Things
Things
Trees are good for you.
Everyone is the hero of the story in his or her own mind.
Chances are, no one is out to get you.
A spiritual path wouldn’t be worth it if it were easy.
There are many approaches to everything.
Please yourself first, but not exclusively.
The sort of people who set up a yurt on the beach and spend a summer cleaning up oil spills, without pay, are amongst the least respected in our society. No good, longhaired, tree-hugging, hippy, eco-terrorists!
If there is a way off this crazy merry-go-round only Buddha knows it.
You can tell the difference between a curse and a run of bad luck, but I couldn’t explain it.
Education does not equate intelligence.
The majority of white people will be pagan again someday, but not any time soon.
Thou art God (really).
But don’t get full of yourself now; most of the entities in the universe can kick your ass.
There is a trend to claim to be god owned in pagan culture right now, this is not something you should lie about kids. The gods are real and not all cupcakes and bunny rabbits.
No one has any patience any more, especially in the city.
Paganism has always been somewhat different in the sticks than in the towns. It always will be that way.
Head Six is the Devil.
A mother should be proud her son grew up to join the Sea Shepherd Society, but will rather wish he became a small time lawyer for petty crooks.
Some day we will again have stunning marble temples built to our gods. Only in the future temples will be built of reclaimed marble and other recycled materials, also they will have green roofs and run on solar, wind, or hydro power.
School (as in the modern school system in our part of the world) is not for everyone and everyone is not for school, but everybody ought to give it their best shot and go as far as they can.
I don’t care how much money you make, how big your house is, I don’t care if you’re hard working or a lazy bum, I don’t care if you are wise or ignorant, I don’t care if you’re a “real” Witch or not.
What I care about is whether or not the world is a better place for having you in it.
Play to your strengths, and remember not everyone has the same talents and abilities as you; they must play to their own strengths.
There are as many different kinds of intelligence as there are people on this earth.
Your personality is only a small part of you.
There is a trend to be using flying ointments and such as shortcuts in pagan culture right now, this is not something you should play with kids. This is something that should be taken seriously and researched first. Please.
In order to Be Yourself, you must first Know Yourself.
The first step to knowing yourself is coming to the understanding that you (and everything else) are always changing.
How do you want to BE always changing?
Grow
Love
There is more than one way to gain knowledge and experience in this world.
Ability, knowledge, experience, understanding, and wisdom; all fingers and a thumb upon a palm called enlightenment.
What is the wrist? Where is the arm?
There is a difference between infatuation and love.
Wouldn’t bliss get boring after a while?
Once having achieved nirvana, would you want a nice greasy cheeseburger?
Nothing separates you from nature or the divine except for your belief that you are.
It seems to me that people complicate spirituality needlessly. I’m not sure exactly why?
There are no do-overs.
You cannot play this game without screwing up sometimes.
I write with more humor in mind than people think/read.
I broke my keyboard.
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I enjoyed this one greatly.
MO:
Over-complication is an intellectual fetish, the more you can divide something the more relations you can draw between its parts. The more relations you can draw between the parts the more intricate a story you can tell about the nature of the subject.
Nothing can be said about a collective whole, to speak is to select and to select is to divide. If you want to tell a story you must divide, if you want to tell a detailed story you must divide greatly.
Technology:
Much of much technology has arisen through the rearranging of parts once they are divided, the materials were always available and so was the potential for the innovative recombinations. Man is a natural process, anything man does is also a natural process, you could consider the global destruction occurring as a result of human activity a ‘natural disaster’. A comet colliding with our planet would be just as disastrous as anything we are capable of, I am not justifying our destructive activities, only stating that you can’t remove man from nature.
Complicating things is a Human trait:
Humans complicate things, that is just what we do, not only do we stare up at the sky and wonder but we attempt to formulate questions to represent our wonder. But our wonder can never be captured in a sentence, it is an inner drive that wills us to create a story about our place in the uni/multi-verse.
No ones story is ‘correct’
Not yours, not mine, not anything written and claimed as divine.
Words, sentences, paragraphs – select certain things by leaving out others. To pick something out in our reality we must provide it with an outline – the outline is everything else which is not considered that phenomena.
To over-complicate is to take a human trait to excess. To speak is to complicate and humans are complicated. Perhaps to our own demise, but complicated we are.
Hope you enjoyed it, sorry to hear about your troubles!
PS:
Keyboards are meant to be broken.
Very interesting and amusing subject. I read with great pleasure.