February 2012
3 posts
“In the beginning, which is really no beginning … the will wants to know...”
– D.T. Suzuki
“Inconceivable as it may seem to ordinary reason, you — and allother...”
– Erwin Schroedinger
November 2011
8 posts
“Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“We are transforming and continuing in a different form every moment.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
October 2011
21 posts
“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the...”
– Albert Einstein
WatchA clip of Marrianne Williamson and Eckhart Tolle, touching on an important spiritual conversation to be having during these transformational times. “Midwifing the New Consciousness”
“The true test of awakening comes not in the meditation hall or while on retreat,...”
– Richard Miller
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our...”
– Bob Marley
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
– Nelson Mandella
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Remaining Human: A Buddhist Perspective on Occupy... →
Buddhist wisdom applied to revolutionary emergence. A well articulated depth of perspective offered on the Occupy Movement. Deeply resonant and inspiring words! Drawing me deeper into the living realization of the beautifully fresh and engaging process of what it is to awaken in this evolving new paradigm. Where as Slavoj Žižek says, “Enlightenment is not personal; it’s collective.”
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the...”
– Desmond Tutu
“The Occupy Wall Street initiative and the efforts it has spawned throughout the...”
– Noam Chomsky
“The alternative is extremely difficult to imagine, until we realize it. Albert...”
– Daniel Pinchbeck
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have...”
– Alice Walker
September 2011
12 posts
“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
– Walt Whitman
2 tags
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I...”
– Walt Whitman
“Between where you are now and where you’d like to be there’s a sort...”
– David Bohm
“What was I before I came to self-consciousness? … I did not exist at all,...”
– Johann Gottlieb Fichte
August 2011
7 posts
Conversation with Yang-ch'i
A monk asked Yang-ch’i, “As it is said, if you want to escape from the clamor in the mind, you should read the ancient teaching. What is the ancient teaching?” Yang-ch’i said, “The moon is bright in space; the waves are calm on the ocean.” The monk asked, “How does one read it?” Yang-ch’i said, “Watch your step.”
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“This is what I think of when I think of a creative life, a life whose center of...”
– Bob Ostertag