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“You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.”
—Unknown
January 2011
“It is from that place of intense aliveness, spacious presence, that you can appreciate the aliveness in all things. It is more than just the sense perception of the chair or the perception of the table or the glass of water. Within the sense perceptions you can sense that there is more than what you are perceiving on the surface; that everything has a presence, an alive presence to it. When you touch that within you, then you don’t have to wait for something to happen in your life to feel more alive.”
—Eckhart Tolle
“I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.”
—Gene Roddenberry
“In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.”
—~Robert Lawlor, The Armored Knight of the 20th Century (via fuckyeahkickassquotes)
“The mystery never ends, it cannot end. That’s why it is called a mystery, it cannot be known ever. It will never become knowledge, that’s why it is called a mystery; something in it is eternally elusive. And that’s the whole joy of life. The great splendor of life is that it keeps you eternally engaged, searching, exploring. Life is exploration, life is adventure.”
—OSHO
“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
—Walt Whitman
“Suffering the consequences of unconsciousness is the fire that ultimately burns up the false ego, but that’s the long, slow, painful way. The shortcut is any spiritual teaching that cuts through the long way, the painful way of waking up.”
—Eckhart Tolle
“The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.”
—Claude Levi-Strauss
“I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils [capitalism], namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.”
—Albert Einstein the anti-capitalist (via patmotherfuckingrado)
“This moment is given to you, a gracious gift from God or the whole or whatsoever you want to call it — Tao, dhamma, logos. This moment is available to you: sing a song, live it in its totality. And don’t try to sacrifice it for any other moment that is going to come in the future. Live it for its own sake.”
—OSHO
