"reality is an illusion albeit a persistant one" Einstein

some of my favorites from William Blake...

“To see a world in a grain of sand,
And heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palms of your hand
And eternity in an hour.”


“If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear as it is - infinite...”


"Energy is eternal delight"

"everything...is SO beautiful."
-Many people.

there are some great ones in here!

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." ~ John Muir

Dorothy Gayle to her little dog Toto in the film The Wizard of Oz, 1939.

Thats some Blake Brother.

Endlessness Thanx for that I digging thru my book piles ready to read more....Again

This is a long quote another from Blake a poem he wrote in a letter to his friend Thomas Butts it was like a long distance internet debate back in the day and so it goes.

To Thomas Butts

TO my friend Butts I write
My first vision of light,
On the yellow sands sitting.
The sun was emitting
His glorious beams
From Heaven’s high streams.
Over sea, over land,
My eyes did expand
Into regions of air,
Away from all care;
Into regions of fire,
Remote from desire;
The light of the morning
Heaven’s mountains adorning:
In particles bright,
The jewels of light
Distinct shone and clear.
Amaz’d and in fear
I each particle gazèd,
Astonish’d, amazèd;
For each was a Man
Human-form’d. Swift I ran,
For they beckon’d to me,
Remote by the sea,
Saying: ‘Each grain of sand,
Every stone on the land,
Each rock and each hill,
Each fountain and rill,
Each herb and each tree,
Mountain, hill, earth, and sea,
Cloud, meteor, and star,
Are men seen afar.’
I stood in the streams
Of Heaven’s bright beams,
And saw Felpham sweet
Beneath my bright feet,
In soft Female charms;
And in her fair arms
My Shadow I knew,
And my wife’s Shadow too,
And my sister, and friend.
We like infants descend
In our Shadows on earth,
Like a weak mortal birth.
My eyes, more and more,
Like a sea without shore,
Continue expanding,
The Heavens commanding;
Till the jewels of light,
Heavenly men beaming bright,
Appear’d as One Man,
Who complacent began
My limbs to enfold
In His beams of bright gold;
Like dross purg’d away
All my mire and my clay.
Soft consum’d in delight,
In His bosom sun-bright
I remain’d. Soft He smil’d,
And I heard His voice mild,
Saying: ‘This is My fold,
O thou ram horn’d with gold,
Who awakest from sleep
On the sides of the deep.
On the mountains around
The roarings resound
Of the lion and wolf,
The loud sea, and deep gulf.
These are guards of My fold,
O thou ram horn’d with gold!’
And the voice faded mild;
I remain’d as a child;
All I ever had known
Before me bright shone:
I saw you and your wife
By the fountains of life.
Such the vision to me
Appear’d on the sea.


L&G

i second that L&G my brother!! that was truly an epic poem....Blake was tapped in for sure....

Some wonderful wisdom in here, that Blake poem was wonderful.

"Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." Malaclypse the Younger

"All perception is gamble" Robert Anton Wilson

"The brain is split into two distinct sections, The Thinker and The Prover. Whatever The Thinker thinks, The Prover will prove" RAW - Prometheus Rising

"The world is as you see it" Unknown guru

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke (or H.G. Wells, can't remember)

"Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law" Crowley, the Law of Thelema

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery" James Joyce

"If you can't change it, accept it"

"My spoon is too big." Don Hertzfeld

a couple of quotes from the painter Bob Ross....

"I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do. "


"All you need is the desire to make beautiful things happen."


"sometimes my tongue trips over my eye teeth and i can't see what i'm saying"


"lets have some fun today"

"what people think and say about me is actually none of my business"

“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. The lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.”—Alan Watts

"It is essential to have Knowledge; it is also essential to escape the Known." -- J. Krishnamurti

some recent favorites of mine:

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." ~ Francois Marie Voltaire

“Until we begin to see each other as ourselves, nothing will change.” ~ Peter Joseph

"Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics." ~ C.J. Keyser

“There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method” ~ Karl Pearson
**NOTE: This conflicts with the psychedelic experience, of course. But aside from that, there's no shortcut.**

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” ~ Albert Pine

"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us. To see oursels as others see us." Robert Burns

"The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life." Frank Zappa

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." George Carlin

"I intend to live forever, or die trying." Groucho Marx

"I loved when Bush came out and said, "We are losing the war against drugs." You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it." Bill Hicks

"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge." Mark Twain

"“The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?” Billy Connolly

"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." Edgard Varese

"This is bat country!" Hunter S. Thompson/Raoul Drake

Plotinus

"In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical."

"Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful."

"LSD had indeed been known to cause psychoses... in people who haven't taken it."
Timothey Leary

"It's not what we learn about plants that is important, but what they can teach us
about themselves that is."

"Ask your self this:'are you a human being having a spiritual experience, or a spiritual being
having a human experience?". Wayne Dyer.

"all men die, butnot all men truly live!" William Wallace.

"I understand, you are in the grip of the ineffable inexpressible....."

"With the power of soul anything is possible" Jimi Hendrix.

this just back from a hyperspace transmission-

"transcend your need to want"



L&G!!

Profound. That's all I'm saying.

Sorry but I just can't help it ''Get to da choppa!''-Arnold Schwarzenegger a wise man indeed=))...but seriously my favorite is ''Confucius Says:Man who leaps off cliff jumps to the conclusion.'',I know it's not really from Confucius but every single time I think about it,it makes my day because I know that somehow the universe has a sense of humor=))

REMEMBER:

spice is the variety of life.

- Espiridion

"The medicine is for everyone, but not everyone is for the medicine"

As told to me by a mexican I met, told to him by the peyote shamans.

Great great thread! I especially liked Aegle's, much love big sister. There's nothing like reading a great quote that resonates with you deeply.

Here's one of my own:

The battle within
is the only battle you need to begin

And the others:

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend.

Not all who wander are lost

Do not follow where the path may lead
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

If you do nothing unexpected
nothing unexpected happens

The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands
The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood

Dream big, and dare to fail

Finding fortune among the accidents of life - is there any greater talent?

We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope, and hope does not disappoint us

Whatever you can do
or dream you can, begin it
Boldness has genius
power and magic in it

Only dead fish go with the current

A good traveler has no fixed plan, and is not intent on arriving

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they really are

love!!