Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Vernon Howard The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Marcus Aurelius " The archaic revival: History is ending, because the dominator's culture has led the human species into a blind ally. And as the inevitable chaostrophy approaches, people look for metaphors and answers. Every time a culture gets into trouble, it casts itself back into the past, looking for the last sane moment it ever knew. And the last sane moment we ever knew, was on the plains of Africa, 15,000 years ago, rocked in the cradle of the great horn of the mushroom goddess before history, before standing armies, before slavery and property, before warfare and phonetic alphabet and monotheism. Before, before and before!! And this is where the future is taking us because the secret faith of the 20th century is not modernism, the secret faith of the 20th is nostalgia for the archaic, nostalgia for the paleolithic and that gives us bodypiercing, abstract expressionism, surrealism, jazz, rock'n'roll and catastrophe theory. The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradises that once existed on the mushroom-doted plains of Africa, where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creatures that we are. And why does this matter? It matters, because it shows that the way out is back, and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means; it is a door way out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity. " The ego is a product of pathology [] and the suppression of the ego means the defeat of the dominators, the materialists, the producthandlers. Terence McKenna ~ Alien DreamTime The ego and its many identities, attachments, roles and stories are not only illusory, but they are temporary. Steve McSwain Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalised learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality, and real human needs. Arthur Evans The spiritual search is as illusory as any other search. The search itself is illusory because it has taken one thing for granted: that something is missing. And nothing is missing! Once you take it for granted that something is missing you start looking for it; then you go on looking for it in all directions. And the more you search the more you will miss it, because the more you search the more dust-covered the mirror becomes.

The more you travel to seek it, the farther and farther you go in search of it, the more and more frustrated you become. Slowly, slowly you start thinking that it is so far awayThats why I am not reaching it. The reality is just the opposite: you are not reaching it because you are it. It is not far away, it is so close by that even to call it close is not right, because even closeness is a kind of distance. It is not distant at all, it breathes in you. It is not there, it is here. It is not then, it is now. It has always been with you. From the very beginning everyone is a Buddha, everyone is a mirror capable of reflecting. Osho A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does selfawareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Mantra of the Day: Listen to How You Feel We spent most of our days in our head, analyzing every event, words and interaction. Thoughts after thoughts. We make up reasoning in our head, excuses, scenario of why or how, calculating.. Reconnect with your emotions, that is where your truth is. Ask yourself how the situation feels. Does it feels right? Does it make you happy? No need to think about it, but to feel it. Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself. Osho We are about to do what centuries of human beings have not been able to do. And that is to get the big picture, and realize that we are all one. No matter how much we disagree, you are my brother, you are my sister, and there is nothing we can do to change that. We have to figure out how to live together. And in reality, we can live together. We can! It is ridiculous to think we cant. In fact, we have to really work hard at not learning to live together. Alex Collier Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. Malcolm X The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

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Paige Bradley created one of the most striking sculptures Ive seen in recent times. Her masterpiece, entitled Expansion, is a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light. From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession, says Bradley. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies? In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one persons vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyones heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision. High Eagle Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service. Sri Sathya Sai Baba If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? Rumi Its so hard to forget pain, but its even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. Chuck Palahniuk If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer Shut your eyes and see. James Joyce, Ulysses

A Thought At 7:20 AM There is nothing more dangerous for governments and their institutions than an individual who is awakened to, and aware of, the nature of his Self and the Universe. If you want to dismantle and destroy the system you must first dismantle and destroy your Mind. All the conditioning that youve been coated in over the years must be cleansed off and you must be naked as a new born; you must experience the Experience with nonjudgmental eyes and keen ears. Use you Heart, consult with your Soul. What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear. Julian Assange What is it that binds you? You are not bound by any chains now. Is it just the thought that you are bound that binds you? Mental chains can only be broken by mental effort. Zed Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Dont miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And dont make it a philosophical thing. Dont go to the library to consult about anger. Anger is happening to youit is an experience, a live experience. Focus your whole attention on it and try to understand why it is happening to you. It is not a philosophical problem. No Freud is to be consulted about it. There is no need! It is just foolish to consult somebody else while anger is happening to you. You can touch it. You can taste it. You will be burned by it. Try to understand why it is happening, from where it is coming, where the roots are, how it happens, how it functions, how it overpowers you, how in anger you become mad. Anger has happened before, it is happening now, but now add a new element to it, the element of understanding and then the quality will change. Then, by and by, you will see that the more you understand anger, the less it happens. And when you understand it perfectly, it disappears. Understanding is like heat. When the heat comes to a particular point one hundred degrees the water disappears. Osho A fellow who does things that count, doesnt usually stop to count them. Albert Einstein Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. Rainer Maria Rilke If you are always living in the past and only looking to the future, then you will inevitably miss the Present. Elige When I didnt resist, I could see the world. Pema Chdrn

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. Lao Tzu Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. Frederick Buechner I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am. Eckhart Tolle 1. Never obey anyones command unless it is coming from within you also. 2. There is no god other than life itself. 3. Truth is within you, do not search for it elsewhere. 4. Love is prayer. 5. To become a nothingness is the door to truth. Nothingness itself is the means, the goal and attainment. 6. Life is now and here. 7. Live wakefully. 8. Do not swim float. 9. Die each moment so that you can be new each moment. 10. Do not search. That which is, is. Stop and see. Osho Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. Edgar Allan Poe Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart. Rumi It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the I Am, our real presence, can awaken. G.I. Gurdjieff Once you accept time and space as real, you will consider yourself minute and short-lived. But are they real? Do they depend on you, or you on them? As a body, you are in space. As a mind, you are in time. But are you a mere body with a mind in it? Your body is short of time, not you. Time and space are in the mind only. You are not bound. Just understand yourself that itself is eternity. Nisargadatta Maharaj