The Self Under Quarantine: We Are Not Machines
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The Self Under Quarantine: We Are Not Machines
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”
Chief Seattle
idk who needs to hear this but ur brain is just a body part
“Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”
— Alan Watts
“No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.”
— Matt Haig, The Humans (via perfeqt)
Chaos is a dance, a flowing dance of life, and this dance is erotic. Civilization hates chaos and, therefore, also hates Eros. Even in supposedly sexually free times, civilization represses the erotic. It teaches that orgasms are events that happen only in a few small parts of our bodies and only through the correct manipulation of those parts. It squeezes Eros into the armor of Mars, making sex into a competitive, achievement-centered job rather than joyful, innocent play.
Yet even in the midst of such repression, Eros refuses to accept this mold. His joyful, dancing form breaks through Mars’ armor here and there. As blinded as we are by our civilized existence, the dance of life keeps seeping into our awareness in little ways. We look at a sunset, stand in the midst of the forest, climb on a mountain, hear a bird song, walk barefoot on a beach, and we start to feel a certain elation, a sense of awe and joy. It is the beginning of an orgasm of the entire body, one not limited to civilization’s so-called “erogenous zones”, but civilization never lets the feeling fulfill itself. Otherwise, we’d realize that everything that is not a product of civilization is alive and joyfully erotic.
But a few of us are slowly awakening from the anesthesia of civilization. We are becoming aware that every stone, every tree, every river, every animal, every being in the universe is not only just as alive, but at present is more alive than we who are civilized beings. This awareness is not just intellectual. It can’t be or civilization will just turn into another academic theory. We are feeling it. We have heard the love-songs of rivers and mountains and have seen the dances of trees. We no longer want to use them as dead things, since they are very much alive. We want to be their lovers, to join in their beautiful, erotic dance. It scares us. The death-dance of civilization freezes every cell, every muscle within us. We know we will be clumsy dancers and clumsy lovers. We will be fools. But our freedom lies in our foolishness. If we can be fools, we have begun to break civilizations chains, we have begun to lose our need to achieve. With no need to achieve, we have time to learn the dance of life; we have time to become lovers of trees and rocks and rivers. Or, more accurately, time cease to exist for us; the dance becomes our lives as we learn to love all that lives. And unless we learn to dance the dance of life, all our resistance to civilization will be useless. Since it will still govern within us, we will just re-create it.
So let’s dance the dance of life. Let’s dance clumsily without shame, for which of us civilized people isn’t clumsy? Let’s make love to rivers, to trees, to mountains with our eyes, our toes, our hands, our ears. Let every part of our bodies awaken to the erotic ecstasy of life’s dance. We’ll fly. We’ll dance. We’ll heal. We’ll find that our imaginations are strong, that they are part of the erotic dance that can create the world we desire.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.”
— Oscar Wilde (via thoughtkick)
“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
— Zen Shin (via thoughtkick)
So I’m studying buddhism and currently call myself a Buddhist, but that doesn’t mean I believe in all of it. One key thing is most sects believe in one consciousness, and that we are a part of it. I do not disagree with this statement, but I do find it lacking. I think we are given a piece of consciousness (the black flame) and while we have life we have the opportunity to shape it into something of our own.
When you lack to make it your own, it just gets absorbed back into the mass, unidentifiable.
“We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.”
— Alice Miller (via quotefeeling)
“If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.”
Ram Dass
Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.’
– Alan Watts
I redid my altar, before it was on the trunk, but now it’s inside of it since I might be moving in with someone and I would rather not have it out on the open. The trunk can even be locked and I plan on putting cushions on top to make it look more like a sitting area. Really happy with how it came out.
I plan on being more active on this blog. I kind of drifted from this due to an addiction and a few other things taking over my life. Since then I have grown a lot and am recovering. I’m diving back into my left hand path and since then I have discovered Stoicism, Buddhism, and Jungian psychology. I’m studying all of those things right now, and have been practicing meditation more and performing a few rituals. Exciting to share my latest, and future realizations, shit has been interesting.
“Working on myself, by myself, for myself.”
— Unknown
“Never tell a child ‘you have a soul.’ Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.”
— George MacDonald (via perfeqt)