Member Since: 12/17/2003
Band Website: shogeist.com
Band Members: Just me son...
Influences: Good musicians who I've gotten ideas from. Especially the "old school" (and i do mean old school! '97-'98 and the like bitches!) drum and bass artists from the UK.
"True school" (and I do mean "REAL", ie NOT fake-ass-unenlightened-gangster-wannabe bullshit) hip-hop cats as well...
I can't forget certain "breakcore" style and/or glitch/cut-up technicians...and
Naw, j/k god....but it fucking rocksssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some other influences:
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. - Marilyn Monroe
"I gave a talk once at NASA on evolutionary biology," he recalls. "The last slide of my talk was a picture of the universe: super clusters of galaxies. Next to it was a one of capillary cells in a dish, formed into networks. The two pictures looked identical." - Donald Ingber - Harvard medical school
Enlightenment is the cure for the spiritual disease. - Adyashanti
Slipping into Sanity:
I have given all that I am
as have you.
Whether wearied or exalted
let's all fall on the floor laughing.
What a colossal blunder
we have all fallen prey to,
slipping into sanity like this.
Our minds are surely gone
when we see everything as God.
Prepare yourself Mother Earth. The inmates are loose.
The fools have
broken free of their chains. - Adya
And if there's only one, then there's only one isn't there? And if there's only one, well this sounds simple, but there's certainly not two, right? - Adya
Nirvana and Samsara are the same, but only identically the same. - Zen saying
May all beings realize the nature of the ground upon which they stand, and who it is that stands upon it. - Adya
If might makes right, then love has no place in this world. - The Mission
To be enlightened is to be intimate with all of life. - Dogen Zenji
Only the phonies don't get enlightened. - Adya's teacher
The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare. - Adya
Out beyond wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other'
Doesn't make any sense. - Rumi
Sexcuse me!! Buta whata goot is all zee violence in thee world...unless it is tempered wit limitless sexXx!!!??? - Sexecutioner
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in itself is not dysfunctional. It is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are. It then becomes the egoic mind and takes over your whole life. - Eckhart Tolle
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly—you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. - Eckhart Tolle
Five Truths About Truth:
Truth is the nothing which is everything.
Truth is self-luminous, aware, and conscious.
Being the nature of everything, there is nothing outside of the truth.
Truth doesn't explain anything, truth IS everything.
The only thing that realizes the truth is the truth itself. - Adya
Pain X Resistance = Suffering - The Equation of Resistance to Internal States
The outward expansion and eventual contraction of the Universe is like the breathing in and out of god. - Conversations with God
If you got 30 cents in yo pocket, and 36 prostitutes, what you got playah? PROOF THAT HOES COME A DIME-A-DOZEN BABY!!!!! - Count Mackula
Silence is golden, stillness is diamond, presence is platinum - Cheezy-ass saying I thought of
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. - Meister Eckhart
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. - Meister Eckhart
It's like orderin' take out...YOU KNOW YOU GON GET IT!!! - Freddie FoxXx AKA Bumpy Knuckles
I'm a menace to the public like...TOO MANY BEES!!! - Bumpy Knucks
So I stand out, like a whyte cop in Haaalem - Freddie FoxXx
I'm bound to be a black man in my existence so FUCK THE KLAN!!!! - Bumpy Canuckz
Got a lil' mob a nigguhz I send tah robb niggahz...take all dat fly juuulreh an' give it tuh my momz - Yawwwll know who it izzzzzz
Bumpy Knuckles I, tangle yo hart wit one look, fryin' niggaz like Yan Can Cook, yah awl shook!!!
I'm like tha cigarette befo' cansah "haaard to fauxget!!!" - Freddie FoxXx
My heart bleedz raw hip-hop, I got no gauze. - Bumpy Knucks
You must unlearn what you have learned. - Dat nigga Yoda
Search yo feelingz you KNOW it to be true!!! - Dat nigga Vadah
In the mind of the beginner there are many possibilities, and in the mind of the expert's there are few. - Shunryu Suzuki
The most important thing is to find out [for you] what's the most important thing. - Shunryu Suzuki
The secret of Zen can be summed up in 3 words: Not always so. - Shunryu Suzuki
Only don't know. - Seung Sahn
So certain are you. Always with you it cannot be done. Hear you
nothing that I say? - Dat Nigga Yoda
No! No different. Only different in your mind. - Yoda
Every impossible, no matter how impossible, becomes IMMEDIATELY possible when you are completely released on it. And you know you're completely released on it when you just don't give a damn. - Lester Levenson
True spiritual teachers are meant to destroy themselves in the end. - Adya
If you meet the Buddha on the road, KILL HIM!!! - Zen saying
Sexcellent!! Nothing sexceeds like sexcess!!! - Sexy
Ahfturah me: I...AM...FROM...FRANCE......AND WHEN YOU ARE IN FRANCE...YOU PULL DOWN...YOR PANTZ!!! - Sexy
Red Rover!!! Bend over!!! And let Sexy take OVERRRRR!!!! - Sexy
GENIUS!!!!!!! - Sexy
Maaagggnificence!!! - Sexy
Allan Hunt Badiner gives an outstanding account of taking Ayahuasca and the remarkable experiences he had under its influence. I heartily recommend those interested in the possibilities offered by Ayahuasca when properly administered, read his chapter in full. The supreme highlight was that profoundly confronting death, in a manner and with a scope and intensity far beyond most person's most active imagination, resulted in dramatically diminishing his fear of death.
His shaman who conducted the experience commented "You had a good journey . . .Why?" Badiner replied, "that which does not kill you makes you stronger . . . 'No' the shaman replied with the most lively grin I had seen on his face thus far, 'that which kills you makes you stronger!" (p. 142) - Zig Zag Zen
Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it? - Adyashanti
If you try to win the war with your mind, then you'll be at war forever. - Adya's teacher
It takes one to know one. - Childhood saying about hypocrisy
Jesus said,
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. - Verse 70, The Gospel According to Thomas
Forgive them, for they know not what they do. - Jesus
Do you really think you can know god through beliefs? Do you really think it's that small? - Me
Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with his[or her] eyes?- Adya
God dwells in the depth of your being, not as some entity, but as the formless one-life itself. - Eckhart Tolle
We hold beliefs about things that we don't know about from direct experience. Why? Because we are unwilling to stay in "not knowing". - Arjuna Ardagh
The ultimate purpose of the world lies not within the world, but in transcendence of it. - Eckhart Tolle
Your life is like a flash of lightning across the sky. - The Buddha
Watching the birth and death of beings is like watching the movements of a dancer in a dance. - The Buddha
Twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall. That is the way of things. - Yoda
I require the strength of the absolute in order to let humanness rest in my lap. I feel so honored to be living both at the same time, and they're not two, just one radical embodiment of human and divine. The full spectrum of wonder and ouch, which is really living. - Pamela Wilson
It appears in life that our thoughts either put us into action or prevent us from acting, but actually neither is true. Actions happen and thoughts happen about them after it, and because of that, sometimes we'll act on thoughts, and sometimes we won't, but it's really not in our conscious control. Sometimes we'll think a thought and we'll act on it, sometimes we'll think a thought and we won't act on it, and sometimes we won't think at all and we'll act, which is actually most of the time! - Hale Dwoskin
There's nothing "I" can do. - Adya
We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us. – Joko Beck
You must die before you die. – The Way of the Samurai
On a withered tree a flower blooms. – Zen saying
Some people gotta die just to be free. - Melle Mel
Awakening is not for the faint of heart dear. - Adya
When you argue with reality you lose, but only 100% of the time. - Byron Katie
As far as reality is concerned, you have no choice in the matter. Have you realized?
You want to know the last 4 words I thought before awakening? "I can't do this." - Adya
Egos don't get enlightened. Only awakeness becomes awake. - Adya
Only ego has a problem with ego. - Gangaji
Sometimes the student bows to the master, and sometimes the master bows to the student. If a master cannot bow to their student then they are not a true master. - Shunryu Suzuki
The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place. - Zen saying
Do not seek the Truth; rather, cease to cherish opinion (illusions). - The Fifth Patriarch of Zen
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A fool who persists in his folly becomes wise. - William Blake
If we are speaking of real transformation, real freedom, the only thing that liberates is the truth. Truth is where it's at and truth is very different from understanding. - Adyashanti
The truth feels good, but you have to want the truth more than you want to feel good. - Adya
The mere fact that awareness can be self-aware is amazing. Nothing else can do that. Only awareness is aware of itself. Only awareness IS aware. Nothing else is aware but awareness. And without awareness, nothing else is. - Adya
So to recognize your nature as this awareness is actually the simplest thing. Which means it may or may not be easy. It just means simple, depends how simple you are. How willing to be simple. To be egoically speaking self "less". To let go of the tendency of the egoic self to do what it does. Everybody knows what their egoic self does. - Adya
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. - Dat Nigga Yoda
Luke: I won't fail you. I'm not afraid.
Yoda: Ohhh, you will be...you will be. - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Luke: What's in there?
Yoda: Only what you take with you. - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Luke: I can't believe it.
Yoda: That is why you fail. - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
I'm the police, and I'm in charge...you don't like it get the fuck out of dodge. - Public Enemy: Apocalypse '91, The Enemy Strikes Black (hehehe)
Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great. - Yoda
The dark side clouds everything. - Yoda
Impossible to see the future is. - Yoda
Foreplay, heh, cuddling, heh, a Jedi craves not these things. - Dat Piyimp Yodiggity Dizzle
I'd paint 3 a thos' muralz fo' summa DAT azz!!!!! - Chico
I'd trade 3 a thos' mules fo' summa DAT ass!!!!! - Me
There's only 1 thing better than "I'm bad" or "I'm good", and that's "I am". - Adya
The biggest thing that you're ever going to accept is the totality of "you". - Adya
There's only 1 true inevitability: you can't avoid your true nature forever. It's not possible. You know enlightenment, it's a sealed deal. Everyone's so worried about it. It's inevitable. You can't avoid yourself indefinitely. You can do it for a damn long time, but you can't do it indefinitely. - Adya
My rhymez is sickuh than gangreenz in bouf feetz...it spredded up the legg, an' headed fo' tha head!!! - Bumpy Knucks
There's a whole lotta questionez that really need answerin', like...WHO THE FUCK TOLD YOU THAT YO RHYME STYLE WAS HOTTT!!!!!????? - Freddie Fizzle
My Bitch bettah have my money...through RAINNN, SLEEEEET, OR SNOW....My Ho bettah have AWLLLL my money, not SOME, not ½, but AWWWLLLLL my cash. Cause if she don't....IMA PUT MY FOOT DEAD IN HUH AZZZZ!!!!!!!!!! - Fly Guy
He's a SHAKESPEARE!!!!! - Audience member during Fly Guy's recitation
Time fo' me tah czech my "fly"papuh. See what'z stickin'!!! - Fly Guy
You'll be walkin' down tha screet wit 3 shoez!!! 2 on yo feet and 1 IN YO AZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - (from Don't be a Menace !@%$%&$%$%&$%^$%&*..........)
If you organize your life around one of the higher values, all the rest will come to you, because all the higher values commune with each other. - Plato
The eternal feminine draws us onward. - Goethe
You think you need to understand a person to know whether or not they deserve your love, but the truth is, unless you love them you can’t understand them. – A Course in Miracles
We have all driven our own conceptual airplane right through the heart of another human being. Is it really that different? - Adya
The only thing you can know for sure is that you don’t know for sure.
If "knowing is half the battle", then not-knowing is ending the battle.
See, ultimately it's not about knowing. That's just the mind saying: "I've got it down because I've heard the language, and so I've fit it into a little compartment labeled 'I understand', and filed it away somewhere in the back of my head for future use if I ever need to defend an egoic viewpoint." But this is not about understanding. It's about experiencing, then knowing that you don't know. And if you weren't so caught, then you could drop the resistance, and notice the truth that's right there in front of your face. Knowing can't set you free.
Because the ego sets the standards for the debate, the ego always wins the debate. - Michael Langford
There is no sin but a mistake, and no punishment but the logical outcome. - Ernest Holmes
Failure is the means to success. - Lao Tzu
Resistance is futile. - Borg [Star Trek]
Resist to your own peril. - Adya
The ego says, "As long as I'm resisting, then I feel like I'm existing." - Adya
No matter how much you think yourself into delusion, you can't think yourself out of reality. - Adya
Only emptiness gets through the gateless gate. - Zen saying
You always get a second chance at acceptance. If you cannot accept, then accept that you cannot accept.
Not "seize the day", "release the day". Then see what happens.
Consciousness creates this world and loses itself in its creation. Then it's time to awaken. The time is Now. - Eckhart Tolle
In Truth, it's all happening right now. There's no way to prove that the last minute took place. There's only the now. If you want to create time, just start thinking, and you'll create the literal physical experience of time. Eternity doesn't mean a really long time; it's timeless. Timeless means no time. There's only this instant. - Adya
Actually, all paths lead away from the truth. How's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth's already here. Where are you going...you see? - Adya
A newspaper burns in the sand, and the headlines say ‘Man destroys Man!’
Extra! Extra! Read all the bad news on the war for peace that everybody would lose
The rise and fall, the last great empire, the sound of the whole world caught on fire
The ruthless struggle, the desperate gamble
The game that left the whole world in shambles
The cheats, the lies, the alibis
And the foolish attempt to conquer the skies
Lost in space, and what is it worth, huh?
The president just forgot about Earth
Spending multi billions, and maybe even trillions
The cost of weapons ran into zillions
There’s gold in the street, and diamonds under feet
And the children in Africa don’t even eat
Flies on their faces, they’re living like mice
And the houses even make the ghetto look nice, Huh!
The water tastes funny, it’s forever too sunny
And they work all month and don’t make no money
A fight for power, a nuclear shower
And people shout out in the darkest hour
Of sights unseen and voices unheard
And finally the bomb gets the last word
Christians killed Muslims, and Germans killed Jews
And everybody’s bodies are used and abused, Huh!
Minds are poisoned and souls are polluted
Superiority complex is deep rooted
Leeches and lice’s, and people got prices
Egomaniacs control the self-righteous
Nothing is sacred and nothing is pure
So the revelation of death is our cure
Hitler and Caesar, Custer and Reagan
Napoleon, Castro, Mussolini and Begin
Ghengis Khan and the Shah of Iran
Mixed with the blood of the weaker man
The peoples in terror, the leaders made the error
And now they can’t even look in the mirror
‘Cause we gotta suffer while things get rougher
And that’s the reason why we got to get tougher
To learn from the past and work for the future
And don’t be a slave to no computer
‘Cause the Children of Man inherits the land
And the future of the world is in your hands
So just throw your hands in the air
And wave ‘em like you just don’t care
And if you believe that you’re the future
Scream it out and say ‘Oh yeah!’ Raah!!! - Melle Mel
RRRRAH!!!!!! - Melle Mel
Assemble your crew...I'll be outside. - Prince (as played by Dave Chappelle)
Uhhh!!! Yeahhhh, now whut muthafucka??? Got my piyimp cane Bitch!!!! - The Bearded Man
I'm tha Jugganaut Bitch!!! Ima hit you wit yo own piyimp!!! Cause I'm bahhhddd. I'm tha baddest muthafucka on the world!!!......Have you eva SEEEEENNNN a costume like mine???? - Jugganaut
Calm yo beard!! I doun wanna hear dat shit!!!!! - Jugganaut
You worship the intellect as you worship a god, but the mind can't save you from itself. - S Ghizzle
The pain-body, which is the dark shadow cast by the ego, is actually afraid of the light of your consciousness. It is afraid of being found out. Its survival depends on your unconscious identification with it, as well as on your unconscious fear of facing the pain that lives in you. But if you don't face it, if you don' t bring the light of your consciousness into the pain, you will be forced to relive it again and again. The painbody may seem to you like a dangerous monster that you cannot bear to look at, but I assure you that it is an insubstantial phantom that cannot prevail against the power of your presence. Some spiritual teachings state that all pain is ultimately an illusion, and this is true. The question is: Is it true for you? A mere belief doesn't make it true. Do you want to experience pain for the rest of your life and keep saying that it is an illusion? Does that free you from the pain? What we are concerned with here is how you can realize this truth - that is, make it real in your own experience. So the pain-body doesn't want you to observe it directly and see it for what it is. The moment you observe it, feel its energy field within you, and take your attention into it, the identification is broken. A higher dimension of consciousness has come in. I call it presence. You are now the witness or the watcher of the pain-body. This means that it cannot use you anymore by pretending to be you, and it can no longer replenish itself through you. You have found your own innermost strength. You have accessed the power of Now. What happens to the pain-body when we become conscious enough to break our identification with it? Unconsciousness creates it; consciousness transmutes it into itself. St. Paul expressed this universal principle beautifully: "Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light." Just as you cannot fight the darkness, you cannot fight the pain-body. Trying to do so would create inner conflict and thus further pain. Watching it is enough. Watching it implies accepting it as part of what is at that moment. The pain-body consists of trapped life-energy that has split off from your total energy field and has temporarily become autonomous through the unnatural process of mind identification. It has turned in on itself and become anti-life, like an animal trying to devour its own tail. Why do you think our civilization has become so life-destructive? But even the life-destructive forces are still life-energy. When you start to disidentify and become the watcher, the painbody will continue to operate for a while and will try to trick you into identifying with it again. Although you are no longer energizing it through your identification, it has a certain momentum, just like a spinning wheel that will keep turning for a while even when it is no longer being propelled. - Eckhart Tolle
Living from thought instead of living from Awareness is the cause of all human suffering. - Michael Langford
The ego believes that in your resistance lies your strength, whereas in truth resistance cuts you off from Being, the only place of true power. Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness. So the ego exists in a continuous resistance-mode and plays counterfeit roles to cover up your "weakness," which in truth is your power. Until there is surrender, unconscious role-playing constitutes a large part of human interaction. In surrender, you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become very simple, very real. "That's dangerous," says the ego. "You'll get hurt. You'll become vulnerable." What the ego doesn't know, of course, is that only through the letting go of resistance, through becoming "vulnerable," can you discover your true and essential invulnerability. - Eckhart Tolle
There is no hope, "Now" is the only thing that's real. To give up future fulfillment is to surrender to "what is", the Divine will, the will of "the heart", and our truest desire. - Yoz Muthafuckin' Truly
If you are consistently or at least predominantly present in your relationship, this will be the greatest challenge for your partner. They will not be able to tolerate your presence for very long and stay unconscious. If they are ready, they will walk through the door that you opened for them and join you in that state. If they are not, you will separate like oil and water. The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness. - Eckhart Tolle
May you be held in the heart of lovingkindness
May you be free from inner and outer harm
May you be well
May you have ease of well being
May your life be of service to all beings
May you come to know great and natural peace
May you awaken and be free - IMCW Frontpage
You are here to enable the Divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are. - Eckhart Tolle
This too shall pass. - Ancient Parable
As far as I can see, MOST of spirituality serves the dreamstate much more than it serves the awakened state. Some of it serves the awakened state, and that's a nice thing...but you kind of got to pick through it like looking for needles in a haystack sometimes, you know? To find the jewels. - Adya
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I'm in yr pantz, fingerin' yr pussy lippz - Yawl know who it izzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm in yr rekkid labellz, raidin' yr kataloggz
I'm in yr MPAA, rippin' yr DVDEEZ
I'm in yr RIAA, countersuing yr chargez
I'm in yr white house, sayin' yr president blowz dead rhinoz
I'm in yr congress, liberatin' yr demmokraceez
Love was never meant to be contained. - Adya
Keeping Quiet:
And now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the earth
let's not speak in any language,
let's stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.
Fisherman in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would not look at his hurt hands.
Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about,
I want no truck with death.
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.
Now I'll count up to twelve,
and you keep quiet and I will go. - by Pablo Neruda. (trans. Alastair Reid.)
The Peace of Wild Things:
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 the 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 problem is not that you have desires, but that you desire so little. Why not desire it all? Why not want complete fulfillment, joy, and freedom. - Nisargadatta
The more we open to whatever is appearing, the greater are the challenges.
The more we see, the more our heart breaks.
In our surrender to the heart broken open, all the way, there is freedom.
In our attempts to not feel the pain of the heart breaking, in our attempts to know what should be, there is bondage. - Gangaji
Late Fragment:
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth. - Raymond Carver
We came to this earth to do one thing.
And that even if we succeed at a hundred other tasks,
if this one thing is neglected, our life will be wasted.
And if this one thing is fulfilled, then whatever else happens,
our life will be fulfilled.
Some languages call this one thing "love".
All our therapies, and all our scientific advances will disappoint us if love is missing.
And when love is present, the whole world turns into the temple. - Rumi
I saw a beautiful example of kindness in 1968 during the Special Olympics track and field meet. One participant was Kim Peek, a brain-damaged, severely handicapped boy racing in the 50-yard dash.
Kim was racing against two other athletes with cerebral palsy. They were in wheelchairs; Kim was the lone runner. As the gun sounded, Kim moved quickly ahead of the other two. Twenty yards ahead and 10 yards from the finish line, he turned to see how the others were coming. The girl had turned her wheelchair around and was stuck against the wall. The other was pushing his wheelchair backward with his feet. Kim stopped, went back and pushed the little girl across the finish line. The boy in the wheelchair going backward won the race. The girl took second. Kim lost.
Or did he? The crowd that gave Kim a standing ovation didn't think so.
Unless we become as children again, we cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. - Jesus
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire
Whatever you accept you go beyond. Whatever you deny you're stuck with. - Adya
This is one reason why most people are always trying to escape from the present moment and are seeking some kind of salvation in the future. The first thing that they might encounter if they focused their attention on the Now is their own pain, and this is what they fear. If they only knew how easy it is to access in the Now the power of Presence that dissolves the past and its pain, the reality that dissolves the illusion. If they only knew how close they are to their own reality, how close to God. - Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now)
No matter the past, I am an infinite Being of pure and radiant light, sent to bring forth Love into this world... - Ayahuasca realization
Upon dying: First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego. - The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol)
Father, why have you forsaken me?....
Into your hands I commend my spirit. - Willingness to burn
Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love."
And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them.
And with a great voice he said:
When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips. - The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
What we are looking for is what is looking. - Francis of Assisi
I teach one thing and one thing alone: suffering and its end. - The Buddha
The world is divided into people who think they are right.
All the ego wants is just to be loved.
It's not like you're playing an instrument...it's like, you're the instrument, and the Universe is playing you! - DJ Q-Bert
If you stand for something, you'll struggle with everything.
Enlightened action comes from inspiration, not opposition. - Adya
You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have free permission to do so and it is in accordance with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering that you could have avoided. - Franz Kafka
Looking for Love:
A strange passion is moving in my head.
My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky.
Every part of me goes in different directions.
Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere? - Rumi
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung
The world as a whole has forgotten the real meaning of the word love. Love has been so abused and crucified by man that very few people know what true love is. Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation. But to define love is very difficult, for the same reason that words cannot fully describe the flavor of an orange. You have to taste the fruit to know its flavor. So with love. - Paramahansa Yogananda
Egoic mind has become like a sinking ship. If you don't get off, you will go down with it. - Eckhart Tolle
Everything is perfectly managed in the Unborn. - Bankei
All mental traits, as soon as they are taken to be true, become “youâ€. - Adya
When we boil all this down, all the big talk down, and all the great realizations, awakenings and all the rest; maybe in the end it all boils down to one thing: Love well. - Adyashanti
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