Listen to Them

These pains you feel
are messengers.
Listen to them.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi

Mediocrity

Some men are born mediocre,
some men achieve mediocrity,
and some men have mediocrity
thrust upon them.

Joseph Heller

The Person We Have Become

It isn't so much we want to
leave the person we're with,
as we want to leave the person
we have become.

Esther Perel

Not What We Are

Suffering is to the mind what pain is to the body,
a signal that something needs attending to,
a message that we have mistaken our Self
for a cluster of thoughts and feelings.
In other words, suffering is not here to thwart us;
it is not a punishment. On the contrary, it is here
to help us. It is a wake-up call.

To begin with, it is a gentle call, but in time
it gets more and more severe. Irrespective of
its intensity, the wake-up call is always saying
the same thing: we have mistaken ourselves
for a cluster of thoughts and feelings; we have
overlooked or forgotten who we truly are.

The separate self is not what we are.

Rupert Spira

A Breeze Going By

There's a breeze going by, but
it doesn't determine the weather.

Anonymous

Everything I've Got

You know I'd give you everything I've got
for a little peace of mind.

The Beatles from "I'm So Tired"

Absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent

Cosmic Love is
absolutely ruthless
and highly indifferent:
it teaches its lessons
whether you like/dislike
them or not.

John C. Lilly

Nothing More, Nothing Less

All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood
in the world today are programmed biocomputers.
No one of us can escape our own nature as
programmable entities. Literally, each of us
may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less.

John C. Lilly

So Fragile

The male dominant agenda
is so fragile that any competitor
is felt as a deadly foe.

Terence McKenna

Culture Can Be Re-Engineered

The message of psychedelics is that culture can be
re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values
rather than products. This is terrifying news.

Terence McKenna

We Give Everything Away

We tend to disempower ourselves.
We tend to believe that we don't matter.
And in the act of taking the idea to
ourselves we give everything away
to somebody else, to something else.

Terence McKenna

You're Actually Listening

Half the time you think you're thinking,
you're actually listening.

Terence McKenna

Have a Plan

If you don't have a plan,
you become part of
someone else's plan.

Terence McKenna

Don't Believe Anything

My technique is don't believe anything.
If you believe in something, you are
automatically precluded from believing
its opposite.

Terence McKenna

Where All the Contradictions Flow Together

We have been to the moon,
we have charted the depths of
the ocean and the heart of the atom,
but we have a fear of looking inward
to ourselves because we sense that is
where all the contradictions flow together.

Terence McKenna

It's Not Easy

It's clearly a crisis of two things:
of consciousness and conditioning.
We have the technological power,
the engineering skills to save
our planet, to cure disease,
to feed the hungry, to end war.
But we lack the intellectual vision,
the ability to change our minds.
We must de-condition ourselves
from 10,000 years of bad behavior.
And, it's not easy.

Terence McKenna

A Loaded Gun

Western civilization is a loaded gun
pointed at the head of this planet.

Terence McKenna

The Marriage to Come

Too many brides focus more
on their wedding day than
the 50-year marriage to come.

Abby Rodman

The Quest for the Weird

It was the quest for the weird
that brought me so far.

Terence McKenna

Nobody Knows

Nobody knows jack shit
about what is going on.

Terence McKenna

True Happiness

True happiness is found in simple,
seemingly unremarkable things.

Eckhart Tolle.

Queerer Than We Can Suppose

My own suspicion is that the universe
is not only stranger than we suppose,
but stranger than we can suppose.

J.B.S. Haldane

Facing the Answer

The problem is not
to find the answer,
it's to face the answer.

Terence McKenna

All of Them Make Me Laugh

Among those whom I like or admire,

I can find no common denominator.

But among those whom I love, I can;

all of them make me laugh.

W.H. Auden

Your Own Authority

I have taken you to only one place.
It is the most heretical place you can be.
It is your own authority.
Understand how profound that is.

Ra Uru Hu