Life is a beautiful thing.
Just take it all in and breathe,
breathe, breathe.

~ Creola Johnson

Making sense is our second language.

Sensing comes first.

"We're all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It's just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality."

~ Anil Seth

"i want to feel tectonic shifts.
i want to be. i want to be astonished."

~ Sleeping at Last

"The idea that reality is not real or what you sense and feel is not authentic is something I’m very skeptical of."

~ Bill Nye

What is it like up there
above the shut-off level
of our simple ears?

~ Lisa Mueller

"As conscious human beings, we know we die, and we therefore know our clock ends on, some level. So time just seems foundational. And I think a lot of the gymnastics that we do as human beings has to do with our relationship to the clock, or lack of a relationship to the clock. We squander time until it’s too late, et cetera. I love looking at the building blocks, the raw material, the irreducibles."

~ B.J. Miller

the strangest things can conjure up the past,
and forgotten time will find its long way back. 

as thin as air, as light as snow
some combination of the unknown,
but it doesn’t matter, i just know i need more.

~ Sleeping at Last
 

We’re nothing less than a work in progress,
sacred text on post it notes.

"It felt like my senses were being used in a way that I ignore them a lot."

down my arms, a thousand satellites
suddenly discover signs of life

But do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every step I take is my home.

~ Dogen Zenji

What is it like up there
above the shut-off level
of our simple ears?

~ Lisel Mueller

"We have this strong idea, in the culture and in the language, that emotion and touch are deeply linked, and I think the neuroanatomy bears this out."

~ David Linden

"This simple act of acceptance – which may only last a few seconds – offers a taste of that open space of essence love, an acceptance of the warmth that is your basic nature, the heart of your own being."

~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche

May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter
the quiet immensity of your own presence.
May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.

~ John O'Donohue

"We do still believe in the gut feeling." ~ HERAKUT

"Meditating on the body means meditating on body sensation, not mental images of the body."

~ Michael Taft