After enlightenment Buddha was asked, ”What have you attained?” And he laughed and said, ”Nothing – because whatsoever I have attained was already there inside me. It is not something new that I have achieved. It has always been there from eternity, it is my very nature. But I was not mindful about it, I was not aware of it. The treasure was always there, but I had forgotten about it.”
Every person’s deepest ecstasies and fears are old as mankind and common as dirt.
It seemed to me that the great calamity had already manifested itself, that I could be no more truly alone than at this very moment. I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
-Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
`- let your mind concentrate on. The new actions so the old ones will wither through lack of attention"
The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves."
Remember you are the observer¤
The experiencer experiencing existence
You can live your whole life as a meditation, as the observer witnessing your life.
assumptions based on ones frame of reference,
It has taken time to become as you are and time will be needed to change
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
the grave’s but a womband a promise of rebirth brings light to the gloom
'..Samhain is the time of the dying of the crops and of life itself.
This is a time when the earth is going dark,
My moonlit path:
•THIS IS PART OF THE PROCESS•
It wasn’t pretty, but it was real.
» the event was my greatest teacher, and while it took so much away from me, it gave me so much back
Courage is needed to examine and change the structures of our minds
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr."
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I swear that todayI was born to be living!I was born to be singing!I was born to be fightingbut will somebody sayis this resistance or a costume party?
I am choosing not to be a silent witness
***** Focus your thoughts as to where you want to be, and let every fiber in your body believe in those thoughts. Patiently watch as what you seek, unfolds with clarity in front of you. "
The leaves are changing once again but this time I’m watching them change alone
I think the only thing to do if we happen to get caught in that storm is to throw everything away and start completely anew. Here goes nothing.
I always manage to foretell flaws
Mostly my own
I foretell the ending
Then go and create the cause
Save myself
And end up alone.
My own friends hate my guts, so what? Who gives a fuck?
When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend
for if that which you seek,you find not within yourself,you will never find it without.
But I don’t want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin. — Aldous Huxley
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way. — Charles Bukowski
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