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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."
"His laugh escaped like champagne from a suddenly uncorked bottle, and he enjoyed its taste!"
~Spoken by a man as he laid his best friend's body to rest
"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:
"The butterfly is a flying flower....The flower a tethered butterfly."
~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
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"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
"I am a lonely painter.
I live in a box of paints.
I'm frightened by the Devil
And I am drawn to those who a'int...I remember when you told me:
You're in my blood like holy wine
"Love is touching souls....."
Surely, you've touched mine.
Part of you pours out of me,
In these lines, from time to time."
It tastes so bitter
and it tastes so sweet.
I could drink a case of you,
and still be on my feet."~Joni Mitchell
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My Song
by Rabindranath Tagore
"This song of mine will wind its music around you,
my child, like the fond arms of love.
This song of mine will touch your
forehead like a kiss of blessing.
When you are alone it will sit by your side
and whisper in your ear...
When you are in the crowd,
it will fence you about with aloofness.My song will be like a pair of wings
My song will sit in the pupils of your eyes,
to your dreams, it will transport your heart
to the verge of the unknown.
It will be like the faithful star overhead
when dark night is over your road.
and will carry your sight into the heart of things.
And when my voice is silenced in death,
my song will speak in your living heart."
"I stare now at a beautiful presence that sleeps. You take my breath away. Dream my love, ponder all that is, and was, and could be. Let me carry you into a world of complete awareness. You will never be alone, nor forgotten. Here you will be loved, protected and at peace for all eternity. Let me be your secret...
Fall in love with me." ~Angel Feathers Tickle Me
"What I give form to in daylight is only one percent of what I have seen in darkness."
~M.C. Escher
"When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest."
- Antonio Porchia
"If the past is angry, then I must be tolerant and loving .If the past
is lost in a dark place, I will light a torch to illuminate the way. If
the past is in need, then I will have compassion and respect for it. If
the past is lonely, I will be its loving friend."
~Anonymous
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
~Marcus Aurelius
THIS world is not conclusion;
A sequel stands beyond,
Invisible, as music,
But positive, as sound.
It beckons and it baffles;
Philosophies don't know,
And through a riddle, at the last,
Sagacity must go.
To guess it puzzles scholars;
To gain it, men have shown
Contempt of generations,
And crucifixion known.~Emily Dickinson
"According to Buddhism, your unhappiness is never really caused by circumstances. The real cause of unhappiness is your belief that your happiness is caused by circumstances.
You do not have to accomplish or acquire or earn anything to experience peace, love, and joy now. You do not have to "make" your own happiness all you have to do is to stop making yourself unhappy and to remember your own deepest truth as a being of Spirit.
Does this mean that we simply give up all of our desires and dreams? No, because it's not the goals and dreams that are the problem, but rather how we understand and live toward them. Going for your dreams can be an intrinsic part of the joy and passion of your life and can be how you concretely express the love and joy that are your truth. But as soon as you (choose to) believe that your happiness is dependent on a certain outcome, or that "things" have to change for you to be happy, then you are living in fear. You are no longer expressing your joy, but are desperately trying to achieve or earn it."
~ William R. Yoder Ph.D., D.C. ~
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
~Anais Nin
"If you should take the human heart and listen to, it would be listening to a seashell. You would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns to return."
~Edwin Chapin
"Walt Whitman once wrote that we should learn how to LET GO in life---as he put it: "To stand apart from pulling and hauling....amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary......both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it all." Instead of being amused, I'm only anxious. Instead of watching, I'm always probing and interfering. The other day, in prayer to God, I said: "Look.....I understand that the unexamined life is not worth living. But do you think I could some day have an unexamined lunch?"
~Elizabeth Gilbert, in "Eat, Pray, Love."
"Do I live here or there?" This very day, I've learned there is no difference. I am a dancer in flight. I'm every-where and no-where and some-where and ...... I'm every-one and no-one and some-one, and no, I don't do drugs...but I'm a child of the sixties...so I'm sounding like one at this moment, and there's flowers in my hair and all that.....and why in the world would I make such a thing public except that when I am HERE, it's all I ever need. Just to be."
~Nina Florenz
"Imagination...is like the soul's eye; therein forms are outlined and preserved; thereby we behold the reflections of the invisible world; it is the glass of visions and the apparatus of magical life."
~Eliphas Levi Zahed, Dogma et Ritual de la Haute Magie, 1855.
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"Imagination is the star in man, the celestial or supercelestial body."~Martin Ruland, Lexicon Alchemiae, 1612.
"So, I feel like I am sitting in the middle of the storm, while the world is holding its breath. That, or I have already slipped quietly into the long night of absolute madness....."
~Anonymous.
"To recognize the sacred is not so much to see new things, as it is to see things in a new way. The sacred is not separate or different from all things, but rather hidden within all things…"
~Seva
"We put ourselves in boxes that seem impenetrable....but they are only put there by our own doing...boxes can be opened and new things/places/people discovered. Life is really more than what we see and hear with our eyes and ears....life is lived through our hearts."
-- Thea Graham
"“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...”
~Jack Kerouac
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
~Wayne Dyer
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
~André Gide
My Pledge to My Self
I will progress each day by dealing with the life that I have created
in a calm considerate and loving manner,
ever conscious that each moment of thought, decision, word and action
will create my coming moments, days and years.~Jay Ross
HOLY FIRE
"It is pointed out by science in the form of the various energies of the world, from nuclear fusion in the stars, to life, to soul. In all these ways, the universe is ablaze! Fire is the archetypal energy. It represents the ultimate, of which all other energies are special manifestations. Everything is illumined and animated from within by Divine Fire. God is in the world as `a universal transparency aglow with fire.'"
~Teilhard de Chardin
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling 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
You cannot feel others pushing you. You can only feel yourself pushing back.
~Anonymous
"I became insane..... with long intervals of horrible sanity."
~Edgar Allan Poe
"Without a dream, honesty, mercy,
indignation and courage must remain impotent."
~Taylor Caldwell
"One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light."
-- Joseph Campbell
"The soul doesn't care at all what price we have to pay to follow our calls. Our happiness and security and status simply don't matter to it, although our courage, faith, and aliveness do. "
-- Gregg Levoy
"Truth can be found anywhere. We are part of the universe, as a Whole. But each of our viewpoints is that of a distinct, dynamic space-time coordinate. Imagination is the memory of that connection."
~Redshift
"She danced the dance of Flames and Fire, She danced the dance of swords and spears, She danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind."
~from The Wanderer by Khalil Gibran
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."
-- Charles M. Schulz
The Watcher Self
"I am satisfied . . . . I see, dance, laugh, sing;
Trippers and askers surround me,
People I meet . . . . .
My dinner, dress, associates, looks, business, compliments, dues,
The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
The sickness of one of my folks -- or of myself . . . . or
ill-doing . . . . or loss or lack of money . . . . or depressions or exaltations,
They come to me days and nights and go from me again,
But they are not the Me myself.
Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,
Looks down, is erect, bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
Looks with its side-curved head curious what will come next,
Both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it."
~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"Only those who are willing to risk going too far will be able to find out how far one can go."
~T. S. Elliott
"This is not the time to stay at home,
"For as long as I can remember, people have liked to talk to me. You.......kind of how somebody says something to you...........it doesn't have to mean so much. It's just that it opens a door for you, and you can see into a room that you couldn't see into before. It doesn't really matter how you got there. The important part is...you're seeing something new and different."
~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!"
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
"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.
"The imagination is not a state: it is human existence itself."
~William Blake
"I searched for God and found only myself.
I searched for myself and found only God."
~Sufi Proverb
"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 is no anti-depressant that
will cure a depression that's spiritually based, for the malaise
doesn't originate from brain dysfunction, but from an accurate
response to the desecration of life."
~David R. Hawkins, Power Vs. Force
"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 ............
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
I died from minerality and became vegetable; And from vegetativeness I died and became animal. I died from animality and became man. Then why fear disappearance through death? Next time I shall die, bringing forth wings and feathers like angels; After that, soaring higher than angels - What you cannot imagine, I shall be that.
~Jalal Al-Din Rumi
"For those who know, no explanation is necessary. . . for those who do not, no explanation will suffice."
~Anonymous.
"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
"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
"There is a difference between Tough and Strong. "Tough" means you have armor on, and cannot feel. "Strong" means that you're available to be touched, and are willing to deal with the manifold sensations that go along with letting others come into close proximity with your tender parts."
~The Reconnections
I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
~Helen Keller
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.”
"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
"Come, come, whoever you are-
Wanderer, idolater, worshipper of fire,
Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times,
Come, and come yet again-
Ours is not a caravan of despair"
- Jalaluddin Rumi.
"Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a 'dream,' is going crazy."
~R.D. Laing
"A civilization that lives unpartnered with the Earth can reproduce the human species but cannot make a real human being. A language that lives unpartnered with the silence can give voice to an ego, but cannot give voice to a human soul, cannot call a human soul forward....so an ego will start taking form like a tumor to fill the place where a human soul would rather be."
~Michael Bridge
~William S. Burroughs
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
"A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her."
~Helen Rowland
"The best thing for being sad........." replied Merlyn........."is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins....you may see the world around you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewer of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn! Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you.........."
~T.H. White: "The Once and Future King"
I want to beg you to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves."
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
“The intuitive mind is a sacred giftThe rational mind is a faithful servant.We have created a society that honours the servantBut has forgotten the gift.”~ Albert Einstein ~
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."
--Horace Walpole (English Novelist)
'Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm.'
~ Idries Shah
(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)
“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
"Many people are beginning to report going into a void place that I perceive is a bridge between this world and the next. When there, you may feel disconnected from most of life as it is now. You might lose your motivation, inspiration, passion, your Mo-Jo and feel fuzzed out. At first glance, we might think this is a negative. As many people are going through this at the same time, we begin to realize the awesome truth; we are heading through that prophesied doorway into a new world. It's happening. We are not just practicing non-permanence. We are actually living it by letting go of our worldly attachments. The more we let go of our attachments, the easier it will be to enter that New World.
The Star Elders say that what we're about to do has never been done before. We have had dress rehearsals in ages past, but this is the time that we will actually shift into a New Age in a physical body and become spiritually aware. The Star Elders say this is why the Earth is so crowded with so many souls at this time. Not only is this the most amazing time that Earth has ever experienced, but it is also an unparalleled evolutionary jump for the soul, for those that choose to shift with the planet. Nearing the time of the final shift, the Star Elders will be with us once again. They tell me that they are not going to let us have all the fun!"~Aluna Joy
"I am happy even before I have a reason.
I am full of Light even before the sky
Can greet the sun or the moon.
Dear companion.....
We have been in love with the Divine
For so very, very long.
What can we now do but Forever Dance!
--- Hafiz
"How should we act in order not to trouble others? Is that what you want to know? I am afraid then we should not be acting at all. If you live completely, your actions may cause trouble; but what is more important: finding out what is true, or not disturbing others? This seems so simple that it hardly needs to be answered. Why do you want to respect other people's feelings and points of view? Are you afraid of having your own feelings hurt, your point of view being changed? If people have opinions that differ from yours, you can find out if they are true only by questioning them, by coming into active contact with them. And if you find that those opinions and feelings are not true, your discovery may cause disturbance to those who cherish them. Then what should you do? Should you comply with them, or compromise with them in order not to hurt your friends?” ………J. Krishnamurti
"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
"The process of running wild is only a PHASE of liberation.
Re-Creation always consolidates one's Being
into new levels of idealism and sincerity."
~Anais Nin
"The Master sees things as they are,
Without trying to control them.
He lets them go their own way,
And resides at the center of the circle.
He or She understands that the Universe
is forever out of control,
And that trying to dominate events
Goes against the current of the Tao.
Be content with what you have;
Rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
The whole world belongs to you.”
~ Tao Te Ching.
"Cancer is a language.
It is spoken. It can be unspoken."
(Overheard in a dream)
~Michael Bridge
"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
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
Religion is for those who are afraid of Hell.
Spirituality is for those who have been there.
~Anonymous
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"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
"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
"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"
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
Just as you have learned to "muscle test" yourself to identify food allergies, or for personal direction in health care--so it may also be advisable to pay general attention to what activities, people, situations, and environments tend to strengthen your body energy, and what seems to drain you of life force. Choose more of the former, less of the latter.
~The Reconnections
Time you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted time!
~Anonymous
"You never enjoy the world alright, until the Sea
itself flows in your
veins, until you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars:
and perceive yourself as the sole heir of the whole world, and more than
that, because people are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you.
Until you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and
Kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world..."
- Thomas Traherne
(1637-74), England.
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to find all the barriers that you have built against it.
~ Rumi.
"To smash the simple atom,
all mankind was intent.
Now any day
the atom may
return the compliment!"
-Ogden Nash
As the individual becomes more collective, the
| Come, my friends, 'T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses" |
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
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"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have,
and take the step into the darkness of the unknown,
we must believe that one of two things will happen;
there will be something solid for us to stand on.....
or we will be taught to fly."
Patrick Overton
"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."
"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
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
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
"That which you will soon realize as YOURSELF, is made up of all images, feelings, and potentialities which have been, which are occurring now, and which are still yet to come.........all linked together within one morphogenetic field of energy--once experienced only as individual frames in a film, passing through a projector. What you call your Venus Transit Energy will watch carefully, as the "frames" are removed from the film, gently blending and harmonizing all into one contiguous flow."
--The Reconnections
"Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover the futility of words. I have got my marching orders and only look back when there's nothing else to do. this journey is a great adventure in itself, but not one that can be talked about at great length. What you think of as a few days of spiritual communion would be unendurable for me with anyone, even with my closest friends. The rest is silence!"
--CG Jung, 30 May 1957
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
"Shadow wants to be heard, simply that. But if it isn't, it turns nasty. It becomes a veritable demon, witch, or son-of-a-bitch, demanding its pound of flesh....in very painful real time, not dreamtime.
Pay attention to your shadow. If you keep distancing yourself, saying "Heavens, it's not my fault!"---then heaven help you. Hell won't."
~Katya Walter
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.
"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.
Shawn