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The Silence of Hibernating Rattlesnakes
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
— William S. Burroughs (1914–1997)
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When you don’t know and the mind is empty, you know what you need to know when you need it. This way you carry no luggage.
…Nirsargattta was awakened because his guru said he was already always awake and he just believed him totally, so he was awake. My father believed and told me with his behavior, that I wouldn’t succeed, so I believed him as a good son should, and I didn’t succeed…as I tried to please my father on the unconscious level by sabotaging my good intentions of the conscious level, and tried to please my self by succeeding on the higher level.
— Ed Conley
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The Gods want us to grow up, to step up to that high calling that each soul carries as its destiny. Choosing the path that enlarges rather than diminishes will serve us well in navigating through this idol-ridden, clamorous but sterile time, and move us…
