Wonderful. Nice knowing you, Opera - however briefly.
Terence McKenna on consciousness, creativity, and the brain
From the article:
“Imagine if you were slightly odd, and the solution were to take you and block you into a place where people were seriously mad. That would drive anyone mad. You know it’s an environment calculated to make you crazy and to keep you crazy. This would never happen in an Aboriginal or Traditional society.”
http://consciouslifenews.com/consciousness-creativity-brain-terence-mckenna-perspective/
Quote from the Sutta Nipata
The one who is very attached to the cave of the body, that one finds detachment very difficult. Those who constantly crave for pleasure are hard to liberate and certainly cannot be liberated by others, only by themselves.
Sometimes it is only death that brings a realization of endings, and then the sensual person, deeply immersed in the body, will shout: "What will happen to me after death?"
The way toward liberation is to train yourself to live in the present without any wanting to become anything.
Give up becoming this or that, live without cravings, and experience this present moment with full attention.
Then you will not cringe at death nor seek for repeated birth.
Quote from Joyce Meyer
You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as
well go ahead and disappoint them and get it over with.
Quote from the Sutta Nipata
All the delightful things of the world - sweet sounds, lovely forms, all the pleasant tastes and touches and thoughts – these are all agreed to bring happiness if they are not grasped and possessed.
But if you regard them merely as pleasures for your own use and satisfaction and do not see them as passing wonders, they will bring suffering.
Regulus finally stopped moving and stayed in one spot. For how long, who knows.
This little pisser has created more laundry for me in the past 2 days than I normally do in a week. Good thing I have plastic under the cushion covers.
Quote from Kalu Rinpoche
If we can reach the understanding of what we actually are, there is no better remedy for eliminating all suffering.
This is the heart of all spiritual practices.
Quote from Luther Burbank
We must learn that any person, who will not accept what he knows to be true,
for the very love of truth alone, is very definitely undermining his mental
integrity.
DMI Wench
Happily married Domus Dea, gardener, photographer, writer, reader, animal lover, explorer.
Student of Everything, Master of Nothing.
I love cats, geese, ducks, coffee, green tea ice cream, sparkly flip-flops and big purses with secure zipper closures.
