217 posts tagged quotes
“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little”
“From the Hindu parable Ramayana, the Lord is represented by the incarnate Ram, who is accompanied on his adventures by his devoted servant Hanuman, depicted as half man, half monkey. In a revealing conversation Ram asks Hanuman: “Do you know who you are?” Hanuman candidly answers, “When I forget who I am, I serve you, when I remember who I am, I am you.” -Alan Cohen
Question: How can I judge myself less harshly and appreciate myself more?
Ram Dass: I think that part of it is observing oneself more impersonally. I often use this image, which I think I have used already, but let me say it again. That when you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You appreciate it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying “You’re too this, or I’m too this.” That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.
“With every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”
“When the iron bird flies, and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the world, and the Dharma will come to the land of the red faced people.”
“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.”
“According to the National Institutes of Health, celiac disease [allergy to gluten] is the most under diagnosed disease in the United States. For years, medical schools taught erroneously that celiac disease was a childhood disorder, as rare as 1 in 5,000 people. A prominent doctor in Seattle told me, after my diagnosis, that he spent five minutes learning about celiac disease in medical school. According to various sources, now it is understood that 1 out of 100 Americans suffer from celiac disease. That means 2 million people in the United States should be living gluten-free. Only 3 percent of us have been diagnosed – that means millions of people floundering in pain and discomfort for decades without knowing why. That number is changing, however, as awareness of the disease grows exponentially. Eighty thousand new celiac patients are being diagnosed every month worldwide.”
Shauna James Ahern, Gluten-Free Girl
I am currently reading this book and eating this bread I baked yesterday.
“If all the trees were pens and all the seas were ink to record God’s speech, they would be exhausted before God’s speech ran out.”
“A healthy woman is much like a wolf, strong life force, life-giving, territorily aware, intuitive and loyal. Yet seperation from her wildish nature causes a woman to become meager, anxious, and fearful. The wild nature carries the medicine for all things. She carries stories, dreams, words and songs. She carries everything a woman needs to be and know. She is the essence of the female soul… With the wild nature as ally and teacher, we see not through two eyes only, but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes.”
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’
Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky.”
