“Loving yourself is the greatest work you will do in this life. In a sense, it is your only work.”

-Daphne Kingma

"Now may I ask you to please put down your bibles, And open up your mind, And turn to page infinity, chapter YOU"


- Captain Ridgeway of the vigiliant psychadelic clan xx89-01

The entire land sets out to work,
All beasts browse on their herbs;
Trees, herbs are sprouting,
Birds fly from their nests…
Ships fare north, fare south as well,
Roads lie open when you rise;
The fish in the river dart before you,
Your rays are in the midst of the sea. - Aten

Bump:

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

- Aldous Huxley

"Anyone who has time for drama is not gardening enough." Brooke Hampton

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Kahlil Gibran -The Prophet-

And they said to him "Speak to us of death"

Nature loves courage. - Terence McKenna

This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as ‘I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world.

- Erwin Schrödinger

The day of revealing shall see what it sees:
a seeing of facts, a sifting of rumors,
an insight won by the black sacred ʻawa,
a vision like that of a sacred god! - Kumu hula prayer

Construction rituals repeat the primordial act of the cosmogonic
construction. The sacrifice performed at the building
of a house, church, bridge, is simply the imitation, on
the human plane, of the sacrifice performed in illo tempore
to give birth to the world.

M. Eliade

Pai Chang

kena upanishad, II

"Self-actualization can not be intended directly, but happens as unintended side effect of self-transcedence." (V.Frankl)

"My experience agrees with Frankl´s, that people who seek self-actualization directly … don´t, in fact, achieve it … I agree entirely with Frankl that man´s primary concern is his will to meaning." (Maslow)

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“The blue mountains are constantly walking." Dōgen is quoting the Chan master Furong. -- "If you doubt mountains walking you do not know your own walking."

-- Dōgen is not concerned with "sacred mountains" - or pilgrimages, or spirit allies, or wilderness as some special quality. His mountains and streams are the processes of this earth, all of existence, process, essence, action, absence; they roll being and non-being together. They are what we are, we are what they are. For those who would see directly into essential nature, the idea of the sacred is a delusion and an obstruction: it diverts us from seeing what is before our eyes: plain thusness. Roots, stems, and branches are all equally scratchy. No hierarchy, no equality. No occult and exoteric, no gifted kids and slow achievers. No wild and tame, no bound or free, no natural and artificial. Each totally its own frail self. Even though connected all which ways; even because connected all which ways. This, thusness, is the nature of the nature of nature. The wild in wild.

So the blue mountains walk to the kitchen and back to the shop, to the desk, to the stove. We sit on the park bench and let the wind and rain drench us. The blue mountains walk out to put another coin in the parking meter, and go down to the 7-Eleven. The blue mountains march out of the sea, shoulder the sky for a while, and slip back to into the waters.”
― Gary Snyder, Practice of the Wild

Something beautiful I read today, Charlie Chaplin's speech on his 70th Birthday:

AS I BEGAN TO LOVE MYSELF


As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering

are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.

Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".


As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody

as I try to force my desires on this person,

even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it,

and even though this person was me.

Today I call it "RESPECT".


As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life,

and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow.

Today I call it "Maturity".


As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance,

I am in the right place at the right time,

and everything happens at the exactly right moment.

So I could be calm.

Today I call it "SELF-CONFIDENCE".


As I began to love myself I quit steeling my own time,

and I stopped designing huge projects for the future.

Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness,

things I love to do and that make my heart cheer,

and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm.

Today I call it "SIMPLICITY".


As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything

that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations,

and everything the drew me down and away from myself.

At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism.

Today I know it is "LOVE OF ONESELF".


As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right,

and ever since I was wrong less of the time.

Today I discovered that is "MODESTY".


As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past

and worry about the future.

Now, I only live for the moment, where EVERYTHING is happening.

Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it "FULFILLMENT".


As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me

and it can make me sick.

But As I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally.

Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART".


We no longer need to fear arguments,

confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others.

Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born.

Today I know THAT IS "LIFE"!



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