Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for April 28, 2014
April 21, 2014
May 05, 2014
Transcript:
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under. It will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all the teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold... This is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. It's done by hurling yourself into the abyss...and discovering it's a feather bed. -Terence McKenna
shamest Premium Member over 10 years ago
always awesome
azagalag over 10 years ago
superb!
MeGoNow Premium Member over 10 years ago
The “trick” is not hurling yourself into the abyss and finding a feather bed. There is, in fact, no “trick.” Nature doesn’t care one whit about your courage and will as readily kill the courageous as the cowardly. Nature presents possibilities. When you hurl yourself from the abyss, one possibility is a feather bed. Another possibility is a strawberry jam mess at the bottom. The “trick” is to leap, when a leap is required, without caring which lies at the bottom.
oldpoopiegranny over 10 years ago
This is the first time I have seen this. Very good. Thanks.
topbunk over 10 years ago
Sometimes it’s best not to think about this too much, but to just do…
Yakety Sax over 10 years ago
“There is no try. There is only do or do not.”
Vet Premium Member over 10 years ago
Its called a leap of faith. Like a paratrooper…..Four commands, Stand UP, HOOK UP, STAND IN THE DOOR……GO GO GO. You hope the chute opens.It is unnatural to jump out of a perfectly good airplane just as it is unnatural to take extreme risks….you do it on faith.
popomatic over 10 years ago
Thinking before leaping has stopped many a dreamers. if you are going to jump then jump don’t think
vldazzle over 10 years ago
A Quote from Helen Keller that I liked today in one of my newsletters: “No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”This is one I’d really like to use myself, so copied to my Outlook signatures.
Ida No over 10 years ago
Lots of trolls in GoComics.
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 10 years ago
It’s cool when the animals are our friends
topbunk over 10 years ago
Gavin, I hope you’re alright. No Zen Pencils today on May 2, 2014