Book Three of The Enlightenment Trilogy By Jed McKenna Truly, I have attained nothing from total enlightenment. Buddha Guns and bombs are children’s toys.…
Chapter 1 Behold! I am come as thy brother and thy companion in tribulation, and I speak unto thee on this, thy day of…
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” Mark Twain
“The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria;…
“Well, I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but…
YOU CAN SKIP THIS CHAPTER, but if you get confused later about the terms and concepts we’re using and the relationships between them, come…
“‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else…
Af-flu-en-za n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork,…
“Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal,…
IN CONTACT with the flux of cosmic consciousness all religions known and named today will be melted down. The human soul will be revolutionized.…
“DO YOU BEGIN TO SEE, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that…
Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent— that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. Friedrich Nietzsche
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be…
“For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as…
O ME, man of slack faith so long! Standing aloof—denying portions so long; Only aware today of compact, all-diffused truth; Discovering today there is…
“The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what…
“I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make…
“It is not that you must be free from fear. The moment you try to free yourself from fear, you create a resistance against…
“The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we…
If the eye never sleeps, all dreams will naturally cease. If the mind makes no discriminations, the ten thousand things are as they are,…
“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not…
“Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.” Mahatma Gandhi
Of the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty after all—that we may be deluded, That maybe reliance and hope are but speculations after…
“Do you believe,” said Candide, “that men have always massacred each other as they do today, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors,…
“His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling…
“There seem to be two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish…
“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a…
Magnifying and applying come I, Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters, Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah, Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his…
Yet now, forsooth, because Pierre began to see through the first superficiality of the world, he fondly weens he has come to the unlayered…
Alice came to a fork in the road. “Which road do I take?” she asked. “Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire…
AS I lay with my head in your lap, Camerado, The confession I made I resume— what I said to you in the open…
“You remember when I said how I was gonna explain about life, buddy? Well the thing about life is, it gets weird. People are…
“The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won’t let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They…