February 2012
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Oh hey it’s a motherfucking thunderstorm. First of the season I think. It sounds beautiful.
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“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” Joseph Campbell
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“It takes tremendous effort to work one’s way through the difficulties of the path and actually get into the situations of life thoroughly and properly. So the whole point of the hard way seems to be that some individual effort must be made by the student to acknowledge himself, to go through the process of unmasking. One must be willing to stand alone, which is difficult.
This is not...
kmarialammy asked: How are you? Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I miss you, and I need to know.
Ask me a fucking question.
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It is always shining somewhere on the globe.
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“The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for...
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“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances without own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” Joseph Campbell
“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” Joseph Campbell
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Tumblr really doesn’t have shit on a good party with awesome people.
In fact, I really feel like a goddamned consumerist when I’m on Tumblr lately.
And there isn’t a fucking thing I can write or say or philosophize about that brings me closer to my inner joy than a moment of rejoicing in the life I’m living.
I think Tumblr has helped me re-imagine myself in a way. It has...
By letting each moment and who you were in it die completely, you begin to live in the freshness of the present moment impulse to be alive. You are no longer bound to the consistencies of a self-image. Spontaneity can manifest in self-contradicting ways. But because there is no stable identity to maintain, you can be fully human and live your polarities out fully. To love fully, you must be able...
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Cardinal Sins as Subpersonalities
I have been thinking and managing my mind and body this past week in terms of the Cardinal Sins of Christianity. I got the idea when I was watching Full-Metal Alchemist on Netflix. There are in this show seven Homunculi, seven personifications of the deadly sins. This gave me the idea of treating Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Wrath, and the others as actual entities that use the body-mind, the...
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Open Space is Basic Nature
“Fundamentally there is just open space, the basic ground, what we really are. Our most fundamental state of mind, before the creation of ego, is such that there is basic openness, basic freedom, a spacious quality; and we have now and have always had this openness. So there is always primordial intelligence connected with the space and openness. Vidya, which means “intelligence”...
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My inner space is holiness; my body is divine. Knowing this, I show respect to my highest self. By subordinating my passions and refining my instincts I cultivate the integrity and love that is mine to inherit. I see myself and my inner world as expressions of a beautiful and timeless intelligence. When I make decisions I try to remember that I am dealing with a holy being. This is how I respect...
I don’t feel like writing on the usual topics, so why don’t you ask me a question?
brightendless.tumblr.com/ask
lonely
requesting more lovers
Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there’s no one else above you
You fill my heart with gladness
Take away all my sadness
Ease my troubles, that’s what you do
For the morning sun and all it’s glory
Greets the day with hope and comfort, too
You fill my heart with laughter
Somehow, you make it better
Ease my troubles, that’s what you do
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Cultivation
Whatever you desire must be cultivated. To be in a state of cultivation is to be working toward your soul’s spiritual and physical satisfaction. We do not meditate to feel good now. This sort of expectation makes meditation impossible and it can be frustrating. We meditate because we understand cultivation. Your sense of presence, peace, joy, and love, exist in relationship to how you have...
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Training your Higher Self to Function
Action is ordinarily guided by intention. Intention is guided by perception (how you see the world and what you see in it). Perception is based on how and where your attention is focused.
The ordinary state of consciousness does not notice Being. The soul (you - the personal, living, important, evolving you) is thus away from its source and acting out of accordance with its own Beingness, and so...
grimekweenbabyg:
“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.” — Michel de Montaigne (via moreofamore)
I was just thinking this when someone nearly lost his mind behind me for letting a bunch of people cut in (car) line.
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The majority of my moral, social, and spiritual inspiration has come, in the past few months, from mind-blowing 18 to 23 year old women questing for self-love and spiritual peace. Thank you tumblr girls and personal friends for lending me your love and warm energies.
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”
George Gurdjieff
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Probably the most inspiring and motivating thing that has been happening to me recently is connecting with other people who are beginning to live above and outside the clouds that obstruct the spiritual sunlight.
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“Interest, interesse, means to be among and in the midst of things, or to be at...”
– Martin Heidegger, ”What is Called Thinking?” (via heartmindspirit)
“Listen, you have now found the conditions in which the desire of your heart can become the reality of your being. Stay here, until you acquire a force in you that nothing can destroy. Then you’ll need to go back into life, and there you will measure yourself constantly with forces which will show you your place.”
—George Gurdjieff
I should be out, but I’m in.
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How is everybody doing today?
Answer here.
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Since I started to see Reality as a unified whole I have had certain unusual impressions of how my actions are influencing the world around me. One that is particularly obvious is that when I eat mushrooms, it is not that “I” trip. It is not the character in the dream that trips. The very nature and structure of the experience is altered. I’ve gotten the entire universe high -...
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“Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers.”
-Voltaire
philosopherintraining asked: Your post about nudity is awesome, and I totally agree. Keep being awesome, friend.
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Science Attempts to Discover Basic Knowledge
Science inquires into the surface manifestations of basic knowledge — its horizontal dimension, so to speak — and spirituality inquires into its depths — its vertical dimension. Each arrives at detailed, extensive, and useful knowledge. Both attempt to discover basic knowledge that is uninfluenced by opinions or projections, or determined by prior constructions. By exploring...