February 25, 2005

No individual should live as the superior, or the inferior, or even the equal, of all others. Rather, each should live as the intimate servant of others through love.

The true politics of human relationships is the politics of servants everywhere -- every one serving, and every one served.

-- Adi Da Samraj --

February 18, 2005

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

-- Carl Jung

February 07, 2005

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again, and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

-- Anais Nin --

January 19, 2005

LESTER: I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird... And Janie... And... Carolyn.I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst......and then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... You will someday.

-- American Beauty --

October 04, 2004

"The darker the epoch in which we live, the more we must love it, penetrate it with our love, until we have displaced the heavy matter standing in the way of the light which shines from the other side"

-- Walter Rathenau, Notes and Diaries 1907-1922