January 2011
perennialphilosophy asked: im going to go ahead and say that the twilight zone is the best tv series. ever.
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would...”
– Buddha (via oceanofmind) (via -xerces) (via radicaljonny) (via astroharmony) (via jennylove) (via theelegantuniverse)
“Everything that exists has Being, has God-essence, has some degree of...”
– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
December 2010
“Everything that exists has Being, has God-essence, has some degree of...”
– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Resolution
I’m not usually one for resolutions, but here goes:
I was looking through a magazine the other day, and I came across an article, ‘Top 10 Things To Do While the Kettle Boils’. Items included, ‘do as many pushups as you can’ and, ‘jog on the spot’. It occured to me that, in our society, we’re always obsessing over how to get the most out of time. We...
“Who says my poems are poems?
These poems are not poems.
When you can...”
– Ryokan (via noornalini)
“And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one...”
– Black Elk
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien (via metaconscious)
“Man in the vedic vision is part of that cosmic whole, a dynamic part, a...”
– Jeanine Miller, The Vision of the Cosmic Order in the Vedas
binnyyy asked: when is your favorite time to meditate? any particular methods you seem to get the most out of? just curious as it seems many of our experiences our similar...though that is probably just the oneness/universality of truth :)
binnyyy asked: when is your favorite time to meditate? any particular methods you seem to get the most out of? just curious as it seems many of our experiences our similar...though that is probably just the oneness/universality of truth :)
The more I practice, meditation becomes less and less ‘a part of my life’, and my life becomes my meditation.
“That which may be looked for, but proves invisible, is called the Distant. That...”
– Tao Te Ching, Verse 14, Frederic Henry Balfour translation
I sit and wonder at it all- the intricacy of the patterns, the lives- their presence, woven together as if by string. I raise my hand, and watch- the fingers, and their movements on the currents. I watch the dancing- back and forth and under-over, softly, so very softly. I lean back into air as it passes, and I’m floating on an ocean of being. A swirling, streaming ocean- all movement, the...
This rain is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Standing in the middle of the forest, water coming halfway up my knees, I begin to understand my powerlessness. Where once was forest- now lies swamp. Frogs swim between the trunks of trees, mosquitoes breed. The water lies murky and brown- I cannot see the bottom, but can feel- the roots, the twigs, the branches- as distant memories of...
Simon & Garfunkel- Scarborough Fair
“And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I...”
– Black Elk
“You ask
why I make my home
in the mountain forest,
and I smile,
and am...”
– Li Po (701 - 762)
Astronomers Find First Evidence of Other Universes →
Our cosmos was ‘bruised’ in collisions with other universes. Now astronomers have found the first evidence of these impacts in the cosmic microwave background.
Merry Christmas you beautiful people- may your holidays be filled with light.
“Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel...”
– Black Elk
Cool, ocean love,
fast love,
breath love,
in and out
rhythmic patterns
A’s and B’s
rhyming couplets,
love and verse,
the kisses will make
a song.
Love for the Purpose of Love
Hold out your hands
my love, my love,
feel the brush of
my skin
Wonder at touches
of lemony breath,
dance to the rhythm
of flesh
Surround yourself
in a pool of
our love,
take to your hands
and drink.
“Grace is what I call the experience of nonduality, the perception of the unitive...”
– Charlene Spretnak, in Listening to the Land. (via geopsych)
“Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one’s own soul. We...”
– Ralph Waldo Trine
Automatic writing
I often seem to get into a sort of trance after long periods of meditation, and find myself wandering around until I can find a pen and paper (if they’re not already on hand). The words come fast and freely, and I don’t even have to think about what I’m doing as I write them down. It’s like they’re spilling out of the pen, and all I’m doing is catching them on...
“So by carefully observing, objectively, I see this whole process and the very...”
– J. Krishnamurti, Talks and Dialogues Saanen 1968 (via sharanam)
“And I am thinking: maybe just looking and listening is the real work. Maybe the...”
– Mary Oliver (via singingbowls)
singingbowls asked: my theory is that if there's enough light around while you're sleeping, it'll trigger an awakening within rem sleep. so I face a window or leave a light on (and there are expensive devices that do just this). the trick is being able to stay within the dream instead of physically waking up. for me this just took ages of practice and willpower. for me it just comes down to centering...
singingbowls asked: my theory is that if there's enough light around while you're sleeping, it'll trigger an awakening within rem sleep. so I face a window or leave a light on (and there are expensive devices that do just this). the trick is being able to stay within the dream instead of physically waking up. for me this just took ages of practice and willpower. for me it just comes down to centering...
“Life is a series of awakenings. Ideas dawn upon the mind from time to time, are...”
– A.P Mukerji, Yoga lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness
singingbowls asked: a nice synchronicity: I was contemplating on starting a lucid dreaming practice again right as I read your post! I'd been talking about it with people at work and we exchanged lots of advice on how to prolong the lucid dream awakening when it happens organically. I used to lucid dream whenever I took a nap in the daytime-- maybe because of the ambient light-- and got quite good at controlling...
