flame and sword
vision 23
Welcome to our weekly practice. Both the little talk and meditation are especially apt (and helpful) for the times we are living in, so I’m sharing with everyone today. Big thank you to the paid tier “Friday People” for making that possible…
Here is the little talk -
Here is the meditation -
Enjoy!
Until next time,
Jess
“You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin
“We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
- Tom Robbins
“Look about you today, look to what resources you already have. Remember that art making strengthens our creative attention and our energetic capacities. Resist psychic death. Bring everything together.”
- Cody Cook Parrot
"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."
- Anne Lamott
”Who and What you allow to be your Authority is serious business. You have so many voices to choose from, inside. You have so many voices to choose from, outside. They all want you so bad.”
- Gabi Abrao
“I feel a constant low-grade pressure about what a “good” person is “supposed to” do. But who gave me my blueprint for a good person? Whose rules am I following? Whose imagination am I living in? What are the consequences if I don’t do that thing at all, or if I do it later or slower or in a totally different way?
This is why the discernment comes first, the clarity and honesty about what I actually need or want to do, and why.”
- Nic Antoinette
“Our awareness is overwhelmed by hundreds of different thoughts, feelings and sensations. Some we latch onto because they're attractive fantasies or scary preoccupations; some we try to shove away because they're too upsetting or because they distract us from whatever we're trying to accomplish at the moment.
Instead of focusing on some of them and pushing away others, though, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awareness, your inborn openness and clarity. Feathers - the thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations that pass through our awareness - are harmless. Some may be more attractive than others, some less attractive; but essentially they're just feathers. Look at them as fuzzy, curly things floating through the air."
- Ngawang Tsoknyi Gyatso
“Since the universe is infinite, you are infinite. If you are infinite, you are everywhere. IF you are everywhere, then you can be aware of anything and influence anything by putting your attention on it. The key to this, then, is purity of intent and clarity of focus.”
Serge Kahili King
“A more visceral way to understand the imagination is as a clear or clogged channel, not unlike your intestines. When you feed yourself with junk ideas, become bloated with ideologies, create chronic constipation from identity fixations, and infest yourself with the parasites of media hype and its addictions, you cannot expect the nourishing flow of creativity to flow easily through your being and blush your life with its radiance. Nor can you expect to easily become as a hollow bamboo for the Goddess to play her tunes, as a hollow bone for the Great Spirit to sound his whistle. No – what is needed is to flush the system and repopulate it with the flora of rich archetypal perceptions and Divine visions. What is needed is imaginal hygiene!
Imaginal hygiene is the inner art of self-managing the imagination, to defend it from forces that compromise, pollute, colonize, shrink, and sterilize it, and to cultivate those that illuminate, expand, and nourish it. I feel knowledge of this and its application is essential to the story of human survival into the 21st century. Its practice is necessary for us to cultivate the visionary clarity and strength needed to achieve the great personal and planetary transformations that increasing numbers of us are being called to perform, for the capacity to transform is in direct proportion to the capacity to imagine.”
- M.T. Zen
“If you don’t have a plan, you become part of someone else’s plan.”
- Terence McKenna
love your meditations!!
Write on time. Appreciate you so much.