Quotes

"I see you in the trees / I see you're colourful / I see you in the breeze / You're spiritful" - Jonsi

"The lie tastes sweet at the beginning, but bitter at the end. The truth tastes bitter at the beginning, but sweet at the end." - Buddha

‎"We’re all projections of the same dreamer in a dream world." - Steve Pavlina

‎"Let the learner direct his own learning." - John Holt

‎"Dance! Wake up the sleepers!" - Kill Hannah

‎"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." - Helen Keller

‎"Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream."
- from the Diamond Sutra (Buddha)

"If you can look at all things that give delight without wanting the experience to be repeated, then there will be no pain, no fear, and therefore tremendous joy. It is the struggle to repeat and perpetuate pleasure that turns it into pain. Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight... in it without seeking pleasure from it." - Krishnamurti

"I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual." - Michael Jackson

"What people really want is to be fully themselves. They want the sense of aliveness, of being myself fully. But they want it through this, that, or the other. They don't realize that nothing can give it to you because you already have it. And not only do you have it, you are it, you are what you're looking for already.... You don't know that because you're always looking somewhere else." - Eckhart Tolle

"Religion and politics seem to divide everybody. Music seems to bring everyone together." - Mark Johnson

"Without consciousness, time and space are nothing." - Robert Lanza

"Events are just events and will happen whether in our control or not. It is our reaction to them, positive or negative, that makes them a good thing or a bad thing. How will you choose to react today? It is your choice." - Kristy (paraphrase of other quotes)

"You have new opportunities popping up around you all the time. It's just a matter of deciding which ones you want to grab on to." - Kristy

"Peace can certainly mean that you take action. It’s a very different energy field out of which this energy flows than “reactive” action which is always associated with Ego. You need a certain amount of presence to know whether there is negativity inside you at any given time, or whether the feeling that arises comes from a deep knowing that 'This is what I have to do.'" - Eckhart Tolle

‎"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails." - Richard Rybolt

"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking." - Buddhist proverb

"Need an enemy for ego to win." - 311

‎"...no matter how it ends...no matter how it starts." - Radiohead

"Friends come in and out of our lives like swells on the ocean." - Kristy

"Don’t try to control how one element of this reality shares its love with you. It may love you in a way other than how you expect." - Steve Pavlina

"Sometimes the quiet, subtle voices are more truthful than the loudest ones." - Steve Pavlina

‎"We should tackle reality in a slightly joking way...otherwise we miss its point." - Lawrence Durrell

"Reality can be found only in understanding what is; and to understand what is, there must be freedom, freedom from the fear of what is." - Krishnamurti

‎"It's all right to feel good / it's all for nothing to be wrong / the deepest dream that we have / could be tomorrow's song" - 311

"Which path that you're considering today will you likely look back upon 5 years from now with gratitude that you had the guts to make it so?" - Steve Pavlina

"Be grateful for the interesting decisions you face. They exist not to stress you out but to remind you of your precious freedom to choose." - Steve Pavlina

‎"There is no place to seek the mind; It is like the footprints of the birds in the sky." - Zen saying

"Many problems can be solved in 1 second with a simple 'I quit,' 'I'm out,' or 'We're done.' Be brave and exit today." - Steve Pavlina

‎"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

"In a certain sense, Zen is to feel life instead of feeling something about life." - Alan Watts

To My Friend...

Dear Friend,

I feel like I've known you for a very long time. Much longer than I can actually remember. The veil hides the past and future. Were we only meant to know and teach each other for a short time in this life? Do we have more to teach each other or was it enough time? If we were to go past "friends," it feels like we would make an explosive mistake. Yet, I am drawn to you and want to proceed. Dangerous. We must have been caustic lovers in a previous life. Our closeness is obvious to me and everyone else, but is it to you?

The main problem is that I don't think I really know you at all. Every time I think I understand something about you and try to predict your actions, I am wrong. I'll even guess the opposite of what I think you'll do and turn out wrong. I also think you would try to change me. I don't appreciate when friends withhold information from me for no reason other than to protect themselves from who-knows-what. I do believe you had a difficult life, that you are the product of your environment and that you want to do great things with your life in the future, but you have so much holding you back, mentally. You will seriously need to change if you want to accomplish your goals. You can't fake it forever.

All I know is that I have some sort of feelings for you and I have repeating dreams with you in them. I need resolution. I don't understand how you can run away from all of your relationships, whether serious or casual. Take responsibility. What does it feel like to have all of your relationships unresolved? We are connected whether you can handle it or not.

I think you should move away from your current city for awhile. You won't...you won't even visit me, I'm sure. We have chosen two different directions. You plan to stay there and I plan to stay here. Our goals send us apart. There's no telling where life will lead, but I feel as though we aren't meant to have a relationship this time. It's OK, really...I just need some resolution, though. Maybe in a year. If you can be brave.

Love,
Kristy

p.s. I dedicate this song to you: "How it Ends" by DeVotchka video / lyrics