MySpace - Spacetime - 34 - Male - Maryland

my reflections:

All that we've known, is but the first second of our existance. We are children in a very real sense.

the truth as is known .. is going to die. Our planet, our universe and all of it's galaxies. But being aware gives us the choice and the possibility of chooseing our own destiny. Those who choose to stay at home and not evolve .. will of course follow the pattern already laid down for us. Those who choose to fight for more .. at least have the CHANCE of breaking free of the pattern. And in the end.. I truly think it would be a shame for all of this to of been for naught. to live and die with no memory between... is not noble, it's insane and tragic.

... and so fell the weight I never can lift behind us the darkness between us the rift.

last night in the moments my thoughts were adrift and coasting a terrace approaching a rift.

through which I could spy several glimpses beneath of the darkness the light from above could not reach.

I spied wings of reason herself taking flight and upon a yonder precipice saw her alight.

and glare back at me, one last look of dismay, as if she were the last one she thought I'd betray.

so much the better I said to myself and drawing quite close to the top of the shelf.

I struggled with destiny up on the ledge and gasped when defeated he slipped off the edge.

and silence, contagious in moments like these, consumed me and strengthened my will to appease.

the passion that sparked me one terrible night and shocked and persuaded my soul to ignite...
~Phish

"The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuel the stars, the movement of light and electrons through matter, the intricate molecular order which is the biological basis of life, must be met by the creation of a moral and political order which will accommodate these forces or we shall be destroyed. It will try our deepest resources of reason and compassion."
-- Heinz Pagels

"Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.... There is a grandeur in this view of life... that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a begining endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
-- Charles Darwin

"There is nothing permanent except change."
--Heraclitus

"Better yet, the whole superstructure of rational-symbolic knowledge can be rearranged so that these aspects of life's possabilities can be perceived and learned as unity and diversity within change rather than fragmentation within an illusory permanence."
-- The Starseed Transmissions

With attention to intention, the inner becomes the outer, a clear mirror reflection our Self. The internal and external no longer separated, but held togethere by the music we play, the music we hear, the life we live.
-- Higher Ocatve Music; Evolution 1986-1996 "As in music, so in life"

If spirituality is simply a function of life, the edge of a cosmic ripple, then where is it going? We don't know. Like the universe, it is still expanding into unknown territory.

That the world is, is the mystical.

~Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wind in the cave: Movement in stillness. Power in silence.

Ancient societies were tribal; The group did the thinking. Current society is splintered; The individual must be complex.

We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this actually is an art of which few people know anything. Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, and never leaving the simple growth of the psychic processes in peace. It would be simple enough, if only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things.

~Carl Jung

All Things want to fly. Only we are weighed down by desire, caught in ourselves and enthralled with our heaviness....If someone were to fall into intimate slumber, and slept deeply with Things--how easily he would come to a different day, out of the mutual depth.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

What imagination could we have left for that higher equilibrium in which nature balanced history....We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

~from Helen's Exile by Albert Camus

We are so caught up in our self-important dramas that we can't smell the poisons in the air or taste them in the water. The Western urban intellectual's long indifference to the notion of a simple, experiential understanding of the natural world may turn out to be the gravest rational error of all.

~from The Essential Crazy Wisdom by Wes "Scoop" Nisker

Zither, chess, book, painting, sword.

Self-awareness: facing mirrors that pass through the universe, gathing new images on the way--endlessly reflexive, The infinit seen as finit, the analogue of consciousness carrying the sensed bits of infinity.

"Specialized complexity," "We gather, assemble, and reflect our system of order." "Select form the past and match it against the present: Learn consequences."

~from the Dune books