February 2012
61 posts
lenabena4 asked: Just found your blog on the existentalism tag.... thanks for sharing yourself! Its been great to poke around your archive =]
Quantic - Not So Blue
Lent
Although a practicing Zen Buddhist, I do not exclude myself from any religion. This can be a difficult concept to understand for some people, but Buddhism, especially Zen, is not exclusive. In many ways it is not a religion, but much more and much less at the same time. I was raised in a Catholic family and have practiced many of the holy days for most of my life. Lent is a great opportunity to...
“[As the Oracle at Delphi teaches], ‘Man, know your self and you will know the...”
– (via gnosticteachings)
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“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
– Alan Watts
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“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just...”
– Alan Watts
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“We do not judge the people we love.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals...”
– James Joyce
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Festivities
Reflecting on the history of Mardi Gras, it comes from the tradition of the saturnalia, a Roman holiday. The Saturnalia marks a time of revelry in which people perform. It is a time that we recognize the identity we think we are is merely a performance. Our gender, social class, occupation, etc are all performances we learn through social learning. Carnival season marks a time when we can reflect...
“At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things and...”
– Carl Jung (via sweetlotus)
“Do not say, “I will meditate on the Cosmic Being tomorrow.” That tomorrow will never come. Begin your meditation today. Today’s practice will stimulate the desire to meditate tomorrow deeper, whereas this day’s negligence will weaken your craving. Do not be lured by bad habits and paltry useless-vanity-engagements into crowding out God-contact.
The world creates in you bad habits, but the...
“One sould be in love. Love should not be just a relationship, it should be a...”
– Osho (via moreofamore)
I understand this now. (via tiny-beings)
Let’s throw our hearts to the wind in hope it will carry our love around the world, an all encompassing hug.
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Class is Always in Session
To learn, we must listen. To listen, we must refrain from talking. This is true in the formal class room setting but it is also a valid lesson for the greatest classroom, life in the world. Quiet your “monkey mind” and life will teach you great lessons. Life is the greatest teacher. Each day is a new lesson.
“I touch you, I am created in you
somewhere as a complex
filament of light
...”
– Margaret Atwood, from “I Was Reading a Scientific Article” (via growing-orbits)
“I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other....”
– Erykah Badu (via revolutioneyes)
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Enso of Being
Find in yourself the place where east meets west, feminine meets masculine, positive meets negative. Locate this finite point in your being and reflect on it. In time, you will see the distinction is an illusion. There isn’t a dual segregation but rather a continuum, a spectrum. You do not have a beginning, a middle, or an end. You are eternal and infinite. Find this view and you have come...
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“This is the use of memory:
For liberation-not less of love but expanding
Of...”
– T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” III, The Four Quartets
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So Much Beauty in Dirt
Bloom, the unconscious hero,
For the sake of beauty, grown
Out of dirt and out of mud.
Rising from the mother,
Oh great Earth!
Rising undeterred in crowded wood.
Rising ever more with absconded hood.
Gently parting that scarlet veil.
Displaying all the beauty that one should.
Never known to man nor woman.
In that sacred grove,
It stands, the most beautiful flower.
“Be grateful for the empty inner place and the wound that pushed you to God.”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via thelittlephilosopher)
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tiny-beings:
“Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the “love” of ego. However, the intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love…
“Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)
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tiny-beings:
It is difficult to understand why certain things happen in the present, or why you make certain rash (or so it seems) decisions that you later regret making when logic and rationality finds you in the moments after these decisions have been made. But give it time and in a few years time, it’ll…
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via wethinkwedream)
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“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thelittlephilosopher)