“If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s…”

“ If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge. No, I have something else in mind. Today I hold a flame in my left hand and a sword in my right. There will be no damage control […]

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A national flag is just a placeholder for the empty space where one’s own ethical consciousness…

A national flag is just a placeholder for the empty space where one’s own ethical consciousness ought to be. via tumblr http://ift.tt/1YyQmBJ published on November 28, 2015 at 12:34AM Some rights reserved – Creative Commons Licence.

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“There is no urgency. Summer does not rush towards autumn. One tiny blade of grass is not trying to…”

“There is no urgency. Summer does not rush towards autumn. One tiny blade of grass is not trying to grow faster than its neighbour. The planets spin lazily in their orbits. This ancient universe is in no hurry. But the mind, feeling so divided from the totality, wants answers now, wants solutions today, wants to […]

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“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise…”

“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else’s terms.” – Jeanette Winterson (via venuschild) via tumblr http://ift.tt/1ZLrb0p published on October 17, 2015 at 04:00PM Some […]

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“Once we stop buying a thought, any thought, we rob it of its potency. We see the lie and so the lie…”

“Once we stop buying a thought, any thought, we rob it of its potency. We see the lie and so the lie ceases to have any power because the interest and investment just aren’t there anymore. Seeing through just one idea or belief in this way is a revolutionary act. Because if one thought is […]

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I don’t think

barrylongbulletin: When I look to see what’s arising, it’s like looking into a room to see what’s there. I’m not thinking. Looking is not thinking. Thinking makes my mind discursive. Looking makes it straight.  via tumblr http://ift.tt/1VuLBLt published on October 03, 2015 at 04:00PM Some rights reserved – Creative Commons Licence.

“I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I…”

“I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that.” – Byron Katie (via ashramof1) via tumblr http://ift.tt/1iTiFek published on October 03, 2015 at 11:05AM Some rights reserved – Creative […]

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The Goal – El Objetivo

The goal of meditation – if there is a goal – is to make thoughts, emotions, and apparent limitations transparent so that the absolute reality, the changeless and limitless, can be perceived through them. El objetivo de la meditación – si hay un objetivo – es hacer transparente los pensamientos, emociones y limitaciones aparentes, para […]

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via venuschild) via tumblr http://ift.tt/1MBrhjn published on June 08, 2015 at 02:02PM Some rights reserved – Creative Commons Licence.

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The Raptcha

Raptcha – when you are swept up to heaven based on correctly copying some random letters and numbers into a text box. (I actually dreamt this bizarre pun) via tumblr http://ift.tt/1L6PFZq published on May 15, 2015 at 01:37PM Some rights reserved – Creative Commons Licence.