February 2012
11 posts
“Let your love flow outward through the universe. To its height, its depth, its...”
– Sutta Nipata
January 2012
46 posts
Social Uprooting: PRESS RELEASE: Oakland Police... →
January 29, 2011 – Oakland, CA – Yesterday, the Oakland Police deployed hundreds of officers in riot gear so as to prevent Occupy Oakland from putting a vacant building to better use. This is a building which has sat vacant for 6 years, and the city has no current plans for…
Two months into two thousand twelve
Boy what a year it has been already.
I faced the darkness of near death. Not of myself but of souls I care so deeply about. I saw darkness possibly worse than death… because with death there is rebirth… but with darkness without death… there is just darkness perpetuating darkness. I realize that I, and only I, have the ability to see, to adapt, to live in a cycle of life death...
“What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature…That baby sees...”
– Ken Kesey (via mindecology)
I see quite clearly now that life is nothing but passing experiences, and my thoughts are just one more category of things I experience. Thoughts are no more fundamental than smells, sights and sounds. Like any experience, they arise in my awareness, they have a certain texture, and then they give way to something else.
“Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look...”
– Ram Dass
“To most, the irony of a progressive social movement using the term “occupy” to...”
