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(27 Oct - 10 Nov, 2008)
Oct 27, 2008: The evolution of consciousness
Most psychologists and biologists look at human behaviour in terms
of three instincts: survival, sex, and power. I believe, however, that
you cannot understand human behaviour without recognizing a fourth one
— the instinct for transcendence, the instinct to connect to the part
of us that goes beyond our materiality and survives our death, that connects
with our soul.
That's what explains our search for meaning, whether it
drives us to art or to religion or to altruistic behaviour that cannot
be explained purely in terms of self-interest....
You could say that the
fourth instinct drives the evolution of consciousness —and the evolution
of consciousness is the foundation of everything.
Ariana Huffungton, editor of the Huffington Post
Oct 28, 2008: The opinions you have about yourself
Even the opinions you have about yourself are not necessarily true,
therefore you don't need to take what you hear in your own mind personally.
The mind has the ability to talk to itself, but it also has the ability
to
hear information that is available to other realms. Sometimes you may
hear a
voice in your mind and you wonder where it came from.
This voice may have come from another reality in which there are living
beings very similar to the human mind. The Toltecs called these beings
Allies. In Europe, Africa and India they called them the Gods.
The Four Agreements.(A Toltec Wisdom Book.) Don Miguel Ruiz.
Oct 29, 2008: The power of quiet is great.
The power of quiet is great. It generates the same feelings in everything
one encounters. It vibrates with the cosmic rhythms of oneness. It is
everywhere, available to anyone at any time. It is us, the force within
that makes us stable, trusting and loving. It is contemplation contemplating
us. Peace is letting go -- returning to the silence that cannot enter
the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This
is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.
Malidoma Patrice Some "Of Water and the Spirit. Ritual, Magic, and
Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman."
Oct 30, 2008: Things that can be Known but not Told.
And I realised that that was the trap; that our rationalisation
of things ephemeral, our intellectual framing of the transcendent,
the thinking brain's version of the Divine,
was just another mask of God.
That all expressions of God, like the word itself;
formed in the brain of language,
were merely thoughts about that which is beyond thought.
No. Before thought.
Before consciousness itself.
To speak the name of God is to name the unnameable,
to carry a concept of the Divine in our heads is to carry a shield
between us and the experience of the Divine. Jehovah.
The "I am that I am ".
It cannot be thought about.
All notions of God are blasphemies.
Things that can be known but not told.
Alberto Villoldo and Erik Jendresen. Dance of the Four Winds. Secrets
of the Inca Medicine Wheel.
Oct 31, 2008: Your inner state is reflected
It is the grace with which you manipulate things that matters. Your
inner state is reflected in the way you move, talk, eat or place rocks.
It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you gather energy with your
actions and transform it into power.
Taisha Abelar The Sorcerer's Crossing. A Woman's Journey.
Nov 04, 2008: It has always seemed hopeful
It has always seemed hopeful that people passing the same spot of
earth, on the same day, at the same time in their lives could have utterly
divergent experiences. Other people have gone where I have gone, and met
some of the magic beings I knew, but it wasn't in their destinies to experience
what I did.
There are layers of realities before us, behind us ,around us and in us,
and we stay in a layer no matter how far we travel until the spirit admires
our courage and grace and allows us to sprout into another zone of experience.
Martin Prechel "Secrets of the Talking Jaguar"
Nov 05, 2008: Truth comes into the world
You have noticed that the truth comes into the world with two faces.
One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face,
laughing or weeping.
John G. Neihardt "Black Elk Speaks"
Nov 06, 2008: Finding Life Purpose
Forget past mistakes.
Forget failures.
Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
William Durant
Nov 07, 2008: Restoring touch
I believe strongly that people who crave community in this country
also crave the healing touch of human hands. The road to a real sense
of community begins with the ability to restore the amount of touch that
the body
has been denied since the beginning of its human journey. The craving
of the body for what is vaguely known as love corresponds for the filling
up of the great hole left in the psyche by a lack of tender physical contact.
Restoring touch will make it possible to stay in touch.
Malidoma Patrice Some The Healing Wisdom of Africa. Finding Life Purpose
Through Nature, Ritual and Community .
Nov 10, 2008: A single event
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to
us. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
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