Monthly Archives: November 2013
And the Great Mother said: Come my child and give me all that you are. I am not afraid of your strength and darkness, of your fear and pain. Give me your tears. They will be my rushing rivers and roaring oceans. Give me your rage. It will erupt into my molten volcanoes and rolling thunder. Give me your tired spirit. I will lay it to rest in my soft meadows. Give me your hopes and dreams. I will plant a field of sunflowers and arch rainbows in the sky. You are not too much for me. My arms and heart welcome your true fullness. There is room in my world for all of you, all that you are. I will cradle you in the boughs of my ancient redwoods and the valleys of my gentle rolling hills. My soft winds will sing you lullabies and soothe your burdened heart. Release your deep pain. You are not alone and you have never been alone. ~Linda Reuther, from Homecoming
“They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.” ~ Gerald Massey
“No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced in a mechanical life, to live like robots. They will assert their individuality. They will have the fragrance of rebellion around them. They will like to live in freedom. Freedom comes with wisdom, intrinsically. They are inseparable, and no society wants people to be free. The communist society, the fascist society, the capitalist society, the Hindu, the Mohammedan, the Christian — no society — would like people to use their own intelligence because the moment they start using their intelligence they become dangerous — dangerous to the establishment, dangerous to the people who are in power, dangerous to the ‘haves’; dangerous to all kinds of oppression, exploitation, suppression; dangerous to the churches, dangerous to the states, dangerous to the nations. In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. But he cannot sell his life, he cannot serve them. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.” ~Osho
Art by Samuel Ronquillo
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.” ~ Herman Melville
Source ~ Free Your Mind and Think
“Life has entrusted you with only one garden, and that is your mind. You are the gardener. Here in this garden you sow the seeds, care for the plants and daily harvest the fruits. Narrow-minded thoughts do not produce juicy cherries, but rather small, hard, and frustratingly bland-tasting beans. Ideas proliferate like weeds if they fall on fertile soil. Think about how a single, inconspicuous, limiting belief about yourself or your life, which was once left unattended in your garden a long time ago, was watered as time went by through repetition, grew roots, and now permeates the soil of your everyday life. It’s branches reach out into all areas of your life and ultimately leave behind bitter fruits everywhere. We have lost sight of the connection between our thinking and the circumstances of our lives. We have forgotten who the gardener is. We look at a world we do not like and we fight it. But as long as the one who conceived of the world continues to sow small mindedness each and every day, unshaken and unrecognized, nothing will change.” ~Veit Lindau
“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.” ~ Tom Robbins
