I am the world crier, & this is my dangerous career… I am the one to call your bluff, & this is my climate. —Kenneth Patchen
“He who travels far will often see things Far removed from what he believed was Truth. When he talks about it in the fields at home, He is often accused of lying, For the obdurate people will not believe What they do not see and distinctly feel. Inexperience, I believe, Will give little credence to my song.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Journey to the East: A Novel
We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe. – Amit Ray.
“The welfare of the people…has always been the alibi of tyrants…giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.” – Albert Camus
There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life, just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you imagine. You are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else, too! It’s all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don’t worry, just be happy. You are already free!
- Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Awareness is seeing the simplicity of life, enlightenment is not complicating it. – B
Il n’y a qu’un bonheur dans la vie, c’est d’aimer et d’être aimé.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. – Christopher Hitchens
We’re here to create and what you create is upto you, don’t waste time or energy creating anything that doesn’t increase the love, or good in your life, or the lives of others. -B
Listen to the breathing of rocks, extracting memories from windows, watching trees to see which way the spirit flows… -B
Poverty ends the second we value people, instead of ersatz financial instruments. -B
“Björn walks an Edge of Conscious as a Western Yogi. His Perceptions and Commentary Is Profound… and Challenging. ” ~ Gregory Donald Brinkley
“Many people are confused about what free speech is all about. It is not freedom for the thought you love. It is freedom for the thoughts you hate the most,” ~Larry Flynt
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. -Han Suyin
“I live my life, you live yours. If you’re clear about what you want, then you can live any way you please. I don’t give a damn what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.”
— Haruki Murakami – Dance Dance Dance
“As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all. ”― Gautama Buddha
I see straight through the depths of darkness, thrusting deeper into the black, it’s the only place I can feel the light… -B
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. ~ La Bruyere
“Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.”
— Haruki Murakami – Hear the Wind Sing
“I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.” ~Irena Sendler helped smuggle Jeweish children out of Poland during WWII.
“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
― Robert Frank
Style is your true self expressed in everything you do. ~BL
“I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
All your thoughts, feelings, & desires all help to create & either raise, or lower your ‘Vibrations’ the frequency of your own particular energy pattern – so choose carefully, you’ll either attract or repel what you want. With skill you can raise your vibrations as easily as you breathe, why wait? Love & happiness are waiting for you. -BL
When you get lost in world drama, remember your heart is a compass that’ll help you find your way back. -BL
The only right way is simply to be, to be yourself & your ‘Right -Way’ is only for you, no one else; you’ll never find your right-way by trying to impose your ideas, beliefs, or fears on anyone, ironically by doing so it acts to slow you down, let go of being right for anyone but you. -BL
We can all be vicious & mean to each other, but it’s only because we’re trying to protect whatever’s left of our exhausted gut wrenched broken hearts & spirit… below the surface of outbursts & pain in each of you there is something wondrous, worthy, & beautiful. -BL
If you’re working to increase the good for all Humankind I don’t care what you call yourself, it’s action, that shows where your heart is. -BL
kindness and sincerity are scarce & always a wise investment. -B
Equality must be for everyone, the wheel of liberty isn’t strong unless everyone’s rights are ensured & protected. -B
All the egotistical Earth fools who want war should be dropped off on a Pacific Atoll still glowing from atom bomb tests to duke it out with wet noodles, in underwear 5 times too small & in boots with soles of broken teeth from the poor of their nation …then let the bastards go head to head & leave the rest of us out of their insanity! -BL
Love is the only reality & any time you consciously choose kindness over hostility, you increase the sphere of goodness that has vast reaches beyond the moment. -BL
I know it’s difficult for some to understand what’s happening currently, once you begin to really pay attention, listen, watch, & connect the dots you’ll see a pattern emerge; the reason whistle blowers are so dangerous is, it’s not necessarily the information they reveal, but rather the bigger piece of the underlying pattern they bring to the public’s attention. -BL
When someone really likes YOU just for you, being you, even if sometimes their path has a few ruts stick with them because those people are rare & try to remember their occasional bumps don’t change how they feel about you, it’s just their road ain’t perfect either. -BL
Whenever another’s humanity is denied by dismissing & dehumanizing them because of race, gender, sexual preference, religion, physical, or mental differences, it wedges the door of ignorance open further which left unchecked or completely ignored in silence allows barbarism to creep further into civilisation. -BL
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeat
Being human is difficult. Becoming human is lifelong process. To be truly human is a gift. ~Abraham Heschel
When in Palindrome, do as the Palindromes do: Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard. -B
“If you can do something to change the circumstances, why be upset about it? And if you cannot do anything to change the circumstances, why be upset about it?” ~The 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje.
Humankind can not improve upon nature, except, to immediately cease fucking with it & learn to live in harmony with her, when the Source/God, created nature it did so out of joy & love, not out of profit & greed. -BL
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.” ― Edward R. Murrow
Everything is connected, everything eventually orbits everything else, some bodies & spirits have strong attraction, once they closely orbit one another there’s a harmonic resonance that never vanishes. -BL
“Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.”
― Paul Celan
“Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.” —Jane Smiley.
Yesterday, we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today, we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
~Khalil Gibran
“Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.” – Marc Chagall
“I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole”. -Carl Jung.
We get it from the people who have ‘got it’, when someone is a friend, they really give you their best stuff, to help you get on to your best stuff…somebody did it for them (Its what spiritual friends do) it’s just natural. -Krishna Das
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.~ Henry David Thoreau
“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”― Hermann Hesse
“There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
~Hunter S. Thompson
“The future projects light, the past only clouds.” ~ Eileen Gray.
“In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.” Grok, yo. -Robert Heinlein
“The true thoughts that go on inside us are just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of, at most, one tiny little part of us at any given instant.” ― David Foster Wallace
Fuck it, I don’t want to be friends with ‘average’ people, tried it once & wanted to poke my fucking eyes out with forks. Different is beautiful, and anyone can be average so what’s so great about it? You don’t have to play dumb to have friends & pretending to be something other than yourself, is making you all sick. -BL
Present essence & leave something to the imagination of the viewer. -BL
Gra, Dilseacht, Cairdeas.
Curiosity & imagination equal unlimited repertoire. -BL
If you have no voice: Scream. If you have no legs: Run. If you have no hope: Invent. What if anything were possible? – Alegria.
“My wish for you… is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
Actually, your soul and mine are the same. We appear and disappear with each other. ~ Rumi
”That which is hateful to you, do not do to another’ ~—Talmud
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don’t deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline
You can’t control that which you don’t know you have.
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.” ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
“Power attracts pathological personalities, not that power corrupts, but, its magnetic to the corruptible.” -Frank Herbert.
“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot” ― Bruce Lee
Why is it when a Bear kills a Human its immediately hunted down & murdered? …AND when a Human with a gun, kills a Bear, its praised & called ‘SPORT’? -BL
Ancora Imparo. -Michelangelo
You should never have to sacrifice individuality to please others. -BL
You need Power only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise Love is enough to get everything done. ~Charlie Chaplin
“The creative person is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, crazier and saner, than the average person.”
— F. Barron, “The psychology of imagination
“We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.”
~Audre Lorde
“Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.” ― Carlos Castaneda, The Fire from Within
“Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.”
― Hunter Thompson
“If they can’t learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn”
― O. Ivar Lovaas
Digital dissolves soul energy, film gives it back. -Björn Luminaire
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
~Cecil Beaton
“Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it’s an open mind”
- Gail Rubin
Freedom is when your best alternative leads you to more freedom & equality. -Dave Marsh