ANYTHING THAT IS BORN MUST DIE. BUDDHA
ROBERT ANTON WILSON “THE ILLUMINATUS! TRILOGY””THE EYE OF THE PYRAMID””THE GOLDEN APPLE” “LEVIATHAN””Cosmic Trigger”
“THE ILLUMINATI ARE ELITE AUTHORITARIANS who pull the puppet strings of the worlds political establishment while seeking to become super-beings by sucking the souls from the masses. The discordians resist through convoluted tactics that include a network of double agents.”
“I DON’T SEE how to take death seriously. I look forward WITHOUT DOGMATIC OPTIMISM BUT WITHOUT DREAD. I LOVE YOU ALL AND I DEPLY IMPLORE YOU TO KEEP THE LASAGNA FLYING.”
WOODY ALLEN: “Maybe” is a thin reed to hang your life on but it’s all we’ve got.
ALAN WATTS 1915-1973 “The Way of Zen””On the Taboo On Knowing who you Are”
“WATTS asserts that our conception of ourselves as an “ego in a bag of skin” or “skin-encapsulated” is a myth; the entities we call the separate “things” are merely aspects or features of the whole.”
“Werner Erhard: Alan pointed me toward what I now call the distinction between Self & Mind. After my encounter with Alan the context in which I was working shifted.”
THE SECRET OF LIFE IS KNOWING WHEN TO STOP.
THE ESSENCE OF ZEN IS SPONTANEITY.
THIS IS THE REAL SECRET OF LIFE — TO BE COMPLETELY ENGAGED with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
NO AMOUNT OF ANXIETY makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
STOP measuring days by degrees of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
WE ARE LIVING IN A CULTURE ENTIRELY HYPNOTIZED by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than the present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.
YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE EXPERIENCING ITSELF.
THE FUTURE IS A CONCEPT, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There Never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.
ALL THAT YOU SEE OUT IN FRONT OF YOU IS HOW YOU FEEL INSIDE YOUR HEAD.
THE WAKE DOESN’T DRIVE THE SHIP.
BY GOING OUT OF YOUR MIND, YOU COME TO YOUR SENSES.
THROUGH OUR EYES, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses though which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
OF COURSE YOU CAN’T FORCE YOUR MIND TO BE SILENT. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.
WHEN A MAN NO LONGER CONFUSES HIMSELF with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.
WE MUST ABANDON COMPLETELY the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see it’s like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that . . . Also, watch the flow of music. The melody as it’s expressed is changed by the notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence . . . you wait till later to find out what the sense means . . . The present is always changing the past.
A PERSON WHO THINKS ALL THE TIME has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality and lives in a world of illusion.
WE SEE WHAT WE BELIEVE RATHER THAN WHAT WE SEE.
THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE SENSE OUT OF CHANGE IS TO PLUNGE INTO IT, MOVE WITH IT AND JOIN THE DANCE.