I am no one
I am no where
every truth I have ever known
has shredded me in the learning of it-
* * *
we all surrender
sooner or later
* * *
Wasteland
What is this really all about?
Is it about anything at all?
What I feel now is mostly sorrow;
sorrow for an inauthentic world that has lost its Center
and is spinning completely out of control.
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~how am I to function in a world that makes so little sense to me~
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Overcome by loneliness and a sense of disconnection,
I took a walk in the woods.
I stopped. I listened. I felt.
I came to realize that this is my body.
The earth beneath me, the trees beside me
the distant hills and sky above me;
MY REAL BODY!
I am the eyes and ears and voice of this body,
and the wind that sings in the trees is my breath.
I also came to realize the only thing I feel disconnected from
is this "Stupid-Human-Trick" we call the Modern World-
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~this natural world-
this I'll own, this I'll embrace,
this is my body;
embracing the "other" is like wearing a sickness~
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~looking back, I suddenly realize
I am the missing piece I have spent my life in search of~
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~each of us is the world's "best kept secret"~
~
never stop asking yourself
"WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT"
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"Progress"
The world is becoming progressively artificial
as its Soul is systematically squeezed from it.
I have always felt like somewhat of a misfit,
but never more so than I do now.
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all around me reality
skips like a worn record
* * *
~How many of you still believe this "play" is really happening?~
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~As humans, we are ill-equipped to experience Enlightenment.
In order to wake up
we essentially need to "break all our toys"~
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The Dream is unravelling . . .
Time now to turn inward,
toward the one thing
that isn't coming apart all around you.
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Energy and Intention,
that's all there is-
~learn to balance on nothing,
to be quiet,
to remain in the Center
where nothing spins
to be still as stone in the howling winds ~
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~shadowsandlightinmotion~
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Our cat looked on indifferently as I respectfully buried the dead bird.
Sometimes the "perfection" of the natural world
really pisses me off!
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None of this really matters;
the right and the wrong of it doesn't matter.
I know this to be true from
EXPERIENCE!
No one ever said the acquisition of such knowledge would be easy-
~shadowsandlightinmotion~
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~It's not in your mind,
do not look for the truth in your mind.
It is somewhere else,
it is all around~
* * *
Art is a verb;
a releasing of the impulse that inspired its creation.
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Art is NOT a commodity.
Like death, its purpose is to remind us of what is important.
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"Machine Parts"
When making art becomes more important
than making war or making money,
I'll know the world has finally returned to its senses.
We are surrounded by machines
because, in many ways, we have become machines ourselves.
If we were the natural beings we presume ourselves to be,
we would be living in a garden world.
* * *
There is no down from here.
We are all bottom-feeders in an ocean of what is;
and there's nowhere to go but up-
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~ one could even go so far as to say
we are little more than "dreaming mulch" ~
* * *
Who among you is not embedded in a belief system?
In times of crisis, your belief system will be unavailable to you.
All you will have to see you through is what is in your heart.
* * *
If you sincerely wish to change your world,
begin by saying "YES" to EVERYTHING in it-
For it is by saying "NO" that we gradually shut ourselves off,
and eventually have no effect upon it!
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~When your mind sees only futility and impending doom,
ask your heart what it sees.
Your mind cannot be trusted,
only your heart knows the way home~