dreaming the maze

[dreamingthemaze]

So again, this isn't so much something I'm telling you as a mind or an ego to do, it's simply something you notice. And then by noticing that Awareness is allowing everything to be as it is, you begin to participate in it. It can be very easy for the mind to misunderstand this. The mind can think that its job is to allow everything to be, but that is not the way that I'm intending you to understand it. All you're doing is noticing that underneath whatever your mind may be doing, there's a natural state of Awareness that is always and only in a state of allowing everything to be. And you notice it, but also allow yourself to feel it, feel that quality of letting go of control.

Adyashanti

[dreamingthemaze]

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger, and we are pitifully unaware of it. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.

Carl Jung

[dreamingthemaze]

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship – be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things,  if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. Worship power – you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart – you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on. Look, the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful; it is that they are unconscious. They are default-settings. They’re the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that’s what you’re doing.

David Foster Wallace (via dreamingthemaze)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”

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Thomas Szasz

[dreamingthemaze]

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

J.D. Salinger

Franny and Zooey

[aspiritualwarrior]

We are always trying to build a bridge between what is and what should be. And in that there is contradiction and conflict.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

[migas]

In stillness all conflict must end.

Phillip Urso

[aspiritualwarrior]

If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.

Eckhart Tolle

[aspiritualwarrior]

The known is least true. The unknown is more true. That state which is prior to knowing and not knowing is the truth itself.

Adyashanti

[lazyyogi]

If you can cherish yourself even as you discard your current favourite mask, you are living perfectly in the way of peace.

Deepak Chopra

[dreamingthemaze]

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Bill Gates

[beesandbombs]

wavers

[dreamingthemaze]

Intellectualization creates a gap or lack of rapport between you and your life. You may think about things so much that you get into the state where you are eating the menu instead of the dinner.

Alan Watts

[dreamingthemaze]

In its essence, technology is something that man does not control.

Martin Heidegger

Der Spiegel Interview, 1966

[beeple]

DEEP SPACE

[dreamingthemaze]

One of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective.

Stephen Fry

[dreamingthemaze]

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it.

Friedrich Nietzsche