Category Archives: Quotes

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. ~ CarlSaganPosted on May 10, 2014 Posted in Cartoon, Check It Out, General, Quotes 1 Comment

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself. ~ TimothyLearyPosted on May 10, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes 2 Comments

Art by Tomasz Alen Kopera

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conqueredI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. ~ThomasJeffersonPosted on May 9, 2014 Posted in Cartoon, Check It Out, General, Quotes 1 Comment

Its not about breaking the rules. It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether. ~PaulLembergPosted on May 9, 2014 Posted in Check It Out, General, Quotes, Street Art Leave a comment

If we would only see that all limitations are self-imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once into the arms of grace, no matter how fierce that embrace might be.~AdyashantiPosted on May 8, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

We are offered to watch a string of empty-minded shows that are designed as entertainment but function to distract people from understanding their real problems or identifying the sources of their problems. Instead, those mindless shows socialize the viewer to become a passive consumer. One way to deal with an unfulfilled life is to buy more and more stuff. The shows exploit peoples emotional needs and keep them disconnected from the needs of others. As public spaces are more and more dismantled, schools and the relatively few public spaces left work to make people good consumers. ~NoamChomskyPosted on May 7, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes, Street Art Tagged #banksy, #noamchomsky 2 Comments

Street Art by Banksy

I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; were actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that were suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before! ~ C. JoyBellC.Posted on May 6, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes 1 Comment

Art by CHEWAZ

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.~PatanjaliPosted on May 5, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

I think its really tragic when people get serious about stuff. Its such an absurdity to take anything really seriously I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, whats the story here? Being alive is so weird. ~ FrankZappaPosted on May 3, 2014 Posted in General, Good advice, Quotes Leave a comment

The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. Its overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt. ~ LeoBuscagliaPosted on May 2, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

If it cant be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production. ~ PeteSeegerPosted on May 1, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes 2 Comments

Art ~ Mear One

One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of pure love and reverence for all of life will counterbalance the negativity of 750,000 individuals who calibrate at the lower weakening levels. ~ Dr. WayneDyerPosted on May 1, 2014 Posted in General, Inspiration, Quotes Leave a comment

Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly, completely. All the laws on the statutes, all the courts in the universe, cannot tear it from the soil, once love has taken root. ~ EmmaGoldmanPosted on May 1, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes, Revolution Leave a comment

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. ~ NoamChomskyPosted on April 30, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes 3 Comments

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done this is how I desire to waste wisely my days. ~ThomasDekkerPosted on April 30, 2014 Posted in General, Good advice, Quotes, Street Art 1 Comment

There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us, not even the Buddha. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life? ~ Dalai LamaXIVPosted on April 29, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes, Street Art Leave a comment

Even if its a little thing, do something for those who have need of a mans help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you dont live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. ~AlbertSchweitzerPosted on April 28, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes 1 Comment

If aliens did visit us, Id be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy. ~Neil deGrasseTysonPosted on April 28, 2014 Posted in Cartoon, Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. ~LangstonHughesPosted on April 27, 2014 Posted in Check It Out, General, Quotes, Street Art Tagged #morley, #streetart Leave a comment

Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys. ~RitaSchianoPosted on April 26, 2014 Posted in Cartoon, General, Good advice, Quotes Leave a comment

In every moment, the Universe is whispering to you. Youre constantly surrounded by signs, coincidences, and synchronicities, all aimed at propelling you in the direction of your destiny. ~ DeniseLinnPosted on April 26, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Daniel Ranger,

Source ~ Spiritual Evolution

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work. ~ AbdulKalamPosted on April 25, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

My Love, continue merging in the source. Yours is a great calling. You are discharging your river of names and forms into the nameless ocean of pure Being. In doing so, others can witness and taste, through you, the light, joy, wisdom, love and peace, which they have heard only as a rumour until now. ~MoojiPosted on April 24, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes 3 Comments

Art by Rob Gonsalves

Do I want the present moment to be my friend or enemy? The present moment is inseparable from life so you are really deciding what kind of relationship you want with life. Once you have decided you want the present moment to be your friend, it is up to you to make the first move. Become friendly, welcome it no matter in what disguise it comes and soon you will see the results. Life becomes friendly towards you; people become helpful, circumstances cooperative. One decision changes your entire reality. But that one decision you have to make again and again and again until it becomes natural to live in such a way. The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the ego.The ego can never be in alignment with the present moment, which is to say, aligned with life, since its very nature compels it to ignore, resist or devalue the now.Time is what the ego lives on.The stronger the ego, the more time takes over your life. Almost every thought you think is then concerned with past or future and your sense of self depends on your past for your identity and on the future for its fulfillment. Fear,anxiety, expectation, regret, guilt, anger are the dysfunctions of the time bound state of consciousness. ~EckhartTollePosted on April 23, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

We are the People of the Earth united under the Creators Law with a sacred covenant to protect and a responsibility to extend Life for all future generations. We are expressing deep concern for our shared future and urge everyone to awaken spiritually. We must work in unity to help Mother Earth heal so that she can bring back balance and harmony for all her children. ~Chief Arvol LookingHorsePosted on April 23, 2014 Posted in Activism, General, Quotes Leave a comment

For the next 4 days, a collection of ranchers, and first nations have set up an encampment in front of The White House. It is called CIA Cowboy Indian Alliance to oppose the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline that is proposed to run through their land. Together people are coming together to protect sacred land and waters. History in the making!Learn more here: http://www.rejectandprotect.orgThe earth recognizes people in whom life flowers. There is a sensuousness, a centeredness, a grace to their movement. There is a relaxed gentility of power flowing quietly within and beneath their action. There is a humble assuredness about them, a reverence, a sense of humor and a sense of the sacred entwined. They are the magical people, for whom the earth has longed. ~KenCareyPosted on April 22, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Lisete Alcalde

Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations. ~ AmitRayPosted on April 22, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

We are so blessed to live on this beautiful planet. Happy Earth Day!!

Art by Mickie Mueller

We know who we are. We are the dispossessed, the outcasts, and the outsiders, rebels without a cause who have upturned the mulch of our dead lives and seeded those fertile fields with incendiary visions of our future selves. Having already subverted the norm, we renunciate dominator cultures status quo of everything and drift happliy disconnectedbabes in the abysswavering in the ambiguity fog of dislocation. Free-floating between old worlds and new, guided only by the shining paths of mother evolution. We have passed over, we have passed the point of no-return and since there is no turning back, we celebrate the momentum lifting us on the wings of perception, grace, and whatever skills we have earned from surviving the inevitable catastrophe of self. Only when we are over, does our real life begin. ~AnteroAlliPosted on April 21, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Corina Chirila

Be amongst the few who dare to follow their dreams. ~ Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the HumanExperiencePosted on April 19, 2014 Posted in Check It Out, General, Quotes, Street Art Leave a comment

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. ~ H.L.MenckenPosted on April 18, 2014 Posted in Cartoon, General, Quotes 2 Comments

Why dont we go for Heaven on Earth, just for the Hell of it? ~SwamiBeyondanandaPosted on April 18, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Benjamin Zhang Bin

Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure, and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend. ~Brendan Burchard, Author of TheChargePosted on April 17, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes 1 Comment

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes then learn how to do it later! ~ RichardBransonPosted on April 17, 2014 Posted in General, Good advice, Quotes Tagged ascension-personal-experiences 1 Comment

I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its application to individual expression and the relation it establishes between the individual and society. Moreover, I am certain that Anarchism is too vital and too close to human nature ever to die. It is my conviction that dictatorship, whether to the right or to the left, can never workthat it never has worked, and that time will prove this again, as it has been proved before. When the failure of modern dictatorship and authoritarian philosophies becomes more apparent and the realization of failure more general, Anarchism will be vindicated. Considered from this point, a recrudescence of Anarchist ideas in the near future is very probable. When this occurs and takes effect, I believe that humanity will at last leave the maze in which it is now lost and will start on the path to sane living and regeneration through freedom. ~ EmmaGoldmanPosted on April 16, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

I realise that most of you have but a very inadequate, very strange and usually false conception of Anarchism. I do not blame you. You get your information from the daily press. Yet that is the very last place on earth to seek for truth in any state of form. Anarchism is a releasing and liberating force because it teaches people to rely on their own possibilities, teaches them faith in liberty, and inspires men and women to strive for a state of social life where every one shall be free and secure. There is neither freedom nor security in the world today: whether one be rich or poor, whether his station high or low, no one is secure as long as there is a single slave in the world. No one is safe or secure as long as he must submit to the orders, whim or will of another who has the power to punish him, to send him to prison or to take his life, to dictate the terms of his existence, even from the cradle to the grave. Anarchism repudiates any attempt of a group of men or of any individual to arrange life for others. Anarchism rests on faith in humanity and its potentialities, while all other social philosophies have no faith in humanity whatever. The other philosophies insist that man cannot govern himself and that he must be ruled over. Nowadays most people believe that the stronger the Government the greater the success of society will be. It is the old belief in the rod. The more used on the child the finer will it be when grown to manhood or womanhood. We have emancipated ourselves from that stupidity. We have come to understand that education does not mean knocking in, does not mean crippling, warping and dwarfing the young growth. We have learned that freedom in the development of the child secures better results, both so far as the child and society are concerned. Anarchism is not a cut-and-dried theory. It is a vital spirit embracing all of life. Therefore I do not address myself only to some particular elements in society: I do not address myself only to the workers. I address myself to the upper classes as well, for indeed they need enlightenment even more than the workers. Life itself teaches the masses, and it is a strict, effective teacher. Unfortunately life does not teach those who consider themselves the socially select, the better educated, the superior. I have always held that every form of information and instruction that helps to widen the mental horizon of men and women is most useful and should be employed. For in the last analysis, the grand adventurewhich is liberty, the true inspiration of all idealists, poets and artistsis the only human adventure worth striving and living for. That, ladies and gentlemen, is Anarchism. The greater the freedom and the opportunities for every unit in society, the finer will be the individual and the better for society; and the more creative and constructive the life of the collectivity. That, in brief, has been the ideal to which I have devoted my life. ~An Anarchist Looks at Life Speech by Emma Goldman

Once you start to awaken, no one can ever claim you again for the old patterns. Now you realize how precious your time here is. You are no longer willing to squander your essence on undertakings that do not nourish your true self; your patience grows thin with tired talk and dead language. You see through the rosters of expectation which promise you safety and the confirmation of your outer identity. Now you are impatient for growth, willing to put yourself in the way of change. You want your work to become an expression of your gift. You want your relationship to voyage beyond the pallid frontiers to where the danger of transformation dwells. You want your God to be wild and to call you to where your destiny awaits. ~ JohnODonohuePosted on April 16, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes 3 Comments

A man who knows how to love and honor a woman, is a man who understands the healing that is needed of the divine feminine, and ultimately of Mother Earth herself. ~GaiaSubrenPosted on April 15, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

The dominant power we live under is not democracy or some other noble ideal it is consumerism! And we are constantly encouraged by this power to be dissatisfied with our present lives and circumstances. We are bombarded daily by messages which exhort us to desire and to buy more, and more and more. A spiritual renegade should not strive to become well adjusted in a society where the economy is powered by discontent. Were going to have to fight the power if we want to be happy. Were going to have to resist the siren song of consumer capitalism. ~ Lama Marut, A Spiritual Renegades Guide to the GoodLife.Posted on April 15, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes, Street Art Leave a comment

Let this sink deep in your heart: only creative people are happy. Happiness is a by-product of creativity. Create something, and you will be happy. ~OshoPosted on April 14, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

The earth has music for those who listen. ~ GeorgeSantayanaPosted on April 11, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Roman Velichko

Who feels the deep yearning to finally and completely be free of the oppression of debt slavery, inequality, wars for profit and all manmade disasters and mans inhumanity to man? The human spirit has had enough, and it is demanding its rights be restored back to him/her as a sovereign being! ~ TahraAhmedPosted on April 10, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in historya change in the actual belief structure. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world. ~ WillisHarmanPosted on April 9, 2014 Posted in Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Imagination is the force that pulls your physical, emotional, and mental energies into dynamic harmony, giving wings to your soulMaking your visions happen. Enriching your world, putting your mark on itYou just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being fully alive- to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts. ~GabrielleRothPosted on April 9, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

How monotonous our speaking becomes when we speak only to ourselves! And how insulting to the other beings to foraging black bears and twisted old cypresses that no longer sense us talking to them, but only about them, as though they were not present in our worldSmall wonder that rivers and forests no longer compel our focus or our fierce devotion. For we walk about such entities only behind their backs, as though they were not participant in our lives. Yet if we no longer call out to the moon slipping between the clouds, or whisper to the spider setting the silken struts of her web, well, then the numerous powers of this world will no longer address us and if they still try, we will not likely hear them. ~ David Abram, Becoming Animal: An EarthlyCosmologyPosted on April 8, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Johann de Venecia

Source ~ Shamantube

Think, dear friend, reflect on the world that you carry within yourself. And name this thinking what you wishJust be sure that you observe carefully what wells up within you and place that above everything that you notice around you. Your innermost happening is worth all your love. You must somehow work on that. ~Ranier MariaRilkePosted on April 8, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.-StarhawkPosted on April 7, 2014 Posted in General, photography, Quotes 1 Comment

Photography by Ian Barber

In this time of great change, we will rabble-rouse for our future. We will make beautiful trouble on behalf of all peoples. We will roil this continent with upheaval for justice. We will rock the foundations of our nation with coordinated nonviolent action. We will disobey with great love the systems of destruction. We will wage struggle until the legal and social structures that lead us toward disaster are changed. We will be modern-day Gandhis, Kings, Chavez, and Jesus. We will be active, engaged, and above all else, we will be kind, be connected, and be unafraid. ~ RiveraSunPosted on April 4, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Tagged #waveofaction 2 Comments

The Worldwide Wave of Action has begun!

Love is about complete freedom. The freedom to be 100% oneself and give that same freedom to others. ~ FrancoDeNicolaPosted on April 3, 2014 Posted in Check It Out, General, Quotes 1 Comment

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface. ~ MarianneWilliamsonPosted on April 3, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by phungvulienphuong

Source ~ Shamantube

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. ~ TomRobbinsPosted on April 3, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes Leave a comment

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a dream is going crazy. ~ R.D.LaingPosted on April 2, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes Leave a comment

Do not be afraid of what appears to be chaos or dissolution embrace the full measure of your life at any cost. Bare your heart to the Unknown and never look back. Sincerity, one-pointedness, and courage are indispensable qualities in awakening from the dream state of ego to the peace and ease of awakened Being.~AdyashantiPosted on April 1, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Weroni

First become alone. First start enjoying yourself. First love yourself. First become so authentically happy that if nobody comes it doesnt matter; you are full, overflowing. If nobody knocks at your door it is perfectly okay you are not missing. You are not waiting for somebody to come and knock at the door. You are at home. If somebody comes, good, beautiful. If nobody comes, that too is beautiful and good. THEN move into relationship. Now you move like a master, not like a beggar. Now you move like an emperor, not like a beggar. And the person who has lived in his aloneness will always be attracted to another person who is also living his aloneness beautifully, because the same attracts the same. When two masters meet masters of their being, of their aloneness happiness is not just added, it is multiplied. It becomes a tremendous phenomenon of celebration. And they dont exploit, they share. They dont use each other. Rather, on the contrary, they both become one and enjoy the existence that surrounds them.~OshoPosted on March 31, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes 1 Comment

Friend do it this way that is, whatever you do in life, do the very best you can with both your heart and mind. And if you do it that way, the Power Of The Universe will come to your assistance, if your heart and mind are in Unity. All of Creation is related. And the hurt of one is the hurt of all. And the honor of one is the honor of all. And whatever we do effects everything in the Universe. If you do it that way that is, if you truly join your heart and mind as One whatever you ask for, thats the Way Its Going To Be. ~White Buffalo CalfWomanPosted on March 28, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Annelie Solis

The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are bilabial kin, not resources; or if the planet is our Mother, not an opportunity-then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective. ~DavidSuzukiPosted on March 27, 2014 Posted in Cartoon, General, Quotes 1 Comment

Banksy on Advertising ~ People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply youre not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. Its yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially dont owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, dont even start asking fortheirs.Posted on March 26, 2014 Posted in Cartoon, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Cartoon by Clay Butler

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~ AnatoleFrancePosted on March 26, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes 3 Comments

Art by Benjamin Moss

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. ~ JimCollinsPosted on March 25, 2014 Posted in Check It Out, General, Quotes, Street Art Leave a comment

When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act. ~ CharlesEisensteinPosted on March 25, 2014 Posted in Activism, Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

You simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead and get with the program of a living world and the imagination. ~ TerenceMcKennaPosted on March 21, 2014 Posted in Check It Out, General, Quotes, Street Art Tagged #banksy, #streetart 2 Comments

Street Art by Banksy

Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness. ~CarlosCastanedaPosted on March 21, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Anatheme

Source ~ Dreamwork with Toko-pa

Turning to a guru or a spiritual teacher to tell us why we are here is a big mistake, and often, an expensive one. Others can provide us with tools that help us to clear the blockages to clarity, but they cannot tell us which path to walk. Thats because our sacred purpose is privately held- it is encoded within us, embodied and embedded, a karmic blueprint that can only be read by the one who carries it. Thats why not a single soul on earth can tell us why we are here. They cant decipher a language that is unique to another soul, no matter what claims they make. Its one of the most beautiful things about this human trip- the divine blessed each of us with our own secret language, a unique karmic code that will never be replicated again. We are the book of our life. Now all we have to do is figure out how to interpret it. One page at a time ~JeffBrownPosted on March 21, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes 1 Comment

I dream of a family of stars. When one of us shines brightly, it inspires the rest of us to turn up our shine. There are no teachers in the STARFAMILY, only learner-sharers. While some of us are meant to lead, others clear the path and do the math, but we are all STARS, so comparison ceases to exist. RECIPROCITY is the only law, held up by the authority of love. We know that everything is VIBRATION, so we are radically responsible with what tunes we tell. Everyone in the starfamily is needed, even the CHAOS stirrers, who help us know dissonance which is the precursor to CHANGE. Every obstacle we surpass brings us closer to the TRUTH of our indispensability, which is also fleeting. We are disappearing COMETS, with but a blink of a life to make our streaks on the sky in an unselfconscious praising of the present, aching to return to the ONE LOVE which made us. ~ by Dreamwork withToko-paPosted on March 19, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Antonio Caparo

Youre walking the labyrinth of life. Yes, youre meant to move forward, but almost never in a straight line. Yes, theres an element of achievement, of beginning and ending, but those are minor compared to the element of being here now. In the moments you stop trying to conquer the labyrinth of life and simply inhabit it, youll realize it was designed to hold you safe as you explore what feels dangerous. Youll see that youre exactly where youre meant to be, meandering along a crooked path that is meant to lead you not onward, but inward. ~MarthaBeckPosted on March 19, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes 1 Comment

Art by Jamie Zollars

Source ~ Shamantube

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word love here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth. ~ James Baldwin, The Fire NextTimePosted on March 18, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes 1 Comment

If youre not the hero of your own novel, then what kind of novel is it? You need to do some heavy editing. ~TerenceMcKennaPosted on March 17, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes Leave a comment

Let us leave the orbit of yesterday, with all its struggles and its joys and memories, and let us fully enter a new moment, setting our sights on new stars, charting the course for our highest selves and contributions. Should we wish to change, let us be bold once again. Yes, let us be brave and find our moon, chasing a vision so big and unimaginable that the mere thought of it brings sweat to our palms and stuns our heart with anxiety, yet never fails to lift our soul with purpose. Under no circumstances shall we settle on challenges that fail to inspire; let them be so real and meaningful to us that we rise each day and pursue them with full intensity, until we have victory or we die. Let us be more disciplined and true, each day taking action, testing things out, failing, getting up again, failing again, learning, rising and rising and rising ever more. This is the stuff of commitment and character, the demands of real contribution. Let us have vision now to break the boundaries of all that we have ever known, lift above our own competencies and insecurities, take flight fueled only by courage and love, soar high in our service to the world. ~BrendonBurchardPosted on March 17, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Compassion is the radicalism of our time. ~ Dalai LamaXIVPosted on March 14, 2014 Posted in Check It Out, General, Quotes 2 Comments

Image ~ Jon Linton from the I Have A Name Project.

No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live; no one should be able to vote on what you do with your time and your potential unless you invite them to. ~ CrimethInc., Expect Resistance: A FieldManualPosted on March 14, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes, Truth Leave a comment

Its not too late the angel said. Even though the worlds a mess Even though youre not as young Even though youve made mistakes and have been afraid Its not too late And then I saw the world through the angels eyes I saw the colors I could paint The bridges I could build The lives that I could touch The dreams that could still come true And it became very clear to me That its not too late. ~RonAtchisonPosted on March 14, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Christian Schloe

I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in what way I have found myself oppressed by it. In my opinion every individual is hampered by it. It exacts taxes from production. It creates tariffs, which prevent free exchange. It stands ever for the status quo and traditional conduct and belief. It comes into private lives and into most intimate personal relations, enabling the superstitious, puritanical, and distorted ones to impose their ignorant prejudice and moral servitudes upon the sensitive, the imaginative, and the free spirits. Government does this by its divorce laws, its moral censorships, and by a thousand petty persecutions of those who are too honest to wear the moral mask of respectability. In addition, government protects the strong at the expense of the weak, provides courts and laws which the rich may scorn and the poor must obey. It enables the predatory rich to make wars to provide foreign markets for the favored ones, with prosperity for the rulers and wholesale death for the ruled. However, it is not only government in the sense of the state which is destructive of every individual value and quality. It is the whole complex of authority and institutional domination which strangles life. It is the superstition, myth, pretense, evasions, and subservience which support authority and institutional domination. It is the reverence for these institutions instilled in the school, the church and the home in order that man may believe and obey without protest. Such a process of devitalizing and distorting personalities of the individual and of whole communities may have been a part of historical evolution; but it should be strenuously combated by every honest and independent mind in an age which has any pretense to enlightenment. ~ EmmaGoldmanPosted on March 12, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes, Street Art Leave a comment

The core task of the shamanist is to dream her world into being. Otherwise, she has to settle for the collective nightmare that is being dreamt by others. ~AlbertoVilloldoPosted on March 11, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by DELA

The path of the spiritual warrior is not soft and sweet. It is not artificially blissful and pretend forgiving. It is not fearful of divisiveness. It is not afraid of its own shadow. It is not afraid of losing popularity when it speaks its truth. It will not beat around the bush where directness is essential. It has no regard for vested interests that cause suffering. It is benevolent and it is firey and it is cuttingly honest in its efforts to liberate itself and humanity from the egoic ties that bind. Shunning strong opinions in the name of spirituality is anti-spiritual. Spirituality that is only floaty soft is a recipe for disaster, allowing all manner of manipulation to run amok. Real spirituality is a quest for truth, in all its forms. Sometimes we find the truth on the meditation cushion, and sometimes we find it in the heart of conflict. May all spiritual warriors rise into fullness. This planet is lost without them. ~JeffBrownPosted on March 10, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes 1 Comment

Dont move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.~OshoPosted on March 9, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by George Jeffries

Personal empowerment means deconditioning yourself from the values and the programs of the society and putting your own values and programs in place. ~ TerenceMcKennaPosted on March 7, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes 3 Comments

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe its our job to invent something better. ~ChuckPalahniukPosted on March 6, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes, Street Art Leave a comment

Our society needs a new story to belong to. The old story of empire and dominion over the Earth has to be looked at in the full light of day all of our ambient cultural stories and values that we take for granted and which remain invisible must become visible. ~TimHjerstedPosted on March 5, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes Leave a comment

Make a commitment to be absolutely faithful to that which exists nowhere but within yourself. ~Dr Wayne W.DyerPosted on March 5, 2014 Posted in Check It Out, General, Quotes 1 Comment

Let It Go ~ Let go of the ways you thought life would unfold: the holding of plans or dreams or expectations Let it all go. Save your strength to swim with the tide. The choice to fight what is here before you now will only result in struggle, fear, and desperate attempts to flee from the very energy you long for. Let go. Let it all go and flow with the grace that washes through your days whether you received it gently or with all your quills raised to defend against invaders. Take this on faith; the mind may never find the explanations that it seeks, but you will move forward nonetheless. Let go, and the waves crest will carry you to unknown shores, beyond your wildest dreams or destinations. Let it all go and find the place of rest and peace, and certain transformation. ~DannaFauldsPosted on March 4, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Marina Terauds

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~MahatmaGandhiPosted on March 3, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Artwork by Amanda Sage

Source ~ SolPurpose

The World needs people Who cannot be bought; Whose word is their bond; Who put character above wealth; Who possess opinions and a will; Who are larger than their vocations; Who do not hesitate to take chances; Who do not lose their individuality in a crowd; Who will be as honest in small things as in great things; Who will make no compromise with wrong; Whose ambitions are not confined to their own selfish desires; Who do not believe that shrewdness, cunning and hardheadedness are the best qualities for winning success; Who are not ashamed or afraid to stand for the truth when it is unpopular; Who can say no with emphasis, although the rest of the world says yes. ~Ted w. Engstrom, from Motivation to last alifetime.Posted on March 1, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes 2 Comments

Art by Bianca Van Baast

Remember: Your focus determines your reality. ~ Qui-GonJinnPosted on March 1, 2014 Posted in Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

I would now rouse womens essence, spirit, to rise as birds in flight over fields, leaving swiftly earths dust, that they may speedily cross the frontier into the great world of light and brilliance. I desire that they be leaders, awakened lions, advance messengers of learning and intelligence; that they may serve as rafts crossing cloudy ferries; as lamps in dark chambers. ~Qiu Jin Poet, revolutionary, feminist and writer1875-1907Posted on February 28, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Elisabetta Trevisan

Its no wonder we dont defend the land where we live. We dont live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances. ~ DerrickJensenPosted on February 28, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes, Street Art Leave a comment

So dont be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you dont know what work they are accomplishing within you? ~Rainer MariaRilkePosted on February 27, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

Art by Anna Dittmann

Source ~ Dreamwork with Toko-pa

The object of prayer is to evoke a feeling that the miracle has already happened and our prayers have been answered Our prayer becomes a prayer of thanks for the opportunity to choose which creation we experience. Through our thanks, we honor all possibilities and bring the ones we choose into this world. ~ GreggBradenPosted on February 26, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes 1 Comment

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesnt understand growth it would look like complete destruction. ~CynthiaOccelliPosted on February 26, 2014 Posted in General, Quotes Leave a comment

our ancestors devised every method imaginable to alert us to a single fact; now is the time of the most extraordinary conditions and opportunities that accompany the rarest of events, the shift from one world age to the next. ~ GreggBradenPosted on February 25, 2014 Posted in Art, Check It Out, General, Quotes Leave a comment

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate its apathy. Its not giving a damn. ~LeoBuscagliaPosted on February 24, 2014 Posted in Check It Out, General, Quotes, Street Art Tagged #streetart 2 Comments

These are muddy water days, but upstream the brook runs clear and sparkles in the sunlight. So give me my oars and I shall paddle us there. ~MelaniePorterPosted on February 24, 2014 Posted in Art, General, Quotes Leave a comment

If I change the way I see things, things begin to change . . . For we are the canvas, the paintings, and the artist. If I change the way I see things, things begin to change . . . For we are the canvas, the paintings, and the artist.