WillowRaven

“words are power. And you need to constantly refine your own words, and the words you allow into your life, as your connection to power changes. We do not mean power over others. We mean the power of your heart, the power of your soul, the power of who you are here to be.”
― Lee Harris, Awaken Your Multidimensional Soul: Conversations with the Z's, Book Two

“I'm not afraid of people that have darkness I'm only afraid of people that believe they have none”
― Robert Edward Grant

“Do you accept Jesus Christ?” He says it in English, so he definitely knows I’m not Eritrean; the jig is up. “Do you accept Jesus Christ?” he says again, like Jesus is a credit card and I’m an unhelpful waiter. The conditions of the inquiry do not suggest that there is time for me to go into my honest answer: “Yes, but there are caveats.” Jesus Christ, the Son of God, sent to earth to redeem us all. Jesus Christ, the Jewish nationalist radical. Jesus Christ, the metaphor for the divine within the corporeal. Jesus Christ, the human being superimposed, literally, placed on the cross: the pagan geometric emblem that represents on the vertical plane the relationship between the earthly and the divine and on the other, horizontal plane the lateral relationships between individual humans. Christ as the end of paganism, the beginning of individualism, of idolatry. Of the acceptance that some humans are more equal than others. Christ as a reminder that we must all constantly die and be born again, moment to moment, to live forever in the now, if as Wittgenstein says, “eternity is taken not to be an infinite temporal duration but the quality of timelessness, then are we not all eternal if we live in the present.” Christ as the symbol that the flesh is human, that the carnal human ape has expired, and that we can achieve no more until we transcend, until we ascend, into new conscious realms and manifest the divine. “On earth as it is in heaven”? “Do you accept Jesus Christ?” he says again, and this time gives me a bit of a prod, which he tries to pass off as shamanic but I think is actually frustration. The answer, as I have outlined above, is conditionally “yes,” but the most expedient answer is a totally unconditional “yes,” so that is the answer I give. “Yes.”
― Russell Brand, Revolution

“it will look different in every person who embodies it. But it is a sense of flow, peace, well-being, and an ability to very quickly return to a state of presence, even if you are taken out of that for a period of time. Enlightenment is when you don’t lose the light of life for very long. You are able to cultivate light, maintain it, and emit it into the world.”
― Lee Harris, Awaken Your Multidimensional Soul: Conversations with the Z's, Book Two