when im having a good time listening to music from the 2000′s and reliving fun memories associated with the songs and then it hits me that i’m getting further and further away from the points at which those songs came out and that i’m never going to be able to go back in time to those days and instead im just slowly getting sadder and older
This photo is so crazy bc the guy on the left robbed the guy on the right at gunpoint or whatever and in the process realized he was robbing people bc he was repressing his gay feelings and they started dating and now they’re like married or something
You don’t have to chose between your sexual/intellectual/emotional/spiritual side. Just combine them all into one powerful expression. Spirituality is not robbing us of fun. But the reality is that spirituality allows us to co-create more consciously and wisely. In fact, I don’t think of it as it telling us not to do things. For instance, sex is fun, but it not just for fun. When we do whatever gives us pleasure, we have some good times, but it is not lasting. I know very few people in the party scene who, when they are by themselves, are very happy or fulfilled. In fact, to say spirituality isn’t fun is to miss the point of what spirituality is. Look at your own life – it is a joke. Look at other people’s lives and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. Seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter. Spirituality is joy. Spirituality is fun. Everybody takes themselves and others seriously. That’s the way of the ego to exist. Start being a little more playful and you will see ego evaporating. Laughter is far more significant than prayer. Prayer may not destroy your ego; on the contrary, it may make it holy, pious, but laughter certainly destroys your ego. When you are really in a state of laughter, have you observed? …the ego disappears for a moment. You are again a child, giggling. Again you have forgotten that you are special. You are no longer serious; for a moment you have removed your fixation. That’s why I love jokes…they are poison to your ego! I don’t laugh with you because that is part of telling a joke: the person who tells it has to be very serious, he cannot laugh with you. All my laughter I have to do alone. All buddhas have laughed when they awaken. Their laughter is like a lion’s roar. They laugh, not at you, they laugh at the whole cosmic joke. They lived in a dream, in a sleep, intoxicated completely by desire, and through desire they looked at the existence. Then it was not the real existence, they projected their own sleep on it. Nobody lives, nobody dies. Nothingness lives, nothingness dies. Have a good laugh at this situation.
