Pythagoras

Micah 6:8

Hoxley

Past and future

Democracy doesn't mean

Pablo

The world famous painting- "The Truth coming out of the well" Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896

According to a 19th century legend, the Truth and the Lie meet one day. The Lie says to the Truth: "It's a marvellous day today"! The Truth looks up to the skies and sighs, for the day was really beautiful. They spend a lot of time together, ultimately arriving beside a well. The Lie tells the Truth: "The water is very nice, let's take a bath together!" The Truth, once again suspicious, tests the water and discovers that it indeed is very nice. They undress and start bathing. Suddenly, the Lie comes out of the water, puts on the clothes of the Truth and runs away. The furious Truth comes out of the well and runs everywhere to find the Lie and to get her clothes back. The World, seeing the Truth naked, turns its gaze away, with contempt and rage.

The poor Truth returns to the well and disappears forever, hiding therein, its shame. Since then, the Lie travels around the world, dressed as the Truth, satisfying the needs of society, because, the World, in any case, harbours no wish at all to meet the naked Truth.

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Cummings

Teal Swan

TIME

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." -Henry Van Dyke

EACH

“Each act of generosity is a recognition of our interdependence.” —Jack Kornfield

Deep Listening

“As my prayers became more attentive and inward I had less and less to say.  I finally became completely silent.  I started to listen—which is even further removed from speaking. If first thought that prayer entailed speaking. I then learnt that prayer is hearing, not merely being silent. That is how it is.  To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.” -- Soren Kierkegaard

letter

Mirrors of Thought

“Thoughts manifest themselves within emptiness and are reabsorbed into it like a face appears and disappears in a mirror;

the face has never been in the mirror, and when it ceases to be reflected in it, it has not really ceased to exist. The mirror itself has never changed. So, before departing on the spiritual path, we remain in the so-called "impure" state of samsara, which is, in appearance, governed by ignorance. When we commit ourselves to that path, we cross a state where ignorance and wisdom are mixed. At the end, at the moment of Enlightenment, only pure wisdom exists. But all the way along this spiritual journey, although there is an appearance of transformation, the nature of the mind has never changed: it was not corrupted on entry onto the path, and it was not improved at the time of realization.”  ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Cicero

Fundamentally pure

“Although we all have a fundamentally pure nature, it is not easy to get in touch with it. The gross way our mind ordinarily functions drowns out this deeper more subtle vibration to such an extent that we generally remain unaware of its existence. If we truly want to connect with this subtle essence, we need to quiet all distractions and loosen the hold our ordinary appearances and conceptions have on us. In other words we need to create space, space in which our essentially pure nature can function uninterruptedly. Then we will be bringing to the surface the inner, divine qualities that have always existed within the depths of our being.”    (Lama Tubten Yeshe)

The Tax

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance." Thomas Jefferson

Fascism

At the heart

“At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm—a complex of wave forms and resonances which is absolutely individual and unique and yet which connects us to everything in the universe.” —George Leonard

Communion

“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.”  Teilhard de Chardin

Carolina Moon

"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 everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop,
stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot,
which was taught in immense milky ways of cloudy innumerable worlds
long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing.
I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born,
we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea
of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere, or one universal Self. Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes through everything, is one thing.
It’s a dream already ended.
There’s nothing from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression ,
they are like empty space.

Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away. Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind,
the one vast awakening, empty and awake, will never crumble away; because it was never born. The world you see is just a movie in your mind.”

Jack Kerouac’s Letter to his Former-Wife

Haile Selassie

Too cute by half

Price of Success

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose. we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Death does no thing

To know

Don't know

Molly

Accept it.

Sleepiing Women

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“The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface -within consciousness. (As compared with the natural displays of compassion by other creatures that is not necessarily ‘within consciousness.’) That’s the only difference. We didn’t create compassion, but it’s flowing through us—or it could. The phase change that we’re in seems, to me, to depend upon that comprehensive compassion unfurling in the human species.--Brian Swimme, coauthor with Thomas Berry of The Universe Story 

A level playing field

"Ultimately, even where nature sucks all matter and energy into black holes and naked singularities, the actual horizon for science doesn't lie there, or with the big bang, by which matter and energy reappeared in manifest form. The real horizon is where the inconceivable source of mind meets the conceivable phenomena in nature. The problem of something coming out of nothing is exactly the same when the cosmos was born as when a thought is born. This is the level playing field where mind and matter can be investigated as two sides of the same process: consciousness interacting with itself." - ~ Deepak Chopra

Alan Watts

Spiritual Inquirer

"In this era, to become a spiritual inquirer without social consciousness is a luxury that we can ill afford, and to be a social activist without a scientific

understanding of the inner workings of the mind is the worst folly. Neither approach in isolation has had any significant success. There is no question

now that an inquirer will have to make an effort to be socially conscious or that an activist will have to be persuaded of the moral crisis in the human psyche, the significance of being attentive to the inner life. The challenge awaiting us is to

go much deeper as human beings, to abandon superficial prejudices and preferences, to expand understanding to a global scale, integrating the

totality of living, and to become aware of the wholeness of which we are a manifestation." -  Vimala Thakar

What Kabir saw

“Between the conscious and unconscious, the mind has put up a swing; all earth creatures, even supernovas, sway between these two trees, and it never winds down. Angels, animals, humans, insects by the million, also the wheeling sun and moon; ages go by, and it goes on. Everything is swinging: heaven, earth, water, fire, and the secret one is slowly growing a body. Kabir saw this for fifteen seconds, and it made him a servant for life.”

Binary nature of life

"The binary nature of life gives us a multiplicity of yes/no choices from which we choose our path, constantly branching in the directio of our yes decisions. Each minute yes/no decision is a binary decision. Understanding this helps you understand anotther binary, coequal aspect of Life. When you want to enter a different aspect of Life, you wait for the point at which Particle becomes Wave. And just at that split second before the Paricle is gone and the Wave takes over, you enter between, and you become Energy. At thpint where the wave becomes Particle again, you enter between and you ree become who you were or you make a different choice. Which is also possible. I think it is that space which healing occurs." ~ Paula Underwood Spencer

Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin’s observation that “it is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.” 

From Zen Master Dogen

"Coming, going, the waterbirds don't leave a trace, don't follow a path. Midnight. No waves, no wind, the empty boat is flooded with moonlight. Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, The moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky 

Are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

John Lennon

Wisdom from John Lennon:

"We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

      Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it....

       You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.

      That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.

    I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

        Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away. Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it...

      My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

         When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

     Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."

~John Lennon