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That’s the real issue this time,” he said. “Beating Nixon. It’s hard to even guess how much damage those bastards will do if they get in for another four years.”

The argument was familiar, I had even made it myself, here and there, but I was beginning to sense something very depressing about it. How many more of these goddarn elections are we going to have to write off as lame, but “regrettably necessary” holding actions? And how many more of these stinking double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote for something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?

Now with another one of these big bogus showdowns looming down on us, I can already pick up the stench of another bummer. I understand, along with a lot of other people, that the big thing this year is Beating Nixon. But that was also the big thing, as I recall, twelve years ago in 1960 – and as far as I can tell, we’ve gone from bad to worse to rotten since then, and the outlook is for more of the same.

—Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72

[zin]

You've seen my descent. Now watch my rising. - Rumi

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. . .and Kyroot said:

For you, there are three requirements:

The Hunger,

Knowledge of the Aim,

and the Struggle.

And I will tell you about these three:

The Hunger -- A gift of Creation.
Knowledge of the Aim -- A capricious gift from life;
The Struggle -- Your gift to Creation.

[maxdprophet]

"It is not difficult to be enlightened; it is only difficult to be interested in enlightenment.
"


Thomas Hora pg. 33, Dialogues in Metapsychiatry

[jay17]

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." - Carl Jung

"Until you make the unconscious, conscious, it will control your life and you will call it fate." - Carl Jung

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Prior to birth where was the ‘I am’?
Don’t contaminate the ‘I am’ with the
body idea, I as the Absolute am not the
‘I am’......Nisargadatta


What were you before you were born? Where was
the ‘I am’? You were ‘Nothing’ and there was no ‘I
am’. On this Nothingness of yours has the ‘I am’
appeared and it has got contaminated with the
body idea. Now, through discrimination you need
to undertake a decontamination procedure, free the
‘I am’ of the body idea, abide in it and transcend it,
because you as the Absolute are not the ‘I am’....Pradeep Apte

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"How does your head look to your eyes?" ~ Alan Watts.

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Nov 16, 2016 7:55:46 GMT -5 @bakk said:

"How does your head look to your eyes?" ~ Alan Watts.

pretty sure that quote gave Douglas Harding his start 

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Nov 17, 2016 23:54:39 GMT -5 @awakesowhat said:

Nov 16, 2016 7:55:46 GMT -5 @bakk said:

"How does your head look to your eyes?" ~ Alan Watts.

pretty sure that quote gave Douglas Harding his start 

Yeah, that generation of Englishmen understood much.

[anandamayi]

"Stillness, emptiness and oneness. These are different words, but they mean the same thing. When you feel your heart's sweetness, and you feel love, know that is oneness." -Sri Avinash Do.

Attachments:

[maxdprophet]

"Why be hostile to nature? Because after all, you ARE a symptom of nature. You, as a human being, you grow out of this physical universe in just exactly the same way that an apple grows off an apple tree."

Alan Watts

[zin]

"To live according to the law is to live creatively. Creativity is living in the space of the disparity between two seeming realities or opposites. It is the struggle to be active inside, to creatively seek what the moment needs. ... The denying force here is inertia -- taking life for granted. It is absurd to take life for granted." Ocke de Boer

[silver]

+++++oooooooo

"Take him and cut him out in little stars
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun."
~William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

[zin]

"We call our reactions to passing time 'I', but this is not 'I'. This is only our 'I' of the moment. The 'I' of the moment is nothing more than the vague relationship we have between our animal side and its accidentally acquired intellect."  Ocke de Boer

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"God is an American." ~ David Bowie.