“It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals…
“There is in life a power, a consciousness, a dynamism that is greater than human control. When we acknowledge that we are navigating the skies, sailing the high seas, and not controlling life, we make far more profitable, ethical, and sustainable decisions.”
— Lisa Miller
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Trees are living beings…
The whole is in every fractal. Each tear holds the world.
Humanity has yet to discover how to program the quantum chips that are emerging. When we start programming the first quantum computer, I believe what we’re going to reveal is that each of us is a supercomputer, where every single…
I notice the difference between people writing in the flow of consciousness or not. Flow of consciousness are more like what I call ‘musings’ and give an embodied way of making oneself deeply acquainted with a topic in a different, associative way.
Don’t know exactly how that relates to creativity…
Ancient philosophers already discussed the power and intelligence of the human heart. Aristotle regarded the heart as the center of reason, thought, and emotion. The Arab philosopher Abu Nasr al-Farabi believed that the brain was subordinate to the heart. …
“According to tantric Buddhism, you can keep your passion, but you can’t have your self.”
Jangchup Garma
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To “see” means to stop getting caught up in “this is happening to me” and “that is happening to me”, to stop being pulled in by the tempest of life, to stop…
‘If you’re lucky, at some point in your life you’ll come to a complete end. Or to put it another way; if you’re lucky you’ll come to a crossroads and see that the path to the left leads to hell, that the path to the right leads to hell, that…
DEATH AND MEDITATION
Dharma Connect: Lou Reed’s Meditative Death
Laurie Anderson — performance artist, meditator, and wife of Lou Reed — wrote an extraordinarily beautiful description in this week’s Rolling Stone of her husband’s death….
As his death approached, he came home from the hospital:
“As meditators, we had prepared…
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. As a man sees in his heart, so he sees. Through unclean windows, lenses, senses, we see things not as they are but as we are.
~Jersey Journal, 1914
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As soon as I wake up in the morning, I…
THIS DAY
It is possible this day to perceive our lives as small and powerless; or it is possible to perceive our lives as personal stages upon which the entire cosmic drama is being played out.
It is possible this day to perceive ourselves as isolated individuals lost in a…
