Jefferson Airplane - Crown Of Creation

Crown Of Creation

Jefferson Airplane

 

The lyrics from the song are mostly taken from John Wyndham’s science fiction novel, “The Chrysalids”, published in 1955. The book is set in a post apocalyptic society, where…

 

You are the crown of creation

You are the crown of creation

And you've got no place to go

Soon you'll attain the stability you strive for

In the only way that it's granted:

In a place among the fossils of our time

In loyalty to their kind

They cannot tolerate our minds

In loyalty to our kind

We cannot tolerate their obstruction!

Life is change

How it differs from the rocks

I've seen their ways too often for my liking

New worlds to gain

My life is to survive

And be alive for you

Aah ah ah ah..

Via Daily Dharma: Finding Your Personal Path

 When we place our hearts upon the practice, the teachings come alive. That turning point, which transforms an abstract concept of a spiritual path into our own personal path, is faith.

—Sharon Salzberg, “How Important Is Faith?”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - February 17, 2021 💌

 "Reflection will give you a chance to stand back in your soul, your witness consciousness, to look at your life, and see how much of the systems of which you’re a part are still attractive or aversive to you. Because ultimately, the art, as Christ said, is to be in the world, but not of the world."

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Keep Calm When Your Mind is Wild

Via Daily Dharma: Notice Your Fluid Sense of Self

 When we look carefully, we discover that the sense of self is not a particle that never changes, but rather a flow, a wave of thought and feeling that can increase and decrease and is therefore not permanent.

—Shinzen Young, “Brief Teachings”

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Via Tricycle // On Meditation

 

On Meditation Directed by Rebecca Dreyfus

In a beautiful compilation of short films, longtime meditators discuss how their lives and work in the world have been transformed by their practice.

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Via Daily Dharma: Note the Love Already Around You

 There is far more love available to us in any given moment than we might be aware.

—Kate Johnson, “Making the First Move”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - February 10, 2021 💌

 

“Love” – Written by K.K. Sah

Enter into an Indian family and then you can understand love. Love does not wait for logic and is the easiest path of all.

The first test of love is that it knows no bargaining—true love cannot exist in an arrangement by two parties. Love is always the giver not the taker.

Love can conquer everything. It is the best medicine. It can take you to God because love is God.

It is all powerful. It knows no fear. It is the highest ideal

Love is higher than work, than yoga, than knowledge, although the highest forms of love and wisdom are in reality one.

Duty is seldom sweet. It becomes sweet only through love which shines only in freedom.

Every motion is a circle. Therefore do not hate anyone because that hatred which comes out of you must in the long run come back to you. When you send love it will naturally come back to you, completing the circle.

Love attracts human beings to each other, animals to animals and all of creation in an endless embrace.

Love manifests from the lowest atom to the highest being- it is omnipotent and all-pervading.

Love is the one motive power that pervades the entire universe – unattached – yet shining in everything and without which the whole universe would fall to pieces in a moment.

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Via Whiate Crane Institute // HENRY ROLLINS

 

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Ally Henry Rollins

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HENRY ROLLINS, American musician, born; After joining the short-lived Washington D.C. band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band, Black Flag from 1981 until 1986. Following the band's breakup, Rollins soon established the record label and publishing company 2.13.61 to release his spoken word albums, as well as forming the Rollins Band, which toured with a number of lineups until 2003 and during 2006.

Since Black Flag, Rollins has embarked on projects covering a variety of media. He has hosted numerous radio shows, such as The Henry Rollins Show and Harmony in My Head, and television shows, such as MTV’s 120 Minutes and Jackass, along with roles in several films. Rollins has also campaigned for human rights in the United States, promoting Gay rights in particular, and tours overseas with the United Service Organizations (USO) to entertain American troops, despite his opposition to the Bush administration  and the Iraq war.

Rollins has become an outspoken human rights activist, most vocally for Gay rights, while deriding any suggestion that he himself was Gay. In 1998, he declared: "If I was Gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve ... If I was Gay, at this stage of the game — age 37, aging alternative icon — I'd be taking out ads." Rollins frequently speaks out on social justice on his spoken word tours and promotes equality, regardless of sexuality. He was the host of the WedRock benefit concert, which raised money for a pro-marriage equality organization.

Via Daily Dharma: Illuminating Attention

 We can think of attention as being like a searchlight in the darkness.

—Jayarava Attwood, “Losing Ourselves in the Heart Sutra”

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Via Tricycle // Beyond Tribalism

 

Beyond Tribalism
With Robert Wright
Now available for self-study 

 

Robert Wright shines a light on our tribalistic tendencies using the explanatory lens of evolutionary psychology. The result offers a clear, fresh perspective on Buddhist philosophy and practice and shows how mindfulness just might save the world.

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Via Daily Dharma: Build a Shelter Within

 When the winds of change reach hurricane force, our inner refuge of mindfulness, concentration, and discernment is the only thing that will keep us from getting blown away.

—Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “What We’ve Been Practicing For”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - February 10, 2021 💌

 

"When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel safe, because you realize nobody wants anything from you. The minute that heart opens, you are once again letting in the flow. And that flow is where you experience God."

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