Bankei

"Having created
the demon mind yourself
When it torments you mercilessly
You’re to blame and no one else"

More Thoreau

"for a person is rich in proportion to the number of things which they can afford to let alone"

hanh

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

Cusak

"But right now, you and me here, put together entirely of atoms, sitting on this round rock with a core of liquid iron, held down by this force that seems to trouble you, called gravity, all the while spinning around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour and whizzing through the milkyway at 600,000 miles an hour in a universe that very well may be chasing its own tail at the speed of light; And admist all this frantic activity, fully cognisant of our own eminent demise - which is our own pretty way of saying we all know we're gonna die - We reach out to one another. Sometimes for the sake of vanity, sometimes for reasons you're not old enough to understand yet, but a lot of the time we just reach out and expect nothing in return. Isn't that strange? Isn't that weird? Isn't that weird enough?"

buddha

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the only one getting burned."

alittletooRAW

Pushing past
pristine
feelings
Pushing into
raw
emotion
King
or
X
How do you change the world?
How do i change the world?
Can you have one
without
the other?
Can you make it
without breaking it first?

becomingaPriest

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Shakes

"Love is merely madness..."

bob dylan

"When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose."

C.D.

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."

cry

dalai lama

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”

eye

disambiguation

MAKE IT CLEAR
BE TRANSPARENT
HIDE NOTHING
SHOW EVERYTHING
OPEN YOUR EYES
AND YOUR SOUL
RELEASE YOUR MIND
AND FIND YOUR GUIDE

look into me
and see you

i look out of me
and into you

filling the void
and emptying this gap

recreating a world and
life that have been
unlived and unlearned

free the decaying matter
that lives in my skull

free the cells that are
multiplying and duplicating
the errors that i have made

the entries i have made
contain inaccurate information

please report this and
fix these mistakes

do not let them go unpunished
tell me that i am wrong
so that i can see what is
RIGHT

do not live a moral life because
someone wrote a law
a rule
a reason
to be moral....

do not live a moral life because
someone wrote a punishment
a sentence
a penalty
to keep you moral.....

live a moral life
because
it
is
bliss.

become what
you
want
to see

become
my wish

become
eternal happiness

become
world peace

become
what WE can be

The Gift of Sight

my soul has
transmigrated
losing all
memory
of the time before
i knew me

wandering
wondering

no moment
other than
now

Platonism
Hinduism
Buddhism
are
my guides

to reincarnate
before i
die

a gift
a curse

to become something
and
someone
new

yet,
to remain
unchanged
at the core

i am the
psychic medium
of
my own soul

i have read
my own
palm

my third eye
sparkles
in
disbelief

i no longer believe this dream

hDt

"Be ware of all enterprises that require new clothes"

flowR

Walden

"There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but no philosophers."

sugar n' spice

Jawaharal Nehru

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."

Gandhi

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Borderline Meaningless

Poetry
and a
loss
of
Words
Finding
meaning
in the
silence
of my
own mind
Losing
thoughts
and
resisting
temptation
breathing
into the
light
of something
new
Borderline meaningless
useless
unfulfilled existence
I covet
a life without
borders
Limitless
possibilities
grieve for
lost naivete



omnipotent
authority
over myself

Loving Eachother

How do we create a multi-cultural society that has social cohesion and pluralistic respect? For me the answer lies right here in the very room where I sit typing. In front of me I have my grandmother’s beautiful crucifix hanging on the wall. Directly next to it are some hand carved wooden Tibetan Buddhist prayer beads. To my right I see a plaque with a picture of Jesus Christ on it and this picture is held up by a statue of Buddha. To my left is my bookshelf. In the middle row of my bookshelf the titles of these books flow together perfectly; they are the Holy Bible, The Origin of the Species, Tao Te Ching, The Essential Rumi, the Kabbalah, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Bhadavad-Gita, The Way of a Pilgrim, Living Wicca, The Hindu Religious Tradition, Llewellyn’s Magical Guide, The Secrets of the Rosary, and The Tao of Pooh. Behind me there is a mirror. When I turn my head and look in this mirror I can see my back. In the center of my shoulder blades there is a divine tattoo of a Hindu Goddess. This tattoo is on my back and I am not a Hindu. I am not any of the religions that are displayed around me. But I love, respect, and honor all of them as if they were my own.

Heat

The moment that
I walked into your suite


I believed in the
Kinetic theory of heat


The passion rose
to an unbearable temperature


And I knew that
this was an unexplained creature


In all of the moments
of our short and immensely long lives


You know that this kind
of clarity almost never arrives…..




And now,

feeling this and knowing that
I’ve realized that
I must be dreaming

But in my last few moments
before sadly waking
I take the kiss that is redeeming