Of the precious insignificance of our trifling days

Alex Grey @69, November 29th, 2022

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows.

― Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake, Sitting Bull 

The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing . . . He must obey his own law as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths.

― Carl Gustav Jung

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mould to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

― ਜਿੱਦੂ ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਨਾਮੂਰਤੀ (ਜੇ. ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਨਾਮੂਰਤੀ) Jiddu Krishnamurti

Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

― Pema Chödrön (པདྨ་ཆོས་སྒྲོན། padma chos sgron “lotus dharma lamp”; born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown)

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside, there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

― Alan Wilson Watts