Walking and Talking

"The more fanatically you affiliate with reality, the more flagrantly you lie."

-Henry Flynt

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I was so far inside,

so dazed and far away

my senses were released

from feelings of my own.

My mind had found a surer way:

a knowledge of unknowing,

rising beyond all science.

-St. John of the Cross

Pleas…

The madness of love

Is a blessed fate;

And if we understood this

We would seek no other:

It brings into unity

What was divided,

And this is the truth:

Bitterness it makes sweet,

It makes the stranger a neigh…

“In considering the study of physical phenomena, not merely in its bearings on the material wants of life, but in its general influence on the intellectual advancement of mankind, we find its noblest…

“Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant, endless comfort … our failings full of shame into a noble, glorious rising … our dying full of sorrow into holy, blissful life. …. Just as …

“The marvelous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather because it is exactly the same, and because at the secret heart of madness, at …

“Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any ri…

"The most beautiful parts of humans have to do with something that transcends 'what's in it for me?', and death forces you to that."

-Daniel Schmachtenberger

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"The world is not divided into stand-alone entities. It is we who divide it into objects for our convenience. A mountain chain is not divided into individual mountains: it is we who divide it up into…

“When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God …

“The marvelous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather because it is exactly the same, and because at the secret heart of madness, at …

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"Meaning" is always relative to a context. When you apply it to an all-encompassing term like life, existence or reality, there is no larger context. Meaning is meaningless in any ultimate sense.

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"Non-separation is an unbelievable, unapproachable, uncompromising freedom which is already. These are not descriptions of a condition, but “what is” already, when the personal condition unravels. As…