Favorite Quotes

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Bill Hicks (as Newscaster):  "Today, a man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy, condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all One Consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively......there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. 

Here's Tom with the weather."

www.billhicks.com

 

 

"Some of what's happening on this planet may feel pleasing to the body or expedient to the mind, even as it insults the Larger Self.  We initiate certain operations in relation to Mother Earth, but She wants us to make direct contact with "Her," to activate and form a Global Earth Heart, stretching our singular human heart space into direct communion with Her. While humanity is continually gazing upward....longing to make "contact" with the stars........the Earth is gazing upward at US.  WE are the "stars" in Her galaxy."

~Will, Star Kid.

 

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"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

 

 

"The real trick is not to be in the know,

but to be in the mystery."

 

~Dr. Fred Alan Wolf

 

 

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"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for
people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

~ Noam Chomsky

 

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"When you find love and it touches you, it must be expressed.  To hold back is to deny the possibility that it could exist in the world.  Expressing what comes of spirit is a sacred obligation.....for to give birth to love and light is as simple as to will the birth of the Divine." ~Wendy Walton

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"A light never sees the shadow it leaves........"

~Anonymous

 

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"Set out now, while you're strong, on the heart's vast plain:
You'll never discover joy on the plain of the body.
The heart's the only house of safety, my friends:
It has fountains, and rose gardens within rose gardens.
Turn to the heart and go forward, travelers of the night;
there's where you'll find trees and streams of living water."

 

-Rumi

 

 

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“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

~ Arundhati Roy

 

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"Status Quo:  Latin for 'the mess that we're in."

~Ronald Reagan

 

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"When the soul decides to live, it releases the creative child, who loves to play, for whom every moment is NOW, the artist whose perception bridges the timeless world and time through imagery."

~Marion Woodman

 

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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

-Maya Angelou

 

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"Children are deeply affected by the patterns of thought, emotions, vibrations and experiences of your surroundings. See how in the moment your little child is? How open to love? How easily they FEEL, any emotion? They are modeling the perfection of the expression of the soul in a physical body. Look through their eyes.... See the fascination, the interest, the EAGERNESS for life? Watch and remember what that felt like."

~Andrea Tannouri

 

 

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"When you can awaken this Inner Child and allow him/her play with the wondrous fifth dimensional perceptions, there is no limit to the reality you can create. You can walk through the woods and see Nature Spirits fly above you. You can have a tea party in the middle of a stream and swim through a water cave with a gentle manatee. You can pull down the Light and see the Portal between water and sky. The colors of your expanding reality will open your heart and heal old wounds of loneliness and sorrow. You will float through these colors in your body of light and fully merge with each moment of your experience."

~Suzanne Lie

 

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"I just need enough to tide me over till I need more." 

~Bill Hoest

 

 

 

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"They're starting to open up the sky, they're starting to reach down through.
And it feels like we're living in that split second of a car crash. And time is slowing down, and if we only had a little more time
and this timeis all there is...."

~Nine Inch Nails

 

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

~Jimi Hendrix

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"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. 

The optimist invents the airplane; and the pessimist the parachute." 

 

~Gail Stern.

 

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"I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."

~Walt Whitman

 

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If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the
dark with a mosquito.

~Author Unknown

 

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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

~ Judy Garland

 

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If we have no peace, it's because we've forgotten that we belong to each other.

~Mother Teresa

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"People who are connected to their energy, including their sexuality and their passion, are in tune with the divine, for expressing the inherently loving side of human nature is the core of unfeigned spirituality."

~Wilhelm Reich
 

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“The day will  come when, after harnessing the winds,

The tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God

The energies of love.  And on that day, for the second time

In the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

~Teilhard de Chardin

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"Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
There is a time for the evening under starlight,
A time for the evening under lamplight
(The evening with the photograph album).
Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning."

~T.S. Elliott

 

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"I'm not frightened.  I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it. It will give it spice.  I'll be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back.... and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete; and that thing is love."

~Frederich Von Schiller, "Love and Intrigue"

Quoted in "The Reader" Movie, 2008.

 

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"If you bring forth what is in you
what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is in you,
what you do not bring forth will destroy you."

~The Gnostic Christ (Dead Sea Scrolls)

 

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A Vision without a task is just a dream.
A task without vision is drudgery.
But if I have a vision AND a task,
I can change the world.

~Black Elk.

 

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"It could come from a bad childhood
Or bad parents, or growing up in the wrong neighborhood,
Or it could come from going to the wrong schools,
It could be caused by, being punched too much,
Or teased too often, but it's there
As we follow after wrong ideals and mishap theories
Always the wound and the dull flashing of yesterday
As we try to move on
But the damn wound won't let us forget;
Its image so poignant, so poignant
And we must forget, and try to forget
As most people try to forget, but I can't and know
Others who cannot forget either
Those pale wounds, still hurting slightly
If you put a finger or palm over them
So many of our wounds threading through
The order and chaos of our lives
Those wounds write books
Those wounds create paintings
Those wounds write music
Those wounds get up in the mornings
Those wounds type at computers all day long
Those wounds drive busses
Those wounds work on the Ford assembly line
Those wounds drive cars
Those wounds must prepare dinner
Those wounds must try to fall asleep at night
Those wounds must move on
The wounds
The wounds
The wounds"

~Damion Hamilton

 

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"You must remain your own witness, marking well everything that happens in this world, never shutting your eyes to reality.  You must come to grips with these terrible times, and try to find answers to the questions that they pose.  And perhaps your answers may help not only yourself but also others."

~Etty Hillesum, "An Interrupted Life"

 

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"Child of mine, I will never do for you that which I know you can do for yourself. I will never rob you of an opportunity to show yourself your ability and talent. I will see you at all times as the capable, effective, powerful creator that you've come forth to be. And I will stand back as your most avid cheerleading section. But I will not do for ... See More you that which you have intended to do for yourself. Anything you need from me, ask. I'm always here to compliment or assist. I am here to encourage your growth, not to justify my experience through you."

~Abraham

 

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"If life is a school, I'm only signing up for recess and lunch!"

~Steve Hendry

 

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"Why is the Vodka always gone?"

~Capt. Jack Sparrow

 

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"Speak your mind.......even if your voice shakes."

~Anonymous

 

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"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

- Maya Angelou

 

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"The task of genius,
and humanity is nothing if not genius,
is to keep the miracle alive, to live always in the miracle,
to make the miracle more and more miraculous,
to swear allegiance to no-thing,
but live only miraculously, think only miraculously,
die (transform) miraculously."

—Henry Miller

 

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"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you;
Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what
you really want; Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep."

-Rumi

 

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"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. But If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake." --Thomas Jefferson, June 4, 1798, in a letter to John Taylor after passage of the Alien and Sedition Act.       "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within." ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross     "The Cornerstone of Civilization is not "might makes right."  To capture and control is NOT what being "civilized" means.  The essence of civilization is "love your neighbor as yourself."  Does that make you your brother's keeper?  Not at all.  To become his "keeper" would not be taking things far enough, though it be the very height of arrogance.  In truth, you ARE your brother.  And he is YOU.  And the reflections and refractions that knowledge brings to the Universal Jewel are sufficient to fill and fulfill your hearts for all eternity."  ~The Reconnections     "I have been dreaming about transitioning. I can't even list all the different dreams and examples. There were transitioning jobs, transitioning bodies, transitioning the places we live and more. Then today I was reading an article about current changes and how it looks like the old is being destroyed to make way for the new.  That is Old Paradigm thinking = The New evolving or transitioning from the Old. Then I had a mini-dream about a butterfly emerging from a cocoon.  Some of the old falls away (the outer shell, the cocoon) but the butterfly (the heart) emerges and takes flight.  The caterpillar (Old) transforms into a new, more beautiful creature." ~Mark (Myrddyn) from Alaska, Recon Moderator     “There are, and always have been, those who cannot help but see that the world and its experiences are in the nature of a symbol, and that it reflects something that lies hidden in the subject himself.” ~Carl Jung     "The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this:  A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.  To him...  a touch is a blow,  a sound is a noise,  a misfortune is a tragedy,  a joy is an ecstasy,  a friend is a lover,  a lover is a god,  and failure is death.  Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating."  -Pearl Buck-      "Relative to our children or any children with whom we would interact, our one dominant intention would be to give them a conscious understanding of how powerful and important and valuable and perfect they are. Every word that would come out of our mouths would be a word that would be offered with the desire to help this individual know that they are powerful. It would be a word of empowerment. We would set the Tone for upliftment and understand that everything will gravitate to that Tone if we would maintain it consistently." ~Jerry and Esther Hicks Excerpted from a workshop in Chicago, IL on Saturday, July 19th, 1997     "Not everything in the All is pretty to our current focus.  Also, there are parts of us who resist moving forward and these parts will oppose us, possibly violently.  Because we can't quite cope with the thought of opposing ourselves, we make the "opposition" into an outside force.  Sometimes this gets downright ugly and even more difficult to own. Most of us love drama, action and adventure.  Therefore we create it in our lives in one way or another.  Believing that we do this is often a hard pill to swallow.  The power this "other" has over us is really our belief in an "outside force".....our denial of who we are, and a denial of our power. ~Myrddyn (Alaska), Club Recon Moderator   The more you defend yourself, the more you believe what you defend against. ~ Alan Cohen "Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times..." ~George Ellery Hale     "Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081.  First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs.  Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.  And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression." ~Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081     "His laugh escaped like champagne from a suddenly uncorked bottle, and he enjoyed its taste!" ~A Fitting Eulogy at the Memorial Service for a Friend.     "The greatest support we can have is mindfulness, which means being totally present in each moment. If the mind remains centered, it cannot make up stories about the injustice of the world or one's friends, or about one's desires or sorrows. All these stories could fill many volumes, but when we are mindful such verbalizations stop. Being mindful means being fully absorbed in the moment, leaving no room for anything else. We are filled with the momentary happening, whatever it is--standing or sitting or lying down, feeling pleasure or pain--and we maintain a nonjudgmental awareness, a "just knowing." ~Ayya Khema, "Be an Island"     "Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!" ~Jane Austen   "It takes a long time to grow young." - Picasso God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things. - Pablo Picasso "Can you see me sitting here waiting for a light to change? Can you see me standing here?   Probably not.  You're stuck with short range.    Don't you cry,  Can't you see me?  I'm right here,   sitting by your side.. Just keep hammering, Dad! Keep hammering until you can't hear the sound any longer." ~Rachel Wicks. In Loving Memory of Cody and Rachel: http://milkleg.com/index.htm   "The butterfly is a flying flower....The flower a tethered butterfly." ~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun _________________ "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. " ~Maya Angelou   "In this age of skepticism, we are skeptical about everything except the skepticism itself. We have put all our faith in skepticism and doubt all else. Is it a wise course of action? Is there a truth out there? Our mind doubts everything except its own capability to find the truth. We have put all our faith in our limited and doubting mind and doubt that there is anything greater than our limited power of intellect. Are we than any better than a common beast of burden? Even a dog has put its full faith in its limited mind and in its ignorance; it thinks it’s a top of creation. That’s why it remains to be a dog! In India, they catch monkeys by putting few seeds in a pitcher with a narrow neck, while monkey is watching. As soon as no one is around, monkey darts and grabs the seeds in a pitcher but now with a clenched fist it cannot get hand out of a pitcher. It will not let go because its mind will not let him. This is what mind does – it plants the seed of doubt through its endless analyzing, fragmenting and splintering of the simple truth, while in all its wisdom it remains completely oblivious of its own limitations. It’s a great mistake to think that mind is the top of evolution because it is not. The soul is! Without soul, the mind would be a dead piece of matter." ~ Daniel Srsa

~Allie Keys, Stephen Spielberg's "Taken"

"That’s all you need to feel when you want to create something new. That’s the only affirmation that truly frees you to go with the flow, and to have fun while you’re doing it. Use your desire to set up your intent, ask, affirm that it is yours already and have a cup of tea, or go play! Lighten up. Leave it to gestate. Stop pulling up the shoots to look at the roots. Stop opening the oven. Stop standing in front of an empty shelf at the supermarket waiting for the Tim Tams to materialize. It’s NOT HELPING! In fact it’s hindering! Many of you have done plenty of asking, but are not making space to receive effectively. To keep noticing from a place of lack that you don’t have something you want keeps it away from you!"

                                                            ~Shelly Sha'h'ana                                                       

What is needed, during this powerful time, is for humankind to let go of pre-existing concepts of what this new world will be, or what all of this is going to look like.  There are no "veterans" or "professionals" for where humanity is now going.  Even though you have made several ragged attempts at achieving what it is you are now seeking in your society, the peoples of the Earth have never come close to where it is you are heading now.  You need to go forth into this blinding energy as babes..........playmates in a sandbox of reformation and expansion.   You must love each other and your planet unconditionally...............as true reflections of self.  Only in this is the hope of ascension for your world, and infinite expansion for your species!

~The Reconnections   

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"On the Morning of Creation, you will recognize the Unified Collective Consciousness of all Humankind as your own true identity.  You will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are the bridge between Spirit and Matter, between Creator and Creation, between Life and the forms through which Life flows.  If you release the definitions that Matter has set upon you, this is the definition that the Creator will bestow, the definition of Christ Himself. 

Can you see yourself as we of the distant stars do, from the objective vantage point of the ages, with the eyes of the Star-Maker Himself?  To us, your entire history appears as but a gesture.  We see in your passage through the vibrational field of Earth a gesture that you make, a salute almost, to the energy-retention systems of this particular heavenly body.  This is how you express yourself on this beautiful blue and white world whirling through space.  We have come to remind you who you are."

~The Starseed Transmissions, through Ken Carey

1982.

 

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"The imagination is not a state: it is human existence itself."

~William Blake

 

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"I searched for God and found only myself. 

I searched for myself and found only God."

~Sufi Proverb

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"There are two ways of spreading light---to be the candle, or to be the mirror that reflects it."

~Edith Wharton

Do not ponder......DO.

Do not think……KNOW.

Do not hesitate…….DECLINE.

Do not desire…….POSSESS.

If in doubt, leave it out.

Things do not have to be physical to be real.

They only need to be believed and received, AS SELF. 

~The Reconnections.   

     "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your Philosophy....."

  ~William Shakespeare

'If desire causes suffering it may be
because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert
at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads
in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation,
why not get better at fulfilling desire?  Salvation is
for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want
salvation I want life, all of life ............. I will
have tasted the banquet that they have before me on
this rich, round planet, rather than recoiling from it
like a toothless bunny. I cannot believe that the most
delicious things were placed here merely to test us
to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To
fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both
men and gods.'

~From "Jitterbug Perfume," by Tom Robbins

"For those who know, no explanation is necessary. . . for those who do not, no explanation will suffice."

~Anonymous.

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"It's funny how I am feeling these last few weeks.  Tired, listless, somewhat solitary.  I really can't say that I have a death wish.......but I can't say that I have a life urge either.........."

~Anonymous

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"Sometimes......the greatest distance on the planet is the distance that exists between two people."

~W. Somerset Maugham

'The truth is that enlightenment is neither remote nor unattainable. It
is closer than your skin and more immediate than your next breath. If
we wonder why so few seem able to find that which can never be lost,
we might recall the child who was looking in the light for a coin he
dropped in the dark because "the light is better over here." Mankind
has spent ages looking in the light for a coin that awaits us not in
light and not in dark, but beyond all opposites.'

~ Jed McKenna
 

 

"One of the biggest challenges to relationship is learning how to say 'I disagree with you,' while still holding hands."

~Alexandra Penney

 

If your horse dies, get off.

     -- source unknown

 

“If the last 50,000 years of humanity’s existence were divided into lifetimes of approximately 62 years each, there have been about 800 such lifetimes.  Of these 800 lifetimes, fully 650 were spent in caves.”

              ~Alvin Toffler, “Future Shock”

“As far as many statistical series related to activities of humankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory.  The world of today is as different from the world in which I was born (1910) as that world was from Julius Caesar’s.  I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly.  Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.”

             ~Kenneth Boulding

 

 

"Modern physics has debunked the notion that knowing requires, or even allows, a separation of the knower from the known.  Physicists cannot study subatomic particles without altering them in the act of knowing, so we cannot maintain the objectivist gap between the world "out there" and the observer "in here."  as posited by pre-modern science.  Knower and known are joined, and any claim about the nature of the known reflects the nature of the knower as well." 

~Parker Palmer 

 

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

   ~ William Dement

 

"Reality forever is.  It's all there.  Always was, always will be.  It is PERSONAL EXPERIENCE which unfolds itself in a sequential, linear order. Personal Expansion begins when we stop trying to control or censor reality, and begin consciously navigating our own Personal Experience of Reality---our very own Life Journey."

~ Daniel Jacob

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(looking up at the giant Oscar beside him on the stage)

"Do you think that, if we topple that guy---democracy will finally be restored to the film industry? 

~Jon Stewart

(while hosting the 78th Annual Academy Awards Program)

A Wee Wiccan Reed

“Do what ye will?”

To know your will,
Ay, there’s the rub.

To have the power that fuels the courage to do
What you will, and to carry it through,
There’s the nub of the problem.

Know your blisses, and what pisses you off,
Know your heart, and acknowledge your passions,
Not just your wishes, not just your desires,
They’re a start, they provide the fires,
But, the power comes from knowing your will.

“An’ It Harm None?”

How to know?
How to see?
What the effect of your acts will be.
If you say “for the greatest good”
Will it protect you from the return of three?

Embrace your life, live your thrill,
Do it with thought, do it with purpose,
Do it in joy, only

Do what you will.

~Willy Dupree

 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for while knowledge defines everything we know and understand,
imagination points to all we might yet discover and create" 

~ Einstein

 

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."

~Anonymous

 

"Cancer is a language. 

It is spoken.  It can be unspoken." 

(Overheard in a dream)

~Michael Bridge
 

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"Miracles come from your love - they are synchronistic events that usually occur when you let go of attachment and trust your inner guidance."

-----Sanaya Roman - Creating Money

 

"In this way......in increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us---not always in one momentous event but in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss."

~John Irving

 

"And the Master said to me:  "Come Home, My Son." 

And I asked:  "Where is that?"

He did not blink.  But simply looked up and said: 

"Home is wherever you truly want to be."

~Daniel Jacob

 

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OUR LONGING FOR UNION:  from Jeshua.

"The Soul is crying for a reality experience which only physical life can give to it.  The body is crying for an immortality experience which only the soul can give to it.  As you permit this union to fulfill itself, you will directly know what it feels like to be the love that you are."

"Love Without End " by Glenda Green
 

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Religion is for those who are afraid of Hell.

Spirituality is for those who have been there.

~Anonymous

 

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy,  the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colon.    

Need I say more?"

~Chris Rock

 

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"Listening is an art not easily come by, but in it there is beauty and great understanding. We listen with the various depths of our being, but our listening is always with a preconception or from a particular point of view.

We do not listen simply; there is always the intervening screen of our own thoughts, conclusions, and prejudices. To listen there must be an inward quietness, a freedom from the strain of acquiring, a relaxed attention.

This alert yet passive state is able to hear what is beyond the verbal conclusion. Words confuse; they are only the outward means of communication; but to commune beyond the noise of words, there must be in listening, an alert passivity.

Those who love may listen, but it is extremely rare to find a listener. Most of us are after results, achieving goals; we are forever overcoming and conquering, and so there is no listening. It is only in listening that one hears the song of the words.     

                                         Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

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"Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild."

~ Kristen Bell, as "Veronica Mars"

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The world you see is a stage you have constructed with your thoughts, and everyone you meet is an actor you have hired to play out the script you have written.

      ~ Alan Cohen

 

"Earth is a smooth pond which is imprinted by and reflects the web of planetary influences, as soft putty carries the imprint of a gently-pressed finger. We humans are as water spiders on the surface of the pond, weaving into physical form the web that we see and feel reflected from above. There are reflections also from the sand on the bottom of the pond which are felt and woven on the surface, and in this way the stars hear not only their own echo from earth, but the music of Gaia's own sphere intermingled with their sweet symphony. Incarnate humans thus can be the creators of a heavenly web on the spherical surface of the earth, attuned simultaneously to the above and below, swimming in the ecstacy of creation.

Number is archetype. Number expressed in space is geometry. Number expressed in time is music. Number expressed in space-time is astronomy / astrology. Number expressed in space-time also is geomancy. Human form is created in phi proportion, the proportion of harmonious interaction and of mutually-enhancing relationship.

We are the weavers. Ours is the web. This is our birthright and our destiny."

---Patrick MacManaway

 

 

"On the other hand there is still much mysterious in the relation for inner and outer. One will only find out about it if one stays nicely with one's nose complementarily in the middle...."

Wolfgang Pauli

" All men should strive
           to learn before they die
          what they are running from, and to, and why".

~James Thurber

Guilt is……

The disparity between the perfection that you are, and the perfection you have told yourself that you should be.    

The whole experience is fed by a belief in separation, which is the foundation stone of a 3D journey.   In truth, you are neither "this" nor "that."  You are ALL OF IT...............which is nearly impossible for a 3D mind to absorb.  This makes it possible to focus intensely on one or more things........to the exclusion of others.  Thus, you gain the ability to solidify certain things and banish others from perception entirely.  Guilt is one of the prices you pay for this ability.  

                                                                         ~The Reconnections

 

"Integrity is one of several paths.  It distinguishes itself from all the others, because it is the right path--and the only one upon which you will never get lost."

~B.H. McKee

 

As the individual becomes more collective, the
collective becomes more individual.
~Fey Lynn

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply
follow my own feelings.

  ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 

"You didn't come into this world.

You came out of it,

like a wave from the ocean.

You are not a stranger here."

~Alan Watts

"A medicine man shouldn't be a saint. He should
experience and feel all the ups and downs, the despair and joy, the
magic and the reality, the courage and the fear, of his people. He
should be able to sink as low as a bug, or soar as high as an eagle.
Unless he can experience both, s/he is no good as a medicine man."
---- John Fire Lame Deer

"Many people ask me why I don't get more involved in political discussions or issues.  I must admit, I have my eyes on other things.  What we're about, at this time, is being midwives for the New Paradigm, even as we are also being hospice workers for the Old."

--James O'Dea

 

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and
  there are some who face reality; and then
  there are those who turn one into the other."
  (Douglas Everett)

 

"Go ahead now.  Play the Game.  The Board is right in front of you.  It's everything you see, think, or feel.  To play the Game you must BECOME the Game.  Anything less will not work.  If you back up, turn off, or disconnect in any way........ down you'll go.......tumbling back into 3D illusion. 

But then, it is no matter.  Just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and begin playing all over again........."

--The Reconnections  

 

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win."
 - Mahatma Gandhi

The Path to Untanglement

Strange and new events are happening in our known multiverse...

Have received several emails recently about matters of the strange events now occurring in our known and unknown universe.

Thinking about them most of the time.

Knowing my feet are still firmly planted in Old ways and beliefs, no matter how much I may say I want to be New. I still expect to see sky in the morning, with our house, our home, our world as we know it before going to sleep. It will be generally the same in the morning.

This has not been entirely true lately, however.

While my feet walk what is apparently familiar ground, my head is dreaming of the New world as I would like it to be.

Spacey. It makes me very spacey, some would call it crazy. Which doesn't matter either, since it is all Illusion, making all true, a part of All That Is.

So, spacey is my place at the moment. Strangely enough, that also means I need more space, from people, distractions, even my projects. Much of my time is spent being zoned out, spacey, in the spider solitaire game. It is where I gain many insights, such as looking about six, maybe even seven moves ahead for several choices, finally choosing the one that leads toward the path to untanglement. Sometimes, less is more, but not always; that is one of the choices.

Wingmakers music wafts through my days constantly… even when not being played, it plays in my mind, giving a rhythm to life.

We are being called to come out of our isolations, go among others, not necessarily proselytizing but being as whole as possible as much as possible… and here's the kicker… Consciously, yet, without cunning, manipulation, polarity. We are Conscious; we think from a position of One.

Still, I look down at my fingers playing across the keys of the computer, and think, Crazy! Laughing at my words, my thoughts… but then, I think, Yes! Crazy it is because that is how to break the pattern of the Old ways: i.e., anything Different is Crazy. It depends upon the point of view.

And that is all right with me.

--Anyone seen any ET's recently? I've asked my inner Voice about them ... and the answer was immediate. I heard a laughing Voice say the only alien present was me!

In the meantime, have been feeling this good earth, our world as she is going through incredible stress during the change, moving into higher vibrations and light. Consciously I sing a Song of balance, healing for us all.

This is my first blog... would appreciate knowing if anyone is out there besides me.

-- (still laughing at the thoughts of One sitting on a vast plain, plaintively asking if anyone else was there.... not possible if there is only One... but One is awesome... not to be denied, and so the Game was begun... now, One can ask if anyone else is here, and Anyone Else has forgotten about still being part of One, so gives the answer, Yes! I AM here!... )

--Judith Bailey ( judithbailey@aspectslink.us )

 

"All we see and seem is but a dream within a dream."
~Edgar Allan Poe
 

Whatever you believe
-truly believe-
Will work for you,
IS working for you.

Some of my friends call this "the good news and the bad news"

Mark, Recon Forum Member
 

 

"When I was younger I was told on countless occasions that I am
weird/crazy/abnormal.........yada yada yada. It used to offend me until I
realized that most of the people making such remarks were very
unremarkable people! Since then I wear my badge of weird with pride!"

-Darren, Recon Forum Member
 

"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. But If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."

--Thomas Jefferson, June 4, 1798, in a letter to John Taylor after passage of the Alien and Sedition Act.

 

At 84 years of age, Famed Psychiatrist Carl Jung had this to say a year before he died in 1961:

"The journey from cloud cuckoo land to reality lasted a long time. In my case Pilgrims Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I
am."
 

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"These are fun times, indeed!  Ever since the Venus Transit, the world's belief systems have been playing a game of Musical Chairs.  They dance in a circle, and the music plays faster and faster, and chairs keep getting taken away.  Where it all stops, nobody knows!"

--Thelma Petas 

 

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People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.

Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.

Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. 
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. 
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. 
Think big anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.

Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack if you help them. 
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. 
Give the world the best you've got anyway. 

~Bishop Abel Muzorewa
African Spiritual and Political Leader

 

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When I do good, I feel good.

When I do bad, I feel bad.

And that's my Religion.

--Abraham Lincoln

out of the lie of no
rises a truth of yes
(only herself and who
illimitably is)

making fools understand
(like wintry me) that not
all matterings of mind
equal one violet

e.e. cummings

"There are conditions on Earth which are generally viewed as
catastrophes. For example, when hurricanes and tornadoes devastate
various places, it is considered to be a disaster. That is true, but
such calamities, especially when caused by hurricanes and tornadoes,
kindle the head center in man and create a new, spiritual orientation
in the masses.

"Hurricanes and tornadoes also open up the Chalice of people,
allowing many gifts to drop into the consciousness of the masses.
Though a hurricane causes devastation, it also brings a new
opportunity to those who survive. Such people surprisingly witness a
great change in their consciousness. This change allows the psychic
energy and fire to be accumulated in their nature.

"Man sees the outer effects, but fails to observe the inner changes
brought in by certain conditions of life. Nature knows by what
method to quicken and kindle the consciousness and help people
advance to a new outlook on life."

-from PSYCHIC ENERGY by Torkom Saraydarian (p.23)

 

Who would of thought the meaning of life was so simple and clear...
 
"It is all about ass; you're either covering it,  laughing it off ,  kicking it, kissing it, busting it, trying to get a piece of it, or behaving like one."

--Richard Evans

 

The World Needs You Now


The world needs you now.

More than you know.

More than you can imagine.


The world needs your gifts.
Your heart. Your compassion.
Your understanding. Your ability to
listen, to speak, to feel and to act.

The gifts that only you can give, in the way
that you and you alone can give them.

The time for holding back is over.

The time for believing that you are not good enough,
not ready enough, not wise enough, has passed.

The time for fearing that you are too good,
too powerful, too magnificent, too intelligent,
no longer exists.

You have run out of excuses.

You have exhausted every reason why you cannot be
exactly who you were placed here to be.

Your usual distractions no longer distract.

Your strategies for staying small, for resisting the call
to awaken, are dead.

The world needs you now.

More than you know.


In the Great Circle of Life, a space has been held for you
since before Time began.

As you wandered, as you explored, your shoes waited,
marking your place. No one else approached, for
these shoes can only be filled by you. You agreed
to step into them when you were ready to take
your rightful place on the Circle.

And now, you are ready.

You are bored with your own self-absorption.

You choke and gag on your endless self-reflection and
your belly is filled with an urgency to leave jobs
behind and embrace your real Work.

Now, at the exact moment that the world needs you,
you have uncovered and recovered and discovered
enough so that your authentic self can see
the light of day.

So that you can step into the shoes that have been
waiting for you since before time began.

Every moment that you delay, widens the hole in the
web of existence.

For you are an essential ingredient, without which
Creation is incomplete.

Global harmony rests in the palm of your hand.

Planetary peace will simply not be attained without
your heart, your mind, your spirit.

No one else has been assigned the job of picking
up the ball that lay at your feet.

The world needs you and the world needs you now.

More than you know.

More than you can ever imagine.


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Rachel Snyder
author. storyteller. inspiratrix.
 

"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. "

  ~Maya Angelou

 

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Dreams

"The persons I engage with in dreams are neither representations (simulacra) of their living selves nor parts of myself. They are shadow images that fill archetypal roles; they are personae, masks, in the hollow of which is a numen." James Hillman (1979)

"Are the gods bytes?"
—A comment on the "ContraDiogenes" site of the World Wide Web.

 

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"I would like to fly within my body......to loosen it from it moorings and allow its fullness to evolve within the flow and climb within the heights of the energy.  I would like to walk on the stars and float on earth........just by twinkling my eye. I wish not to leave my body behind......I wish to sense the cosmos as I sense the earth. That is how I wish to know all things. The human beyond time........but a rise in vibrations by which the body can restructure its density....and off I am in the wonders of a world not yet known. This is my Crystal City."

~Dianne Seith

The Icons of A New Age

we are the icons of a new age, net-savvy and world-weary

mystics, magicians and travelers,
wonderers, wanderers,
worshipers, lovers of learning
and of leaving

full of thought but not weighted with the thinking

open to ideas, whatever their source,

applying intellect and intuition,
logic, experience and dream,

in balanced inequities -
touching, feeling, seeing, sensing, knowing -
sorting, sifting, letting go . . .

building bridges

from things our fathers
never imagined,

to places our mothers
never dreamed,

from ideas our children
will someday explain
to us

* connected *

and ruthlessly breaking bonds

they never knew existed

* separate *

alone,
all-one,
only

One

--Nicholas Knoth

"Everything is dependent on everything else, everything is
connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the
only way it can go. If [we] were different everything would be
different. [We] are what [we] are, so everything is as it is."

G.I. Gurdjieff

"I was born to catch dragons in their dens
And pick flowers
To tell tales and laugh away the morning
To drift and dream like a lazy stream
And walk barefoot across sunshine days."

-James Kavanaugh
Author of "Sunshine Days and Foggy Nights"
(Out Of Print)

Hollow Bone

Creator you and you alone
can clean this vessel
this hollow bone
through you all things
can be done
Earth sky fiery sun
molecule
cosmos
infinite circle
sixth vibration
filling internal
for
maximizing
channeling
we must prepare
opening windows
cleaning the air
rid the old dogmas
of doom and despair
The Ghost
will not come in with
hate and envy in there
we must forgive ourselves
and our sisters and brothers
and then we can begin
to help all others
remove from me the things that block my usefulness to You
cleanse me so your work
I can do
remove from my day
all thinking that is out of harmony with Your ways
Use me to your glory
for all of my days
carved from Mother's flesh
a vessel of stone
Great Spirit's
urn
a hollow bone.


Shawnee Nation Ohio Blue Creek Band,
Turtle Clan Chief and Pokaw (protector) of our Principle Chief
Carrier of the sacred pipe.

Please visit the web site at http://wabipenache.tripod.com

"You are your own devil, you are your own God, 

you fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod.

And no one can save you from error or sin 

until you have hark'd to the spirit within.

Don't try to find what your ancestors found.  

Try, instead, to find what they were looking for."

~Tieme Ranapiri

"As we journey within ourselves, searching for the center point of
stillness, we may discover it is a place we can only approach empty-
handed and alone. But turning our backs on the world we may find, to
our endless joy, the whole world waiting there for us to arrive and
our empty hands holding everything we need."

Judith Pintar,  "Cards of Winds and Changes"

"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
(Think about it.)"

--Steven Wright

"There is no such thing as malevolence.  There are

only varying degrees of unconsciousness."  

--The Reconnections

 

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." 

Gautama Buddha

 

"Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? ...Your playing small
does not serve the world."   

— Marianne Williamson

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."

                      ---James Branch Cabell

 

"Martin Luther King wasn't wrong.  He just didn't have your job."

~Chief of Staff Leo McGarry, to President Jed Bartlett, on "The West Wing"

 

"I guess I could be pretty pissed off

About what’s happened to me.

But it’s hard to stay mad, when there’s

So much beauty in the world.

Sometimes, I feel like I’m seeing it all at once,

And it’s too much.

My heart fills up

Like a balloon, that’s about to burst.

And then I remember to relax

And stop trying to hold onto it.

And it flows through me, like rain.

And I can’t feel anything but gratitude

For every single moment

Of my stupid, little life."

Lester Birnham, in “American Beauty”

Heard melodies are sweet,
But those unheard are sweeter;
Therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.

~ John Keats ~

 

"When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be

I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"

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"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

                             Jack London

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"And the day came when the risk it took

to remain tight inside the bud was

more painful than the risk

it took to blossom."

--Anais Nin

 

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"Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.
 If you're alive, it isn't."  

--Richard Bach

 

 

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      "Life isn't like a box of chocolates . . .    

 It's more like a jar of jalapenos....  

What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.

---Anonymous

 

"OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, ANGER IS POSSIBLY THE MOST FUN.
TO LICK YOUR WOUNDS, TO SMACK YOUR LIPS OVER GRIEVANCES LONG PAST,
TO ROLL OVER YOUR TONGUE THE PROSPECT
OF BITTER CONFRONTATIONS STILL TO COME,
TO SAVOR TO THE LAST TOOTHSOME MORSEL BOTH THE PAIN YOUR ARE GIVEN
AND THE PAIN YOUR ARE GIVING BACK -
IN MANY WAYS IT IS A FEAST FIT FOR A KING.
THE CHIEF DRAWBACK IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE WOLFING DOWN
IS YOURSELF.
THE SKELETON AT THE FEAST IS YOU."

(Frederick Beuchner)

THE DARK SEA OF AWARENESS

"Every creature in the universe is attached to the dark sea of awareness at a round point of luminosity that was apparent when those creatures were perceived as energy.  On that point of luminosity, which the sorcerers of ancient Mexico called the assemblage point of human beings, zillions of energy fields from the universe at large, in the form of luminous filaments, converge and go through it.  These energy fields are converted into sensory data, and the sensory data is then interpreted and perceived as the world we know.  What turns the luminous fibers into sensory data is the 'dark sea of awareness.'  Sorcerers see this transformation and call it the glow of awareness, a sheen that extends like a halo around the assemblage point.

What we call the senses in organisms is nothing but degrees of awareness.  If we accept that the senses are the dark sea of awareness, we have to admit that the interpretation that the senses make of sensory data is also the dark sea of awareness.  To fact the world around  us in the terms that we do is the result of the interpretation system of mankind which every human being is equipped.  Every organism in existence has to have an interpretation system that permits it to function in its surrounding.

The old sorcerers saw that at the moment of death, the dark sea of awareness sucked in, so to speak, through the assemblage point, the awareness of living creatures.  They also saw that the dark sea of awareness had a moment's, let's say, hesitation when it was faced with sorcerers who had done a recounting of their lives.  Unbeknownst to them, some had done it so thoroughly that the dark sea of awareness took their awareness in the form of their life experiences, but didn't touch their life force.  Sorcerers had found out a gigantic truth about the forces of the universe: the dark sea of awareness wants only our life experiences, not our life force."

---Carlos Casteneda, The Don Juan Teachings

 

 

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"Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, 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. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make any sense." 

                                           ~Rumi

 

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"You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.

And there are things to be considered:

Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.

This could be a good time!

There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination.
The Elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river,
keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
See who is in there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally.
Least of all ourselves.
For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!

Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.

All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.

The Elders
Oraibi, Arizona
The Hopi Nation
December 2001

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Come lovers and daughters,
Come spinners and weavers,
Tool makers, potters,
Dancers and dreamers,
Fixers and changers,
Singers and screamers,
Forget all the dangers,
Come ancestors, guardians, Goddesses too,
You who teach us, you who speak true,
You who plant, and you who reap,
You who soar and you who creep,
You who cook, and you who drum,
You who have been, and you yet to come,
You who fight with the sword,
You who fight with the pen,
Unreasonable women,
Unmanageable men,
Come harpies and banshees and gorgons and Witches,
Come sweet loving hearts and furious bitches!"

"Break the chains that have kept us bound,
Weave a web to pull the monster down.
In the face of truth, no lie can stand,
Weave the vision, strand by strand."

"We are sweet water, we are the seed,
We are the storm wind to blow away greed.
We are the new world we bring to birth,
The river rising to reclaim the earth."

-- Starhawk 
 

Somewhere, out at the edges, the night
Is turning and the waves of darkness
Begin to brighten the shore of dawn.

The heavy dark falls back to earth
And the freed air goes wild with light,
The heart fills with fresh, bright breath
And thoughts stir to give birth to colour.

I arise today

In the name of Silence
Womb of the Word,
In the name of Stillness
Home of Belonging,
In the name of the Solitude
Of the Soul and the Earth.

I arise today

Blessed by all things,
Wings of breath,
Delight of eyes,
Wonder of whisper,
Intimacy of touch,
Eternity of soul,
Urgency of thought,
Miracle of health,
Embrace of God.

May I live this day

Compassionate of heart,
Gentle in word,
Gracious in awareness,
Courageous in thought,
Generous in love.

--John O'Donohue,  "Anam Cara"

It's far better to be on my own track going the wrong way....than on someone else's track going the right way. 

Not to say that I don't thoroughly enjoy following the RIGHT people around, with my nose up their butt...   That's where the phrase "it's all me" comes in handy.

But, in general....the Velveteen rabbit remains forever a toy, until it falls in love with itself.  And when you become "real", you can fuck up really well...and then you hurt...and then you learn. And on and on it goes. 

                                                                                          ~Nina Florenz

 

"The future is an ever-present present--presenting itself."

~Anara Brinmere

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, 

and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
 
      - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 

 

"The border between reality and fantasy is not fixed. It just marks the last place rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill."
                             

~Oiled Lamp

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"Many are the strange chances of the world.  And help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the wise falter."

--Mithrandir, AKA  Gandalf, the Grey.

 

 

If I am to know God directly I must become completely God and God I so that this God and I become one. As pear seeds produce pears and nut seeds produce nut trees, God seeds produce Gods.

                                              ---Meister Eckhart

 

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"I think continually of those who were truly great.
 Who, from the womb, remembered the soul's history
Through corridors of light where the hours are suns,
Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition
Was that their lips, still touched with fire,
Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song.
And who hoarded from the spring branches
The desires falling across their bodies like blossoms.
The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Born of the sun, they traveled a short while towards the sun,
And left the vivid air signed with their honor."

                                --Stephen Spender

 

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So where in my life do I start to close my heart, rather than keep it open? There is somehow a belief that I cannot set limits and boundaries without closing my heart and that is a spiritual illusion.

                                    --Tom Parish

 

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"The great epochs of our lives are at the points
when we gain courage to re-baptize our badness as the best in us."

                         --Friedrich Nietzsche

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"The best way to entertain some folks is to listen to them."

                                  -- Kin Hubbard.

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Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.

               --unknown

 

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Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
                                    -- Goethe

 

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An expert is a person who can take something you already know and make it sound confusing.
                         --unknown

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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
                         -Aeschylus

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The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts.
                       - Paul Erlich

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
                        - J. Jenkins.

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Man is a foolish creature who tries to get even with his enemies and ahead of his friends.
                      --unknown

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"I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Mans I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create"

                      - William Blake

 

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"I don't suffer from insanity....I enjoy every minute of it!"

             --Unknown

 

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I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
             - Lilly Tomlin

 

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
             - Eleanor Roosevelt

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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
             - Virginia Woolf, playwright

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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
              - Madonna

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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
                         - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power;
it is also one of the hardest arguments to dispute.

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Trying to squash a rumour is like trying to unring a bell.
              - Shana Alexander, Journalist.

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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
                - Napoleon I

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The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
               - John Wooden

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Ancient Chinese Proverb:
Wife who put husband in dog house,
Soon find him in cat house.

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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

~Anonymous

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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
            - Carlos Castaneda

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a man and a dog.
                      

- Mark Twain

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
                     - George Burns

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"When a country obtains great power,

 it becomes like the sea:

 all streams run downward into it.

 The more powerful it grows,

 the greater the need for humility.

 Humility means trusting the Tao,

 thus never needing to be defensive.

 

 A great nation is like a great man:

 when he makes a mistake, he realizes it.

 Having realized it, he admits it.

 Having admitted it, he corrects it.

 He considers those who point out his faults

 as his most benevolent teachers.

 He thinks of his enemy

as the shadow that he himself casts.

 

 If a nation is centered in the Tao,

 if it nourishes its own people

 and doesn't meddle in the affairs of others,

 it will be a light to all nations in the world.

 

 ~Lao-tzu

 ~Tao Te Ching

 

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"In the higher vibrational dimensions, words and thoughts are replaced by clear, unbroken TONES. 

If one picture is worth a thousand words, one TONE is worth a million pictures.

Those who can hear these tones, high above all other sounds, will never be deceived.

Words can be misleading, ideas can be obscured, but in UNBROKEN TONES---there is no place to hide. "

          ---The Reconnections

 

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      "There is no beginning, there is no end,
      There is only change.

       There is no teacher, there is no student,
       There is only remembering.

       There is no good, there is no evil,
       There is only expression.

       There is no union, there is no sharing,
       There is only one.

       There is no joy, there is no sadness,
       There is only love.

       There is no greater, there is no lesser,
       There is only balance.

       There is no stasis, there is no entropy,
       There is only motion.

       There is no wakefulness, there is no sleep,
       There is only being.

       There is no limit, there is no chance,
       There is only a plan."

       Robert A. Monroe
 

  

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"The  Journey"

"One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting their bad advice---
thought the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations---
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and the wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones,
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice,
which you slowly recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do----
determined to save
the only life
you could ever save."

--Mary Oliver

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The Second Coming

 

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

 The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

 Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

 The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

 The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

 The best lack all conviction, while the worst

 Are full of passionate intensity.

 Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

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"For That, by which we
See all colours,
Taste all flavours,
Smell all sounds,
And feel the touch of our beloved,
That is the Self.

This Self alone is the experiencer
Of all experiences,
It is the sustainer of all life,
And the ruler of time itself.
Who knows this Self
Rejects nothing and fears no-one.

This Self is the ultimate Reality:
That which was before creation
And from which creation was born.
Yet who sees this Self
Sees it resting in the hearts of all.

From this Self flows
Both the energy and the infinity
Which brought into being
The original creation,

This Self enters the hearts
Of all that are born of it.

Who sees this
Sees the Self....... becomes the Self."

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Katha Upanishad, translated by Swami
Ambikananda Saraswati

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PAIN

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your  understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break,
that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles
of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than
your joy; and you would accept the seasons of your heart,
even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over
your fields. 

And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your
grief....  And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been
fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears."

  --The Prophet--  Kahlil Gibran

 

 

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Four Brothers

 

With the birth of the white buffalo, the final set of prophecies near fulfillment. Soon a great spiritual awakening will begin.

Slowly, at first, the spirit of mankind will begin it's transmutation. "The soul will remember..." Whereas we once were of one power, so shall we be again. Whereas we were one body with one voice, and became many bodies with many voices, we will become many bodies with one voice.

"Witness hereunto the proliferation of "god' as "god' is known.. "The lines of energy that permeate, quadrate, parallel, transfix, and disperse throughout the entire material, astral, and ethereal planes are in the process of COMING INTO HARMONY.

In the history of my people, there is a story of four brothers that set out on a trek to gain wisdom and understanding of the four elemental powers that combine to become the one true power:

To the Yellow-skinned race, the elemental power of air was given as quest. This is the power of wisdom itself. They would learn that the power of the air was of the mind. Oneness with the element of air was, to them, oneness with self through the power of the mind.

To the Black-skinned people, the element of wisdom was fire: the power of the physical body. The oneness that they sought was oneness of structure, rites of fertility, the manipulation of the physical aspect of the prime material. (They were building pyramids when the majority of us were living in caves.)

To the white-skinned people, the element of water lent it's power of aesthetics, as well as the chaotic factor of criticism. Oneness to them became beauty, rhetoric, and emotional religion.

And to the Red-skinned people, was given the charge of the element of earth. They found that oneness was the power of the earth. The earth is your mother, all things have spirit. Ne-uii-aeo - the breath we all take.

The story goes on to say that the brothers would one day come back together. To insure the original intention would remain clear, they agreed that when their descendants were ready to reunite, that the spirits of the four brothers would speak to the hearts of the children in dreams and visions and tell them when the time was approaching. They would then be prepared when the four brothers picked up the four corners of the veil that shrouds the earth from the spirit world, and tear it asunder."

                                                                                     ---Tommy,

                                                                Native American Shaman, 1995

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"The Primary difference between me and

an insane man, is that I am not insane!"

"I don't take drugs.  I *am* drugs." 

                         ---Salvador Dali

 

 

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"You know, beloved people, your soul energy is not simply locked into what is here or what you would imagine to be the next dimension. Soul energy runs through all of the dimensions and it is not even what you would imagine to be human. In this aspect it is human. It is expressing itself in human form.  However, so grand are you that you also express in many, many other forms  and in all of the dimensions!"

                                               ---P'Taah

 

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From "the Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zukav (1979)

"One of the greatest physicists of all, Albert Einstein, was perhaps a Wu Li Master.  In 1938 he wrote:
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Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.  In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch.  He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case.  If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations.  He will never be able to compare his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility of the meaning of such a comparison.
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Most people believe that physicists are explaining the world.  Some physicists even believe that, but the Wu Li Masters know that they are only dancing with it."

 

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"Out of evil, much good has come to me. By keeping quiet, repressing nothing, remaining attentive, and by accepting reality---taking things as they are, and not as I wanted them to be---by doing all this, unusual knowledge has come to me, and unusual powers as well, such as I could never have imagined before. I always thought that when we accepted things they overpowered us in some way or other. This turns out not to be true at all, and it is only by accepting them that one can assume an attitude towards them. So now I intend to play the game of life, being receptive to whatever comes to me, good and bad, sun and shadow forever alternating, and in this way also accepting my own nature with its positive and negative sides...Thus everything becomes more alive to me. What a fool I was! How I tried to force everything to go according to the way I felt it ought to go."

Letter from a grateful patient to Dr. Carl Jung.

 

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Our most powerful contribution to world healing and evolution at any time is simply who we are and the bottom-line natural state of being we generally resonate to.

"There is nothing to do but to BE".

When we are in the "doing" mode, it is mostly the ego that is trying to drive the game, whereas when we are in the "being" mode, it is mainly the inner Divine soul that is radiating its all-encompassing frequency of Love which naturally soothes and heals everything and guides us onto the best path of action, the ideal wording and the optimal thinking and feeling.                    -----Jean Hudon

"Be the change you want to see in the world."
                               

-- Mahatma Gandhi

 

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"Authenticity, I have found, comes from a combination of
 engaging your talents, loves, and gifts; being autonomous
 (self-directed); and relating to your external world in your
 way- not as a copy of someone or something else. 

In their book "Why We Do What We Do?" Edward Deci  and Richard Ryan note that some of the signs that hint we
are moving towards authenticity include having a feeling of
competence and being effective, feeling free to choose based on wise decisions, and a certain connectedness to the world.

                                 Why Bother?

So what is it that makes authenticity so desirable? Why
bother? When you strive to find and be your authentic self,
you gain a certain control. The world continues to spin
around and around throwing your days out of whack but you, authentic you, remain in balance. You stand ready from a central point of self control able to make decisions by considering those facets important to you. You find
satisfaction and contentment through being and acting
authentic. Even, especially, in times of chaos, you know
where you stand because you are in control of your self."

 ---Jane Miller

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".....allow everyone to hold firmly to that which he believes and that which makes him happy and content. If everyone would adhere to this principle and make it his own, there would be neither hatred nor religious discord.  There would be no reason for differences of opinion and all philosophies or all religions could co-exist happily."

                                         --Franz Bardon

 

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"What if you slept,
And what if, in your sleep you Dreamed?
And what if, in your Dream,
you went to heaven and there you plucked
a strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke,
you had the flower in your hand?

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

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"We once told you that the event, popularly known as ARMAGEDDON, was already being fought, on the Planes of the Imagination--at the Gateway which leads to the Multiverse.  Each of you, by your own hand, has either risen or fallen upon that field. It is already done. It is complete. What is seen here now is simply a revelation of choices which you have made."

                                                          -The Reconnections

 

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       "Your life and my life
                flow into each other as wave flows into wave,
               and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you
               there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.
               To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--
               is to see that unless we live for each other
               and in and through each other,
               we do not really live very satisfactorily;
               that there can really be life only where there really is,
               in just this sense, love."

                ~Frederick Buechner~

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       "Come to the edge."
       "We can't. We are afraid."
        "Come to the edge."
       "We can't. We will fall!"

         "COME TO THE EDGE."

          And they came.
         And he pushed them.

           And they flew. 

          --Fuillaume Apollinaire, author

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"You can't get it wrong, 

and you never get it done". 

---The "Abraham" Teachings

 

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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are we not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others."

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Nelson Mandela.  Inaugural Address, 1994. (attributed to Marianne Williamson)

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"Self is everywhere, shining forth from all beings,
vaster than the vast, subtler than the most subtle,
unreachable, yet nearer than breath, than heartbeat.

Eye cannot see it, ear cannot hear nor tongue utter it;
only in deep absorption can the mind, grown pure and silent, merge with the formless truth.

He who finds it is free; he has found himself;
he has solved the great riddle; his heart is forever at peace.

Whole, he enters the Whole.

Perceiving the truth, he becomes the truth;
he passes beyond all suffering, beyond death;
all the knots of his heart are loosed."


-- from the Mundaka Upanishads,

written more than
2,500 years ago

 

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The gift and the giver are one.
The giver and the receiver are one.
The question and the answer are one.
The cause and the effect are one.
The supply and the demand are one.
The desire and that which is desired are one.
The seeker and the that which is sought are one.
The aspiration and that which is aspired to are one.
The lover and the beloved are one.
The tormentor and the tormented are one.
Spirit, soul, body, higher self, lower self, and merkaba are one.
The earth and all the biology upon it are one.
There is only One, and we are one with the One.
We are but seeming parts of the indivisible whole expressing, and
All that we give we give to ourself,
the One.

---Ann Richter

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"To Err is human, to forgive canine."

~unknown

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"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then I want to go where they went.

~Will Rogers

 

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                From Notes by W. B. Yeats on his writings: 

 

"At first, we are subject to Destiny.  But the point in the Zodiac where the whirl becomes a sphere once reached, we may escape from the constraint of our nature and from the nature of external things.  Entering upon a state where all fuel has become flame, where there is nothing but the state itself, nothing to constrain it or end it.  We attain it always in the creation or enjoyment of a work of art, but that moment......though eternal in the  Daimon....passes from us because it is not an attainment of our whole being........"

 

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Ego Manipulation

"The thing that comes to mind is that we are dealing with energies that will not be manipulated from the ego point of power. When we try to do that we restrict and alienate our own selves from the true meaningful and powerful energies we want to be riding.  As Shamans, manipulation of this power is an important issue for us to deal with, and get over with............."

Antonio Kos

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All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher, 1788-1860

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"An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence.  It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future.  It is hypnotized by itself, and therefore cannot be argued with.  It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.  Paradoxically enough, inflation is regression of consciousness into unconsciousness.  This always happens when consciousness takes too many unconscious contents upon itself and loses the faculty of discrimination, the sine qua non of all consciousness. When fate, for four whole years, played out a war of monumental frightfulness on the stage of Europe--a war that nobody wanted, nobody dreamed of asking exactly who or what had caused the war and its continuation.  Nobody realized that European man was possessed by something that robbed him of all free will. And this state of unconscious possession will continue, undeterred, until we Europeans become scared of our "god-almightyness."  Such a change can begin only with individuals....It seems to me of some importance, therefore, that a few individuals, or people individually, should begin to understand that there are contents which do not belong to the ego-personality, but must be ascribed to a psychic non-ego.  This mental operation has to be undertaken if we want to avoid a threatening inflation.  To help us, we have the useful and edifying models held up to us by poets and philosophers--models or archetypes that we may call remedies for both the men and the times.  Of course, what we discover there is nothing that can be held up to the masses--only some hidden thing that we can hold up to ourselves in solitude and in silence.  But it is so much easier to preach the universal panacea to everybody else than to take it oneself, and as we all know, things are never so bad when everybody is in the same boat.  No doubts can exist in the herd; the bigger the crowd the better the truth--and the greater the catastrophe."

Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy. 

 

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I have become what before Time I was.
A secret touch has quieted thought and sense:  All things by the agent Mind created pass Into a void and mute magnificence.

My life is a silence grasped by timeless hands;
The world is drowned in an immortal gaze.
Naked my spirit from its vestures stands;
I am alone with my own self for space.

My heart is a center of infinity,
My body a dot in the soul's vast expanse.
All being's huge abyss wakes under me,
Once screened in a gigantic Ignorance.

A momentless immensity pure and bare,
I stretch to an eternal everywhere.

-- Sri Aurobindo --

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