"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few ( Read more... )

If I posted this before, I can't find it. I love that I will get to do this. Or not do this.

"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed ( Read more... )

I am thinking about the way I communicate. And about the way I use this journal. There are a lot of things I don't share here anymore. No one who doesn't already know needs to know, and I don't feel this is an appropriate venue for sharing those things. As for your news, I would rather here it from you than talk about it with you here and feel ( Read more... )

"...the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age - it has not fully developed, it has not reached its limit yet. For every one strives to keep his individuality as apart as possible, wishes to secure the greatest possible fullness of life for himself; but meantime all his efforts result not in attaining fullness of life but self- ( Read more... )

From "100 Acorns: 100 days of conceptual instructions by Yoko Ono"

Imagine your friends being without the baggage
you know them by.
See how you feel about them then.

a) You can relate to them better.
b) They cease to be interesting.

Think which of their baggage you are connected to.

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This brings me to a point of contemplation  where I can't think any ( Read more... )

"If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient"
--Pema Chodron

Some people seem to have interpreted it as an admonition against following one's emotions, as, being human beings, we are moody and have feelings that are highly impermanent.  I think it's more of a caution that doing the right thing can be hard, ( Read more... )

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
- Ursula K. Le Guin.

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It's going to be a long night at work.

"Great minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events, and Simple minds discuss people"
--Eleanor Roosevelt

“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst.
In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title.
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an ( Read more... )

The lure of a permanent childhood in America partly comes from the overwhelming feeling that one hasn't achieved one's true youth, because true youth would be defined by freedom so total that no one can attain it.
-Mark Grief, Eve of the Sex Children