“Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn’t – it’s…
How queer everything is today! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the…
“Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.” Rupert Sheldrake This dreamstate talk…
“We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.” Kurt Vonnegut Thought is the great equalizer. Anyone who can open a can…
Fool and Wise Man, hand-in-hand, Set out to settle a flap. “There’s trouble ahead,” the Wise Man said, “So don your thinking cap!” At this the Fool turned…
“The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few, is to be found in their industry, application, andperseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.” Mark Twain…
“Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.” Henry David Thoreau…
“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is…
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds…
Book Two of The Enlightenment Trilogy By Jed McKenna Do not think the Buddhas are other than you. Dogen Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment Isn’t One Kind of Enlightenment —…
Dear Mr. McKenna, I finished reading your book Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing and I’m so mad, I could chew nails. While you tout your book by its very title…
And that the great monster is indomitable, you will yet have reason to know. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“The Spiritual Master is absurd, like everything else. He is a Function that serves to Enlighten or Awaken beings from this condition that is absurd and unnecessary to…
“Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.” H. D. Thoreau
“If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.” Henry David Thoreau
“The end of illusion is the end of you.” U.G. Krishnamurti The words of U.G. Krishnamurti: Part I There’s a lot I really like about U.G. Krishnamurti, and there…
Illusion recognized must disappear. A Course In Miracles
Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders; I have no mockings or arguments— I witness and wait. Walt Whitman
“So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and…
By Walt Whitman WHOEVER you are, holding me now in hand, Without one thing, all will be useless, I give you fair warning, before you attempt me further,…
“I realize that no contemplative path wants to advertise the cross or the suffering entailed in the crossing over. On the other hand we must not be naive…
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. Walt Whitman
“One who has seen his true nature no longer regards life as being full of menace and misery as most people do. His previously mistaken sense of personal…
“The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.” Mark Twain Chapter 11 from The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain. FOR AS MUCH AS A YEAR…
“He’s a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the…
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning— I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find…
How hath this weakness taken thee? Whence springs The inglorious trouble, shameful to the brave, Barring the path of virtue? Nay, Arjun! Forbid thyself to feebleness! it mars…
My members fail, my tongue dries in my mouth, A shudder thrills my body, and my hair Bristles with horror; from my weak hand slips Gandîv, the goodly…
The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and—Aye! I lost this leg. I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
The soul that with a strong and constant calm Takes sorrow and takes joy indifferently, Lives in the life undying! That which is Can never cease to be;…
His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the…
“There is no religious content, no mystical overtones at all, in what I am saying. Man has to be saved from the saviours of mankind! The religious people…