David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

Tag: Quote

  • The Dungeonmaster

    “I reject your reality and substitute my own”
    The Dungeonmaster

  • 41. Develop the Witness Attitude


     I am not indifferent, I am impartial.


     We cannot imagine, uncaused emergence. This, however, does not prove the existence of causation.

  • 33-40

    If you believe in God, work with Him. It you do not, become one. 


     A liberated man is extremely law abiding.


     By imagining yourself as separate you have created the gap. You need not cross it. Just don’t create it. All is you and yours. There is nobody else. This is a fact.


     Readiness is ripeness.

    You tend to say: “This is real. That is not real. And this is partly real, partly unreal”, as if reality were an attribute or quality to have in varying measures.


    What the mind created, the mind must destroy. 


    my teaching is simple: trust me for a while and do what I tell you. If you persevere, you will find that your trust was justified.

    The fruit falls suddenly, but the ripening takes time.


    It is the urge, the hidden motive that matters, not the shape it takes 

  • Dore Ashton

    The first effort of the critic should be to see the unique quality inherent in a work, the quality that immediately attracts the receiver and moves him.

     

  • Mickey Hart

    Adventures don’t begin until you get into the forest. That first step in an act of faith.

  • IAM 34



     there is no such thing as peace of mind. Mind means disturbance



     You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed



     You got yourself into your present state through verbal thinking; you must get out of it the same way.



    Nothing profits the world as much as the abandoning of profits

  • Alan Moore Answers GoodReads :: As October 31st approaches, how do you celebrate Halloween?

    Alan Moore You have to understand that I’m from an English, not to say a Northampton, working-class background, and that the way that we traditionally regarded Halloween over here before we had the America re-imagining of the phenomenon imported, was as a serious and ominous event that was part of the witches’ calendar. My grandmother, whom we lived with, was unwavering in her insistence that since this was a night in which malevolent and destructive supernatural forces were abroad and roaming freely, this was also a night when sensible people, particularly children, should stay indoors.
    I feel, personally, that this was a properly respectful attitude to the ‘spirits of a place’ that accumulate, if only in that place’s legend and dream and imagination: these things are an important part of a place’s psychological reality, and I would actually prefer not to see them reduced to a fourteen year-old girl in a ‘sexy witch’ costume. Still, each to their own, and I’ve no doubt I shall spend this Halloween handing out money to, hopefully, some of the neighbourhood’s younger children accompanied by their parents, as these are always very respectful and point out to the children that they are actually talking to a real warlock. And of course, if they’re not with their parents I can ritually sacrifice a couple of them to my deformed 2nd century snake-god. Then everybody’s happy.(less)

  • Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj


     Once over, it will be forgotten.


     It is neither necessary, nor possible to change others.


    Q: I am a writer by profession. Can you give me some advice, for me specifically?
    M: Writing is both a talent and a skill.Grow in talent and develop in skill.


    The moment I create an institution I become its prisoner

  • I Am That chp. 33


     As you think yourself to be, so you think the world to be



     Do not undervalue attention.


    Q: But why did it come into being in the first instance?
    M: You will know it when it ends.
    Q: Will it ever end?
    M: Yes, for you.
    Q: When did it begin?
    M: Now.
    Q: When will it end?
    M: Now.
    Q: It does not end now?
    M: You don’t let it.
    Q: I want to let it.
    M: You don’t. All your life is connected with it. Your past and future, your desires and fears, all have their roots in the world. Without the world where are you, who are you?
    Q: But that is exactly what I came to find out.
    M: . And I am telling you exactly this: find a foothold beyond and all will be clear and easy.


  • More Guru Quotes



    Q: Why is life so full of contradictions? 
    M: It serves to break down mental pride.


    Q: What can make me love?
    M: You are love itself — when you are not afraid