December 2011
74 posts
It’s very helpful to think of the world outside of you as a mirror. Whatever you see beyond you in some way reflects what is inside of you. The most powerful and effective way to improve the world around you, is to improve yourself. The best way to bring real value into your life, is to create real value for others.
What you admire and appreciate and support in others, grows stronger ...
“For how can we save what is visible if not by using the language of absence, of...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
I find myself wondering how many other memories are hidden from me in the recesses of my own brain; indeed my own brain will seem to be the last great terra incognita, and I will be filled with wonder at the prospect of some day discovering new worlds there. Imagine the lost continent of Atlantis and all the submerged islands of childhood right there waiting to be found. The inner space we...
January 1, 2012, is simply another day in the long string of days that have passed during the multiple millenia of our history. Of course, this is true, but is there more to the story? I suspect there is more.
As a civilization, we, along with our planetary brothers and sisters, are learning new things about ourselves. We are discovering we have voices and hearts and minds that must be...
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here. I don’t have...
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. Richard P. Feynman
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with...
Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance and that are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner. The concept of synchronicity was first described in this terminology by Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist, in the 1920s.[1] The idea of synchronicity is that the conceptual relationship of minds,...
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic — the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone. Charles de Lint
“Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape...”
– Deepak Chopra
“Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to...”
– Eckhart Tolle
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. Eckhart Tolle
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Jung
“I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”
– Noam Chomsky
“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your...”
– Terence Mckenna
Modigs - Delta
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
– William Jame
“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap....”
– Alan Watts
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his...
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. Soren Kierkegaard
“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
– Immanuel Kant
Metafloor - Fill Dem
There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. Dalai Lama
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane....”
– Chuck Palahniuk
I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible. Jew, Gentile - black man - white.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there’s room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for...
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time. Carl Sagan
“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
– James Thurber
“The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon...”
– Harry Browne
Visualize this thing that you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build. Robert Collier
“You are unique in all of creation and were created to give something special to...”
– Mashubi Rochell
Metric - Collect Call (Adventure Club Remix)
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live...”
– Swami Vivekananda
Isn’t it about time that we understood our divinity? Science offers us total mastery over our environment and over our destiny, yet instead of rejoicing we feel deeply afraid. Why should this be? How might these fears be resolved? Edmund Leach
“One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn...”
– Malcolm X
In the enlightened state, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way than before. Eckhart Tolle
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of...”
– Albert Einstein
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Dogen
“Life is really, really good. I am a complex enough being that I can hold in my...”
– Derrick Jensen
Xilent - Choose Me II
Doublethink and the Mental Construction of Reality
The concept of truth-seeking has long been a cornerstone of individualism. But in order to be effective as individuals, we have to make sure that our perception of reality actually contains a significant amount of what we call “truth.” So how can we ever be certain that we possess the actual truth? Is human objectivity even possible in reality?
To determine that, we must look at how...
Kicks N Licks - Monsters
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become....