wanderlust

There is a danger. Don’t fall in love with yourselves. We have a nice time here. But remember, carnivals come cheap. What matters is the day after, when we will have to return to normal lives. Will there be any changes then? I don’t want you to remember these days, you know, like, ‘Oh, we were young and it was beautiful.’ Remember that our basic message is ‘We are allowed to think about alternatives.’ If the taboo is broken, we do not live in the best possible world. But there is a long road ahead. There are truly difficult questions that confront us. We know what we do not want. But what do we want? What social organization can replace capitalism? What type of new leaders do we want?

 SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK AT OCCUPY WALL STREET

Sometimes the year looks back and lets out a scream, looks back, then passes out appalled.

Miklós Radnóti

Every creative event that ever happened in the world was an interruption. Unexpected. Unplanned for.

the night thoreau spent in jail

Imagine for a moment a limitless centre of consciousness and power beyond space and time, blazing with the light of a billion suns, transcending personality and impersonality alike. From that immeasurable source, great streams of creative force surge outward through the planes of existence, passing through countless other subordinate centres of consciousness, divided and refracted on the way into equally innumerable individual currents. Some these currents reach all he way to the densest plane of existence, the one we call material reality. There they take the form of things and beings, each one created and sustained by the outpouring of divine creative force, each one capable of evolving toward life and consciousness in its own way.

john michael greer