The following is part musical review, part "field observations" using techniques of consciously using the heart as the primary organ of perception, and part "letter to the class," to my Spiritual Psychology of the Human Heart class, at Antioch University Seattle. Kudos to our prof, Randy Morris, who put together a real treat for us in that class ( Read more... )

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man ( Read more... )

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.

--Carl G. Jung

Art is the language that is the language of the heart, that is the language of the emotional structure.

--Margaret Mead

We have all heard people describe other people, in a derogatory way, as being "full of imagination." The fact is that if you are not full of imagination, you are not very sane.

--Buckminster Fuller

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black mother within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.

--Audre Lorde

Amen!!!

"More than 70% of King County's general fund is directed towards the criminal justice system."

--Larry Gossett, member King County Council (Washington (Seattle))

"The drug war is a colossal failure and is the most dysfunctional policy since slavery."

--Norm Stamper, retired Chief of Seattle Police Dept, and member of Law Enforcement Against ( Read more... )

I’ve never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

-Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land

A monarch’s neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

-Lazarus Long, Time ( Read more... )

The creature of institutions, bigoted and a conservatist, can say nothing hearty. He cannot meet life with life, but only with words.

--Henry David Thoreau

You cannot get out of Universe. Universe is not a system. Universe is not a shape. Universe is a scenario. You are always in Universe. You can only get out of systems.There may be no ( Read more... )

Bud'te hluboce a nesmlouvavě pravdomluvní. Nikdy neváhejte vyjádřit to, co cítíte, i když se to příčí ustáleným názorům. Možná, že vám napoprvé nikdo neporozumí. Vaše osamocení však nebude dlouho trvat. Brzy budete mít přátele, nebot' to, co je hluboce pravdivé pro jednoho člověka, je pravdivé pro všechny ( Read more... )

There is no absolute truth because there is absolute truth; how could there be relativity, were there no absolute?