[Nick]

Hello
I would like to suggest that we have a section where we can post quotes from favourite books or magazine articles. There are many sources of information out there and none of us would have access to them all. If we liked the quotes then we could go look for the original source, or just think about the info given in the quote.

[ensonar]

"I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak."

~Andre Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism

[Nick]

Great I like that. From a source I would not have thought of looking at.

[joyseph]

great idea, followed by a great quote!

[BratscheWarrior]

My favorite quote, from the end of The Shawshank Redemption. Spoken by "Red" (played by Morgan Freeman) as he's just been released from prison and is heading down to Mexico:

"I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel. A free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain."

[smellyfart]

"Rocket" by Smashing Pumpkins

I love the end of the song where it goes;

I shall be free
I shall be free
I shall be free, free
free from the voices,
Inside me.

I shall be free.

Except It doesn't go that way, it goes like this;

I shall be free
I shall be free
I shall be free, free
Free as the voices
It's all I need

I shall be free


Well you get the idea. :unsure:

[Nick]

"How much of your attention can you bring to this present? And the next? Where have you scattered all your attention? Can you turn it away from all its preconceptions and bring it here? This is the key. Your power lies in your attention. A change can either be a movement that drains your power or a movement that you can draw power from. It can be of chance, or of your making"


"Our thoughts are part of where we scatter our attention, our power. Each one is part of a pattern group. They are made of our beliefs, experiences, feelings, fears, and hopes, all our motivators, all collected into jumbled patterns. In a way they are alive and conscious. Depending on how much power we give them, they throw into our consciousness the thoughts they are made of. In this way they control our minds and feelings. They crowd up the works, leaving little room or time to anything else the mind might do. It is a good thing to take our power back and free up the mind for better tasks. These pattern groups of thoughts don't want to give it up, though. They are afraid they will die. After all, they are doing what they've always done, following instructions we gave them from our thoughts. They're trying to take care of us. Only most of their configurations don't even make much sense, they conflict and cause stress. Every time we rethink one of their component thoughts we give away power to them. To stop the flow of habitual thoughts is to collect lost power and take control of your mind and emotions and actions. It is easier to do this if the patterns realize you accept them as a valid but changing piece of your construction and you mean them no harm. You have no war with yourself. You only wish for them to assist you in some other way. War means somebody loses, and in this, balance is dubious. Balance counsels for equilibrium of advantage and total respect. The patterns now become your mentor and shield instead of your dictator. And you become their healer. To empty one's mind of thoughts at will, you can see, is crucial. It has always been taught all over our world to apprentices of hidden knowledge. The apprentice then can learn how to experience and choose action instead of being trapped in reaction."

Kay Cordell Whitaker - The Reluctant Shaman

[Nick]

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

John Lennon.

[smellyfart]

Anything will give up it's secrets if you love it enough.

-george washington carver

[BratscheWarrior]

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
-William Blake