Category: Inspiration

cosmic and continuous, Card

Nothing is static.
The universe operates through dynamic exchange.
Your body is in dynamic & constant exchange
with the body of the universe;
your mind is dynamically interacting
with the mind of the cosmos;
your energy is an expression of cosmic energy.
-CHOPRA

…the causes of our behavior are so complex that we can\’t trace them back. If you\’ve got one line of dominoes knocking each other down one by one, then you can always say, Look this domino fell because that one pushed it. But when you have an infinite number of dominoes that can be traced back in an infinite number of directions, you can never find where the causal chain begins.

… We’re free, because we always existed. Right back from the beginning of time, only there was no beginning of time so we existed all along. Nothing ever caused us. Nothing ever made us. We simply are, and we always were… our bodies, the whole world around us, they’re like the holographic display. They’re real enough, but they don\’t show the true cause of things. It\’s the one things we can never be sure of just looking at the display of the universe – why things are happening. But behind it all, inside it all, if we could see through it, we\’d find the true cause of everything.

Philotes (Philotes are the fundamental building blocks of all matter & energy. Philotes have neither mass nor inertia. Philotes have only location, duration & connection… it was philotic connections – the twining of philotic rays – that… allow instantaneous communication… many light years apart [57]) that always existed, doing what they want… The supposed beginning of the universe, that was only the start of the present order – this display, all of what we think exists. But who says the philotes that are acting out the natural laws that began at that moment didn’t exist before? And if the whole universe collapses back in on itself, who says that the philotes won\’t simply be released from the laws they’re following now, and go back into chaos. Darkness. Disorder. Whatever they were before this universe brought them together. Why couldn’t they – we – have always existed and always continue to exist? [387]

-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

the descent of the divine into matter, Tolle

Tomorrow never happens.
It’s all the same fucking day man.
-Janis Joplin

The brain does not create consciousness, but consciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression. When the brain is damaged you do not lose consciousness because that is connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways. The cosmos is not chaotic. The very word cosmos means order. Not the type the human mind can ever comprehend, although it can sometimes glimpse. In the forest, there is an incomprehensible order that to the mind looks like chaos. It is beyond the mental categories of good & bad. Yet, everything is interconnected. The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place. It cannot be understood through thought. The higher order emanates from the formless realm of consciousness, from universal intelligence, aligned in higher purpose. When we go into a forest that has not been interfered with by man, our thinking mind only sees disorder, chaos. It won\’t differentiate between life (good) and death (bad) anymore since everywhere new life grows out of rotting & decayed matter. There is hidden harmony here, a sacredness, a higher order in which everything has its perfect place and could not be other than what it is and the way it is. Essence. True Nature. Field of awareness. Acknowledging the dimension of being. No outer purpose lasts forever. It is subject to time. Celebrate the eternal. The whole – all things in existence – all ten thousand – from microbes to human beings. Uncompromisingly surrender to what is. The fleeting impermanence of all forms also points to the eternal. Only the eternal can recognize the impermanent as impermanent. Inner space, stillness, subtle peace freed from its imprisonment in form – a space emanating peace that is not \’of this world\’, because this world is form, and the peace is space. This is the peace of God. Life is always now. The future never comes except as the present moment and is therefore never more than a thought in head. Is that so? There is only this moment, and this moment is as it is. It is so. Events are not personalized – he is nobody\’s victim. The wise man\’s \’maybe\’ signals a refusal to judge anything that happens. Instead, accept it and so enter into conscious alignment with the higher order. It is impossible for the mind to understand what place or purpose a seemingly random event has in the tapestry of the whole, but there are no random events, nor are there events or things that exist by and for themselves, in isolation. The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite.

-Eckart Tolle, A New Earth

close your eyes: you are eternity

The human eye sees 38% of the light spectrum.
WHAT ARE WE NOT PERCEIVING?

All possible things don\’t exist. God is impossible. He exists. I will explain. Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion. Nothing exists, as we think it does. Not you. Not me. Not this room. Nothing…
Let me put it another way. The agents of creation, the energy that actually animates the matter and the life that we think we see around us, cannot be measured or weighed or even put into time, as we know it. In one form, that energy is photons of light. The smallest object is a universe of open space to them, and the entire universe is but a speck of dust. What we call the world is just an idea – and not a very good one, yet. From the point of view of the light, the photon of light that animates it, the universe that we know is not real. Nothing is. Do you understand now? [194]

…To know the truth all you have to do is close your eyes. We can know God, and we can know sadness. We can know dreams, and we can know love. None are real, in our usual sense of things that exist in the world & seem real. We cannot weigh or measure them. [196]

-Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

honestree

in the place where we are One,
none of your problems exist.
-The Prophet

The trees live in utter honesty
Even if a few wish sometimes
That they could lie or keep a secret.
They are too much a part of the whole interconnected woven existence to do otherwise.

-Orson Scott Card, Speaker For The Dead

speaker for the dead, Orson Scott Card

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence…The difference… is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.
-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

stellar ouroboros

The Ouroboros, Ourorboros, Oroborus, Uroboros or Uroborus (jʊərəʊˈbɒrəs) is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. It has been used to represent many things over the ages, but it most generally symbolizes ideas of social cycle theory, unity, or infinity. The ouroboros has been important in religious and mythological symbolism, but has also been frequently used in alchemical illustrations (transmutation of base matter into gold).
Lucas Jennis’ engraving published on an alchemical emblem-book entitled De Lapide Philisophico (1625)

The name ouroboros (or, in Latinized form, uroborus) is Greek ουροβóρος, \”tail-devourer\”. The depiction of the serpent is believed to have been inspired by the Milky Way, as some ancient texts refer to a serpent of light residing in the heavens…

In some representations the serpent is shown as half light and half dark, echoing symbols such as the Yin Yang, which illustrates the dual nature of all things, but more importantly, that these opposites are not in conflict. In alchemy, the ouroboros symbolizes the circular nature of the alchemist\’s Great Work, which unites the opposites: the conscious and unconscious mind.

The Ouroboros often represents self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end (See Phoenix (mythology)). It can also represent the idea of primordial unity. The Jungian psychologist Erich Neumann writes of it as a representation of the pre-ego \”dawn state\”, depicting the undifferentiated infancy experience of both mankind and the individual child.

The Ouroboros could very well be used to symbolize the closed-system model of the universe of some physicists. The organic chemist August Kekule claimed that a ring in the shape of Ouroboros that he saw in a dream inspired him in his discovery of the structure of benzene. As noted by Carl Jung, this might be an instance of cryptomnesia…

The Ouroboros is one of the oldest mystical symbols in the world. The serpent or dragon appears in Aztec, Middle East, and Native American mythologies, among others. –Wikipedia

The Milky Way Galaxy is the inspiration for the symbol of the Ouroboros. Myth refers to a serpent of light residing in the heavens. The Milky Way is this serpent, and viewed at galactic central point near Sagittarius (The Archer is in the heart of the summer Milky Way), this serpent eats its own tail. The Milky Way galaxy keeps a great time cycle that ends in catastrophic change. The sign of the Suntelia Aion is the sun rising out of the mouth of the ouroboros, which will occur on the solstice December 2012 – which links with the Mayan Calendar as a symbolic date for the close our reality – virtual reality program – Quetzalcoatl (The name “Quetzalcoatl” literally means quetzal-bird snake or serpent with feathers of the Quetzal (which implies something divine or precious) in the Nahuatl language.) [www.crystalinks.com/ouroboros.html]