Advice on Writing

Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.

Alan Wilson Watts

“But in among all this terrible poverty there were just a few great big beautiful houses that were lived in by rich men who had as many as thirty servants to look after them. These rich men were called capitalists. They were fat, ugly men with wicked faces, like the one in the picture on the opposite page. You can see he is dressed in a long black coat which was called a frock coat, and a queer, shiny hat shaped like a stovepipe, which was called a top hat. This was the uniform of the capitalists, and no one else was allowed to wear it. The capitalists owned everything in the world, land, all the houses, all the factories , and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them, they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him, and take off his cap and address him as Sir. The chief of all the capitalists was called the King, and—“

George Orwell, 1984

Live In Joy

“'Live in joy,

In love,

Even among those who hate.

Live in joy,

In health,

Even among the afflicted.

Live in joy,

In peace,

Even among the troubled.

Look within.

Be still.

Free from fear and attachment.

Know the sweet joy of the way.”

-from the Dhammapada

Powerful Words

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

-Howard Zinn

Our Need For a Sense Of Unity

"The Earth is not a big rock, infested with living organisms, any more than your skeleton is bones infested with cells.

The Earth is geological, yes, but this geological entity grows people. And our existence on the Earth is a symptom of the solar system and its balances as much as the solar system in turn is a symptom of our galaxy and our galaxy in its turn is a symptom of the whole company of galaxies; goodness only know what that’s in."

-Alan Watts

"We are the inheritors of millions and millions of years of successfully lived lives and successful adaptations to changing conditions in the natural world. Now the challenge passes to us, the living, that the yet to be born  may have a place to put their feet and a sky to walk under."

-Terence McKenna 

Oneness Must Be Established

Sunni and Shia Muslims are killing each other in several nations, most notably in Syria & Iraq, Israeli's are killing Gazans, & Western Soldiers are wiping out Russians in Ukraine. Religion is a common thread in each conflict. Years of fundamental extremism and total confusion has had its toll. All the Hebrews, Muslims, and later Christians are of the same blood....The Holy books have been changed around more than once, traditions have overstepped the purpose, and a lack of knowledge has kept many in the dark...

Abraham is the Father of three modern day Great religions- namely Judaism, Christianity, and Muslim religions, also had two wives named Sarah and Hagar [Hagar according to Judaic traditions was a concubine], as the lineage of Judaism and then subsequently Christianity is attributed to the lineage evolving from his wife Sarah, while the lineage of Medians and subsequently Muslim religion continued from his Concubine wife Hagar. So love thy neighbor as one family.

A point to be noted that Moses who delivered Hebrews from the Pharaoh’s slavery in Egypt to freedom was an Israelite from Sarah’s lineage, and was married to Tzipora [Zipporah] daughter of Reuel /Jethro, a median from the lineage of Hagar. He was as Arab as Jewish- didn't matter- it was his wise actions and open heart to Do Good that mattered.

Thus Moses who was given the Ten Commandments upon Mount Sinai is venerated as a Great Prophet of almighty and most benevolent God by all the three great religions of Modern day world. The Jewish faith says if you do not believe Moses was the hand of God, you go to hell. The Christians say if you do not believe Jesus was the son of God, you go to hell. The Muslims say if you do not believe Mohammad was the prophet of God, you go to hell. The Buddhists say if you do not eat vegetarian and accept Gautama Buddha as the enlightened master you fail. This I ask you.. Who is not in hell according to these groups?...... Oneness must be established rightfully as all are simply saying the same thing, to love and do good in the world. God is GOOD ORDERLY DIRECTION .. Not killing. Not trying to justify death. You're killing children... That's the most evil.


via theglobalmovement.info

Ideology of the Day

WHAT IS THE MOMENT ASKING FOR?

To be responsible means to be response-able; to be able to respond to a situation from a place of clarity, not react from a place of resistance, out of habit or unconsciousness.

It means to be able to directly feel your own authentic first-hand response in any given situation. It means to be willing to slow down, to be present, to feel into the energies that want to move in you, without numbing them or distracting yourself.

It means having the courage to trust yourself, and let go of all second hand notions of what the 'right' response is, or the 'moral' response, or to be a slave to the 'correct' response prescribed in the holy books or by the prevailing subjective ideology of the day.

It means to meet life, naked. To stand alone. To allow the intelligence of life to move through you. To be a conduit for truth. To no longer be caught up in the battle between 'right' and 'wrong', 'God' and the 'devil', but to be deeply connected to the moment. To touch what is alive, here and now. To listen, really listen, to what the moment needs, not what the self-image wants.

To be willing to sit with uncertainty.

- Jeff Foster