regenerate

“We are a way for the universe to know itself. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can, because the Cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star stuff.”
- Carl Sagan
“Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So, even if [...]

The Laughing Heart

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more [...]

“The mind is like an elastic band. The more you pull, the more it stretches. The mind-elastic will never break. Every time you feel limitations, close your eyes and say to yourself, “I am the Infinite,” and you will see what power you have.”
- Paramahansa Yogananda

“In each atom of the realms of the universe,
There exist [...]

On my last weekend in NYC in April, I picked up a lovely book at Bluestockings – one of my absolute favourite places in the city.
Instead of writing a typical book review of You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear by Frances Lappe and Jeffrey Perkins, I’ll share some excerpts and [...]

“Let me remind you who you really are: You’re an immortal freedom fighter in service to divine love. You have temporarily taken on the form of a human being, suffering amnesia about your true origins, in order to liberate all sentient creatures from suffering and help them claim the ecstatic awareness that is their birthright. [...]

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the [...]

“…nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”
- Wikipedia article on Wabi-sabi

“17. Life is bittersweet, and bittersweetness is greatly to be preferred to pure sweetness.
In the classic iconography of Heaven, everyone is 33 years old, everyone looks the same, and everything is oddly dead, like a plastic flower on a grave. In real life, [...]

Dave Eggers has managed to articulate exactly how I feel about art criticism, and well, just criticism in general. I’ve long suspected that the impulse to criticize doesn’t come from a good place (usually dissatisfaction from one’s own life, which is how I usually feel when I criticize). Anyway:
“I think criticism, more often than not, [...]

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
“The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.”
- Richard Dawkins
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
- Carl Sagan
(Thanks to @SaganSchools for these wonderful quotes)

“The right idea has the power to overcome any challenge. We can always find that idea.”
- Ray Kurzweil