Is This All There Is?

Christopher Wood

We have been programmed to live in a fearful vibration. Why? Because a fearful person is obedient.

— Sun Wolf

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“Our institutions rest upon injustice and authority: it is only by closing our hearts against sympathy and our minds against truth that we can endure the oppressions and unfairnesses by which we profit.”

— Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight

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I am relieved to know that enlightenment cannot be found in a tape or a book, at a workshop or a refuge, on a yoga mat or a meditation cushion. It can’t be found by witnessing the pain body or feigning forgiveness. It isn’t waiting for us at the next spiritual conference or the next empowerment weekend. It isn’t living in the excesses of positive thinking, nor is it waiting on the outskirts of the world, safely above the fray. I am also relieved to know that those who claim they have arrived at its illusory shores, are, by definition, delusional, for anyone who begins to awaken immediately recognizes how many paths await, still undiscovered.

— Jeff Brown

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Whenever I am asked what kind of writing is the most lucrative, I have to say, a ransom note.

- Agent/Author H N Swanson