Wolfmother - White Unicorn

Dancing Through the Midnight Whirlpool Formless

"Dionysian art wishes to convince us of the eternal delight of existence, yet it insists that we look for this delight not in phenomena but behind them. It makes us realize that everything that is generated must be prepared to face its painful dissolution. It forces us to gaze into the horror of individual existence, yet without being turned to stone by the vision.  A metaphysical solace momentarily lifts us above the whirl of shifting phenomena. For a brief moment, we become, ourselves, the primal Being, and we experience its insatiable hunger for existence. Now we see the struggle, the pain, the destruction of appearances as necessary, because of the constant proliferation of forms pushing into life, because of the extravagant fecundity of the world will. We feel the furious prodding of this travail in the very moment in which we become one with the immense lust for life and are made aware of the eternity and indestructibility of that lust. Pity and terror notwithstanding, we realize our great good fortune in having life---not as individuals, but as part of the life force with whose procreative lust we have become One."

---The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, Friedrich Nietzsche

Hungry Like the Wolf

R.I.P. Caroline John

Things That Matter

"Matter is never destroyed,
only transformed.
So, too, can the soul evolve
higher and higher:
from instinct to inspiration,
haughtiness to holiness,
selfishness to service;
from individualism to union,
to join with the Soul of souls,
the Infinite One.
As the soul is magnified and sanctified,
so is the Infinite One exalted.

Baruch atah, Adonai, asher b'yado nefesh kol chai v'ruach kol b'sar ish."

---Mishkan T'Filah, A Reform Siddur

The Tao

"Life is flowing all the time. That's the Tao, the flow of life. You are going along with it whether you want to or not. You're like people in a stream. You can swim against the stream, but you'll still be moved along by it. And all you'll do is wear yourself out in futility. But, if you swim with the stream, the whole strength of the stream is yours."

-- Alan Watts

Ouroboros

"And this slow spider, which crawls in the moonlight, and this moonlight
itself, and I and you in the gateway, whispering together, whispering of
eternal things – must not all of us have been there before? And return
and walk in that outer lane, out there, before us, in this long dreadful
lane – must we not eternally return?"

---Friedrich Nietzsche