Kelly Magovern

Dr. Orna Guralnik speaking about how diving into the unconscious connects you with the collective unconscious ("Couples Therapy" S04E09)

So many hilarious lines in this short clip: "People want it….allegedly. I don't know how you know you want it." "To me, it's a little, like, self-harm adjacent." "Bitch, there's nothing more serious than this!" 😂😂😂

Wow, Nicole LePera basically describing my lifelong relationship dynamic with my dad. By the way, it's not about blaming him, but just becoming more aware and conscious of how the dynamic affects my behavior in the present. [x]

"You will cringe at somebody that you want to be like because deep down you're scared of being that thing. So the safer thing to do is to cringe at them instead of admitting you want to be like them. It's safer to cringe at the loving, happy, blissful, creative, expressive, sad, angry, hurt, spiritual person than it is to admit that you're those things, but you're scared of them. That's why one of the greatest spiritual practices is to become your own cringe." —Thomas Ohehir [x]

"The moment you believe in someone, you lose intelligence. Belief is almost like poison to your intelligence. I say to you not to believe in anyone, including me. You have to find out your own insight, and then follow it. Wherever it leads is the right path for you. Whether anybody else is following on the path or not is not the question. Each individual is unique and each individual life has a beauty in its uniqueness." —Osho [x]

Deepak Chopra on the benefits of being non-judgmental. [x]

Cry, little sister! (Thou shall not fall) Come, come to your brother! (Thou shall not die) Unchain me, sister! (Thou shall not fear) Love is with your brother! (Thou shall not kill)

"South Park: The End of Obesity" (2024)

"You are the key stimulus that is releasing the mechanism in me that allows me to be in love…And the tendency is to want to possess the beloved, which as you and I both know, is one of the quickest ways to destroy the experience." —Ram Dass

"Man appears very finite, very small, just like a dewdrop. But he contains all the oceans in him. He contains all the skies in him. If you look from the outside, he is very small, tiny. Just a dust. Nothing much. Dust unto dust. But if you look from his inside, from his center, he is the whole universe. That's the difference between science and religion. Science looks at man from the outside and finds nothing spiritual, nothing divine. Just physiology, chemistry, biology. Another kind of animal." —Osho [x]

I watched this old YouTube video of Alex O'Connor, who identifies as an atheist. I found it very interesting because he is the first atheist I've seen who openly admitted to still having fears of "hell," due to him having been raised as a Roman Catholic. It just shows how insidious Christian conditioning is. I still struggle with this, as well, and I wasn't even raised religious. I think the "hell" idea is really the only thing keeping Christians in line. Without this idea of "hell," I think Christianity as a religion would fall apart.

A believer is the ugliest person in the world because his belief becomes a barrier into inquiry. I am not saying to become disbelievers, because disbelief is again belief from another side, from the negative side. Belief and disbelief are two aspects of the same coin. Don't be a theist and don't be an atheist. The real inquirer remains an agnostic. He remains open, he has no conclusions. He says, "I know only one thing: that I know nothing." He remains available.

The moment you have conclusions, you become unavailable to truth; conclusions close you. The moment you have a priori prejudices, how can you know truth? You have already concluded, you have already accepted certain beliefs; they will be like clouds in front of your eyes. Your eyes are no longer empty, clean, mirrorlike; they can't reflect that which is, they can only distort. They will distort according to your belief.

So, when the Hindu comes to experience "God" he sees Krishna with his flute. A Christian never sees that; that's strange. A Christian always sees Christ on the cross; a Hindu never sees that. That's strange! A Jaina will never see Krishna, Rama, Christ – no, not at all; and a Buddhist will never see Mahavira, Mohammed, Moses. They all see their own belief. The phenomenon is very simple: you see whatsoever you project. Your mind functions as a projector. You don't see that which is, you see that which you want to see.

Avoid beliefs. Drop all beliefs, Catholic or Communist. Don't believe in Kaaba, or Kashi or the Kremlin. Don't believe in the Bible or the Gita or the Koran or Das Kapital. Avoid all beliefs. Remain clean, empty.

—Osho, The Dhammapada Vol. 8 Talk 09 (Video credit: osho_guruji on Instagram [x])

In this video, Osho says that Christianity is the most repressive religion in the world, but I think Islam has taken that title now. Certainly, all the Abrahamic religions are highly repressive. In fact, I have yet to see any organized religion that allows for free thought and expression. [x]

Gary Zukav on the many forms of fear. [x]

Gary Zukav on why it's painful to judge others. [x]