Friday, May 26, 2006

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will to nothingness. And once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence.
Waking Life

The demons have been turned loose and go about, grotesquely pretending to be honourable 20th-century men who do not believe in evil spirits.
Vaclav Havel

Decietfulness, perverse sexual behaviour, stealing, and increasing destructiveness are typical features of...breakdown of the personality."
Martin Israel

Three Poisons: Craving - Hatred - Ignorance
Buddha

The world is not a vacuume. Either we make it an alter for God or it is invaded by demons.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

....every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell

Man is asleep, must he die before he wakes?
Muhammad

Three things in life are destructive: anger, greed and pride.
Muhammad

The path to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.
Carl Jung

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