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Acid Dreams

“Lee & Shlain, in their book Acid Dreams, relate that on one occasion “a journalist from the Saturday Evening Post dropped by the [Diggers’] Free Store and asked to speak with the manager. He was told that the manager was a shy person who didn’t like to answer questions but would make an exception in […]

On the Borderland.

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman —But who […]

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable

“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.” Carl Jung .

Now is the Happiest Time of Your Life

“Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That’s the very foundation of your life.” – Eckhart Tolle

The following is a letter which Dr. Carl Jung wrote…

…to a friend who had suffered the loss of a young child: Dear Adam, I am sorry you are so miserable. “Depression” means literally “being forced downward.” This can happen even when you don’t consciously have any feeling at all of being “on top.” So I wouldn’t dismiss this hypothesis out of hand … I […]

Your mind is an instrument

Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people’s thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often […]

Nobody believes in god like an atheist

But the atheist, you see — the man who advertises his disbelief in god — is a very pious person. Nobody believes in god like an atheist. ‘There is no god, and I am his prophet.’ Alan Watts I’ve always thought that Richard Dawkins and his followers have an evangelical air about them, confirmed by […]

Don’t Let Your Dream Turn Sour

“Many quit just before they hit the jackpot. Then they complain that the Universal Law does not provide for them, which is a bunch of rubbish. If you don’t have what you want, it means that you are still on the journey. You might be close to the goal, yet being close to the best […]

Seventies Scandinavian Childhood

“Practice is about opening ourselves so that this little “I” that wants and wants and wants and wants and wants – that wants the whole world to be its parents, really- grows up.” Charlotte Joko Beck (quoted in Essential Zen, edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Tensho David Schneider) photo credit: premasagar