Showing posts with label statement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statement. Show all posts

Monday, May 9, 2011

"I consider myself successful only
when I do something that resembles the lack of order I sense"
.- Robert Rauschenberg

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Sending art to a critic before you love it is like sending your fiancée to a gynecologist to certify her purity."
— Dave Hickey

Charles Brittin, Arrest at Los Angeles Federal Building Protest, 1965.

Charles Brittin, Arrest at Los Angeles Federal Building Protest, 1965.

Charles Brittin, Arrest at Los Angeles Federal Building Protest, 1965.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Thursday, October 14, 2010

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
— Franz Kafka

Monday, September 6, 2010

Been drinking honey nectar.

sweet bee child.

i miss your touch, as my heart runs wild.
A.B.

Friday, September 3, 2010

“We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn’t they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?”

— Don DeLillo

Monday, August 16, 2010

Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt. Everything other people say to you about yourself is a reflection of a voice within you. If you find people critical, first ask, is there a part of you that is criticizing yourself? As you let go of that self-criticism, you will experience less criticism from others.
Orin

Friday, August 13, 2010

The more you refrain from judging every event in your life as either good or bad and trust that good can come from any situation if you allow it, the more you open yourself up and allow yourself to attract that which will bring you joy.
Drew Rozell

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

THE TWELVE PATHWAYS To the Higher Consciousness Planes of Unconditional Love and Onenes

The following is from the higher consciousness classic,
Handbook to Higher Consciousness by Ken Keyes, Jr.
which explains the Living Love system to higher consciousness.


FREEING

1. I am freeing myself from security, sensation, and power
addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations
in my life, and thus destroy my serenity and keep me from
loving myself and others.

2. I am discovering how my consciousness-dominating
addictions create my illusory version of the changing world
of people and situations around me.

3. I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my
minute-to-minute experience offers me to become aware of the
addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like
emotional patterns.

BEING HERE NOW

4. l always remember that I have everything I need to enioy my
here and now — unless I am letting my consciousness be
dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past
or the imagined future.

5. I take full responsibility here and now for everything I
experience, for it is my own programming that creates my
actions and also influences the reactions of people around
me.

6. I accept myself completely here and now and consciously
experience everything I feel, think, say, and do (including
my emotion-backed addictions) as a necessary part of my
growth into higher consciousness.

INTERACTING WITH

7. I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to
fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any
degree keeps me stuck in my illusion of separateness from
other people.

8. I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without
getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that
are offering them messages they need for their growth.

9. I act freely when I am tuned in, centered, and loving, but
if possible I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and
depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and
expanded consciousness.

DISCOVERING MY CONSCIOUS-AWARENESS

10. I am continually calming the restless scanning of my
rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that
enable me to unitively merge with everything around me.

11. I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centers of
Consciousness I am using, and I feel my energy,
perceptiveness, love and inner peace growing as I open all
of the Centers of Consciousness.

12. I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening
being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the
higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.

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THE SEVEN CENTERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS


1. THE SECURITY CENTER.
This Center makes you preoccupied with food, shelter, or
whatever you equate with your personal security. This
programming forces your consciousness to be dominated by your
continuous battle to get “enough” from the world in order to
feel secure.

2. THE SENSATION CENTER.
This Center is concerned with finding happiness in life by
providing yourself with more and better pleasurable sensations
and activities. For many people, sex is the most appealing of
all sensations. Other addictive sensations may include the
sound of music, the taste of food, etc.

3. THE POWER CENTER.
When your consciousness is focused on this Center, you are
concerned with dominating people and situations and increasing
your prestige, wealth, and pride — in addition to thousands of
more subtle forms of hierarchy, manipulation, and control.

4. THE LOVE CENTER.
At this Center you are transcending subject-object relationships
and are learning to see the world with the feelings and
harmonies of flowing acceptance. You see yourself in everyone
— and everyone in yourself. You feel compassion for the
suffering of those caught in the dramas of security, sensation,
and power. You are beginning to love and accept everyone
unconditionally — even yourself.

5. THE CORNUCOPIA CENTER.
When your consciousness is illuminated by this Center, you
experience the friendliness of the world you are creating. You
begin to realize that you’ve always lived in a perfect world.
To the degree that you still have addictions, the perfection
lies in giving you the experience you need to get free of your
emotion-backed demands. As you reprogram your addictions, the
perfection will be experienced as a continuous enjoyment of the
here and now in your life. As you become more loving and
accepting, the world becomes a “horn of plenty” that gives you
more than you need to be happy.

6. THE CONSClOUS-AWARENESS CENTER
It is liberating to have a Center from which your
Conscious-awareness watches your body and mind perform on the
lower five centers. This is a meta-center from which you
non-judgmentally witness the drama of your body and mind. From
this Center of Centers, you learn to impartially observe your
social roles and life games from a place that is free from fear
and vulnerability.

7. THE COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS CENTER.
When you live fully in the Sixth Center of Consciousness, you
are ready to transcend self-awareness and become pure awareness.
At this ultimate level, you are one with everything — you are
love, peace, energy, beauty, wisdom, clarity, effectiveness, and
oneness.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Saturday, June 5, 2010

“Some people say that the essence of butoh lies in the mechanism through which the dancers stops being himself and becomes someone or something else. This is a different conception of dance then the conventional where the body of the dancer expresses an emotion or abstract idea.

For example, take the studying of a rooster. “The idea was to push out all of the human inside and let the bird take its place. You may start by imitating, but imitation is not your final goal; when you believe you are thinking completely like a chicken you have succeeded.

The important thing with this is not the transformation into a chicken, but the transformation itself, the fact that you change. Only in this way you can bring the body back to its original state. It is not depiction or symbolization which is the foundation of butoh. It is the metamorphosis.”

-Harmen Sikkenga, from Butoh - Dance of Darkness 1994.
"You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind."
Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge)

Monday, May 17, 2010

She knows there’s no success like failure
And that failure’s no success at all.

— Bob Dylan, Love Minus Zero/No Limit

Sunday, May 2, 2010