Cartoon by Clay Butler
Category Archives: Quotes
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” ~ Anatole France
Art by Benjamin Moss
“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.” ~ Jim Collins
“When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.” ~ Charles Eisenstein
“You simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead and get with the program of a living world and the imagination.” ~ Terence McKenna
Street Art by Banksy
“Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness.” ~Carlos Castaneda
Art by Anatheme
Source ~ Dreamwork with Toko-pa
“Turning to a guru or a spiritual teacher to tell us why we are here is a big mistake, and often, an expensive one. Others can provide us with tools that help us to clear the blockages to clarity, but they cannot tell us which path to walk. That’s because our sacred purpose is privately held- it is encoded within us, embodied and embedded, a karmic blueprint that can only be read by the one who carries it. That’s why not a single soul on earth can tell us why we are here. They can’t decipher a language that is unique to another soul, no matter what claims they make. It’s one of the most beautiful things about this human trip- the divine blessed each of us with our own secret language, a unique karmic code that will never be replicated again. We are the book of our life. Now all we have to do is figure out how to interpret it. One page at a time…” ~Jeff Brown
I dream of a family of stars. When one of us shines brightly, it inspires the rest of us to turn up our shine. There are no teachers in the STARFAMILY, only learner-sharers. While some of us are meant to lead, others clear the path and do the math, but we are all STARS, so comparison ceases to exist. RECIPROCITY is the only law, held up by the authority of love. We know that everything is VIBRATION, so we are radically responsible with what tunes we tell. Everyone in the starfamily is needed, even the CHAOS stirrers, who help us know dissonance which is the precursor to CHANGE. Every obstacle we surpass brings us closer to the TRUTH of our indispensability, which is also fleeting. We are disappearing COMETS, with but a blink of a life to make our streaks on the sky in an unselfconscious praising of the present, aching to return to the ONE LOVE which made us. ~ by Dreamwork with Toko-pa
Art by Antonio Caparo
“You’re walking the labyrinth of life. Yes, you’re meant to move forward, but almost never in a straight line. Yes, there’s an element of achievement, of beginning and ending, but those are minor compared to the element of being here now. In the moments you stop trying to conquer the labyrinth of life and simply inhabit it, you’ll realize it was designed to hold you safe as you explore what feels dangerous. You’ll see that you’re exactly where you’re meant to be, meandering along a crooked path that is meant to lead you not onward, but inward.” ~Martha Beck
Art by Jamie Zollars
Source ~ Shamantube
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace – not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” ~ James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Under The Blue Door 