"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
~ Henry Miller

" Love just is. It is neither given nor taken; rather it is simply discovered and allowed."
~Ariel Spilsbury

"We see the world not as it is, but as we are."
~ Anais Nin

"You must watch how I live,eat, sit, talk, behave in general. The sum total of these things in me is my religion.
~ Ghandhi

"Reason is trembling in fear of death, but Love is bold...."
~Rumi


"Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything.
Between the two, my life flows."
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

"There is no remedy for love but to love more"
~ Henry David Thoreau

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. "
~ Anaïs Nin

From my breath I extract God,
And my eye is a shop
where I offer
Him to the
world.
~ St. Thomas of Aquinas

"Life is a rhythm, a constantly vibrating phenomenon between two polarities."
~ OSHO

"do not wish for union
there is a closeness beyond that.
why would god want
a second god?
fall in love in such a way
that it frees you from any connecting."
~ Rumi

“Don’t worry about what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do that.
Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.”
~ Howard Thurman

"Your task is not to seek for Love,
But merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it."
~ Rumi

"All concepts of God are like a jar that we break, because only the infinite can contain our perfect love.
~ St. Theresa of Avila

If God's secrets are unknown, don't despair.
Behind the mystery-curtain is a love-affair.
~Hafiz


FULLY ALIVE
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.
~ Dawna Markova

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
~ Unknown

"a friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view."


Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "you owe me." Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole world...
~ Hafiz

"I like reality. It tastes of bread."
~ Jean Anouilh

"Unconditional"

Willing to experience aloneness,
I discover connection everywhere;
Turning to face my fear,
I meet the warrior who lives within;
Opening to my loss,
I gain the embrace of the universe;
Surrendering into emptiness,
I find fullness without end.
Each condition I flee from pursues me,
Each condition I welcome transforms me
And becomes itself transformed
Into its radiant jewel-like essence.
I bow to the one who has made it so,
Who has crafted this Master Game.
To play it is purest delight;
To honor its form--true devotion.
~ Jennifer Welwood

"It's time that we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance with the force of creation."
~ Marcus Allen

"It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power."
~ Black Elk

"I believe in God, only I spell it N-a-t-u-r-e"
~ Frank Lloyd Wright

“Ultimately what we’re touching is the invisible, all-pervasive Intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can’t just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we’d never know what hit us.”
-Terence McKenna

"The good words we say and the good deeds we do are not ours: They are the words and deeds of the One who brought us here."
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you."
~ Ghandi

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
~ George Bernhard Shaw

"It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without...diminishing your degrees of freedom?"
~ Buckminster Fuller

"Watch bees sipping juice from flowers. Do that with the mystery of *presence*. Let your body become honey made from that sipping. We are the unlimited wine you dream of, the reviving light. As you restore that in yourself, you will find fulfillment for every pleasure you pursue."
~ Bahauddin

"So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy and make others happy."


"Ours is a religion of Love, and yet it is not a religion in the way that you understand religion. We do not do our practices in order to come to realize God, but rather we accept the Unity of God first and then everything follows from that"


"... This is how I would die into the love I have for you..the way pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.."
~ Rumi

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind!"
~Dr. Seuss

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more."
~ Erica Jong


If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete."

"I love God; I have no time left in which to hate the devil." ~ Rabi'a

"You are incredibly young. You have time.
Start aiming your desires and making your choices
big and small based on what sort of energy, people, beauty,
art, orgasms you want to drench your life.
The world will respond,
the divine will always answer, not all at once,
and almost never in the way you expected.
Read your ass off. Fuck like you mean it.
Plot your soul's exit strategy from cube-farm hell.
You will pump that raw magic into the world's
bloodstream eventually, fear not. It might take ten years
to get moving, big deal. Time is a trickster, lay the foundation now,
log your dreams, pray yourself wide open,
surround yourself with the heat of the possible.
Patience, dear one.
Go easy on yourself.

~ Mark Morford

"Those who have awakened live in a constant state of amazement."

" SANKOFA is expressed in the Akan language as "se wo were fi na wo sankofa a yenki." Literally translated it means "it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot".

"You see, the heart is the seat of the soul. When you speak from the heart you can kindle the fire in the hearts of others. Through recognition you actually begin to awaken the soul which is asleep, and the fire spreads - there is nothing more catching than love."
~ Reshad Feild


"It is our duty to shine as brightly as possible. Everything we can be is limitless."

"pronoia (pro-noy-yah): The idea that everyone and everything is conspiring to help you live your dream."

"The important thing is this: To be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.”
~ Charles Dubois


"Healing is not something you *do*, it is something you *are*.
~Anonymous fey

"May God steal from you..all that steals you from Him" ~ Rabi'a

"He who know others is wise, but he who knows himself is enlightened."
~ tao te ching

"The moment you have in your heart this
extraordinary thing called Love and feel the
depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will
discover that the world is transformed.
~ J. Krishnamurti

"If you let go a little you have a little peace.
If you let go of a lot you have a lot of peace.
If you let go completely you have complete peace."
~ Ajahn Chah

“Kindled by the untamable flames of women's creative powers, I enchant, I see visions, I prophesy, I prepare to make miracles.”
-Sonia Johnson, Wildfire

"I am not much of a religious person, I am not a saint, I have nothing to do with spirituality. All those categories are irrelevant about me. You cannot categorize me, you cannot pigeonhole me. But one thing can be said, that my whole effort is to help you release the energy called love-intelligence. If love-intelligence is released, you are healed."
~ OSHO

My religion is simple; my religion is kindness.
~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"The next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community; a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the Earth."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people:
that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other."
~Rainer Marie Rilke

"Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


"Real compassion kicks butt and takes names, and it is not pleasant on certain days. If you are not ready for this fire, then find a new-age, sweetness-and-light, soft-speaking, perpetually smiling teacher, and learn to re-label your ego with spiritual sounding terms. But stay away from those that practice real compassion, because they will fry your ass, my friend."
~ Ken Wilbur


"If success or failure of this planet, and of human beings, depended on how I am and what I do - HOW WOULD I BE, and WHAT WOULD I DO? "
~ Buckminster Fuller


"You live in illusion
and in the appearance of things.
There is a reality,
You are that reality,
And when you realize this
You will realize that you are nothing,
and being nothing, You are everything.
That is all."
~ Kalu Rinpoche

A monk asked Master Haryo, "What is the way?"
Haryo said, "An open-eyed man falling into the well."


'Life makes no promises for what lies ahead, but rather presents you with choices and opportunities to progress. Improvement is fueled by change. Face new challenges. Expand your boundaries. But, never forget that change is rarely without obstacles. Disappointment is inevitable. Learn to laugh at your mistakes, trust your instincts and savor each moment along the way. Be fearless and never look back. Your future awaits...'

DEFINITION: Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It’s the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It’s a mode of training your senses and intellect so you’re able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.

HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright.

PROCEDURE: Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece you were born to be. Join the conspiracy to shower all of creation with blessings.

This is FUN: www.eightprinciples.com

"Truly, the others are the mirrors in which we discover ourselves, and the purer the mirror the clearer we see our real self. Such is the role of the master, or the friend. For the real guru or murshid is the genuine friend who empties himself for love of you, that you may discover the eternal image of yourself in the dawning of his glance upon the horizon of your being..."
~ Pir Valayat Inayat Khan
"Love is a yearning
Of the One
For the One. "
~ Sri Aurobindo

~ Life is a flow of Love.~
Your participation is requested.

~Love More, Fear Less.~
~Float More, Steer Less~

"Everything that is sacred and wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery."

- Stephane Mallarme, French Poet, 1862 -1898

"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Blue Electric Night

I activate in order to dream,
Bonding intuition.
I seal the input of abundance
With the electric tone of service.
I am guided by the power of accomplishment.

All of creation desires that we live in LOVE and Joy. When we act from Love, we are supported by the flow of the very universe itself, and when we choose fear, we immerse ourselves in struggle, pain and discord.
Standing in the highest octave of our Truth, radiating Love in each word, choice, and deed, we grow closer to the source, to the essence of what we are.
For we, every one of us, are One with the divine source of Love, we emerge and return from the center of that spiral, the core of truth, the seed of creation. Which is Love.
We ARE Love. We have only to live it out...
(and Live it *UP*!!!)

No end, no end to the journey
no end, no end never
How can the heart in love
ever stop opening?

If you love me, you won’t just die once
in every moment you will die into me
to be reborn
Into this new love, die

your way begins on the other side
become the sky
take an axe to the prison wall,
escape
walk out like someone
suddenly born into color
do it now

~ Rumi

"Being Deeply Loved by Someone Gives You Strength;
Loving Someone Deeply Gives You Courage"
~ Lao Tzu

"Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and tender, and compassionately attuned to other than self." ~ Buckminster Fuller