January 2012
“Truth undermines the self to which we so desperately cling. The truth is not...”
– Kabbalah
“Where the Mystery is present, joy is infinite; where the Mystery has departed,...”
– Ge Hong (284 - 364)
“The best are like water. Water is good; it benefits all things and does not...”
– Lao Tzu
“Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course...”
– Kalidasa, Indian dramatist (Circa 450)
“A river is only the surrendered heart of a million tiny beads of rain. A river...”
– Abdur Rahm, excerpt from “The Ocean Rests Not …”
The Enlightened Heart
“Center of all centers, core of cores
almond self enclosed and growing sweet
all this universe, to the farthest stars
and beyond them is your flesh, your fruit
Now you feel how nothing clings to you
Your vast shell reaches into endless space
and there the thick rich fluids, rise and flow
Illuminated in your infinite peace …”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
“Nil desperandum (never despair).”
– Horace
The more present you become, the closer to the Self you arrive.
“It is never a question of belief; the only scientific attitude one can take on...”
– Sri Yukteswar
“It`s always difficult. To feel, rather than to think, to tap into that source...”
– Ben Foster
“The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying...”
– Edgar Cayce
“If you remain in the present moment, you will never get hurt. Forget about your...”
– Hindu teaching
Be sure to dismount your high horse frequently
“Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a...”
– Jean Anouilh
“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
This is the year to do that thing you’ve been putting off
“I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire,...”
– Shunryu Suzuki
“The present moment is a powerful goddess.”
– Johann Goethe
“Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?”
– Havelock Ellis
“And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
“…according to the Gnostic Gospels, you may call something sin but really, in the...”
– Marvin Meyer, Secrets of Mary Magdalene
“The ancient intuition that all matter, all “reality,” is energy,...”
– Peter Matthiessen
“When the complete density of a particular dimension is filled (with experiential...”
– Alcyone Vobis
“Since I cannot see a person’s face, I must judge his sincerity by his...”
– a blind man’s eulogy to Zen Master Bankei (1622-1693)
“Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something...”
– Samuel Johnson
1 tag
California
=
Kali (hindu god of Death, destruction, and change) + Fornicate (sex)
Kali Fornicate = Sex with Death and Destruction = KaliFornia
“Even if you have not awakened,
if you realize that your perceptions and...”
– Zen Master Muso Kokushi ( 1275-1351)
“When one realises
one is asleep,
at that moment
one is already half-awake.”
– P. D. Ouspensky