Michele Pasin / Quotes

Don't try to get rid of the ego-sensation

Remember, above all, that an experience of this kind cannot be forced or made to happen by any act of your fictitious “will,” except insofar as repeated…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #music #ego #exercise #sensation #awakening

Driving through myself

I LOOKED UP THE passage, the one I had remembered under the holly, from Suzanne Segal’s Collision with the Infinite: In the midst of a particularly eventful…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #nondualism #self #awakening #identity

Everyone you see is asleep

Personally, as a young Marxist, religion had always been anathema to me, and it was only because I was ill in bed and couldn’t find anything else to read that…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #awakening #sleep #time #self #consciousness

Fear of death is the cement of slave society

I saw that I had not been so wide of the mark in the woods. Ultimately, fear of death is the cement of slave society—that’s at the root of our fear of…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #fear-of-death #freedom #death #awakening

Self and other

Nishida maintains, the individual precisely as distinct entails a plurality of interrelated individuals. Where his previous analysis of individual…

Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) #self #Nishida #individuals #awakening

Self-remembering and the thrill of direct action

To say I had briefly “woken up” would express perfectly what had happened. And as I read more of Ouspensky’s book, I realized I had known this strange state…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #awakening #revolution #consciousness #present