Asides – Guy James https://guyjames.com Stratospheric Analogue Juice Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 “It takes courage to endure the sharp pains of self discovery, rather than choose to take the dull…” https://guyjames.com/2015/12/03/it-takes-courage-to-endure-the-sharp-pains-of-self-discovery-rather-than-choose-to-take-the-dull/ Thu, 03 Dec 2015 14:59:15 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3430 “It takes courage to endure the sharp pains of self discovery, rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.”

– Marianne Williamson (via venuschild)

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]]> Terrorism https://guyjames.com/2015/11/28/terrorism/ Sat, 28 Nov 2015 16:19:20 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3426 barrylongbulletin:

To the dedicated terrorist there are no people in the western world, only positions. In his mind people act out their positions. Positions have to be destroyed in people’s minds for the real person, the individual, to be reached. So the terrorist shows no mercy, no compassion of the kind that conventional people in conventional positions relate to.

The terrorists’ motivations cannot be comprehended by the conventional mind or western attitudes because they operate at a subconscious level; they represent a new psychological phenomenon rising out of the unconscious in man. It’s only purpose is to destroy the certainty of the westernised mind.

~ Barry Long writing in 1983 predicted the rise of global terrorism as a reaction to western materialism. He saw ‘paranational terrorism’ as a new expression of human power, which would utilise suicidal fighters, get mixed up with nationalistic and religious struggles on every continent and contribute to the end of the current civilisation.

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]]> “If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s…” https://guyjames.com/2015/11/28/if-you-prefer-smoke-over-fire-then-get-up-now-and-leave-for-i-do-not-intend-to-perfume-your-minds/ Sat, 28 Nov 2015 08:17:17 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3424 “

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 today.

For God is in a mood
to plunder your riches and
fling you nakedly
into such breathtaking poverty
that all that will be left of you
will be a tendency to shine.

So don’t just sit around this flame
choking on your mind.
For this is no campfire song
to mindlessly mantra yourself to sleep with.

Jump now into the space
between thoughts
and exit this dream
before I burn the damn place down.

”

– Adyashanti (via lideadha)

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]]> A national flag is just a placeholder for the empty space where one’s own ethical consciousness… https://guyjames.com/2015/11/28/a-national-flag-is-just-a-placeholder-for-the-empty-space-where-ones-own-ethical-consciousness/ Sat, 28 Nov 2015 00:11:55 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3422 A national flag is just a placeholder for the empty space where one’s own ethical consciousness ought to be.

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]]> “There is no urgency. Summer does not rush towards autumn. One tiny blade of grass is not trying to…” https://guyjames.com/2015/10/27/there-is-no-urgency-summer-does-not-rush-towards-autumn-one-tiny-blade-of-grass-is-not-trying-to/ Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:18:03 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3420 “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 know so badly. It wants to reach its precious conclusions. And, ultimately, it wants to be in control.
But you are not the mind. Mind is an aspect of the whole, but cannot capture the whole.
So slow down, friend. Take a deep and conscious breath. Trust the place where you are, the place of ‘no answers yet’, the precious place of not knowing. This place is sacred, for it is 100% life. It is full of life, saturated with life, dripping with life, drenched with life.
Don’t try to rush to the next scene in the movie of ‘me’. Be here, in this scene, Now, the only scene there is.
Now is the place where questions rest, and creative solutions grow.”

–

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Jeff Foster

SLOW DOWN, FRIEND

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]]> “There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise…” https://guyjames.com/2015/10/17/there-are-times-when-it-will-go-so-wrong-that-you-will-barely-be-alive-and-times-when-you-realise/ Sat, 17 Oct 2015 14:11:22 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3418 “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)

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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…” https://guyjames.com/2015/10/17/once-we-stop-buying-a-thought-any-thought-we-rob-it-of-its-potency-we-see-the-lie-and-so-the-lie/ Sat, 17 Oct 2015 08:26:17 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3416 “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 a lie, then we cannot assume that anything we think is true. Even the idea of ourself as the thinker of thoughts is up for question now. How auspicious!”

– From Conversations with Plato (via motherofhermes)

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]]> I don’t think https://guyjames.com/2015/10/03/i-dont-think/ Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:02:22 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3411 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. 

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]]> “I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I…” https://guyjames.com/2015/10/03/i-discovered-that-when-i-believed-my-thoughts-i-suffered-but-that-when-i-didnt-believe-them-i/ Sat, 03 Oct 2015 10:09:08 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3409 “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)

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