Le monde comme il me parle.

“ Entre la balle dans le dos et la balle dans le coeur, j’ai toujours préféré l’idée de la balle dans le coeur. Le fait de vivre emmène obligatoirement dans des phases où l’on ne contrôle plus rien. Il s’agit de résister. C’est moins dangereux de risquer que de subir. La facilité, c’est l’impasse. Ce n’est pas le danger auquel on échappe qui procure du plaisir, c’est l’habilité avec laquelle nous y avons échappé - on peut appeler cette habilité de la chance.“

- Olivier de Kersauson

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The Principle of Emptiness

Have you got the habit of hoarding useless objects, thinking that one day, who knows when, you may need them ? Have you got the habit of accumulating money , and not spending it because you think that in the future you may be in want of it? Have you got the habit of storing clothes, shoes, furniture, utensils and other home supplies that you haven’t used already for some time? And inside yourself…? Have you got the habit to keep reproaches, resentment, sadness, fears and more? Don’t do it! You are going against your prosperity! It is necessary to make room, to leave an empty space in order to allow new things to arrive to your life. It is necessary that you get rid of all the useless things that are in you and in your life, in order to prosperity to arrive. The force of this emptiness is one that will absorb and attract all that you wish. As long as you are, materially or emotionally, holding old and useless feelings, you won’t have room for new opportunities Goods must circulate…. Clean your drawers, the wardrobes, the workshop, the garage… Give away what you don’t use any longer… The attitude of keeping a heap of useless stuff ties your life down. It’s not the objects you keep that stagnate your life… but rather the attitude of keeping… When we keep in store, we consider the possibility of wanting, of penury.. we believe that tomorrow it may lack, and that we won’t be able to fulfil those necessities.. With that idea, you are sending two messages to your brain and to your life: That you don’t trust tomorrow…and you think that the new and the better are not for you, For this reason you cheer yourself up by storing old and useless stuff Get rid of what lost its colour and brightness… Let the new enter your home… and yourself.

- Joseph Newton

Nobody knows what’s going on.

Because the fact of the matter is, nobody knows what’s going on. Nobody knows. Nobody has the faintest idea. The best guesses are lies, you may be sure of it. So to pretend that one human being will lead another out of the dark night of ignorance and into the shining light of truth is ludicrous. Absolutely grotesque.

A product of this empowering of the human image; that has gone on through several thousand years of dominator culture. If you want a teacher, try a waterfall, or a mushroom, or a mountain wilderness, or a storm pounded seashore. This is where the action is. It’s not back in the hive, it’s not in the anthill, it’s not knocking your head against the floor in front of somebody who claims that because of their lineage and who’s feet they washed, and whose feet they washed, that you should give credence to them.

Knowledge is provisional and we are yet to approach even the first moment of civilized understanding. The way it is to be done is by trusting yourself, trusting your intuition.

― Terence McKenna