Beyond Good and Evil

Love is the law, love under will.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law

Aleister Crowley (spelt it wrong on the video lol)

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbour as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.'

(NIV, Mark 12:28-30) Jesus

All paths are the same, they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long, long paths, but I am not anywhere. My benefactor's question has meaning now. "Does this path have a heart?" One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

The trouble is nobody asks the question: and when a person finally realizes that they have taken a path without heart, the path is ready to kill them. At that point very few people stop to deliberate and leave the path.

A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it.

For my part there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length.

And there I travel looking, looking, breathlessly.

- Don Juan

Carlos Castaneda

I speak frankly and that makes me happy:
I am the slave of love, I am free of both worlds

Hafiz of Shiraz 1230-91

Everyone is overridden by thoughts;
that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.
At times I give myself up to thought purposefully;
but when I choose,
I spring up from those under its sway.
I am like a high-flying bird,
and thought is a gnat:
how should a gnat overpower me?

Jeladuddin Rumi 1207-73

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries.
As the source both of inner and external peace,
they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.

Dalai Lama

How could anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? or the Will to Truth out of the will to deception? or the generous deed out of selfishness? or the pure sun-bright vision of the wise man out of covetousness? Such genesis is impossible; whoever dreams of it is a fool, nay, worse than a fool; things of the highest value must have a different origin, an origin of THEIR own - in this transitory, seductive, illusory, paltry world, in this turmoil of delusion and cupidity, they cannot have their source.

Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche

The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.

The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.

Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Joseph Campbell

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung

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• Loreleila

[Elaforestr]

disregard my last comment if you like because i watched your videos. you obviously believe in positive and negative forces, you just hate FACISM. excellent. i was mistaken about you. you r just not connected with your spirit. you r very cerebral and not at all spiritual. fine. you understand the wholeness of existence but you refuse to admit there are positive and negative forces even though u r devoted to positivity. u r half way their. look past the physical to know the truth.

[Loreleila]

I know you mean well, but if you ever do understand who I am you'll be asking me to disregard that comment as well.

[Elaforestr]

well I will try one more attempt to reconcile. someone I know was murdered last night in my neighborhood. it doesnt matter why, but it happend. this action can be taken different ways. positively or negatively. One can take it as a call to stop violence and another can take it as a reason to do more. now i can either beleive that one route is constructive n the other is destructive, OR i could say their is no difference because they r both experience. or is one existence (+) and the other (-)?

[Loreleila]

I can't explore this properly in this medium, however: That someone was murdered is a fact. The history is relevant, what brought this to be, the community in which it took place, the actions of many which brought it to such a point. It is inevitably going to be received and responded to in many ways. In some it will cause hatred and a desire for revenge. In others it will cause fear. In more pain at the loss of a loved one. In others a desire to change things for the better, to see it as (more)

[Loreleila]

a wake up call, an opportunity for the community to look at what isn't working and how it might be resolved, to learn and to grow. If the motivating force is love then all will benefit. If it isn't it will fragment. It's not about anything goes, at all. It's about being able to see beyond a simple this or that, where one is all wrong and the other all right.

Incidentally, I'm sorry this has happened. It must be very disturbing.

[in2dionysus]

Sense many things when talking about the death of insanity, or the insanity of death; 2 different meanings leading back to a whole. In finding things you have retalliated against the whole 2 which you have started. The whole you come back 2 is still the same and does not change; it is another perception either insane or dead. You can look at many things in this and still come back to any compensation of insanity or death. The meaning you pull out of it and the energy that leads you (will2power)?

[Elaforestr]

my point is that a negative person or action can hurt people. If you go around throwing dirt on others beauty it is not positive. Sure If I love I will not turn my back on this negative person, but I do not need to let a cancer fester. I surely agree with you to love all. That is why I fear none, but my experience has been that there are forces out here that do not love. I still love them but you have to be serious about what you are dealing with. Loving to hate is not love at all is it thelmite

[blindpig93]

you fail to see that for thelemites Te spirt is all we are. The flesh (material world) is the crown of the spirt. we make no difference between any one thing and any other thing because this causes division and hurt. we re all individuals so this is just how I see it. I expect no one to seething like me, I accept all as my brother

93

[Elaforestr]

It was just a discussion really. Sure we ARE beyond good and evil. I was just pointing out that darkness is different from light. See, my thing is I am a bit confused about the new age teachings. If you understand that a sick person needs a healer and vice versa, do you understand that the sick person is sick and the healer is a healer. Yes the two a One but it is their contrast which give them life. Don't I have a choice to be a healer or sick, or are you saying be both? can I self determine?

[KosmicCitizen]

"judgment judgment judgment"

Yes, you're obviously enlightened. Do preach some more.

We ARE beyond "good and evil", or any other conceptualization. All reasons are "after the fact."