Thu
Aug
28
When our Conceptual Minds are “blown away” by the vast panorama of Mythic Intelligence, it’s up to us to re-stabilize our psychology by integrating the new outlook. The Mythic reveals the relatedness-of-allliving-things… much like the DNA codes the language of universal life. To the degree our concepts (of the world & ourselves) are obliterated by the impact of universal truths, we are obliged to adjust our thinking to include their reality, if only to put our minds at peace. If we attempt to ignore what we know to be true, well find out how long we can live a lie and maybe even suffer in the paranoid tradition of thinking the Universe to be an evil, threatening place to be… missing out, of course, on the Incredible Benevolence of Synchronicity. Who knows? Life may just be a Positive Conspiracy bent on putting us in the right place at the right time every living, breathing moment of the day. Realizing this can put our “analyzer” on hold, our interpretive mind on “ga-ga” and our hearts on breathless.
Tue
Aug
26
Gas Station Attendants, Grandmothers, Stumbling Drunks, Astronomers, Cats, Landladies, Ferns, Newscasters, Mozart, Hardcore Punk Music, Madmen, Crystals, Children, Presidents, Indian Chiefs, Movie Stars, Plumbers, Telephone Operators and the list goes on forever. It’s all Spiritual and the Teachers are everywhere. It just takes a certain kind of perspective to see this.
Mon
Jul
7
OK, so at what point is Wilson kidding and at what point is he serious?
“The older I get, the less seriously I take anything,” says Wilson. “The Chinese say the wise become Confucian in good times, Buddhist in bad times and Taoist in old age. I’m old enough to be a Taoist. I don’t see anything very seriously.” Not even, as it turns out, mortality.
“I know I’m going to die sometime soon: five weeks, five months, five years,” says Wilson. “I don’t know, maybe 50 years if stem cell research moves along. But I don’t know and I don’t care. And I can’t take it seriously anymore. If George Bush is president of the free world, who can take anything seriously?
Sat
Jul
5
Billy Crystal (Harry Burns): You realize of course that we could never be friends.
Meg Ryan (Sally Albright): Why not?
Billy Crystal (Harry): What I’m saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.
Meg Ryan (Sally): That’s not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved.
Billy Crystal (Harry): No you don’t.
Meg Ryan (Sally): : Yes I do.
Billy Crystal (Harry): No you don’t.
Meg Ryan (Sally): Yes I do.
Billy Crystal (Harry): You only think you do.
Meg Ryan (Sally): You say I’m having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Billy Crystal (Harry):: No, what I’m saying is they all WANT to have sex with you.
Meg Ryan (Sally): They do not!
Billy Crystal (Harry): Do too.
Meg Ryan (Sally): They do not.
Billy Crystal (Harry): Do too.
Meg Ryan (Sally): How do you know?
Billy Crystal (Harry):Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Meg Ryan (Sally): So, you’re saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive?
Billy Crystal (Harry): No. You pretty much want to nail ‘em too.
Meg Ryan (Sally): What if THEY don’t want to have sex with YOU?
Billy Crystal (Harry): Doesn’t matter because the sex thing is already out there so the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
Meg Ryan (Sally): Well, I guess we’re not going to be friends then.
Billy Crystal (Harry): I guess not.
Meg Ryan (Sally): That’s too bad. You were the only person I knew in New York.
Mon
Jun
30
We start running risks when we get out of bed in the morning. Risks are good for us, they bring out the best that’s in us. They brighten the eye and get the mind cooking. They put a new shiny look on our days. Human beings should never be settled, it’s ok for chicken, cows and cats, but it’s wrong for human beings. People start to die when they become settled. We need to keep things stirred up.
Mon
Jun
16
Joseph Campbell had a term for the nodal moment or temporal vortex: he called it themythogenetic moment. On the first page ofCreative Mythology, he signaled the 12th century as the last great mythogenetic moment in the history of Western civilization. … Campbell felt passionately that the transition into the 21st century could be a mythogenetic moment morally and spiritually equivalent to the 12th century, and possibly even resonant with it.
— source
Tue
Jun
10
“ Dream the dreams and then be foolish enough to make your dreams come true. That may not work for everybody, but it did work for me. It was sort of the approach I used - it never was rational and it never made total sense.
Vinod Khosla, Sun
“ You don’t solve all of the problems before jumping into a new situation. You just sort of believe in yourself enough to say: I’ll figure it out… one way or another! And I did figure it out… It wasn’t easy, but it all worked out.
Vinod Khosla, Sun
“ We were building a team for a Zero Billion dollar company.
Vinod Khosla, Sun
