Buddha Cats and Runway Zen

I like quotes. I am not necessarily a freak for them, but every once in a while a person's words strike me through the heart. Over the past months, the following quotes have done just that. I hope you enjoy them.

"Buddha cats are the source of love....they make love travel around the world." -Sophia Raquel Winchell

"There is a fine line between innovation and insanity." -Heidi Klum, host of Bravo's "Project Runway."

"I've never felt this way about a girl before. I'd punch a million cupids to see you smile." -Buzz, character from Disney Channel's, "The Replacements."

"Learning to let go of the ways we inadvertently and unconsciouslycontribute to our own pain is the key to finding radiant physical andemotional health." -- Ingrid Bacci

"It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside of the frame." -- Author Unknown

"It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside of the frame." -- Author Unknown

"The place to begin to improve the worldis in your own heart, head and hands. To get along with others, love them without forcing your love upon them. Imposing your beliefs on people will not bring you peace. Have concern for others, respect their rights and freedoms, and let them be themselves. Do this and you will enjoy peace. Having consideration for others is the basis of a good life. Most people are not against you,they are merely for themselves.Let differing ideas clash, but not those of the heart. Peace comes to you when you live and act in a spirit of love."
-The Daily Guru

"The thought 'I exist' is not the same thing as the awareness of one'sown existence. ... Thought is not the same thing as consciousness." -- Jacob Needleman

"Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us tomake our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why weincarnated in the first place." -- Andrew Schneider

"Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience,independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimatehuman freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change." -- Stephen R. Covey

We are so addicted to looking outside ourselves that we have lost access to our inner being almost completely. We are terrified to look inward, because our culture has given us no idea of what we will find. We may even think that if we do, we will be in danger of madness. This is one of the last and most resourceful ploys of ego to prevent us from discovering our real nature.
So we make our lives so hectic that we eliminate the slightest risk of looking into ourselves. Even the idea of meditation can scare people. When they hear the words egoless or emptiness, they think that experiencing those states will be like being thrown out the door of a spaceship to float forever in a dark, chilling void. Nothing could be further from the truth. But in a world dedicated to distraction, silence and stillness terrify us; we protect ourselves from them with noise and frantic busyness. Looking into the nature of our mind is the last thing we would dare to do. -Rigpa Glimpse of the Day, July 7, 2006. http://www.rigpaus.org

"Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise,open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life.Certainly it is worth the risk." -- Leo Buscaglia

Straight To Hell

Nearly five months have passed since my last blog post. Spring ran right into a blast furnace of hell throughout the Tennessee Valley, we almost saw the end of the world spark it's armageddon fire out of the middle-east, and some good music finally started to come out.

Still, our country is being led by a bunch of jack-asses. Ideology runs rampant. The need to push a view which requires one side to be wrong bleeds our lungs like spiritual carbon monoxide. We see the wave turning a bit, but there is still a blind following of fools taking place just because people don't want to think. Ideological spirituality that perverts the powerful testament of Christ's historical life runs rampant. American, Bush-Whacked evangelicals and fundamentalists (Fundies) would support a drunk monkey leading our country as long as that monkey believed that all of our problems are solved by invisible ghosts.

Workable situations continue to be called, "sin." And, with the punishment of those "sins" being a hellish future in eternity, our culture looks away from the God created individual for answers and into a freaked out and psychotic dreamland fairy tale for justification. "The body of christ" (note I used a little "c") has injected cancer into our collective consciousness to the point where we cannot see that we are all connected.

My God, My God, please forgive us. We are so far off.

I am not quite prepared to write a full entry yet, but I will be soon. In the meantime, I'm going to deactivate a bit and watch "Project Runway."

Thank You,

Scotty Boy