“The most important thing I discovered a few days after turning 65 is that I can’t waste any more time doing things I don’t want to do.” – Jep Gambardella
“One of the directives given to me was to start the Ashram . . . At first, I don’t think my idea was on sanyas (renunciation) as much as it was on having the availability to seek the Lord, to be able to study spiritual scriptures and just to really immerse myself in living the spiritual life as much as possible. My children, I had raised them, my husband has passed some years ago. I had reached a point where most of my duties as householder were fulfilled. It gave me the time to want to see, to want to strive, to want to devote quality time, because, you know the work of a woman is so full! I mean it’s sometimes twenty four hours. So once that was reduced, I had additional time that I could apply to the path, and that’s what I’ve been doing.” – Alice Coltrane
“The community today is the planet, not the bounded nation […] The national idea, with the flag as totem, is today an aggrandizer of the nursery ego […] And the numerous saints of this anticult – namely the patriots whose ubiquitous photographs, draped with flags, serve as official icons – are precisely the local threshold guardians […] whom it is the first problem of the hero to surpass.” – Joseph Campbell
“To a man not led astray from himself by sentiments stemming from the surfaces of what he sees, but courageously responding to the dynamics of his own nature-to a man who is, as Nietzsche phrases it, ‘a wheel rolling of itself’-difficulties melt and the unpredictable highway opens as he goes.” – Joseph Campbell.
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.” – Walt Whitman
” I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.” – Sun Ra
“People have a lot more of the unknown than the known in their minds. The unknown is great; it’s like the darkness. Nobody made that. It just happens.Light and all that — someone made that; it’s written that they did. But nobody made the darkness. My music is about dark tradition. Dark tradition means a lot more about than black tradition. There’s a lot of division in what they call black. I’m not into division. I’m into coordination, discipline and tradition.” – Sun Ra
“if my thought-dreams could been seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only” – Bob Dylan
“I just want to talk to you
I won’t uh, do you no harm
I just want to know about your diff’rent lives
On this is here people farm
I heard some of you got your families
Living in cages tall and cold
And some just stay there and dust away
Past the age of old.
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you.
I just wanna know about
The rooms behind your minds
Uh do I see a vacuum there
Or am I going blind ?
Or is it just uh, remains of vibrations
And echoes long ago ?
Uh things like “Love the world” and uh
Uh “Let your fancy flow”
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you
Let me talk to you.
I have lived here before
The days of ice
And of course this is why
I’m so concerned
And I come back to find
The stars misplaced
And the smell of a world
That is burned
A smell of a world
That is burned.
Yeah well, maybe, hmm…
Maybe it’s just a… change of climate
Hmm, hmm…
Well I can dig it
I can dig it baby
I just want to see.
So where do I purchase my ticket ?
I’d just like to have a ringside seat
I want to know about the new Mother Earth
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
Yeah…
Aww, shucks
If my daddy could see me now
Everything, everything, everything, oh everything” – Jimi Hendrix
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