Michele Pasin / Quotes

L'ultimo tratto del cammino si fa da soli

Non ci sono scorciatoie che possono indicare il cammino, ognuno di noi deve fare questa strada da solo. I libri sacri, i maestri, le religioni, possono aiutare, ◊◊◊◊◊◊ servono, ma come gli ascensori che ci portano sù facendoci risparmiare le scale. L’ultimo pezzo del cammino che conduce sul tetto dal quale si vede il mondo, quell’ultimo pezzo va fatto a piedi, da soli” (Tiziano Terzani) “L’essere

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#spirituality #religion #solitude #self-knowledge

In the end there is only Grace

The bitterness and sense of betrayal (the recourse to smack or fundamentalist Buddhism) are totally in accord with Underhill’s descriptions of the Dark Night…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #God #religion #self #spirituality

Ram Dass overlooked Ramana Maharshi

To the best of my knowledge, he never defined more precisely what he meant by “catalyst” or “door opener,” nor mentioned whether he had explored the…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #spirituality #nondualism #religion

Solitude

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” ― Aldous Huxley

Quotes About Introspection (133 Quotes) #religion #mind #solitude

Can a drug vision equal a saint's?

In any case, how can you take a vision that a saint or contemplative has worked toward for years and say that it is the “same” as one produced by dropping a…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #religious-experience #spirituality

Hofmann on the West's spiritual crisis

Hofmann strongly believed that there was a spiritual crisis in Western civilization, and argued that society must shift from “the materialistic, dualistic…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #spirituality #materialism #dualism #nature #psychedelics

Hofmann's lament over recreational LSD

Albert Hofmann lamented the use of LSD as an inebriating drug rather than a therapeutic

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #drugs #spirituality