Bet On It! Food For Thought - 59 - Quest For The Weird

The Process Of Breathing, If Fully Understood & Experienced In Its Profound Significance, Could Teach Us More Than All The Philosophies Of The World - Lama Govinda

Spirituality Isn't A "Trend". It Isn't About Believing Or Faith. Or Gaining A New Personality, Vocabulary, Wardrobe, Buying Crystals Or Doing Yoga. It's About Rediscovering & Returning To Our Natural State. While Exploring Profound Questions About Life & Meaning.

Let Me Tell You Why You're Here. You're Here Because You Know Something. What You Know You Can't Explain, But You Feel It. You've Felt It Your Entire Life, That There's Something Wrong With The World. You Don't Know What It Is, But It's There, Like A Splinter In Your Mind, Driving You Mad. It Is This Feeling That Has Brought You To Me.
The Matrix Is Everywhere. It Is All Around Us. Even Now, In This Very Room. You Can See It When You Look Out Your Window Or When You Turn On Your Television. You Can Feel It When You Go To Work ... When You Go To Church ... When You Pay Your Taxes. It Is The World That Has Been Pulled Over Your Eyes To Blind You From The Truth. That You Are A Slave, Neo. Like Everyone Else You Were Born Into Bondage. Into A Prison That You Cannot Taste Or See Or Touch. A Prison For Your Mind.
Sooner Or Later You're Going To Realize Just As I Did That There's A Difference Between Knowing The Path & Walking The Path. I'm Trying To Free Your Mind, Neo. But I Can Only Show You The Door. You're The One That Has To Walk Through It. You Have To Let It All Go, Neo. Fear, Doubt & Disbelief. Free Your Mind - Morpheus The Matrix (1999)

What If I told You, That Your Entire Civilization Is Rooted In Beliefs Of Separation & Fear That Hide Reality From You. That You Have Been Raised Since Childhood To Work As Drones In A System That Is Built As A Tool For The Upper Classes To Expand & Maintain Their Power. Where Nature, Your True Mother, Has Been Enslaved As A Resource To Plunder, Rather Than A Sacred Being To Be Loved & Honored. This Is The Matrix & While Not A Movie, It IS Just As Unreal.

In Combat, One Should Be Rough & Reckless. Not So In Everyday Affairs - Nabeshima Naoshige

To Be Intimate Is To Feel The Silence, The Space That Everything Is Happening In - Adyashanti

The World Said We Could Become Whatever We Want, So Be You! Small Daily Improvements Are The Key To Staggering Long Term Results. The Sky Is Not Your Limit ... You Are.

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. RAGE, Rage Against The Dying Of The Light - Dylan Thomas

It Was The Quest For The Weird That Brought Me So Far - Terence McKenna

In A Time Of Universal Deceit, Telling The Truth Is A Revolutionary Act - George Orwell

When The Doors Of Perception Are Cleansed, We Will See Things As They Truly Are, Infinite - William Blake

Life Is Filled With Unanswered Questions, But It Is The Courage To Seek Those Answers That Continues To Give Meaning To Life. You Can Spend Your Life Wallowing In Despair, Wondering Why You Were The One Who Was Led Towards The Road Strewn With Pain, Or You Can Be Grateful That You Are Strong Enough To Survive It - J.D. Stroube

Love What Is Simple & Beautiful. These Are The Essentials - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If There Was One Life Skill Everyone On The Planet Needed, It Was The Ability To Think With Critical Objectivity - Josh Lanyon

Dispassionate Objectivity Is Itself A Passion, For The Real & For The Truth - Abraham Maslow

If You Go Home With Somebody & They Don't Have Books, Don't Fuck 'Em! - John Waters

Unfetter Your Mind - Takuan Soho
When Faced With A Challenging Situation, Put Your Mind Completely In Tune With The Present Moment. Your Thoughts Must Cease To Exist, Leaving Only Observation, Accurate Understanding & Purposeful Action.

Walk A Mile To Avoid A Fight, Should One Start Without Possibility Of Egress, Don't Back Down One Fucking Inch. Finish It!

Formal Education Will Make You A Living; Self-education Will Make You A Fortune - Jim Rohn

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped & even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition - James Allen

Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right & you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth - Mahatma Gandhi

Love All, Trust A Few, Do Wrong To None - William Shakespeare

If you learn to really sit with loneliness & embrace it for the gift that it is … an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness … you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant & colorful YOU - Mandy Hale