Heavens, ’tis dusk already!

Aesthetics of the Invisible World

2011-12-14T04:48:00.000-08:00

The symmetry of time. History repeating. Cyclical occurrences. Near misses. Serendipitous unions. The invisible world. The world within - manifested throughout.

— Schmüdde

A Bit

2010-12-16T13:29:00.000-08:00

The explanatory world of substance can invoke no differences and no ideas but only forces and impacts. And, per contra, the world of form and communication invokes no things, forces, or impacts but only differences and ideas. (A difference which makes a difference is an idea. It is a ‘bit’, a unit of information.)

— Gregory Bateson, Double bind, 1969 (via notational.tumblr.com from periscopio)

From Jim

2010-12-03T15:08:00.000-08:00

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others -- Buddha

Born out of thought

2010-04-23T16:11:00.000-07:00

Everything you experience is born out of thought, so everything you experience, or can experience, is an illusion. — U.G. Krishnamurti

Tuesday's Poem

2010-03-23T20:26:00.000-07:00

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

by Mark Strand from Reasons for Moving;
Atheneum, 1968
via 3Quarks Daily

The Five Remembrances

2010-03-18T04:53:00.000-07:00

My deeds are my closest companions; I am the beneficiary of my deeds; my deeds are the ground on which I stand.

via http://myserendipities.tumblr.com/page/5

Integral LIfe

2010-02-28T21:03:00.000-08:00

The world is a vast terrain of perspectives existing in a state of confusion, crashing into one another in cycles of mindless conflict.

Awareness is the act of holding multiple perspectives in a space that nurtures their value and constrains their short sightedness, allowing depth to emerge in our understanding and actions.

An Integral Life is a life that aligns with and seeks out this act of integrative awareness, which results in conscious identification with the evolution of Spirit in all its complexity and beauty.

Devin Wilson - at Integral Life

Resilience = Existence

2010-02-28T20:51:00.000-08:00

... working definition of resilience: “1) the ability of a system to absorb or buffer disturbances and still maintain its core attributes; 2) the ability of the system to self-organize, and 3) the capacity for learning and adaptation in the context of change.” (Armitage via Walker, Holling, Folke, et al)

Homeland Security Watch

Responsible agency has disappeared.

2010-02-28T20:46:00.000-08:00

"Furthermore, the very way you consider the world, or the very way in which the world is considered by you, is subtly altered. You used to see a world in which birds ate worms and men made decisions. Now it looks more like a world in which worms are eaten by birds and decisions are made by men. It’s almost a world in which victims are put forward as “doers” responsible for whatever may befall them and actions are almost unrelated to those who perform them. But only almost. The next step is not taken until you learn to see a world in which worms are eaten and decisions made and all responsible agency has disappeared. "

Richard Mitchell from Less than Words Can Say

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

2010-02-28T20:31:00.001-08:00

Poem Composed While Riding and Thinking

Ah, the depths of my stupidity.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...

Stupidity and Wisdom

2010-02-28T20:30:00.001-08:00

When all the myriad streams that flow in different places, each with its own color and taste, enter the great ocean, they blend and become just one taste, with one name. In the same way, stupidity and wisdom both become one in the awakened mind. When one first starts along the path, there seems to be a distinction that this is stupidity and that is wisdom. But later, when one penetrates more deeply, one finds there is no difference between stupidity and wisdom.

-Visuddhi Magga

Robin Morgan, The Burning Time

2010-02-28T20:25:00.001-08:00

"Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere."

J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

2010-02-28T20:21:00.000-08:00

"When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. "

--J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known, pp.51-52

Nietzsche -Thus Spoke Zarathustra

2010-02-28T20:19:00.000-08:00

"Companions, the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators, the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions, the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. ... Fellow creators, Zarathustra seeks, fellow harvesters and fellow celebrants: what are herds and shepherds and corpses to him?"

Ken Wilber

2010-02-28T20:06:00.000-08:00

The Atman Project - today this page appears as an antiquity ... from 2003. Emphasis mine.

The Atman Project is the title of a book by the father and leader of the transpersonal psychology movement, Ken Wilber. By his definition, the Atman project is "the attempt to find Spirit in ways that prevent it and force substitute gratifications. And...the entire structure of the manifest universe is driven by the Atman project, a project that continues until we-until you and I-awaken to the Spirit whose substitutes we seek in the world of space and time and grasping and despair."

Aziz Nasaf- Sufi Mystic

2010-02-28T20:00:00.000-08:00

“The spiritual world is one single spirit who stands like unto a light behind the bodily world and who, when any single creature comes into being, shines through it like a window. According to the kind or size of the window less or more light enters the world. The light itself however remains unchanged”. The spiritual Origin, when viewed from an internal perspective, is revealed to the realizing perception as “Atman”, the eternal, beatific, universal Self. When viewed from an external perspective, it is understood as “Brahman”- the source and ground of all manifestation. Hence, the essence of every human –the deepest part of every being- is not temporal or relative, but eternal and absolute, participating in the Ocean of Spirit that is the source of all existence."