That Which Does Not Suffer

“We have to confront our own destiny.” —Samael Aun Weor Archive. Gnosis.

[radical-revolution]

“We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality.”

— Nicolas Berdyaev

[radical-revolution]

[dimensional-tourist]

The main point to grasp is that you have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and that you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.

Nisargadatta Marharaj

[thirdity]

“I am a free man ― and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it.”

— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

[philosophybits]

“Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. […] Deprivation of this poetry explains all forms of demoralization.”

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[ergo-lusus-naturae]

[shisasan]

June-July , 1907 Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921), Selected Poems

[enchantedbook]

"Old German Folk Tale" 🎨 Hermann Hendrich. 1896

[metaphorformetaphor]

“I keep turning you over in my mind. I keep turning you over in my heart.”

— Li-Young Lee, from “Sandalwood,” The Undressing: Poems (W. W. Norton  Company, 2018)

[radical-revolution]

As we shed the trappings of an insecure life, as we venture more fully into the realm of tender acceptance, there are lighted moments that reveal an authority of being that has been there all along.

Mark Nepo

[philosophybits]

“Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (7.7)

[thecalminside]

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

-Rabindranath Tagore

[radical-revolution]

In the garbage ,

I see a rose.

In the rose ,

I see the garbage.

Everything is in transformation.

Even permanence is impermanent

Thich Nhat Hanh

[radical-revolution]

[radical-revolution]

Dilgo Khyentse & Trungpa Rinpoche

Self-deception seems always to depend upon the dream world, because you would like to see what you have not yet seen, rather than what you are now seeing.

Self-deception manifests in trying to create or recreate a dream world, the nostalgia of the dream experience.

The opposite of self-deception is just working with the facts of life.

Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

[thoughtkick]

“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”

— Sophocles, Antigone

[thoughtkick]

“I want to be with you, it is as simple, and as complicated as that.”

— Charles Bukowski