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November 19, 2024
EssayFaith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell. — Ram Dass But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, yo…
November 9, 2024
EssayECSTASY — By Robert A. Johnson Author of He, She and Me Understanding the Psychology of Joy Harper San Francisco isbn 0-06-250432-0 1989 > "ECSTASY — The Dionysian experience — may…
October 29, 2024
EssayThe resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering. Ram Dass Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism…
October 22, 2024
EssayTHE POWER OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND BY JOSEPH MURPHY THE MASTER SECRET OF THE AGES Back cover: In "The Power of the Subconscious Mind" Dr. Joseph Murphy gives you the tools you need…
October 15, 2024
EssayA provocateur is someone who goes too far just to get on people's nerves. All life on Earth supposedly came from a primordial ooze in existence many millions of years ago. > Love a…
September 29, 2024
EssayWilliam Faulkner — 1897–1962. "The Sound and the Fury"; "A Rose for Emily"; "As I Lay Dying"; "Light in August." Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. On…
September 26, 2024
EssayCLASSIC BOOK REVIEW "Thoreau and the Art of Life" Precepts and Principles by Roderick MacIver Great drawings by the author ISBN-10: 1-933937-13-0 Copyright: Heron Dance Roderick Ma…
September 9, 2024
EssayKOAN: A PARADOX TO BE MEDITATED UPON that is used to train Zen Buddhist monks to abandon ultimate dependence on reason & to force them into gaining sudden intuitive enlightenment.…
August 28, 2024
Essay> Harmony is next to godliness. > Johann Sebastian Bach > Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition & inspiration & let your w…
August 21, 2024
EssayWhen you look back over what happened in your life, you see things that made you what you are. In my case those things made me a very determined person. Ruth Colvin 1916-2024 "ProL…
August 10, 2024
EssayFriendship is love with wings. The secret, Alice, is to surround yourself with people who make your heart smile. It's then, only then, that you'll find Wonderland. Above all, pract…
August 3, 2024
EssayDON'T EVER, EVER assume that anything you do, particularly if it's an act of conscience. won't make a difference. RANDY KEELER. VIETNAM WAR RESISTER JAILED. WITHOUT CULTURE and the…
July 30, 2024
Essay> There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. > > Jean Baudrillard > I believe in love, not promiscuity; they don't go together. I am a romantic — we're very wise in our minds but in o…
July 26, 2024
EssayANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists. NIKOLA TESLA DREAMS are no shadows but they very substances and calamities of my life. Samuel Coleri…
June 20, 2024
Essay> The whole of this unfortunate business has been the result of pride & prejudice. > > Frances Burney > Freedom begins when words end. > > Shambhu Heart > The only journey is the o…
June 12, 2024
EssayTHERE IS A LIGHT IN THIS WORLD, A HEALING SPIRIT MORE POWERFUL THAN ANY DARKNESS WE MAY ENCOUNTER. WE SOMETIMES LOSE SIGHT OF THIS FORCE WHEN THERE IS SUFFERING, TOO MUCH PAIN. THE…
June 2, 2024
EssayNEVER LOSE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL, FOR BEAUTY IS GOD'S HANDWRITING. FOR EVERY MINUTE YOU ARE ANGRY YOU LOSE SIXTY SECONDS OF HAPPINESS. TO BE YOURSELF IN A WORLD…
May 25, 2024
EssayI try to take subjects that might seem deep and make them as silly as possible. America's a gangbanger country. We got our gang and everything else is irrelevant. Michael Che Fille…
May 19, 2024
EssayAnarchists: "The perceived threat to order." "In the end the anarchists proved to be their own worst enemy. They came to define 'unruly chaos.' Plain and simple theirs was 'arguabl…
May 10, 2024
EssayWhen stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. Issac Asimov Buddha was not a Buddhist. Jesus was not a Christian. Muhammad was not a Muslim. They were tea…
May 6, 2024
EssayTOLERANCE & COMPASSION ARE QUALITIES OF FEARLESS PEOPLE. PAULO COELHO TO LOVE at the deepest level of your being truly means you are living from your infinite soul, having a hu…
April 28, 2024
Essay"Thus Spake Ramana." Sri Ramana Maharishi > You can never find the mind through mind. > Pass beyond it in order to find it non-existent. > Mind, ego, intellect are all different na…