Molotov Cocktails

[martin]

Moment after moment, everyone comes out of nothingness.
This is the true joy of life.
(Shunryu Suzuki)

Before you attain it, it is something wonderful,
but after you attain it, it is nothing special.
(Shunryu Suzuki)

You can go back to your gurus. Do what you like. This thing I am
talking about happens to the lucky; if you are lucky you are lucky.
That is all. I have nothing to do with it. It is in no one's hands.
(U.G. Krisjnamurti)


My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright.
You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret,
distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship,
without my consent or the permission of anybody.
(U.G. Krisjnamurti)

Martin

[martin]

This requires some explanation, I guess.
With a "Molotov Cocktail" I mean - in this case -a statement that more or less explodes in your face when you hear it for the first time.
And you don't know what has hit you ...

The above statements exploded in my face (some more, some less, some with no bang at all, they whispered) but they will not necessarily explode in yours.
Which is a pity, in a way ...

But well, if you want to throw something back ..

Martin

[hilary]

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity, and you are the mirror"

Kahlil Gibran

[martin]

There is no real expansion of consciousness without an expansion of love.
(Samuel Lewis)

When the heart touches a certain plane it bursts into flames, so to speak,
and that flame touches the many planes of the universe.
(Samuel Lewis)

[val]

Even Sissy knows, having a way with birds, that the spirit cannot fly with only one wing.

~Tom Robbins

[val]

errrr...

~Tom Robbins from "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"

[davidl]

'I think therefore I am'
Rene' Descartes

"A rock doesn't think, therefore it isn't ?
Joseph Campbell

[gene]

Who says the rock doesn't think?

Gene

[malka]

Changing The World

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world. --An Unknown 1100 A.D.-

[malka]

To my fellow swimmers:

There is a river flowing now very fast.

It is so great and swift, that there are those who will be afraid.

They will try to hold on to the shore.

They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly.

Know that the river has its destination.

The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open and our heads above the water.

And I say, see who is there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history we are to take nothing personal. Least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over.

Gather yourselves.

Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and vocabulary.

All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

WE ARE THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR.

Oraibi, Arizona
Hopi Nationu

[tashiiij]

from Tenzin Palmo's book, "Cave In The Snow":

"For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating and the object of meditation must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become completely absorbed, then the transformation will occur. The awareness naturally drops from the head to the heart - and when that happens the heart opens and there is no "I". And that is the relief. When one can learn to live from that centre rather than up in the head, whatever one does is spontaneous and appropriate. It also immediately releases a great flow of energy because it is not at all obstrcted as it usually is by our own intervention. One becomes more joyful and light, in both senses of the word, because it's going back to the source, the heart, rather than being in exile in the head. Our modern scientific approach has thrown such emphasis on the brain, we're all so cut off. that is why so many people feel life is meaningless and sterile."

[dharma]

"We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are." --Anaïs Nin

"When we see God in each other we will be able to live in peace." -?Mother Teresa

[dharma]

"There is no path to truth. Truth must be discovered, but there is no formula for its discovery. What is formulated is not true. You must set out on the uncharted sea, and the uncharted sea is yourself."
<CENTER>~~J. Krishnamurti</CENTER>

[martin]

If you can let go of the Tao with your mind
and surround it with your heart,
it will live inside you forever.
(Lao Tzu)

[alladrm]

What we need to do to allow magic to get hold of us is to banish doubts from our minds. Once doubts are banished, anything is possible.

The Wheel of Time

[dharma]

<CENTER>When the wise man learns the Way,
He tries to live by it.
When the average man learns the Way,
He lives by only part of it.
When the fool learns the Way,
He laughs at it.
Yet if the fool did not laugh at it,
It would not be the Way.
Indeed, if you are seeking the Way,
Listen for the laughter of fools.

~~Chinese philosopher Lao Tsu</CENTER>

[sparhawk]

<CENTER><FONT COLOR="0000ff">Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust
Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.</FONT></CENTER>

The "Rubaiyat" by Omar Khayyam, 26.

[martin]

My mind is limited
But my heart is not, I hope

(Fazal Inayat Khan)

[sparhawk]

<BLOCKQUOTE><HR SIZE=0><!-Quote-!><FONT SIZE=1>Quote:</FONT>

Life and mind emerge not as the results of freakish accidents, but
as natural manifestations of matter, written into the fabric of the
universe. I view this universe not as a ?cosmic joke,? but as a meaningful
entity?made in such a way as to generate life and mind,
bound to give birth to thinking beings able to discern truth, apprehend
beauty, feel love, yearn after goodness, define evil, experience
mystery.<!-/Quote-!><HR SIZE=0></BLOCKQUOTE>

Christian de Duve.
1974 Nobel Laureate in Medicine

[tashiiij]

"One thing archaeology demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt is that there is no such thing as 'away' when ones speaks about throwing things like arrowheads, broken dishes, glass, spent nuclear fuel, asphault, refrigerators, autos, computers, diapers away."

Theresa Kintz