“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.”
― Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
― Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”
― Island
― Island
“Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.”
― Island
― Island
“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
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“Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.”
― Island
― Island
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