The Business of My Life: October 2010

"We have to create c

"We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world." — Terence McKenna

“First, have a def

“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” Aristotle

"A jug fills drop by

"A jug fills drop by drop." - Buddha

When you realise tha

When you realise that every single person and organisation is asking the same question, seeking the answer doesnt feel quite as confronting does it?

There will always be

There will always be a dragon to fight, an evil witch to twart and a threshold to cross. In each moment, we play this part for someone as they will in turn play for us. We are each one tiny part of something so much bigger.

"When we label somet

"When we label something, we empower it. When we judge someone, we empower them. When we operate from a place of grace where we appreciate what we label and judge as parts of us - we own it - then we become a part of something bigger - and it is from THIS place where we can start to take action." Nichola Burton