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“Give me iron words forged in fire that I may speak the language of earth.”
― Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
― Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
“I flew straight out of heaven, a mad bird full of secrets. I came into being as I came into being. I grew as I grew. I changed as I change. My mind is fire, my soul fire. The cobra wakes and spits fire in my eyes. I rise through ochre smoke into black air enclosed in a shower of stars. I am what I have made. I am the seed of every god, beautiful as evening, hard as light. I am the last four days of yesterday, four screams from the edges of earth—beauty, terror, truth, madness—the phoenix on his pyre.”
― Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
― Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
“Psychopathology has always been considered — in one sense or another — as resulting from a distorted view of reality. But what one considers to be psychopathology therefore must depend upon what one considers to be reality.”
― Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep
― Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep
“I remember the names of my ancestors. I speak the names of those I love. I speak their names and they live again. May I be so well-loved and remembered. In truth, may the gods hear my name. May I do work with my hands worth remembering.”
― Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
― Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
“We are so addicted to looking outside ourselves that we have lost access to our inner being almost completely. We are terrified to look inward, because our culture has given us no idea of what we will find. We may even think that if we do, we will be in danger of madness. This is one of the last and most resourceful ploys of ego to prevent us from discovering our real nature. So we make our lives so hectic that we eliminate the slightest risk of looking into ourselves. Even the idea of meditation can scare people. When they hear the words egoless or emptiness they think that experiencing those states will be like being thrown out the door of a spaceship to float forever in a dark, chilling void. Nothing could be further from the truth. But”
― Dreams of Light: The Profound Daytime Practice of Lucid Dreaming
― Dreams of Light: The Profound Daytime Practice of Lucid Dreaming
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