Alan Watts – The Dream Of Life
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― Alan Watts
Experience
Ram Dass – Dissolving the Fear, Finding Your Own Beauty
“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”
– Ram Dass
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Experiencing a connection to the universe – Ram Dass
“Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.”
– Ram Dass
Related – Opening the Heart – Experience
Sesame Street – We Are All Earthlings
Whether you’re a bird or a fish or a muppet or a human, we all live together on this pale blue dot in the galaxy of the Sun. We come from different places, speak all different types of languages, come in every shape and size and color you can imagine, but there is one thing that brings us all together: we are all earthlings.
Related – Earthlings – Unity – Geometry of Circles – Pale Blue Dot – Who Speaks for Earth
Les Brown – I AM going to make it
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”
– Les Brown
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Brian Swimme – The New Story
“I have a sense that something amazing is at work … I think our planet is actually moving into a time of profound harmony and fecundity and peace but whether that’s going to take 600 years or 6 days I don’t know. I mean, I think that as humans begin to take seriously… the planetary dimension of conscious self-awareness, then we will become humanized versions of natural selection – so that we will begin to make decision with the large scale dynamic of the planet in mind. So I see that we’re actually entering into a transformation of the human species out of the modern period into this new era… It may take centuries… but like the past and it’s catastrophes I think that’s… what’s taking place in the midst of so many hardships.”
– Brian Swimme
Related – Integral with the Planet – The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos
Alan Watts – What is Wrong With Our Culture
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
– Alan Watts
Related – Nature Of Now – Meaningless Life – The Organic Dance of Life
Robert Anton Wilson – Don’t believe in anyone else’s BS
“Never believe fully in anybody else’s B.S. I don’t care if it’s Rajneesh, The Pope, L. Ron Hubbard, Al Gore, George Bush or I don’t care who it is, don’t swallow all of their belief system totally. Don’t accept all of their bullshit, all their B.S.
The second rule is like unto to the first: Don’t believe totally in your own B.S. Which means that, as Bucky Fuller said, “The universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events”. NON-SIMULTANEOUSLY. The universe consists of NON-SIMULTANEOUSLY apprehended events. Which means any belief system or reality tunnel you’ve got right now is gonna have to be revised and updated as you continue to apprehend new events later in time. Not simultaneously.
This is the natural functioning of the human brain. It’s the way children’s brains perform before they’re wrecked by the school system. It’s the way the minds of all great scientists and artists work. But once you have a belief system, everything that comes in either gets ignored if it doesn’t fit the belief system, or gets distorted enough so that it can fit into the belief system. You gotta be continually revising your map of the world.”
– Robert Anton Wilson
Related – RAW Quantum Physics – Real Reality – 7 Circuits
Terence McKenna – What Did You Do To Help Save The World?
“Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet.” – Terence McKenna
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