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Maverick human, influenced by wilderness, solitude, rivers, traintracks, city streets, hippies, pagans, Mother Earth, plants, trees, seasons, Castaneda, Louis L'Amour, my mother, my children, my granddaughter, outlaws, loners, dissenters, revolutionaries, troublemakers, misfits, anarchists, insubordinate subversives, Hafiz, Mirabai, Music, the Sun, the Moon, Pan, Cernunnos, Shiva, Hanuman, Wicca, BOTA, LOVE, Joseph Campbell, Carl Sagan, Sivananda, solar flares, black holes, Lucy T.

Ram/Sita/Hanuman-bhakt, trying to perfect my Love nature. "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." (Sivananda)

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." (Edmund Burke)

"A true revolutionary is motivated by great feelings of love." (Che Guevara)

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." (Kahlil Gibran)

"Asatoma sat gamaya, tamasoma jyotir gamaya, mrtyorma amrtam gamaya" – "Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from mortality to immortality. "

“So when you are alert and contemplate a flower, crystal, or bird without naming it mentally, it becomes a window for you into the formless. There is an inner opening, however slight, into the realm of spirit. This is why these three ‘en-lightened’ life-forms have played such an important part in the evolution of human consciousness since ancient times; why, for example, the jewel in the lotus flower is a central symbol of Buddhism and a white bird, the dove, signifies the Holy Spirit in Christianity. They have been preparing the ground for a more profound shift in planetary consciousness that is destined to take place in the human species. This is the spiritual awakening that we are beginning to witness now.” ( Eckhart Tolle)

"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, thanks Debbie)

"Life is not a question of creeds but of deeds well done. No life is free from difficulties. It is a series of conflicts. Face them boldly through the grace of the Lord and the power of his name. Change is the law of life. Truth is the law of life. Love is the fulfilling of the law of life. Death is the gate to another life. Life is endless." (Sivananda)

"The Earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth. . .. . To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves become the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. No one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy." (Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing)

"Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange." (Kahlil Gibran)

"Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all powerful." (Deepak.Chopra, thanks -B-)

"Renounce the need for the next moment, and be with this... what is now." (Eckhart Tolle, thanks Colleen)

"Being prepared for what's next is logical, rational and cognitive. Being available to sensually experience what's now is true freedom, love and spirituality." (Eckhart Tolle, thanks Aleksonder)

"Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there." (Rumi, (oft-quoted by John K--thanks)

"Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich." (Peter Ustinov)

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." (Richard Bach)

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." (Albert Einstein)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"Go to the inner world, because the outer world makes no sense." (Bhagavan Das)

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." (Melody Beattie, thanks Megan)

"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action." (Albert Schweitzer, thanks Megan)

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." (Albert Schweitzer, thanks again Megan)

"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, thanks Graffitirun)

"When you get hungry, eat your rice;
When you get sleepy, close your eyes.
Fools may laugh at me,
But wise people will know what I mean." (Lin-Chi, thanks lodha)

"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark." (Swami Vivekananda, thanks Manish)

"Re-examine all you have been told...
Dismiss what insults your Soul." (Walt Whitman, thanks, Jeff)

"Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie." (Grant Morrison)

"Annihilate the ego. Reach the goal here and now. Take the inner essence and attain perfection. Relax not the keen vigilance against your most subtle foes - egoism and desire. Where can you see the Lord? I found the Lord where 'I' did not exist. (Swami Sivananda)

"One sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes." (The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods." (Albert Einstein, thanks Megan)

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Carl Sagan)

"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." (Carl Sagan)

"There is a myth about such highs: the user has an illusion of great insight, but it does not survive scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that this is an error, and that the devastating insights achieved when high are real insights; the main problem is putting these insights in a form acceptable to the quite different self that we are when we're down the next day." (Carl Sagan)

“The only place you will find God is in present moment awareness. This is Keter consciousness. It is Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh: I am that I am - the past, the present and the future are all contained in now. It is now that you have the power to change anything. The past is gone and the future is unwritten. Now is where all power resides. It is in the present moment that you can create your future and understand your past. Now is just another term for God.” (Rabbi Zimmerman, thanks Lynn)

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." (Louis L'Amour)

"Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge." (Stephen Levine)

"Lord Jesus said: Love thy neighbour as thyself. I say: Thy neighbour is thy own Self." (Sivananda)

"If you help a man, never remember it and if a man helps you, never forget it." (Sivananda)

""When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." (Dom Helder Camara)

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." (Carlos Castaneda, thanks Amrita)

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is." (Albert Camus, thanks Geoffrey)

"I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day." (Albert Camus, thanks Geoffrey)

"Do not pray to the Lord for the removal of sufferings. Pray to Him to grant you power of endurance and patience to bear all calamities. A devotee remains unaffected by adversities, trials and tribulations. He knows and feels that they are all karmic purgations and are the real messengers of God. He welcomes them calmly." (Swami Sivananda)

"A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: "As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think." (Joseph Campbell, thanks Amrita)

"Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity can cause to be set in motion. Be outrageous in forgiving. Be dramatic in reconciling. Mistakes? Back up and make them as right as you can, then move on. Be off the charts in kindness. In whatever you are called to, strive to be devoted to it in all aspects large and small. Fall short? Try again. Mastery is made in increments, not in leaps. Be brave, be fierce, be visionary. Mend the parts of the world that are "within your reach." To strive to live this way is the most dramatic gift you can ever give to the world. " (Clarissa Pinkola Estes, thanks Jeff)

"World peace must develop out of inner peace." (Dalai Lama, thanks Sarasvati)

"We began as a mineral.
We emerged into plant life,
and into the animal state,
and then into being human,
and always we have forgotten our former states,
except in early spring
when we slightly recall
being green again. " (Rumi)

"I saw you dancing last night
on the roof of your house
all alone.
I felt your heart longing for the Friend.
I saw you whirling
beneath the soft bright rose
that hung from an invisible stem in the sky.
So I began to change into my best clothes
in hopes of joining you,
even though I live a thousand miles away.
And if you had spun like an immaculate sphere
just two more times,
then bowed again so sweetly to the east,
you would have found God and me
standing so near
and lifting you into our arms.
I saw you dancing last night
near the roof of this world. " (Hafiz)

"Out
Of a great need
We are all holding hands
And climbing.
Not loving is a letting go.
Listen,
The terrain around here
Is
Far too
Dangerous
For
That." (Hafiz)

"Those who do not feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those who don't drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper,
those who don't want to change,

let them sleep.

This Love is beyond the study of theology,
that old trickery and hypocrisy.
If you want to improve your mind that way,

sleep on.

I've given up on my brain.
I've torn the cloth to shreds
and thrown it away.

If you're not completely naked,
wrap your beautiful robe of words
around you,

and sleep. " (Rumi. Thanks Ozai.)


"How can a man, who sees the one atman in all, be intolerant? All these small differences are purely mental creations. Expand. Embrace all. Include all. Love all. Serve all. Behold the Lord in all." (Sivananda)

"The essence of religion is love. There is only one religion and that is the religion of love divine, which transcends all creeds and all scriptures. Behold the one essence in all. Love all." (Sivananda)

"The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free." (Vivekananda)

"The Vedanta recognizes no sin; it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta, is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that." (Vivekananda)

"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong." (Vivekananda)

"Contemplate the workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything --even mountains, rivers, plants, and trees --should be your teacher." (Morihei Ueshiba, O'Sensei---thanks to Kotori)

"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act." (Vivekananda)

"There are moments in difficult situations, far away, that there is no more doubt. There, the questions are gone. And I think these are the important moments. If the question is gone, I have not to answer. Mysefl living---I am the answer." (Reinhold Messner, thanks National Geographic)

"If humanity is to pass safely through its present crisis on earth, it will be because a majority of individuals are now doing their own thinking. " (Buckminster Fuller)

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." (Buckminster Fuller)

"The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would almost justify the conception of life as an enchanted state." (Joseph Conrad)

"This is what we're talking about here. Psychedelics as a catalyst to the human imagination. Psychedelics as a catalyst for language. Because what cannot be said cannot be created by the community. So what we need then is the forced evolution of language. What we need then is to go back to the agents that created language in the first place. And that means the psychedelic plants, the Gaian logos, and the mysterious beckoning extra terrestrial minds beyond. Hooking ourselves back up into the chakras of the hierarchy of nature. Turning ourselves over to the mind of the totally other that created us and brought us forth out of animal organization. We are somehow part of the planetary destiny. How well we do determines how well the experiment of life on earth does. Because we have become the cutting edge of that experiment. We define it, and we hold in our hands the power to make or to break it.

This is not a dress rehearsal for the apocalypse. This is not a pseudo millennium. This is the real thing folks, this is not a test. This is the last chance before things become so dissipated that there is no chance for cohesiveness. We can use the calendar as a club. We can make the millennium an occasion for establishing an authentic human civilization. Overcoming the dominator paradigm. Dissolving boundaries through psychedelics. Recreating a sexuality not based on monotheism, monogamy and monotony.

All these things are possible if we can understand the overarching metaphor that holds it all together, which is the celebration of mind as play. The celebration of love as a general social value in the community. This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics. Because they understand that once you touch the inner core or your own and someone else's being, you can't be led into thing fetish and consumerism. The message of psychedelics is that culture can be reengineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news. And if we are able to make this point then we can pull back. We can pull back and we can transcend.

Nine times in the last million years the ice has ground south from the poles, pushing human populations ahead of it. And those people didn't fuck up. Why should we then? We are all survivors. We are inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable. Now with the engines of technology in our hands, we ought to be able to reach out and actually exteriorize the human soul at the end of time. Invoke it into existence like a UFO and open the violet doorway into hyperspace and walk through it out of profane history and walk through it beyond the grave, beyond shamanism, beyond the end of history, into the galactic millennium that has beckoned to us for millions of years across space and time. This is the moment. A planet brings forth an opportunity like this only once in it's lifetime, and we are ready, and we are poised. As a community we are ready to move into it, to claim it, to make it our own. It's there. Go for it. And thank you." (Terrence McKenna)

"Children think not of what is past, nor what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which few of us do." (Jean de La Bruyere)

"Life, it seems to me, is worth living, but only if we avoid the amusements of grown-up people." (Robert Lynd)

"Fear is frozen fun." (Neith Wow)

"Progress of human civilization in the area of defining human freedom is not made from the top down. No king, no parliment, no government ever extended to the people more rights than the people insisted upon. And I think we've come to a place with this psycedelic issue. And we have the gay community as a model, and all the other communities, the ethnic communities. We simply have to say, Look: LSD has been around for fifty years now, we just celebrated the birthday. It ain't going away. WE are not going away. We are not slack-jawed, dazed, glazed, unemployable psychotic creeps. We are pillars of society. You can't run your computers, your fashion houses, your publishing houses, your damn magazines, you can't do anything in culture without psycedelic people in key positions. And this is the great unspoken of American Creativity. So I think it's basicly time to just come out of the closet and go, 'You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.' " (Terrance McKenna, thanks Breathing E)

"You who do your best to make your decisions out of Love, who refuse to be controlled by the subconscious machinations of fear, who take time, if necessary, in difficult situations to proceed slowly, consciously, lovingly, are truly among our own. Your awareness of these things will soon be in full. You are those upon whom we can depend during the coming shift." (Ken Carey)

"What is the meaning of life, you ask? What is the meaning of a flower?" (Joseph Campbell)

"And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with
the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind
of man:
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of
all thought
And rolls through all things." (William Wordsworth)