James R. Swartz famous quotes

A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness.
-- James R. Swartz

#Love #Peace #Rivers

In deep sleep, even though one does not exist as an externally or internally conscious ego, one can report a good nights sleep because a very subtle ego remnant remains, permitting the experience of limitless and bliss.
-- James R. Swartz

#Good Night #Sleep #Self

When one wakes up in the morning, one's whole life is neatly laid out, consistent with the past, to the degree that we even (apparently) remember the same language spoken the day before, suggesting previous experience had simply entered a dormant state.
-- James R. Swartz

#Dream #Morning #Past

In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.
-- James R. Swartz

#Reality #Self #Views

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."

But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is...