The difference between a priest and a shaman is that the priest is a functionary and a shaman is someone who has had an experience. In our tradition it is the monk who seeks the experience, while the priest is the one who has studied to serve the community. I had a friend who attended an international meeting of the Roman Catholic meditative orders, which was held in Bangkok. He told me that the Catholic monks had no problem understanding the Buddhist monks, but that it was the clergy of the two religions who were unable to understand each other.

The person who has had a mystical experience knows that all the symbolic expressions of it are faulty. The symbols don't render the experience, they suggest it. If you haven't had the experience, how can you know what it is? Try to explain the joy of skiing to somebody living in the tropics who has never even seen snow. There has to be an experience to catch the message, some clue - otherwise you're not hearing what is being said.

— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Empty the mind, fill the belly. weaken the ambition, strengthen the character."

Laotzi

there is no global warming, because we are so cool

(ze slam poetry)

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forget what can be forgotten and know yourself to be that which can never be forgotten.

- sri h. w. l. poonja

you have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

- terence mckenna

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We all start from "naive realism," i. e., the doctrine that things are what they seem. We think that grass is green, that stones are hard, and that snow is cold. But physics assures us that the greenness of grass, the hardness of stones, and the coldness of snow are not the greenness, hardness, and coldness that we know in our experience, but something very different. The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. Thus science seems to be at war with itself: when it most means to be objective, it finds itself plunged into subjectivity against its will.
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(Albert Einstein - Remarks on Bertrand Russell's Theory of Knowledge)

my belief is that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then becomes a lie.

- wayne dyer

"Nothing shall be overcome. That which is not needed falls away."

Opakovani je matkou moudrosti...:)

"Everything the ego does is always either against or in competition or in comparison with others."