Muhāsaba is your best selfie.
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.
In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.
Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.
Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.
When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires.
When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.
The same energy used to point out someone's flaws, can be used to work on your own.
You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.
In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.