Complex Life Quotes

“The complexity of your earthly array is not a guarantee for a truimphant eternity. The fact is that you need a simple life to go to heaven; not an excessively glittering body, shiny lips and charming face.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Man of simple life envies the man of complex life and man of complex life envies the man of simple life! The solution is simple: Let them taste the lives they envy. And thus the envy will disappear; it will replace with the truth!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Immiscible with the Congregation

I am a drop of oil in this bucket of water.
We are immiscible
about the immutability, Infallibility,
and inerrancy of their ideas.
They live in the polarities
of good and bad, heaven and hell,
a god and a devil, Christian and not.
But life is too nuanced, history too complex;
my mind is too neutral to mix.

Are there any more drops of oil in here?
Someone that has actually looked into the water
and can’t be mixed into the multitude?

Each week, the congregation is baptized in the idea that everyone needs an outside entity.

What I need is to know myself.
To be
aware of the arising of the mind.
To notice what is appearing
and to watch it dissipate.
To know
that I am not the trail of thoughts
that I get caught in.
I need to watch thoughts arise,
To let them go,
and to pay attention
to the thread.
What I need is not outside,
but it’s not necessarily inside either;
it is the awareness itself
of what is happening
in both places.

What I need is what is.

That is my salvation. That is what I need.
I am saved with each moment that I am aware.

Amen.”
― Eric Overby, Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings