June 2009
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“If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting...”
– Rumi, “Like This” yukothewitch & clothedinsky)
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Open Yourself To Yourself
When you don’t punish or condemn yourself, when you relax more and appreciate your body and mind, you begin to contact the fundamental notion of basic goodness in yourself. So it is extremely important to be willing to open yourself to yourself. Developing tenderness toward yourself allows you to see both your problems and your potential accurately. You don’t feel that you have to ignore your...
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“Why are we not more alive? The answer is one word: fear. One thing is at the...”
– Steindl-Rast, D. (2008). Common sense spirituality. New York: Crossroad Publ. Co., p.33. From Waking Up
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“Stuff your eyes with wonder…Live as if you’d drop dead in ten...”
– Ray Bradbury
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“I think poetry always comes out of what you don’t know. And with students I say,...”
– W.S. Merwin, 6/26/09
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“You think your mind is in your head, but where is it? No one knows. So our...”
– Shunryu Suzuki
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Selected Letters of Jack Kerouac
I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that...
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Something For “Me” to Keep in Mind →
“Me, my only baggage.”
~ Henri Thomasson (Photo via Futuremilk)
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Piute Creek
One granite ridge A tree, would be enough Or even a rock, a small creek, A bark shred in a pool. Hill beyond hill, folded and twisted Tough trees crammed In thin stone fractures A huge moon on it all, is too much. The mind wanders. A million Summers, night air still and the rocks Warm. Sky over endless mountains. All the junk that goes with being human Drops away, hard rock wavers Even the heavy...
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“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier...”
– Hunter S. Thompson, from booktumbling)
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“I live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually...”
– Jeanette Winterson from restartmyheart)
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“What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to...”
– Henry Miller
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Eternity
It has been found again. What? – Eternity. It is the sea fled away With the sun.
Sentinel soul, Let us whisper the confession Of the night full of nothingness And the day on fire.
From humain approbation, From common urges You diverge here And fly off as you may.
Since from you alone, Satiny embers, Duty breathes Without anyone saying: at last.
Here is no hope, No orietur. ...
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The Guest of Honor
The dervish, Nasrudin, entered a formal reception area and seated himself at the foremost elegant chair. The Chief of the Guard approached and said: “Sir, those places are reserved for guests of honor.” “Oh, I am more than a mere guest,” replied Nasrudin confidently. “Oh, so are you a diplomat?” “Far more than that!” “Really? So you are a...
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“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but rather by...”
– Carl Jung
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Allen Ginsberg workshop, Jack Kerouac Conference.... →
Allen Ginsberg talks about writing techniques. At the beginning of the workshop, he describes the Naropa custom of bowing to begin an event. This workshop took place during the 1982 Jack Kerouac Conference at the Naropa Institute.
"a physical attraction creates desire, a mental...
betweenthefloorboards: (via colporteur)
“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek...”
– William Burroughs
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“It is always uncomfortable to know that you have to live with other...”
– Thomas Merton (via Whisky River)
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“Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. Everything really...”
– Woody Allen in Manhattan, from amaclean & bloemetjesbehang)
Al Fingers - “What’s Going On?”...
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“Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is...”
– Hafiz, Sufi Poet
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“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
– Elbert Hubbard (via kari-shma, quote-book & honeyhands)
The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!