the ocean, and the understanding will be perfect; the separation between the object of understanding and the subject of understanding is no longer there." -thich "the more we thin the clouds the more the light shines through" -surya "Being there while getting there" "The goal is all along the path" "every step of the way to heaven is heaven" "There's nirvana and enlightenment within some sorrow and delusion" -a rumor ![]() ![]() we have to confirm the rumor for ourselves -surya "the sphere of knowledge is for ever widening. From hour to hour and from day to day the individual experience is enlarged; from century to century the experience of the race. In direct contact with Nature through Sense, and in indirect contact through Thought, man is incessantly bringing more and more of the illimitable Unknown within the circle of the Known-assimilating it, incorporating the new experiences in the old, and thereby more and more adjusting his actions to the course of things." -George Henry Lewes "in thought, only thought" -Buddha-ish "think non-thinking" -zen "Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality." -bruce lee "the mind is originally without activity; the way is always without thought." -bruce lee ![]() "we get caught in the sign "self," because we think there are things that are not self. But when we look deeply, we see that there is no separate independent self, and we become free of the sign of self." "look into the self and discover that it is made only of non-self elements." "A human being is made up of only non-human elements." "so-called inanimate things are alive also. our notions about living beings and inanimate things should be removed for us to touch reality." "Nirvana(water), is the ground of being, the substance of all that is. A wave(phenomenal world) does not have to die in order to become water. Water is the substance of the wave. The wave is already water. We are also like that. We carry in us the ground of interbeing, nirvana, the world of no-birth and no-death, no permanence and no impermanence, no self, and no nonself. Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts. "we ride on the waves of birth and death, and we are free from birth and death. This insight liberates us." "Nirvana is the extinction of all notions. Birth is a notion. Death is a notion. Being is a notion. Nonbeing is a notion. In our daily lives, we have to deal with these relative realities. But if we touch life more deeply, reality will reveal itself in a different way." "In reference to Idealism, and to many other questions of Metaphysics and Science, it is of the utmost importance to bear in mind the cardinal distinction between real and ideal existence. We are not to deny the validity of ideas because they are symbols only, for these symbols very often are translatable into reals; but we must deny the validity of ideas which are not translatable." -George Henry Lewes "mindfulness is remembering to come back to the present moment." -thich nhat hanh "Thanks to all the beings who have brought us this food." -Unknown ![]() Morcheedba - Rome wasn't built in a day https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe The background of the observable universe ![]() http://www.learning-mind.com/7-o http://www.iflscience.com/space/ SOAD - Dreaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe Kymatica The Human Experiment Ft. Lila Rose - PhuturePrimitive Remix The Books - Chain of Missing Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe Semper in excretia sumus solim profundum variat: We are always in the shit, only the depth varies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Most Powerful Speech - Charlie Chaplin in The Dictator On Climate Change BARE YOUR SOUL physicality a darker side of me an insecurity some kind of hungry game don't even know my name my body's weak my mind insane darkness is a secret only we know where we keep it strip your skin down and let it shine a psychedelic dream only nightmare themed can you handle that trip oh no no extraterrestrial dreams always more then what they seem i've been told that we can hear the sun how can you judge someone that you love your feeding all my egos fears he can see me naked I can't pretend I cant fake it eyes can see right through my skin and bones trying to hide the defects obvious with no evidence I can't help the way I'm feeling now ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() http://themindunleashed.org/2014 Edited by Tmethyl (06/06/14 12:41 AM)
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![]() ![]() ![]() George Carlin - Modern Man (mind blowing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe Aleister Crowley FULL https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anonymous said: We're born with identities. And grow into robots. I, pet goat II - Heliofant https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe http://deoxy.org/egofalse.htm Spirit Science 12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe Spirit Science 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Day after day we remember the days that have gone on before, even though there is the interval of sleep. Finally there comes a time when, if we consider what is to our true liking, we will want to forget everything that went before. Then we can have the extraordinary experience of seeing the world once again through the eyes of a baby – whatever kind of baby. Then it will be completely new and we will have all the startling wonder that a child has, all the vividness of perception which we wouldn't have if we remembered everything forever. The universe is a system which forgets itself and then again remembers anew so there’s always constant change and constant variety in the span of time. It also does it in the span of space by looking at itself through every different living organism, giving an all around view....Therefore, you are virtually nothing. A hundred years from now you will be a handful of dust, and that will be for real. All right now, act on that reality. And out of that...nothing. You will suddenly surprise yourself: The more you know you are nothing the more you will amount to something." "If your father hadn't meet your mother, would you be here? Now of course somebody would be here, because he might have met somebody else. Would that be you? Of course it would. Don't you see, you can only be you by being someone. But every someone is you. Every someone is 'I'. That's your name, you say its 'me', 'I' am here. And everybody feels that 'I' in the same way, its the same feeling!" "For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation." "We have an absolutely extraordinary attitude in our culture and in various other cultures, high civilizations, to the new member of human society. Instead of saying frankly to children, ‘How do you do, welcome to the human race, we are playing a game! And we are playing by the following rules, we want to tell you what the rules are so that you’ll know your way around, and when you understand what rules we are playing by, when you get older you may be able to invent better ones.’ But instead of that, we still retain an attitude to the child that he is on probation, he is not really a human being, he is a candidate for humanity, and in just this way we have a whole system of preparation of the child for life, which always is preparation, and never actually gets there. We condition the child in a way that sets the child a life problem which is insoluble, and therefore attended by constant frustration, and as a result of this problem being insoluble, it is perpetually postponed to the future. So that one is educated to live in the future and one is not ever educated to live today. Now I'm not saying that let us drink today for tomorrow we die, and not make any plans. What i am saying is that making plans for the future is of use only to people who are capable of living completely in the present.” "Really, the fundamental ultimate mystery - the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets, is this: that for outside there is an inside, and for inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together. There is in other words a secret conspiracy, between ALL insides and ALL outsides, and the conspiracy is this: to look as different as possible, and yet underneath, to be identical. Because you don't find one without the other. Like Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee agreed to have a battle...note that, AGREED! So there is a secret. What is esoteric, what is profound and what is deep, is what we will call the implicit. What is obvious and on the open is what we will call the explicit. And I, and my environment, you, and your environment, are explicitly as different, as different could be. But implicitly, you go together. And this is discovered by the scientist when he tries, as the whole art of science is to describe what happenes exactly, and when he describes exactly what you do, he finds out that you, your behavior, is not something that can be seperated from the behavior of the world around you. He realizes then, that you are something that the whole world is doing. Just as when the sea has waves on it - well alright, the sea, the ocean, is waving - and so each one of us, is a waving, of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is! And with each one of us it is waving and saying,'YOOHOO! Here I am!' Only it does it differently each time, because variety is the spice of life. That suchess comes and goes, like everything else, because this whole world is an on and off system. As the Chinese say it's the yang and the yin, and therefor it consists of 'now you see it' 'now you don't' 'here you are' 'here you aren't', because that is the nature of energy, to be like waves, and waves have crests and troughs. Only we being under a certain kind of sleepiness or illusion, imagine that the trough is going to overcome the wave, or the crest; the yin, the dark principle, is going to overcome the yang, or the light principle; and that Off is finally going to triumph over On. And we, shall I say, bug ourselves by indulging in that illusion. 'Gee, supposing darkness did win out, wouldn't that be terrible?!' So we are constantly trembling, and thinking that it may, because after all, isn't it odd that anything exists? It's most peculiar, it requires effort, it requires energy, and it would be so much easier for there to have been nothing at all. And therefor we think: well, since BEING, since the IS side of things, is so much effort, you always give up after a while and you sink back into...death. But death is just the other face of energy, and it's the rest, the not being anything around, that produces something around, just in the same way that you can't have solid without space or space without solid. When you wake up to this and realize that the more it changes the more it's the same thing, as the French say, that you are really a playing of this one energy, and there is nothing else but that, that IT is you, but that for you to be always you would be an insufferable bore, and therefore it is arranged that you stop being you after a while and then come back as someone else all together. And so when you find that out you become full of energy and delight, as Blake said, 'energy is eternal delight'. And you suddenly see through the whole sham of things, you realize you're THAT, we won't put a name on it, you're THAT - and you can't be anything else. So you are relieved of fundamental terror. That doesn't mean that you are always going to be a great hero, that you won't jump when you hear a bang, that you won't worry occasionally, that you won't lose your temper, it means though, that fundamentally, deep, deep down within you, you will be able to be human, not a stone buddha - you know in Zen there is a difference made between a living buddha and a stone buddha: if you go up to a stone buddha and you hit him hard on the head, nothing happens, you break your fist or your stick. But if you hit a living buddha, he may say 'ouch' and he may feel pain, because if he didn't feel something he wouldn't be a human being. Buddhas are human, they are not devas, they are not gods, they are enlightened men and women." "So you see, when you ask 'How to I obtain the knowledge of God, how do I obtain the knowledge of liberation?' all I can say is it's the wrong question. Why do you want to obtain it? Because the very fact that you're wanting to obtain it is the only thing that prevents you from getting there. You already have it. But of course, it's up to you. It's your privilege to pretend that you don't. That's your game; that's your life game; that's what makes you think your an ego. And when you want to wake up, you will, just like that. If you're not awake, it shows you don't want to. You're still playing the hide part of the game. You're still, as it were, the self pretending it's not the self. And that's what you want to do. So you see, in that way, too, you're already there. So when you understand this, a funny thing happens, and some people misinterpret it. You'll discover as this happens that the distinction between voluntary and involuntary behavior disappears. You will realize that what you describe as things under your own will feel exactly the same as things going on outside you. You watch other people moving, and you know you're doing that, just like you're breathing or circulating your blood. And if you don't understand what's going on, you're liable to get crazy at this point, and to feel that you are god in the Jehovah sense. To say that you actually have power over other people, so that you can alter what you're doing. And that you're omnipotent in a very crude, literal kind of bible sense. You see? A lot of people feel that and they go crazy. They put them away. They think they're Jesus Christ and that everybody ought to fall down and worship them. That's only they got their wires crossed. This experience happened to them, but they don't know how to interpret it. So be careful of that. Jung calls it inflation. People who get the Holy Man syndrome, that I suddenly discover that I am the lord and that I am above good and evil and so on, and therefore I start giving myself airs and graces. But the point is, everybody else is, too. If you discover that you are that, then you ought to know that everybody else is." "My problem as a writer, using words, is to dispel the illusions of language while employing one of the languages that generates them." -Alan Watts Fractal Universe, We're all connected https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe “It’s just mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Today is the DAY ..... For what is entirely up to you -aykaye47 There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is really nothing you must become. -Unknown ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The most honest 3 minutes in American history https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe Is this out human nature? https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid. You’re afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin. I’m going to hang up this phone, and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world … without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you. You've felt it your entire life https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe What is real? Plato - Allegory of the cave (8Bit philosophy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “All learning is remembering.” —Plato “We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.” -Galileo Galilei http://www.richardcassaro.com/pa ''Be still and know that I am God.'' "Recognizing the poverty of philosophical opinions," says the Buddha, "not adhering to any of them, seeking the truth, I saw." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Edited by Tmethyl (06/06/14 12:41 AM)
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![]() ![]() “Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” -Dalai Lama “Just look at us. Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality and governments destroy freedom.” – Michael Ellner "Make the tools see. All movements come out of emptiness and the mind is the name given to this dynamic aspect of emptiness. It is straight, without ego-centered motivation. The emptiness is sincerity, genuineness and straightforwardness, allowing nothing between itself and its movements." - Bruce Lee Let people catch something from your Heart that will cause no discomfort, but Help them to Sing. - Rumi Bashar - Most Profound Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe Bad news, There is no key to happiness, Good news is, The door isn't locked. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Slow Ninja https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi "Nirvana means extinction - first of all, the extinction of all concepts and notions. Our concepts about things prevent us from really touching them." -Thich “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” ― Rumi “silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.” ― Rumi "You only have to dwell deeply in the present moment, right now" - thich The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it." “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray Rootz Underground https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ishi Dube - Only Rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe Protjoe https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe "Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle." Ossi Delimore https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe "When one is not expressing himself, he is not free. Thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is." - bruce lee “I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust - Part One “The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Villette "Do the fingers judge the thumb for being opposable? No, for they are both many and one.." -Beside The Garden "form is the cultivation of resistance; it is the exclusive drilling of a pattern of choice moves. Instead of creating resistance, enter straight into the movement as it arises; do not condemn or condone - choiceless awareness leads to reconciliation with the opponent in a total understanding of what is" "having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is." "truth has no path. truth is living, therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy. When you see that, you will understand that this living thing is also what you are. You cannot express and be alive through static, put-together form, through stylized movement." -bruce lee "When the mind is tethered to a center, naturally it is not free. It can move only within the limits of that center. If one is isolated, he is dead; he is paralyzed within the fortress of his own ideas." - Bruce Lee "concentration is a form of exclusion and where there is exclusion, there is a thinker who excludes. It is the thinker, the excluder, the one who concentrates, who creates contradiction because he forms a center from which there is distraction." - bruce lee "Classical concentration that focuses on one thing and excludes all others, and awareness, which is total and excludes nothing, are states of the mind that can be understood only by objective, non-prejudiced observation." - bruce lee "self-expression is total, immediate, without concept of time, and you can only express that if you are free, physically and mentally from fragmentation."-bruce lee "Awareness has no frontier; it is a giving of your whole being, without exclusion." -bruce lee "understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion." -bruce lee "A concentrated mind is not an attentive mind, but a mind that is in the state of awareness can concentrate. Awareness is never exclusive; it includes everything." "Not being tense but ready, not thinking yet not dreaming, not being set but flexible - it is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come." -Bruce Lee "Stress and anxiety are misemployments of imagination" -Tmethyl "If it is, it is, if it isn't, it is." -Tmethyl "I used to give shits then it seemed like they weren't for giving" -Sse Quote: "Turn down for what!?" -lil john "Just observing and enjoying." -Tmethyl ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Quote: Quote: Dusted Compass [flash=480,81]http://player.soun “May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke “The river is everywhere.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha “The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it.” ― Doug Wilhelm, Falling “A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.” ― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” ― Alan Wilson Watts Quote: Quote: How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. -Charles Manson I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in. -Charles Manson No sense makes sense. -Charles Manson Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that. -Charles Manson ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.” ― D.T. Suzuki Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness” ― Lao Tzu New eyes awaken. I send Love's name into the world with wings And songs grow up around me like a jungle. Choirs of all creatures sing the tunes Your Spirit played in Eden. Zebras and antelopes and birds of paradise Shine on the face of the abyss And I am drunk with the great wilderness Of the sixth day in Genesis. But sound is never half so fair As when that music turns to air And the universe dies of excellence. Sun, moon and stars Fall from their heavenly towers. Joys walk no longer down the blue world's shore. Though fires loiter, lights still fly on the air of the gulf, All fear another wind, another thunder: Then one more voice Snuffs all their flares in one gust. And I go forth with no more wine and no more stars And no more buds and no more Eden And no more animals and no more sea: While God sings by himself in acres of night And walls fall down, that guarded Paradise.” ― Thomas Merton Edited by Tmethyl (06/06/14 12:42 AM)
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![]() ![]() “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” - Frank Zappa Ginjah - Never Lost My Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe How Psychedelics Are Saving Lives (amazing new doc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe Robert Anton - Religion for the hell of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe The task that we face today, is to understand the language of nature. My mission is to discover the language of nature of the fungal networks that communicate with the ecosystem. And I particularly believe nature is intelligent. The fact that we lack the language skills to communicate with nature does not impune the concept that 'nature is intelligent'. It merely speaks to the inadequacy of our skill set for communication. -Paul Stamets Fantastic Fungi https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe The Cutest Animals https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe All of us are travelers lost, our tickets arranged at a cost unknown but beyond our means. This odd itinerary of scenes –enigmatic, strange, unreal– leaves us unsure how to feel. No postmortem journey is rife with more mystery than life. Tremulous skeins of destiny flutter so ethereally around me–but then I feel its embrace is that of steel. On the road that I have taken, one day, walking, I awaken, amazed to see where I have come, where I’m going, where I’m from. This is not the path I thought. This is not the place I sought. This is not the dream I bought, just a fever of fate I’ve caught. I’ll change highways in a while, at the crossroads, one more mile. My path is lit by my own fire. I’m going only where I desire. On the road that I have taken, one day, walking, I awaken. One day, walking, I awaken, on the road that I have taken. ~Dean Koontz Love, Life, Time; Delve within, practice aim fully Holy nature embraces our torment Souls dehydrated; painfully saturated Arid winds of harsh judgment dry our emotion Blank slates carving bewilderment Vast seas of confusion fill the void Life teetering, pivoting on dying axis depolarizing management Magnetizing retreat of our true being Natures intentions pass us by Spring forth coarse throats of ignorance More vivid our struggle than our cause Left waiting on jury for self discovery Advancing beneath while waterfalls blacken Death admit able acceptance for the lesser able Idyll idealism passion for ego; competition fully collared Blessed are the grateful karmic winds engross slowly synthesizing demand replenishing; draft of renewal warmth sanitizing within. -Sse Dun Ma Yalema https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe whisper for Me We are all beings of pain and power It is our choice and not that of fate to empower our creative and beautiful destiny To let our souls run naked and free to enjoy the open air without the cries of mockingbirds calling out for Lightning and laughter We are our own master So let the monkeys gather to howl at their filthy tribe while our gilded clouds deliver us to eden and peace And we will meet with ourselves while the others glare with Envy in our profound discovery; That we are all hovering on silver lines of a message sent from above But nothing that of anything divine A message of unconditional love A message calming the stubborn blackened dove in to submission so that it may be purified and reborn among the garden on phoenixes So that it may once again taste the sweetness of a rose and not that of it's thorn So rise up from the safety of your seat to show the universe your beautiful hands And we will meet again, as you have lost your path Our Rollercoaster will then clap And you will be an eagle -XLcaps Enya - only time https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose “Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose “Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.” ― Eckhart Tolle “Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.” ― Tennessee Williams Overly wareful aghast, protrusions cut inward Sanctum of wits Blizzard revitalizing shepherds Omens awaiting distress distilled spirits of mange interpret our cousins decoded by fire canvas of pain inevitably Golden resilience shines Cast away our Moorish retreat Nourishing away calcified years breaking moral indignation Traditional standing tilt set sail the prideful riches manicure post finite cause cantankerous bewilderment -Sse “Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence.” ― Tony Samara Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel “A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does” ― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives Quote: Misery was caused Because I tried to cling To all the pretty things Till they became The death of me Everything passes away Like the rise and fall Of each new day Nothing here will Forever remain Everything passes away Sleeping in the delusion That I could hold What I desired Till the fire Because a nightmare Everything passes away Like the rise and fall Of each new day Nothing here will Forever remain Everything passes away We cant control anything Got to accept reality Why manipulate Trying to own Something we cant Even hold Now I see the path That leads back To understanding The kind that unties All of the strings That were holding me -Jillian Anne, Passes Away ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What you are, you are by accident of birth. What I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes, but there is only one Beethoven. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Edited by Tmethyl (06/06/14 12:43 AM)
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eye of Rah, and human Pineal gland in brain. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "in order to keep the mind on one thing by the use of a short prayer, it is necessary to preserve attention and so lead it into the heart; for so long as the mind remains in the head, where thoughts jostle one another, it has no time to concentrate on one thing. But when attention descends into the heart, it attracts all the powers of the soul and body into one point there. This concentration of all human life in one place is immediately reflected in the heart by a special sensation that is the beginning of future warmth. This sensation, faint at the beginning, becomes gradually stronger, firmer, deeper. At first only tepid, it grows into warm feeling and concentrates the attention upon itself. And so it comes about that, whereas in the initial stages the attention is kept in the heart by an effort of will, in due course this attention, by its own vigour, gives birth to warmth in the heart. This warmth then holds the attention without special effort. From this, the two go on supporting one another, and must remain inseparable; because dispersion of attention cools the warmth, and diminishing warmth weakens attention." -Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894) When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the heart, the names and forms disappear. Not letting the mind go out, but retaining it in the Heart is what is called “inwardness”. Letting the mind go out of the Heart is known as “externalisation”. Thus, when the mind stays in the Heart, the ‘I’ which is the source of all thoughts will go, and the Self which ever exists will shine. - ramana "The additive process is merely a cultivation of memory which becomes mechanical. Learning is never cumulative; it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end." -Bruce Lee Destino https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe “But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Flight of the Eagle “What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.” ― Michael Connelly, Trunk Music “Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Margaret Thatcher “Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. "As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become." -the buddha "In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes-in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness, etc., before one is sufficiently naked." - Soren Kierkegaard Every day is a winding road https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe “It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti “Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti “The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it. -Bruce Lipton Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand -Mark Twain “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Twain “You must unlearn what you have been programmed to believe since birth. That software no longer serves you if you want to live in a world where all things are possible.” -Jacqueline E. Purcell ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "You taught him to contemplate the nature of earth, water, fire, and air in order to nourish and develop the virtues of love, compassion, joy, equanimity." "I have practiced like the earth. The earth is wide and open and has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. Whether people toss pure and fragrant substances such as flowers, perfume, or fresh milk upon the earth, or toss unclean and foul-smelling substances like excrement, urine, blood, mucus, and spit upon the earth, the earth receives them all equally, without grasping or aversion. No matter what you throw into the earth, the earth has the power to receive, embrace, and transform it. I try my best to practice like the earth, to receive without resisting, complaining, or suffering." "I have learned the lesson you offered to practice like water. Whether someone pours a fragrant substance or an unclean substance into water, the water receives them all equally without grasping or aversion. Water is immense and flowing and has the capacity to receive, contain, transform, and purify all these things. I have tried my best to practice like water." "I have practiced to be more like fire. Fire burns everything, the pure as well as the impure, the beautiful as well as the distasteful, without grasping or aversion. If you throw flowers or silk into it, it burns. If you throw old cloth and other foul-smelling things into it, the fire will accept and burn everything. It does not discriminate. Why? Because fire can receive, consume, and burn everything offered to it. I have tried to practice like fire. I am able to burn the things that are negative in order to transform them." "I have practiced to be more like air. The air carries all smells, good and bad, without grasping or aversion. The air has the capacity to transform, purify, and release. I have contemplated the body in the body, the movement of the body in the movement of the body, the positions of the body in the positions of the body, the feelings in the feelings, and the mind in the mind." -Shariputra “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” ― 14th Dalai Lama Don't Worry https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe Edited by Tmethyl (06/06/14 12:58 AM)
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The latest update (not yet implemented here)
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With due respect, there are already threads in this forum for beautiful quotes and pictures: here and here.
Definitely post these cool works of art and literary imagination in those stickied threads, though!
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Quote: I will begin compiling the material from those threads, thanks for links. I fully understand what you're implying, however those threads have hundreds of broken links(and will have more daily, due to so many different posters and hosts), the material is spread out over hundreds of pages and thousands of posts, there is much chatter in between the gems, and they are both overly specific on the material. This thread is none of those things, the material is present in concise form in one area, all the material is continually added to that same area. Also with much respect; I do take seriously your suggestion but I feel that this form of presenting wisdom & spirituality is far superior, diverse, thorough, clean, and effective than the former.
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