Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being—a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.

Adyashanti (via oceanandwave)

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.

Hazrat Inayat Khan (via cosmicspread)

Your mind completely opens up to the true nature of our existence, which is that we are not bodies, that we are pure loving spirit created by God, that God is love, and there is nothing but love, and love, being all encompassing, has no opposite. You are completely forgiven on all things, and there is nothing you’ve ever done that has ever swayed God’s pure and unconditional love for you and you realize that eternity, and peace, and heaven is our inheritance and all of us are going to make it there.

Bill Hicks talking about his experience with shrooms. (via billhicks)

“What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.” – Eliphas Levi

Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, & firing on funerals is peace

Remi Kanazi (via cans61)

No matter what system the magician chooses, in order to make it work most effectively he or she must first become attuned to that system’s particular way of viewing of the universe.

Lon Milo DuQuette (via hyp3rspac3)

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius

I have, over my lifetime, given to many hours of my humanity to people who want to have totally abstract conversations about “But isn’t it really bad to let someone-?” No. “But isn’t it really gross to-?” No. “Isn’t it really exploitative-?” No.

You can work that out on your own time, but what I’m talking about is people are in these really precarious situations because the legal system that we have set up around sex work is universally fucked up. And my job is to expose that. And to the extent that you’re interested in hearing about that? Come along.

But if you need to process what it makes you feel that we have a sex industry in the world? That is not something I’m here for. I can’t do that for you.