Category Archives: General
“The dominant power we live under is not democracy or some other noble ideal – it is consumerism! And we are constantly encouraged by this power to be dissatisfied with our present lives and circumstances. We are bombarded daily by messages which exhort us to desire and to buy more, and more and more. A spiritual renegade should not strive to become well adjusted in a society where the economy is powered by discontent. We’re going to have to fight the power if we want to be happy. We’re going to have to resist the siren song of consumer capitalism.” ~ Lama Marut, A Spiritual Renegade’s Guide to the Good Life.
“Let this sink deep in your heart: only creative people are happy. Happiness is a by-product of creativity. Create something, and you will be happy.” ~ Osho
“The earth has music for those who listen.” ~ George Santayana
Art by Roman Velichko
“Who feels the deep yearning to finally and completely be free of the oppression of debt slavery, inequality, wars for profit and all manmade disasters and mans inhumanity to man? The human spirit has had enough, and it is demanding its rights be restored back to him/her as a sovereign being!” ~ Tahra Ahmed
“We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history—a change in the actual belief structure. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.” ~ Willis Harman
“Imagination is the force that pulls your physical, emotional, and mental energies into dynamic harmony, giving wings to your soul…Making your visions happen. Enriching your world, putting your mark on it…You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being fully alive- to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.” ~Gabrielle Roth
“How monotonous our speaking becomes when we speak only to ourselves! And how insulting to the other beings – to foraging black bears and twisted old cypresses – that no longer sense us talking to them, but only about them, as though they were not present in our world…Small wonder that rivers and forests no longer compel our focus or our fierce devotion. For we walk about such entities only behind their backs, as though they were not participant in our lives. Yet if we no longer call out to the moon slipping between the clouds, or whisper to the spider setting the silken struts of her web, well, then the numerous powers of this world will no longer address us – and if they still try, we will not likely hear them.” ~ David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
Art by Johann de Venecia
Source ~ Shamantube
“Think, dear friend, reflect on the world that you carry within yourself. And name this thinking what you wish…Just be sure that you observe carefully what wells up within you and place that above everything that you notice around you. Your innermost happening is worth all your love. You must somehow work on that.” ~Ranier Maria Rilke
“We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been – a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.” -Starhawk
Photography by Ian Barber
Under The Blue Door 