"Under the government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."

-Henry David Thoreau

"I've been reading Whitman, know what he says, Cheer up slaves, and horrify foreign despots, he means that's the attitude for the Bard, the Zen Lunacy bard of old desert paths, see the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work ( Read more... )

"The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face or a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water..."

- Jack Kerouac; The Dharma Bums

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps
the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the
last test and proof, the work for which all other work
is but preparation.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

And a voice spoke to [the Master] on the hilltop, a voice neither male or female, loud nor soft, a voice infinitely kind. And the voice said unto him, "Not my will, but thine be done. For what is thy will is mine for thee. Go thy way as other men, and be thou happy on the earth."And hearing, the Master was glad, and gave thanks and came down from ( Read more... )

portland portland portland. well here we are, all the cooped up nut-cases that this city can hold. the schitzos and the maniacs and the punk rawkers and the psychadelic rangers and the meditating bums and the earth-addicts and the i-still-havn't-figured-out-who-i-ams ( Read more... )

When a country is in harmony with the Tao ( Read more... )