February 2012
liar, liar
loins on fire.
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“Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood,...”
– Zen Proverb
I don't mean to close the door, but,
for the record, my heart is sore.
You blew through me like bullet holes;
left stains on my sheets and stains on my soul.
If things are going wrong for you,
you know it hurts me too.
“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
– Albert Camus
“If you remain in the present moment, you will never get hurt. Forget about your...”
– Hindu teaching
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...”
– bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
– Oscar Wilde
“Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the...”
– Osho
Footprints of Shiva: For the love of Fate
To those of you who turn to landscapes for answers and better questions. To those of you with vision and gifted sight. To those of you who do not confuse embers for flames. To those who seek solace in ancient sensual experiments, you life-drinking drunkards singing to the night, a pledge…
As long as there is Sun light to live by and Moon light to be captivated by, you will find me enraged by...
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
– Anne Sexton
There truly are no words.
Brief Review of the Creative Process
Make more decisions, in every day, of what you intend, and as you do that, know that you have become an automatic sifter who will attract those beings and circumstances that will enhance that which you want, while you will ignore, or repel, those beings or circumstances that do not enhance that which you want.
Understand that all thought that you give toward that which you want furthers the...
