the whole universe consists of a cosmic Self playing hide-and-seek (Lila); hiding from itself (Maya) by becoming all the living and non-living things in the universe and forgetting what it really is — the upshot being that we are all IT in disguise.
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psychedelic drugs and spirituality
If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.
Alan Watts
be kind
I always thought “be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle” was saccharine BS until I had 3 children.
@codinghorror on Twitter
a medium for others
It’s never about me. [My supporters] use me as a mark for themselves to recognise their own form of life: I become their medium.
Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and dissident, 2011
love without action
Love without action is meaningless, and action without love is irrelevant.
Deepak Chopra, spiritual teacher
my voice is not for me
My voice is not for me. Every time I speak, I think how many people had a voice that no one could hear.
Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and dissident, 2011
the seeds
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
the rain
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
human journey
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
sound of suffering
The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.
