4 posts tagged “heaven”

'Nature is never interrupted, never takes a vacation, never stops ruminating over its systems and tinkering with them. It works beneath a nano-level with the intelligence of entropy aimed at infinity.  That's a lot of hard drive, a lot of gigabytes, a vast span, a wide plane of action, and all of it at a speed far greater than that of light because it effectively combines the velocity of all its operations at once.'

 - Richard Grossinger

 - Terence McKenna

'The real marks of wildness are a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.'

 - Robert Bly

'You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold.  That is how important you are!'
 - Eckhart Tolle

'Enthusiasm: a little thing that makes a big difference.'
 - Unknown

"Heart physiologists find more chaos in the healthy heart than in the sick heart."
-- Ralph Abraham, mathematician via page 21 of Pronoia by Rob Brezsny.

"Buckminster Fuller, the discoverer/inventor of the geodesic dome, at age thirty-two contemplated suicide for a few hours one night at the edge of Lake Michigan, as the story goes, after a series of business failures that left him feeling he had made such a mess of his life that the best move would be for him to remove himself from the scene and make things simpler for his wife and infant daughter.  Apparently everything he had touched or undertaken had turned to dust in spite of his incredible creativity and imagination, which were only recognized later.  However, instead of ending his life, Fuller decided (perhaps because of his deep conviction in the underlying unity and order of the universe, of which he knew himself to be an integral part) to live from then on as if he had died that night.

Being dead, he wouldn't have to worry about how things worked out any longer for himself personally and would be free to devote himself to asking, "What is is on this planet (that he referred to as Spaceship Earth) that needs doing that I know something about, that probably won't happen unless I take responsibility for it?"  He decided he would just ask that question continuously and do what came to him, following his nose.  In this way, working for humanity as an employee of the universe at large, you get to modify and contribute to your locale by who you are, how you are, and what you do.  But it's no longer personal.  It's just part of the totality of the universe expressing itself..."

"...Once the universe is your employer, very interesting things start to happen, even if someone else is cutting your paycheck.  But you do have to be patient.  It takes time to grow this way of being into your life.  The place to start of course is right here.  The best time?  How about now?

You never know what will come of such introspections.  Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on.  He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important.  But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.  Interconnectedness is a fundamental principal of nature.  Nothing is isolated.  Each event connects with others.  Things are constantly unfolding on different levels."

 - Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go There You Are