December 2010
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How can I believe it’s real when nothing starts to stop this wheel?
Could you tell
Could you tell
I was left lost and lonely
Could you tell
Things haven’t worked out my way
Abandon and embrace
Abandon anger, desperation, depression, melancholy. Embrace strength, abilities, confidence.
Hyperborea
This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream. The mind revealing itself to itself. This was my first return. A reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my bring. My vision ended, and I awoke with a tremendous feeling of optimism and confidence.
Live in the moment
Those living for death will die by their own hand.
The zone
A state of mind when you are performing a movement that is neither too simple nor too complex. Your focus rules out all other mental processes; your mind has no time for words, worries, or distractions. There is only timing, spatial awareness, and the feeling of satisfaction as you reach your goal.
Solitude
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
The other guys
Terry: No, I don’t like you. I think you’re a fake cop. The sound of your piss hitting the urinal, it sounds feminine. If you were in the wild, I would attack you, even if you weren’t in my food chain. I would go out of my way to attack you. If I were a lion and you were a tuna, I would swim out in the middle of the ocean and freaking eat you.
Allen: Ok, first off: a lion,...
A perfect circle
Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only a sky. Imagine all the people living for today. Imagine there are no countries, it isn’t hard to do. Nothing to kill to die for…no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace. Imagine all the people sharing all the world. Imagine no possessions…I wonder if you can. No need...
Fall
I don’t want to die without a few scars.
Nature
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
Restraint
The deepest feelings are those that are restrained.
Narrator
Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memories made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life. December 15th was a Wednesday.
Trials
What we perceive as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. They are opportunities for growth and expansion of knowledge.
Angels and demons
Confront the dark parts of yourself and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will make your angels shine. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
Meaningless
Fret for your figure and fret for your latte and fret for your lawsuit and fret for your hairpiece and fret for your Prozac and fret for your pilot and fret for your contract and fret for your car. One great big festering neon distraction to keep you all occupied.
Storm
We will not be broken.
Speak to me
Breathe, breathe in the air. Don’t be afraid to care. All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
Space
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is the power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Bliss
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge.
Milieu
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and his surroundings are the perfect playgrounds for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Stillness
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Slow down
Having let go of resentments, grievances, and regrets, and having embraced forgiveness, bring your attention back to your breath. Observe it for some time…now introduce the intention for your breathing to slow down. Do not forcefully change your breathing pattern, simply have the intention. Tell your breath, “slow down…slow down…slow down.”
Training
Training will be experienced differently by people who start with different desires, different levels of confidence, different approaches to tasks, different perceptions of what improvement means, or just generally people who have faced and currently face different obstacles in their lives. Each person will try different things and will do them in different ways. There is variety in the types of...
Confusion will be my epitaph
The wall on which the prophets wrote Is cracking at the seams. Upon the instruments of death The sunlight brightly gleams. When every man is torn apart With nightmares and with dreams, Will no one lay the laurel wreath As silence drowns the screams? Between the iron gates of fate, The seeds of time were sown, And watered by the deeds of those Who know and who are known; Knowledge is a deadly...
10,000 days
Listen to the tales as we romanticize how we’d follow the path of the hero. Boast about the day when the rivers overrun, how we’d rise to the height of our halo. Listen to the tales as we rationalize our way into the arms of the savior.
Light the sun
The poet and the wise man stand behind the gun. Signal for the crack of dawn. Light the sun. Do you believe in the day? The fading hero has returned to the night.
Rousseau
Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains.