liquid nonsense

My name is Henry Floyd, and I am merely a psychotropic speck in the a single blink of the eye of the universe as it awakens.

"Once a human being becomes more and more aware of his own nature, he understands to experience love, to experience blissfulness, to experience ecstasy, even to experience orgasmic ways of life, you actually don’t need anybody. If you just sit here, you can make it happen within yourself because after all, it’s your body, it’s your mind, it’s your emotion, it’s your chemistry and you are the one who is creating all the experiences of your life. Because people are not conscious of this, that you are the maker of your life, you are the one who is doing your life the way you want it, most people still believe that their experiences are being shaped by people and situations around them. But that’s not true. Human experiences are 100% self-created. So, if it’s self-created, right now, if you sit here, would you choose to maintain sweetness of your mind, sweetness of your body, sweetness of your emotion, sweetness of your energy, or would you like something bitter?"

- Sadhguru

(Source: symphonyofthecosmos, via symphonyofthecosmos)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDHA!

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."

- Treaty of Tripoli — United States Government, 1796

Please

Please don’t take this away from me
This bright, calm world that I can see
With the cool, cool shade from the golden trees
Please don’t take this away from me

Please don’t rob me of reality
With the moonlight smiling down on me
With light and love and eternal peace
Please don’t rob me of reality

Please let me stay here as long as I can
With the calming tide and the shining sand
With the crickets singing as loud as they can
Please let me stay here as long as I can

Please let me keep this in my mind
Let this picture reflect on all mankind
And the hell in my head left far behind
Please let me keep this in my mind

Please don’t think any worse of me
For the horrible demon that I can be
When the chemicals align unnaturally
Please don’t think any worse of me

Please let this be the world I see
This glimpse of the earth through the hole in the tree
More beautiful than I ever dreamed it could be
Please let this be the world I see

Please don’t take this away from me
This bright, calm world that I can see
With the cool, cool shade from the golden trees
Please don’t take this away from me

one day it shall all be silent

eyes briefly glancing over the puddle of vomit
not a care in the world
the flies are perfectly happy to swim in it
the smell just a brief dying trace of a life once lived

ears briefly taking note of the bloodcurdling screams
the rasping, dripping with blood and sweat
rushing over torn vocal chords
like a tsunami of ballistic lava

skin briefly rippling with goosebumps as the cold, cold blade dances over its surface
body of smoke, mind of thin plate glass
foam pouring from every opening

these are the last dying days of my world
pools of steaming, corrosive sludge
pouring over my body
consuming me in a beautifully horrible epilogue
of fire, of acid, of searing heat and of deathly cold
shivering, spasming, seizures of vast chemical electricity
burning flesh, burning mind

one day there is to be no more
one day it shall all be silent
the soft, still pillow of silence
come to me
comfort me
end me
one day it shall all be silent
one day it shall all be gone

The “Yama” camera, built by Wayne Martin Belger, is made of the actual fossilized skull of a 16th-century Tibetan woman.  With one hand-built vintage pinhole lens installed in each eye socket, and embedded with over $5,000 worth of real rubies and sapphires, it prints haunting 3D dual images on pneumatically activated film.  It is the only one of its kind in the world.

"Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… nerds are allowed to love stuff. Like jump-up-and-down-in-your-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. When people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is “You like stuff.” Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘You are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness.’"

- John Green

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!"

- Albert Einstein

"

Dear College Students,

You still don’t know anything yet. That fancy education is worth nothing at all if it doesn’t make you realize how truly useless it is.
So, while you’re here, follow the guidelines (even though you won’t understand them for now) -
A smile is universal currency.
Talk less.
Look around before you start to take pictures. Doesn’t matter what model camera you have. It will never do it justice.
Climb the mountain because you’re afraid of heights.
Eat it. You can lose weight later.
Listen to them. They have such interesting stories.
Let it go - there’s better coming.
But most importantly, never ever think you know what’s going to happen next.
(And learn to love that.)

Beso, Patagonia.

"

- Farah Colette

Anonymous asked: hi Henry, your writing is strong and fluid and arrives at unexpected destinations. ben (benjamin weinberg - from cowbird)

Why thank you!  I’ve been trying to write more often, it’s therapeutic for me.

"Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question."

- Sigmund Freud

(Source: zenmind-nomind)

"If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It’s a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you, the Mystery. The one that can never be solved. Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing. More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn’t get any better than that."

- Tim Robbins

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"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."

- Edward Abbey

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Silence

is Light. It doesn’t come weighing on you the way an ocean of thoughts do and only a teacup is there to hold on to. You don’t long for the waves anymore. You lay on the sand and become the current.

(Source: moreofamore)