WISE WORDS 1

This booklet is a compilation of wise and

venerable sayings collected over the years
that have had a bearing on my life.
Some are just beautiful use of words, some are poetic or
Inspirational and some are to be meditated upon over
long periods of time.

The aim of this booklet and these words is to wake and

shake up your Consciousness, to promote a
new outlook on life.

It will also introduce new authors into your world,

to aid in the quest for any meaning in this Life.

Walk on!

Namaste
 Practising with total attention within the body is
advanced yoga,
No matter how easy the posture.
Practising with your attention scattered is the practise of
a beginner,
No matter how hard the posture

H. David Coulter

The journey is the destination

H. David Coulter

In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward

spray.

Woody Guthrie.

The Wise Ones tarry awhile in the pleasure abodes of the

senses.

Muse.
 Charlie can’t surf.

23 Skidoo.

Right where you are sitting now.

R. A. Wilson.

Yoga means Union.

Ask any Yogi.

The Seer abides in Himself.

Anon.

The Dewdrop slips into the Shining Sea.

Edwin Arnold.

Dolphins are beautiful people.

Scientist on T.V.
 All the things you think of; they are only thoughts.

Muse.

There is no such thing as a straight line in

the Universe, everything is curved.

Einstein.

The walls between urinals subliminally say that

urination is shameful. This is how architecture moulds
our minds.

R. A. Wilson.

God is more or less, Man.

Anon.

The ultimate fact of consciousness is itself

and nothing else.

Anon.

So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut.
 Oh! I’ve had such a curious dream.

Alice.

Attention, Attention here and now boys, Attention here

and now.

A. Huxley.

Your daily drippings fill a far bigger bucket,

than your geysers of Magical effort.

A. Crowley.

All True learning is only done after some annihilations.

Muse; after a dip into the Ocean of Samadhi.

All True Art expresses the Great Loneliness.

Muse; on listening to a Zen flute.

The Key of Evolution is right variation.

A. Crowley.
 Freedom is the absence of inner restraint to the
flow of feeling.
Grace is the expression of this flow in movement.
Beauty is a manifestation of the inner harmony
such a flow engenders.

A. Lowen

All True Wisdom one finds only far from man, out in the
Great Loneliness, and it may be obtained only through
great suffering.

Chief Igjugarjuk. Eskimo Chief.

The Universe is a creative responsibility.

Anon.

When one searches with the utmost capacity for one’s

own inner awareness, one finds the God within.

Zen.

To excite the Divine in Man. That is the aim.

A. Crowley.
 The Buddha Mind has no abode!

Zen.

The degree and kind of a person’s sexuality reaches up

into the topmost summit of his Spirit.

Nietzsche.

Spitting in the wind comes back at you twice as hard.

Lou Reed.
Also an ancient Egyptian proverb

Life is a crash course in evolution.

Anon.

Jazz is the master of restraint.

Anon.

Contact has been made.

R. A. Wilson.
 The Wise Ones tarry not in pleasure grounds of the
senses.

Helena Petrova Blavatsky.

Your rockin’ the forest.

Tigger. (Winnie the Pooh)

Nothing is permitted to rest. If the blossom of the cherry

did not blow in the wind, the Stars would extinguish with
a flash.

Zen.

The Original Sin is to limit the IS. Don’t!

Richard Bach

There is no factor in my equation that cannot be

subsumed.

Anon.

The sound of silence is all the instruction you’ll get.

Jack Kerouac.
 I cannot exhaust the source.

Rudyard Kipling. (Of his Muse)

Definitions arise from a need to construct everything.

Anon.

Fascists can’t dance.

Tony Wilson.

The Orgasm can be a surfboard of Willed desire

to achieve Mystical states of Mind.

A. Crowley.

Eleutheria!

Ancient Greek.

Gnosis!

A. Greek.
If you want to become Yogis you will have to get a move
on.

A. Crowley.

Only you yourself can be your own Liberator.

W. Reich.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they are

yours.

R. Bach.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,

the Master call a butterfly.

Zen.

Success varies according to whether the effort is mild,

moderate, or intense.

Patanjali.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

R. Bach.
 When the doors of perception are cleansed,
everything will appear as it Truly is, Infinite.

W. Blake.

Sit still.
Stop thinking.
Shut up.
Get out.

A. Crowley.

Love, and do what thou wilt.

St. Augustine.

When walking, just walk, above all don’t wobble.

Souix chant.

I am perplexed!

Last words of A. Crowley.

 I was floating down the river of life
Caught in the current of this world
In the river I met the Guru
And He led me to the other shore

Krishna Das

If thine Eye be single thy whole body

shall be full of Light

The Bible

Yoga is the controlling of Minds activities

When Mind is controlled, Self stays in it’s native
condition. The Original Nature.
Otherwise Self conforms to the nature of minds activities

Patanjali

When “I” and “YOU” are absent, I have no idea if

this is a mosque, synagogue, church or a temple.

There is only one light, and you and me

are just holes in the lampshade

Mahmud Shabistari
It is better to see God in everything than to try and figure
it out.

To see God everywhere you have to have special eyes,

otherwise you cannot bear the shock

Neem Karoli Baba

Whether you think you can or think you can’t

You’re right

Henry Ford

I once knew a man who climbed up to a

mountaintop and reached up to God.
He stretched his arms up to heaven and cried,
Fill me full of Light!
I’m ready, I’m waiting!
The voice of God answered him and said
I’m always filling you with Light, but you keep leaking

Anon
 The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place
But a state of Mind

John Burroughs, Naturalist

When the breath wanders the mind is unsteady.

When the breath is calmed the mind will be still.

Hatha Yoga Pradipika

The mind is everything, what you think, you become.

Buddha

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to

find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and
die to find out there is.

Albert Camus

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal

giver of life would be my God

Napoleon Bonaparte
 Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill,
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Lao tzu

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said

it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your
own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha

The way is not in the sky,

The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Sex and Religion are closer to each other than either

might prefer

Saint Thomas Moore