bluejinn: November 2011

“You are your story.
Deliberately changing your conversation
— the way you talk about your life —
changes the vibration you hold yourself to
and every experience you attract into your life.””

- Malinda Dowsett

“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Discipline” is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you’re wrong. But self-discipline is different. It’s the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret. They have no power over you. It’s all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten; but they really carry no stick at all. You give in out of habit. You give in because you never really bother to look beyond the threat. It is all empty back there. There is only one way to learn this lesson, though. The words on this page won’t do it. But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don’t get involved. Much to your surprise, it will simply go away. It rises, it passes away. As simple as that. There is another word for self-discipline. It is patience.”

- Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

“The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote… By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.”

—	Walt Whitman

oh my fuck not again

"Howl" by Chelsea Brown

Ódhinn: This is the blank Rune, symbolizing the unknowable and the unseen. This indicates a crucial time, a time when decisions must be made. It may be time to take a great leap of faith, to leap over the side of the cliff of doubt into the void of the unknown. Do so with perfect love and perfect faith. What beckons is the creative power of the unknown. The void existed at the beginning of time and will be there in the end, with nothing remaining. This does not symbolize a person, but rather is representative of the highest spiritual influences.

“Here is the key to all the metaphysics of sex: “Through the Dyad toward the Unity.” Sexual love is the most universal form of man’s obscure search to eliminate duality for a short while, to existentially overcome the boundary between ego and not-ego between self and not-self.”

- Julius Evolva (Eros and the Mysteries of Love)

“Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the “stamp of reality” on the actual, which the past and future do not have.”

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

Thank you heartmindspirit for posting this.

“Love says “I am everything”. Wisdom says “I am nothing”. Between the two, my life flows.”

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

“True Love in this differs from gold and clay,
That to divide is not to take away.
Love is like understanding that grows bright
Gazing on many truths; ‘tis like thy light,
Imagination! which, from earth and sky,
And from the depths of human fantasy,
As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills
The Universe with glorious beams, and kills
Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow
Of its reverberated lightning.”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

via

Dr. Stephen S. Nagy via

she still holds the soon-to-be-forgotten knowledge that celebration IS reverence

A young Indian Muslim girl gestures as others offer prayers during Eid al-Adha in New Delhi, India on November 7, 2011. via

“After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t always mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises, and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead, with the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child. And you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much, so you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure, you really are strong, you really do have worth, and you learn and you learn. With every goodbye, you learn.”

-Veronica Shoffstal

Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I’m haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.
- Richard Brautigan

“The paths by which the Lover seeks his Beloved are long and perilous. They are populated by considerations, sighs and tears. They are lit up by love.
The Lover wept and said, “How long will it he until the darkness of the world is past, when the paths to hell will be no more? When will the hour come when water, which flows downwards, will change its nature and mount upwards? When will the innocent he more in numbers than the guilty?”
The Beloved asked the Lover, “Have you remembered any way in which I have rewarded you for you to love me thus?” “Yes,” replied the Lover, “for I make no distinction between the trials which you send and the joys.”
Love is the mingling of boldness and fear which comes through great fervour. It is the desire for the Beloved as the End of the will. It is this which makes the Lover like to die when he hears someone sing of the beauties of the Beloved. It is this through which I die daily, and in which my will dwells forever.”

- Ramon Lull, The Book of the Lover and the Beloved

By Plutonia (whoever that is, I love her)

spiritual people

everyone is spiritual

everyone has that longing
to be part of something
bigger

to alleviate the fear
of dying

to rest with when despair
takes over

and smile with when
life is light

everyone has that

some bury it deeper than others

some don't consider themselves
spiritual at all

but everyone is spiritual

everyone wants to know
that the universe has
order, and meaning

even if we know
that we don't know

everyone wants to know

you talk of the
spiritual ones, as if
you are not, as if
you do not carry love
in your heart, and with
it the knowing

-Jennifer D. Grant