Quotes - Volume 4

"Music is endless." - Jeff Buckley

"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Whatever you don’t like about how society seems to be conditioning you to behave, you can say no to that. Then go do your own thing." - Steve Pavlina

"Control is the great mask of insecurity." - Deepak Chopra

"When false priorities are mistaken for true priorities, some blocking is bound to occur. You’ll feel resistance when you try to move forward on priorities that seem to make logical sense but which don’t connect with your true desires." - Steve Pavlina

"It is mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the center of gravity of the universe." - Thomas Carlyle

"Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion." - John Burroughs

If, in the beginning, everything arose from nothing, perhaps every-thing is really still the original no-thing but just in a different form..." - Kristy

"Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; truth is apt to be neither." - Christmas Humphreys

"To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life." - Chogyam Trungpa

"We are beyond supposed separations,
All of those are just our creations,
Caught up in the days of mistaking this,
Everyone of us is weightless"
- 311

"Choose the path to which you cannot see the end." - Kristy

"To receive life’s bounty, you must know without a doubt that you deserve it." - Steve Pavlina

"Sometimes you're not sure what path to take, which way to go, or even what you want. Resist the urge to follow someone else's path or it could take you even further off your own. Instead, get centered, connect with your higher self, and figure out where you're going and what you really want. The delay is worth it in order to stay on your own path." - Erin Pavlina

"We do not really 'come into' the world, we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean 'waves,' the universe 'peoples.'" - Alan Watts

"To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts." - Roger Ebert

"Human relationships are not static. Change is inevitable." - Steve Pavlina

"If everybody else your age is doing something very different than what you're doing, there's always gonna be someone saying that you might not succeed, might not make any money with that, all those things will go away if you really focus on what makes you happy." - Kevin Clash (Elmo)

"I never do drugs because I AM drugs." - Salvador Dali

"When you hear the word 'should,' there is usually a mismatch of values present." - James Tsakalos

"Anxiety is the gap between the now and the later." - Fritz Pearls (quoted from Eckhart Tolle)

"There are stars whose light only reaches the earth long after they have fallen apart. There are people whose remembrance gives light in this world, long after they have passed away. This light shines in our darkest nights on the road we must follow." - The Talmud

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." - Benjamin Disraeli

"If your ideal self popped into your physical reality right now, what would s/he change about your life immediately?" - Steve Pavlina

"There is a difference between "going with the flow" and having no direction." - Kristy

"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Nietzsche

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"The thrill of individuality is greater than the comfort of conformity" - 2 Skinnee J's

"What are you going to do with one second?" "Well, it just adds up, and life is too precious." - The Science of Sleep

"If you want to be the author of your own life, you need to set goals, otherwise you're doomed to achieve the goals of others." - Erin Pavlina

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"We can only be kept in the cages we refuse to see." - Cliff Heegel

"Facts are the enemy of truth." - Miguel Cervantes

"Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them."

"We've formed many a theory and belief, but as we look about the human world, it is clear that nobody actually knows what's going on. Yet claims to Truth are being made at every hand, including the claim that there is no Truth." - Steve Hagen

"Attack is actually a call for help."

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." - Victor Hugo

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person." - Margaret Anderson

"There is no 'the one.' There is only who you resonate with right now." - Erin Pavlina

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles

"Competitive people tend to expend more energy on those who resist them. If you offer no resistance, they’re more likely to consider you a potential ally." - Steve Pavlina

"The path of abundance isn’t the path that maximizes velocity. It’s the path that minimizes friction." - Steve Pavlina

"A cloud is never of infinite size. The sun always makes its glorious return." - L (Death Note)

"Music is something very special that makes everything seem all right. You can't hold it, it's just vibrations. But it touches our core, and that's important. Music is that charge to our life." ~S.A. Martinez

"The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a relationship." - Deborah Tannen

"Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there." - Owl City

"Bhagavad Gita" says fear is born of separation - separate from yourself. To be fearless feels like being yourself." - Deepak Chopra

"Courage is not the same as fearlessness." - Deepak Chopra

"At this very moment I can look at any part of my life and say, 'I made that.' Then ask, 'why did I make that?' and, 'what do I want to make instead?'" - Deepak Chopra

A Poem

I wrote this poem when I was a freshman in college:

Untitled

I am the night
Coming to get you
I am different
In my dress
Not one of you
Mature, decisive, truthful, serious
Pure
One who knows more than she lets on
You are so shallow, be serious
You can't
You spread like an epidemic
But I do too
They wonder
And I like it
You wish you could understand me
And my dress
I am unexplainable, unpredictable
More than you
Can anyone tell that I am different by my vague visual clues?
A necklace here
A dress there
I crave for someone to notice that there is something more to me than giggles and flirting
I keep hoping, waiting
But no one does
Some may think they do, but I know they really havenít a clue
I am losing, yet I feel stronger
My dress reminds me that nothing is real
Especially not the night.

Quotes - Volume 3

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." - Tagore

"A mosquito that bites you and then apologizes is still a mosquito." - Steve Pavlina

"When we share our truth with others, we empower them to find their own peace." - Bruce Muzik

"The scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, in comparison with it, all the systematic thinking of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work." - Einstein

"Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form." - Eckhart Tolle

"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." - Japanese Proverb

"Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from your childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it, and help others live up to it." - The Buddha

"Nothing is more real than nothing." - Samuel Beckett

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance." - Nietzsche

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Bob Marley

"The Matrix cannot tell you who you are."

"...though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." - Emerson

"Perfection is a dead end. A condition of hopelessness. Always strive to be better than anything that came before you, but not perfect." - Bleach episode 200

"I make my own path."

"Any wish is possible, all you need is a little courage to set it free." - Jiminy Cricket

"Words make you think a thought, music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought." – E.Y. Harburg

"For man as for flower & beast & bird the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn & the dead may know they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh...the magnificent here & now of life in the flesh is ours alone & ours for only a time. We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive & in the flesh & part of the living incarnate cosmos." - DH Lawrence

"Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." - T.H. Huxley

"People are addicted to their beliefs. When you try to change someone's belief they act like an addict." - Dr. Bernie S. Siegel (paraphrased)

"There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light." - N.P. Willis

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise." - Tacitus

"If you don't become speechless when looking out into space on a clear night, you are not really looking, not aware of the totality of what is there." - Eckhart Tolle

"Serve yourself / No one else can do for you like you" - Smashing Pumpkins

"If you find yourself wondering if you should stop doing an activity, cancel something, leave a situation or place, quit something, or drop something, then yes, you should!" - Steve Pavlina (paraphrased)

"External reality always reflects back to you your inner state." - Eckhart Tolle

"A flower that blossoms only for a single night does not seem to us on that account less lovely." - Freud

"Smile back at the beauty around you!" (rearranged and severely paraphrased from my textbook {Mark Epstein} and Freud)

"Change is imminent. The question will only be; was it the change you made or the one made for you?" - Kenna

“Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.” - Thomas Merton

"Stop asking 'What should I do now?' That question only brings up what others expect of you. The shoulds are nothing but social programming. Free people don’t have shoulds. They have choices." - Steve Pavlina

"Renunciation is not giving up the things of this world, but accepting that they go away." - Shunryu Suzuki

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”-Vincent van Gogh

"Never stop being overwhelmed by your emotions, don't hide behind anything. Live and grow. Love and Glow." - P-nut

"Do as you will / do as you wish / follow your bliss" - 311

"Being both finite and infinite . . . If there were not such limits in human life, there would be no beauty." - Rollo May

"What is reality? An icicle forming in fire." - Dogen

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” - Lao Tzu

"Remember: Information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best." - Frank Zappa

"Delusion is delicious."

"The jaded ones will wither while the optimistic grow." - Nicholas Lofton Hexum

"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours." - Swedish Proverb

"You must also trust in your own experiences. No one is having the exact same experiences you are having, so you too are a valuable piece to the puzzle of humanity. Respect that your piece is important and is of value to the whole. Share your experiences with others so that they may learn what you have to teach." - Erin Pavlina

"When someone says no to your desires, say no to that aspect of your relationship with them (or to the whole relationship, if necessary)." - Steve Pavlina

"Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it."

Quotes - Volume 2

"If you want my opinion on the mystery of life and all that, I can give it to you in a nutshell: the universe is like a safe to which there is a key. But the key is locked up in the safe." - Peter de Vries

"Four Rules for Life: Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results." - Angeles Arrien

"Only infinite patience produces immediate effects." - from The Disappearance of the Universe

"The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do." - Andrew Carnegie

"Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream."
— Jack Kerouac

"Risk more than others think is safe, care more than others think is wise, dream more than others think is practical, expect more than others think is possible." - Cadet maxim, USMA, West Point, NY

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
- Hamlet

“If ever there is a tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart, I’ll always be with you.” - Winnie the Pooh

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Nietzsche

"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem." - Krishnamurti

"Your connections can only be maintained by your consent. Say NO to dull, distracting, or destructive relationships." - Steve Pavlina

"Whether or not you are engaged in a lot of 'doing' in your life, 'being'
is primary. If you lose touch with being, you lose yourself in your
mind, you lose yourself in doing, and you won't do any good for anybody,
really." - Eckhart Tolle

"For long years a bird in a cage,
today, flying along with the clouds." - Zen saying

"Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't." - Rick Warren

"you need to understand / there's nothing fake about this / you need to let me in / I'm watching you / I'll be waving my hand watching you drown / watching you scream / quiet or loud / maybe you should sleep / maybe you just need a friend / as clumsy as you've been / there's no one laughing / you will be safe in here" - Our Lady Peace

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - Booker T. Washington

"Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement...get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed." - Abraham Joshua Heschel

"I've been seeing a lot of vanilla skies lately..." - Kristy

"When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible." - Tina Lifford

"If you go into a forest with your mind only, you'll only notice the sounds and the mind will try to interpret them. You might think you're present; but you're not really, you're simply judging what you hear. But if you become aware of the silent dimension underneath the sounds and in between the sounds, then you become present because the moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent." - Eckhart Tolle

"Heading home at dusk, squeezing between enclosing storms.
Electric blue ahead, otherworldly lightning and white to navy clouds surround.
Unforeseen goosebumps and a glimpse of reality." - Kristy

"By focusing on the negative aspects of change, (people) see such changes as too risky, so they remain where they are. The status quo has consequences too, however. It's unwise to dismiss potential changes out of hand without also considering the consequences of staying put." - Steve Pavlina

"When I was five years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life." - Unknown

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way." - Virginia Woolf

"The learners shall inherit the earth while the learned will be beautifully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer

"Nonduality is the understanding that identification with common dualisms (Mind/Matter, Self/Other, Conscious/Unconscious, Illusion/Reality, Quantum/Classical, Wave/Particle, Spiritual/Material, Beginning/End, Male/Female, Living/Dead and Good/Evil) avoids recognition of a deeper reality." - scienceandnonduality.com

"I'll lay roses at your feet / 'till you decide there is something great in you" - The Smashing Pumpkins

"Science is not only a disciple of reason, but, also, one of romance and passion." - Stephen Hawking

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"The most beautiful, perfect sound, in my world, is the sound of waves crashing." - Kristy

"Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious." - Bill Meyer

"The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay."

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

2 Haikus Inspired By Florida

A smudge of dark cloud
On the horizon became
A hot air balloon

~

White egrets contrast
The darkening clouds above
Earth awaits the rain