Weird Wisdom Quotes

Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers mystics, painters, troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.

It’s weird how we have to get a little older to realize that people are just people. It should be obvious, but it’s not.

The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.

Life has no obligation to make sense, and the beauty of it is that it rarely does, but if you can get lost in the sweet spot in between, you may find some answers, too - or at least create some good stories.

Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives.

Being weird is when you love yourself enough to liberate yourself from the burden of trying to be normal. It is also when you are smart enough to know that there is no such thing as normal.

Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professionals who need to relax now and then, have a bit of the whoop and the giggle, right?

Even the weird feeling in her guts doesn’t make her wait another second. The feeling came right when she heard the words ‘perfectly ready.

The weird thing is that the more efficient, on task, on goal you are with your time, the more energy you have. Working with no traction, or for that matter simply wasting a day, does not relax you, it drains you.// Strange as it may seem, when you work a daily plan in pursuit of your written goals that flow from your mission statement born of your vision for living your dreams, you are energized after a tough long day.

Keep Reading. Keep Writing. Keep Pushing yourself! And never stop learning! We writerly types have to stick together mostly because everybody else thinks we're "weird".

Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way.

The spiritual disconnection many feel today stems precisely from expecting (or being told to expect) the Bible to be holy, perfect, and clear, when in fact after reading it they find it to be morally suspect, out of touch, confusing, and just plain weird.

If you start afresh with a fully blank brain, like a newborn, you’ll have a lot to catch up on. Sometimes, it won’t be cute. Sitting weirdly, spreading your legs—unaware of your briefs showing, or asking your new parents why their lips are glued together, isn’t cute.

I don't know why I'm always surprised when vampires act as weird as ordinary humans. It's not like they gain the wisdom of the ages with the transformation.

Some people can change, others will always be the same. The difficulty is in figuring out which type they are. - The Malwatch

Don't cover your cracks; that's how the light gets in. Don't cover your wounds; that's how your light pours out. Don't unweird yourself. Take up space enough for all the parts of you to come together -- the awful, the beautiful, the awe-inspiring, the wonderful and the strange.

Misfits Change the World Every. Single. Day.

Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things.

Anger is not always bad, as long as it's directed at things that need changed and used in short doses so it doesn't consume your thoughts. - The Malwatch

If winning the race won't please you, then why are you running like your life depends on it? - The Malwatch

To do nothing, to be complacent, is to act in a way that supports the way things are. - The Malwatch

I grow spines when I'm sad. I don't like people trying to comfort me. It just makes me more upset. - The Malwatch

My gynecologist said my pussy looks weird.

Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you’re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

We programmers are weird creatures. We love writing code. But when it comes to reading it we usually shy away. After all, writing code is so much more fun, and reading code is hard — sometimes almost impossible.

This was the plan: we would take a holy and sacred picture of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley, to the very summit of the earth; once there, we would place it with sincere reverence amongst the chimerical shimmering palaces of ice and snow and then (accompanied by some weird Zen magic) we would light joss sticks, dance about making screechy kung-fu noises, get off our faces, and that would be it: Planet Earth saved. Simple.

It (becoming disheartened) is insidious, buried, sticky . . . like a weird smell you can't quite pinpoint and eventually get used to. Becoming disheartened is actually one of three forms of laziness; the others are procrastination and being too busy.

If you think about it, the public perception of funky brain chemistry has been as varied and weird as the symptoms, historically speaking. If I had been born a Native American in another time, I might have been lauded as a medicine man. My voices would have been seen as the voices of ancestors imparting wisdom. I would have been treated with great mystical regard. If I had lived in biblical times, I might have been seen as a prophet, because, let’s face it, there are really only two possibilities: either prophets were actually hearing God speaking to them, or they were mentally ill. I’m sure if an actual prophet surfaced today, he or she would receive plenty of Haldol injections, until the sky opened up and the doctors were slapped silly by the Hand of God. In the Dark Ages my parents would have sent for an exorcist, because I was clearly possessed by evil spirits, or maybe even the Devil himself. And if I lived in Dickensian England, I would have been thrown into Bedlam, which is more than just a description of madness. It was an actual place—a “madhouse” where the insane were imprisoned in unthinkable conditions. Living in the twenty-first century gives a person a much better prognosis for treatment, but sometimes I wish I’d lived in an age before technology. I would much rather everyone think I was a prophet than some poor sick kid.

It's weird to think that wisdom means loving less, but I guess it does.

It takes all shapes, sizes, and light to uplift this world. Be your own special kind of weird. You're of immense value!

Don't bit your sentences, or swallow your words, lest you choke on them. - The Malwatch

Don't hide bones in a friend's bed unless you want to make an enemy of them. - The Malwatch

Don't land on a branch until you know if can bear your weight. - The Malwatch

Dreams are mirrors that show the truth behind the social facade of their creators. - The Malwatch

Value won't buy happiness, but it will buy contentment by eliminating needs and allowing want to flourish into dreams. - The Malwatch

Rain is nice. It washes away the grime of life. - The Malwatch.

Befriend the ones who linger in the same dreams you do. They're often of like mind. - The Malwatch

There's only so much of yourself to give, be prudent what you spend it on. - The Malwatch

Dreams are only manifested by actions. Simply wishing them to exist won't accomplish much. - The Malwatch

Some people have no humor, because they know every joke at another's expense is born from a truth that causes pain. - The Malwatch

The more you learn, the less weapons your enemies will have to wield against you. - The Malwatch

There's no such thing as perfection. Perfection implies there is only one correct way to do something, and that's never the case. - The Malwatch.

The sky isn't the limit, your form is, but you can make it into something else to proceed in a different way. - The Malwatch

Treat a hatchling like the smaller adult you want them to be and they will grow into the role. - The Malwatch

Truth and lies both shape reality, but one brings stability and the other chaos. - The Malwatch

Use your wings often, or you'll forget how to fly. - The Malwatch

Words mean nothing, if you don't do something to give them meaning. - The Malwatch

You're only old when your dreams become dull. - The Malwatch

Take each dream for what it is and don't drag the dirt from other dreams into it before you've even seen what it has to offer. - The Malwatch

Without my dreams, I am without gills to breath and drowning in the sea of other's minds. - The Malwatch

Don't expect a glass barrier to stop anything. They're notoriously fragile and won't stand a chance against a determined dreammaker. - The Malwatch

Everyone occasionally misjudges a jump and falls. Just shake the dust out of your fur and try again. - The Malwatch

A logical method is madness to one who isn't taught to understand it. - The Malwatch

Even the horrendous can be admired for just how very horrendous it is. - The Malwatch

When lonely, we make company out of phantoms. - The Malwatch

Dreams can be lost in the Milieu, but they can always be found again. - The Malwatch

The truth belongs not to the one who think they are most right, but to the one most willing to prove their truth is reliably predictive of future outcomes. - The Malwatch

Dreams aren't an escape from reality, they're a reflection of what we want reality to be. - The Malwatch

With crippled wings, sometimes you have to fall to fly. - The Malwatch

Life is but a series of dreams, and dreams are but a reflection of life. - The Malwatch

Don't claw your eyes out trying to prove you can fly blind. You can do that just by closing them. - The Malwatch

Collect the unusual so you have things to ponder. - The Malwatch

If you can not be content with the form of you own mind, you should spend some time figuring out why. - The Malwatch

If you pluck and sell you feathers to climb to the top, you won't be able to fly when someone shoves you off. - The Malwatch

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something. - The Malwatch

Forgiving someone is to give them a second chance. If someone forgives you, don't wast it. You probably won't get a third chance. - The Malwatch

I love when the air smells like dreams. The possibilities I can taste on the wind then are enticing and I just want to flare my wings and let them lift me into the sky. - The Malwatch

Some people fly to survive the monsters lurking on the ground, some fly to enjoy the freedom of the air. Either way, both are flying, and I consider that better than walking. - The Malwatch

Do you love me?” When I struggle to love myself? “Do you love me?” When I ask you to leave? “Do you love me?” In the moments When I struggle to breathe? “Do you love me?” In those days When I seem to hurt you the most? “Do you love me?” When I feel like a burden? When I act a little weird? When I constantly question you and On the nights, When I just leave without answering?

It's impossible to find out who you are in life, because there is nothing to find. You are only ever what you shaped yourself into, so shape yourself to be what you want to be. - The Malwatch

Anger motivates as well as any other emotion in the short term. It's in longer doses that it's more poisonous than the others and will slowly eat away at you from the inside out. - The Malwatch

If a relationship is always demanding more of you, and nothing is ever just good enough, you should probably start looking for ways to get out of it, because it's not a healthy relationship. - The Malwatch

My friend John Maxwell says a budget (for your money) is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went. Managing time is the same; you will either tell your day what to do or you will wonder where it went. The weird thing is that the more efficient, on task, on goal you are with your time, the more energy you have. Working with no traction, or for that matter simply wasting away a day, does not relax you, it drains you. Have you ever taken a day off, slept late, wandered around with no plan or thought for the day, watched some stupid rerun of a bad movie as you surfed the TV, and at the end of your great day off found yourself absolutely exhausted? Strange as it may seem, when you work a daily plan in pursuit of your written goals that flow from your mission statement born of your vision for living your dreams, you are energized after a tough long day.

It's impossible to make everyone happy, so instead, only bother trying to make happy those whose opinions you care about. And if you didn't put yourself on that list you may want to reconsider your priorities. - The Malwatch

You succeed only a fraction of the number of times you make an attempt at something. To increase your chances of success, you must increase your number of attempts, which means also increasing the number of your failures. - The Malwatch

Dreamers don't want to reveal their secrets to strangers, but they're eager to share them with friends. If you find yourself in the confidence of a dreamer, they'll readily share with you the many worlds they live in. They may even let you help shape some of them. - The Malwatch

You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You’re the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You’re some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won’t have to become coins.

Not everyone contributes in the same way. Originators create new ideas, amplifiers spread those ideas, and supporters stabilize them to prevent them from fading out of existence. All are equally important roles, and without any one of them, the world would stagnate around us. - The Malwatch

I do know that the gardens of the first lands are still lying there, right under the skin of the world- pulsing the way our heartbeat drums under our own skin. And I believe that there's a connectedness between everything that gives some people a deep and abiding affinity to a certain kind of place or creature." "Like totems?" "Maybe. Or maybe something even more personal- something that's impossible to articulate with the vocabulary we have at the moment." "This is too weird." Annie shrugged. "What can I say? It's getting late, the stars are out. Once the sun sets, I tend to embrace whatever wild spirits are running around in the darkness, talking away to each other. I leave the logic of streets and pavement and cars and tall buildings behind and buy into the old magics that they're whispering about. Sometimes those little mysteries and bits of wisdom stick to the bones of my head and I carry them right out into the sunlight again. They're like Jack's stories, true and not true, all at the same time. They don't exactly shape my life, but they certainly colour it." She glanced at him, "I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

Thoughts cannot be changed. They are the product of our experiences. But how we apply those thoughts to the world, and the actions we take based on the, can change the thoughts we have in the future. Don't attack yourself for how you think, decide how you will act with those thoughts in you head. - The Malwatch

This is where we are right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.

But the Countess herself is indifferent to her own weird authority. She believes that, by ignoring it, she can abnegate it. More than anything, she would like to be human; but she does not know if that is possible. The Tarot always shows the same configuration: always she turns up La Papesse, Le Mort, Le Tour Abolie, wisdom, death, dissolution.

Emotions aren’t a bug in the programming, something left over from your malfunctioning lizard brain or incomplete childhood. You do not have these weird, unwieldy emotions that happen mysteriously to you, and you simply need to tolerate them, like that crazy uncle you have to sit next to at Thanksgiving dinner. Your emotions aren’t a mistake; they are some of the best parts of you. Feelings aren’t a design flaw; they are divine in origin.

The doctor took the cup off me and set to inspecting the contents under a powerful microscope. It was weird seeing it on a computer screen. Sperm the size of tadpoles, all whizzing about like moths around a lightbulb. They looked like they were having a great time, but seeing them didn’t make me feel broody at all. I just found it odd to think I was one of them once. I suppose life was more simple back then, living inside a bollock, just zooming around with all your nameless relatives with no arguing, no stress, no complications

No story should ever be considered as final, nor a rigid telling, but as a prompt to either investigate or meditate upon it. In other words, the story, provided it has at least some discernible depth, ought to be a medium, a prompt to one’s higher self to look beyond the naked narrative. Throughout the ages, until recently, the words story and history were interchangeable in meaning. Storial is now an obsolete word, but if something was, what you would call, historically accurate, then it was storial — not historical. Stories and histories entangle. Stories can disentangle, and liberate. This is one of the keys to conscious presence. One of the keys to lucidity. Stories have that potential, they carry that power within them. Whether they are used to entangle, entertain, or disentangle, depends on the intent and the wisdom of the storyteller. This is an essential truth, valid for any story that has ever been told. In choosing to let go of the stories which have entangled you into a lilliputian presence, you make room for the story which can not only dis-entangle, but expand your capacity as an individual, and bring you into the presence of ultimate realization. That is the might of the story. Remember this. As you would take a key and place it in your pocket, take this information, fully aware and conscious of taking it, and save it.

The weird thing is that while persuasional leadership takes longer and takes more restraint at the time, it is much more efficient over the long haul. When you teach team members or teens the why, they are more equipped to make the same decision next time without you. You don’t have to watch their every move, you don’t have to put in a time clock, and you don’t have to implant a GPS chip in their hide when they learn how to think for themselves. Positional leadership doesn’t take as long in the exchange, but you have to do it over and over and over and over. You never get to enjoy your team or your kids because they become a source of frustration rather than a source of pride.

These were the kids who would take LSD for recreational purposes, who relied upon tape recorders to supply the weird studio effects their music required and who could repeat the cosmic wisdom of the Space Brothers as if it were the Pledge of Allegiance. Brought up on space heroes and super beings, as revealed to them in comic books and TV shows, the whole galaxy was their birthright, just as Mad magazine and cheap B-movies had shown them hows stupid and flimsy a construct daily life could be. To the subtle dismay of their parents, this was a generation capable of thinking the unthinkable as a matter of course. That their grand cosmological adventure should come to an end just as Neil Armstrong succeeded in bringing Suburbia to the Moon is another story and it will have to wait for another time.

Harry!” he panted, massaging his immense chest beneath his emerald-green silk pajamas. “My dear boy…what a surprise…Minerva, do please explain…Severus…what…?” “Our headmaster is taking a short break,” said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window. “Professor!” Harry shouted, his hands at his forehead. He could see the Inferi-filled lake sliding beneath him, and he felt the ghostly green boat bump into the underground shore, and Voldemort leapt from it with murder in his heart-- “Professor, we’ve got to barricade the school, he’s coming now!” “Very well. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is coming,” she told the other teachers. Sprout and Flitwick gasped; Slughorn let out a low groan. “Potter has work to do in the castle on Dumbledore’s orders. We need to put in place every protection of which we are capable while Potter does what he needs to do.” “You realize, of course, that nothing we do will be able to keep out You-Know-Who indefinitely?” squeaked Flitwick. “But we can hold him up,” said Professor Sprout. “Thank you, Pomona,” said Professor McGonagall, and between the two witches there passed a look of grim understanding. “I suggest we establish basic protection around the place, then gather our students and meet in the Great Hall. Most must be evacuated, though if any of those who are over age wish to stay and fight, I think they ought to be given the chance.” “Agreed,” said Professor Sprout, already hurrying toward the door. “I shall meet you in the Great Hall in twenty minutes with my House.” And as she jogged out of sight, they could hear her muttering, “Tentacula. Devil’s Snare. And Snargaluff pods…yes, I’d like to see the Death Eaters fighting those.” “I can act from here,” said Flitwick, and although he could barely see out of it, he pointed his wand through the smashed window and started muttering incantations of great complexity. Harry heard a weird rushing noise, as though Flitwick had unleashed the power of the wind into the grounds. “Professor,” Harry said, approaching the little Charms master, “Professor, I’m sorry to interrupt, but this is important. Have you got any idea where the diadem of Ravenclaw is?” “--Protego Horribilis--the diadem of Ravenclaw?” squeaked Flitwick. “A little extra wisdom never goes amiss, Potter, but I hardly think it would be much use in this situation!” “I only meant--do you know where it is? Have you ever seen it?” “Seen it? Nobody has seen it in living memory! Long since lost, boy!” Harry felt a mixture of desperate disappointment and panic. What, then, was the Horcrux?

Katz contends that before the advent of recording, vibrato added to a note was considered kitschy, tacky, and was universally frowned upon, unless one absolutely had to use it when playing in the uppermost registers. Vibrato as a technique, whether employed in a vocal performance or with a violin, helps mask pitch discrepancies, which might explain why it was considered “cheating.” As recording became more commonplace in the early part of the twentieth century, it was found that by using a bit more vibrato, not only could the volume of the instrument be increased (very important when there was only one mic or a single huge horn to capture an orchestra or ensemble), but the pitch—now painfully and permanently apparent—could be smudged by adding the wobble. The perceptibly imprecise pitch of a string instrument with no frets could be compensated for with this little wobble. The mind of the listener “wants” to hear the correct pitch, so the brain “hears” the right pitch among the myriad vaguenesses of pitch created by players using vibrato. The mind fills in the blanks, as it does with the visual gaps between movie and video frames, in which a series of stills creates the impression of seamless movement. Soon enough, conventional wisdom reversed itself, and now people find listening to classical string playing without vibrato to be painful and weird.

You are not weird for wishing to be great. You were inherently wired for greatness by the Heavens. Embrace your desire for greatness and work on it until it manifests.

Nevertheless, they felt a powerful urge to impart their wisdom to their friends at ARPA. Thanks to the legal beagles’ strictures, they were reduced to getting their points across by a weird pantomime of asking inscrutable but cunningly pointed questions. “Somebody would be talking about the design for some element and we’d drop all these hints,” Shoch recalled. “We’d say, ‘You know, that’s interesting, but what happens if this error message comes back, and what happens if that’s followed by a delayed duplicate that was slowed down in its response from a distant gateway when the flow control wouldn’t take it but it worked its way back and got here late? What do you do then?’ There would be this pause and they’d say, ‘You’ve tried this!’ And we’d reply, ‘Hey, we never said that!

Nevertheless, they felt a powerful urge to impart their wisdom to their friends at ARPA. Thanks to the legal beagles’ strictures, they were reduced to getting their points across by a weird pantomime of asking inscrutable but cunningly pointed questions. “Somebody would be talking about the design for some element and we’d drop all these hints,” Shoch recalled. “We’d say, ‘You know, that’s interesting, but what happens if this error message comes back, and what happens if that’s followed by a delayed duplicate that was slowed down in its response from a distant gateway when the flow control wouldn’t take it but it worked its way back and got here late? What do you do then?’ There would be this pause and they’d say, ‘You’ve tried this!’ And we’d reply, ‘Hey, we never said that!’” Eventually they managed to communicate enough of Pup’s architecture for it to become a crucial part of the ARPANET standard known as TCP/IP, which to this date is what enables data packets to pass gracefully across the global data network known as the Internet—with a capital “I.

You are not weird for wishing to be great. You were inherently wired for greatness by the Heavens. Embrace your desire for greatness, and work on it until it manifests.

If someone let you go, go. Love is a weird kind of wonderful. It is the reason for our stay here on earth. Love and life, with all their glory and all their thorns, proves to be a powerful teacher. Holding on when it’s time to move on, is not the way. If the road seems blocked, unblock yourself. Listen to yourself, breathe and get in sync with the wisdom of your soul. If the way remains blocked, find a different way. That way is not your way.

Trevor pulled his phone out of his pocket and started typing. "What are you doing?" Wren asked. "Texting Jax. Telling him not to open his box." Trevor's phone buzzed in his hand. "Incoming," Trevor said. "Sorry. Gotta be quick. Lawyers not g-pa's lawyers. Don't trust them! Nick." Madly Trevor typed back and spoke out loud so Wren would know his message to Nick. "Hey Cuz, crazy thing. Got the puzzle box from weird lawyer lady. No gargoyle inside. No journal inside. Amulet broken. Box open and glowing. Ideas?" Wren stepped closer so they could both lean over the phone's display, willing it to respond with some wisdom to save them. Seconds ticked by and nothing appeared on the screen. Their heartbeats sped up as a minute went by and then another. Trevor licked his lips. "Did you get any blood on it?" "Ahh, shit!" "That's what he asks?" Wren wailed. "'Did you get any blood on it?' I knew you guys were different, but what kind of family do you have, Trev?

Thomas Jefferson JOB: Given a choice, he once said, he would have rather been a gardener than president. He imported plants from other countries to study them, and while conventional wisdom of the time said tomatoes were poisonous, he grew and ate them for dinner. He was also an inventor and was responsible for the development of the dumbwaiter, the lazy Susan, an automatic closing door the design of which is still—fundamentally—in use on buses today, the revolving chair, the folding chair, and a machine that enabled him to make a duplicate copy of a letter as he wrote it. He was also an inventive chef and created both Baked Alaska and Chicken à la King (which George Washington loved!).

What draws ants to even the most remote sugar crystals? What entices bees to flowers? It's the fundamental code of life. Hunger is a taste of yearning your life code carries that, when seated into a human body, translates into mental and bodily desires. In the short term, within a single life, childhood limitations or arousals sow the seeds of desire. Most human goals frequently revolve around good food, good clothing, intimacy, artistic/scientific expression, or financial success. Across multiple lifetimes, it all ties back to our underlying evolutionary hunger. That is why some of our dreams are unexpectedly different from our waking life goals. That is why siblings born from the same parents, nurtured similarly, have weirdly different life goals. This multi-life journey, when unaware, is exactly what we attribute to destiny, and when a little aware, we attribute to Karma. Once these little tributaries are done with their own little flow, they flow back to the original river. In the grand existential scheme, as temporary and evolutionary desires are satisfied, we flow back with the current of existential fulfillment. Spirituality helps us ride the original current, fulfilled and free from temporary desires. Life, in its microcosm, is complex enough, let alone the macro one.

You’re so many things. Bright and bewitching. Charming and gleefully unaware of it. Wonderfully weird like only the best of the best could ever be. Scared, possibly more than anyone I’ve met in my life. And you are lucky. Lucky that things have broken you beautifully. It’s important to look at the ugly things in life as exquisite gifts, which will give you wisdom eternally. Things that seem impossible to appreciate now. It’s not a curse that you’ve seen the underside of life. It’s a blessing.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to pull myself together before I mingle with other people. Otherwise they would think my mind is rather weird." -Anne Frank  

Strange things are mind-opener because when we see something strange we immediately start thinking! Anything bizarre activates your brain; anything usual makes you sleep!

Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom. It’s available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives.

During World War I, Hornaday had watched humanity take the high-tech artillery it was using on wild animals and turn it on itself, and he’d never really recovered from that terror. The war spoiled his faith in people’s decency and wisdom. He

We can be with what’s happening and not dissociate. Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives.

It is weird to me on how people will come to church frequently and have absolutely no desire or intention to change anything about their life based on what they experienced in the church.

Writings by philosophers and psychologists on the differences between intelligence and wisdom might also encourage you to become a better listener. Intelligent people say lots of smart things and produce the right answers to questions more often than less intelligent people, but they are not necessarily good listeners. In contrast, wise people are better listeners and are better at formulating questions than people who aren’t so wise.6 So, if you and your firm want to get smarter, the wise thing to do is to shut up, listen, and learn to ask smart questions—not to keep showing off how much you know and how fast you can think.

You can never agree without compromising.

Reason is a sugarcoated word for sophistry.

We can't see beauty. We have eyes!

people stuck halfway between the five- and six-sensory worlds have the urge to share their intuitive insights, but they hesitate because they often don’t know how to explain their experiences. They might say, “I had a weird feeling,” “Something bizarre happened,” or “I have this odd sensation.” They use negative terms that water down their vibes or even give them an ominous spin. I give them an A for effort; however, if you want to comfortably use your vibes, you’ll have to do better than that. Your intuition is gold, so it should be gathered with appreciation, then described positively and shared enthusiastically rather than with negative qualifiers. For example, try saying, “I just had a terrific inspiration,” “I just had an incredible feeling that . . . ,” or “My inner genius tells me . . . ,” and see what response you get back from others and from your spirit. In my experience, the more I positively express my intuition, the more it rewards me with even more wisdom, so I get a double bonus.

Put a positive spin when sharing your intuitive feelings, such as saying, “I have a great idea” instead of “This feels weird.” If you think of vibes as “pearls of wisdom” instead of “strange feelings,” then it’s easier to share those pearls with grace, humor, and style.

Weirdly, the leading-edge scientific dis-coveries of modern physics about the nature of the external physical world increasingly correspond with the descriptions of the ancient wisdom traditions. Physics has to rely on complex high-tech equipment for its “discoveries.” By contrast, the source for the ancient wisdom traditions was simply the subjective experiences of mystics. And yet soft mysticism and hard science are converging—ancient and modern, subjective and objective—on the same conceptions about the underlying nature of reality.

There's something weird about Wednesday. Wednesday's child is full of woe. Wednesday is sad and anxious about who he is, where he stands in the week. The word is weird. It should be Weirdsdsay. Wednesday would like to be Latin but took his name from Woden, the Norse God. The Old English had to say Wednesdaeg, which is a bit of a mouthful. Funny things happen on Wednesday.

If we toss about the idea of “God in the flesh” as if it were just that thing we believe, we are not tuned in to the shock and even offense that John’s opening lines would have generated. Christianity is a weird religion, folks.

Don't let yourself be a prisoner in your own dreasm. Learn how to change your form so you can come and go freely. - The Malwatch

Don't tip and tilt until the decision's made for you, or you won't have any control over your own path. - The Malwatch

Don't waste your limited lifespan flying only when and where others tell you to. Instead, fly only at your own dreams' beckoning. - The Malwatch

Don't mat your fur trying too hard to wash it clean. - The Malwatch

Don't think that if you run your legs to exhaustion you can just simply spread you wings and start flying to continue your journey. Your body is not that compartmentalized. Exhaust either your legs or your wings and you will have exhausted the energy needed for the other as well. - The Malwatch

Every wingbeat brings you closer to your destination. - The Malwatch

Eyes may be the window to the soul, but seeing the soul doesn't tell you anything about it. Tail and ears are what belie the soul's intentions. - The Malwatch

Fan your ear fins, because I'm only saying this once. - The Malwatch

Flick your tail like it's greased if you want to keep someone from snuffing out your tail fire. - The Malwatch

Flit in and out of dreams on a wing turn. - The Malwatch

Fly so you split the clouds as you go by. - The Malwatch

Hardened scales protect against dangers, but they are also heavy, and weight you down. Don't plate your hide with more than you need to survive in life, or you will find it a struggle to go anywhere. - The Malwatch

Hearts aren't content just to beat a steady rhythm until they whither and die. Let them race in wonder. - The Malwatch

Hearts aren't created hard. They grow that way when they're repeatedly used and abused. It's a survival mechanism. - The Malwatch

Hell's got high waters ever since humans tried to free it over. - The Malwatch

I'd rather lose my wings getting free than be chained by the wing pinions for the rest of my life. - The Malwatch

If I laced my wings with decorative patterns to impress the masses, then I wouldn't be able to fly. - The Malwatch

If I turn a blind eye, it's so I can listen with a fanned ear. - The Malwatch

If the wind drops you'll be left in a fall. - The Malwatch

If you're a good leader you don't convince someone to fly where they don't want to go. You find someone who wants to fly to the same place you want them to go. - The Malwatch

If you shake your tail at it, you might light it on fire. - The Malwatch

If you share something in a dream, you can no longer claim ownership of it, for it now belongs to the minds of all who experience it. - The Malwatch

If you try to tame wild dreams, you're going to get bit. - The Malwatch

If you want success, you first have to define waht success is to you. Then you'll have to spend your life tracking it down, and after that. You'll still have to fight to rip it form the jaws of failure. - The Malwatch

I have been bigger than my form since long before I even had a form. - The Malwatch

Immersing yourself in another's dream does not mean you accept it as truth, it merely means you are trying to see the world as they do, to better understand them, as well as yourself and the world around you. - The Malwatch

I only go head over heels when I flip over while flying. - The Malwatch

I only show teeth when I'm happy or mad. Your guess is as good as mine as to which of those I'm feeling. - The Malwatch

Keep trouble at a wing length or it'll entangle you. - The Malwatch

Knowledge is the foundation from which dreams can grow. The more you know, the larger your dreams can become. - The Malwatch

Leather shakes off rain easier than feathers, but offers little protection against the cold compared to a downy layer, so pick which wing you shield yourself with appropriately based on the situation you find yourself in. - The Malwatch

Limbo is when the winds drops from under your wings and the air falls silent around you, leaving you to wonder if you'll catch another gust, or plunge to your death. - The Malwatch

Love can be for as long or short as you want, as long as all parties involved agree on the length of the commitment. - The Malwatch

Love isn't just blind, it's sense deprived. - The Malwatch

The start point is the present and no matter where you start, you can go anywhere. The path may just be longer or shorter depending on where you are. - The Malwatch

Wisdom is learned through mistakes. If you're never wrong, you'll never be wise. - The Malwatch

If anger is burning you up, turn yourself into a phoenix and use it to fly, but make sure you turn back before it consumes your life and you die in ashes to be reborn in hatred. - The Malwatch

Truth does not change. It is a statement of what our current reality is. Reality, however, is flexible. It is a collective understanding of the world around us and the patterns that allow us to predict the future. It changes as we learn and assimilate new facts into our understanding as a species of the things that exist around us. - The Malwatch

If a relationship is alwasy demanding more of you, and nothing is ever just good enough, you should probably start looking for ways to get out of it, because that's not a healthy relationship. - The Malwatch

If you're afraid to fly because you might fall, you'll never be able to chase the dreams among the clouds, and will be stuck running after earth bound pursuits. - The Malwatch

You don't have wings? Everyone has wings! You just can't see them yet. - The Malwatch

How many colors decorate you? Not enough, you should add more. - The Malwatch

The hearts and flowers type of love is an imaginary thing that people want to believe exists, so they pretend it does. The reality is love is usually messy and difficult and can often be unpleasant. It can make us do ugly things. That doesn't make it any less worth chasing after. - The Malwatch

I could not create my dreams faster than I would come up with ideas for new ones. - The Malwatch

When you're thinking, tap your talons. It makes you seem more menacing. - The Malwatch

No pulling my tail. I'll burn you with it if you do. - The Malwatch

I love to fold my wings and fall. The plunge is exhilarating, even while knowing I can stop it at any time. - The Malwatch

Gentle winds will carry you to your destination as surely as strong ones. It may not be as quickly, but it will probably be a smoother ride. - The Malwatch

Two heartbeats aren't always better than one, especially when they aren't beating in sync with one another. - The Malwatch

I tore claws through my own wings once. I wanted to know what it was like to be unable to fly. I didn't enjoy the experience, of not flying that is. Shredding my own wings wasn't fun either. - The Malwatch

Keep your claws sharp. Better to have them ready and never need them than to remove them and need them to defend yourself. - The Malwatch

Have you ever tried wind dancing? - The Malwatch

If your tail's not on fire, you're not doing it right. - The Malwatch

You see the farthest when you strain your wings to land on the highest perch. - The Malwatch

Casual words can hurt the hardest or help the most. - The Malwatch

Explore many dreams. It's the only way to experience the life of others. - The Malwatch

Fly without direction. As long as you know where you want to go, you'll get there eventually. And if you don't know where you want to go, maybe you'll find it while you're flying. - The Malwatch

My humor is as sharp as my bite and as thick as my hide. - The Malwatch

I am a thousand fragments of a thousand dreams, all cascading around the milieu of my mind. - The Malwatch

Some dreams develop so much of a life of their own that they can no longer be contained. - The Malwatch

Why a predator's form? It gives me versatility. A predator can act like prey, but prey cannot act as a predator. I did not want to have no choice but to act like prey in a form unable to be a predator. - The Malwatch

If you can touch the fires of my dreams without being burned, it means you're a little closer to seeing the inside of my mind. - The Malwatch

Life is a maze worth finding a path through. - The Malwatch

Who said I ever wanted to be normal. I'll take my tail, my scales and my wings over their fragile, flightless forms any day. - The Malwatch

Depravity is an abyss everyone ventures into. People only differ in how much of it they drag back out into reality. - The Malwatch

Embracing your darkness doesn't mean succumbing to it. It means learning how to live comfortable with it. - The Malwatch

Clip my wings and hobble my legs and I will figure out how to swim, even if it terrifies me. - The Malwatch

Broken, beaten, bleeding, scared. My mind is all these things, as surely as your body is. It's just not as easy to see. - The Malwatch

Dance for me. I want to see your body alight with movement. It reminds me of flying. - The Malwatch

There are two sides to every wing and it's difficult to see both of them at the same time. - The Malwatch

Sometimes helping hurts, and it isn't always you that gets hurt when it does. - The Malwatch

Sanity is in the eye of the beholder. Everyone sees a different fraction of reality around them. If you can't see the same part they do, they'll seem insane. - The Malwatch

Everything is an unknown, even the stuff that is known. - The Malwatch

Waking up from a dream can determine your mood for the day, so before you go to sleep, feed your mind the ingredients for a good one. - The Malwatch

Reality will change around you, whether you want it to or not. The only choice you have is whether you want to help decide how it gets changed. - The Malwatch

Saying something is taking an action and it can be as powerful as wielding a sword. - The Malwatch

Shedding and molting is merely the sloughing off of old ideas to allow new ones to grow in. - The Malwatch

Springy feet make for easy running and soft landings. - The Malwatch

Stories of me are born in the winds under my wings, and they are as fleeting as the glimpses you catch of me. - The Malwatch

Take off from where you are, fly as far as you can and land wherever you end up. Then do it all again. - The Malwatch

Teeth are meant for biting, but you have to decide what to bite with them, and your reason for biting it. - The Malwatch

Tell me I am wrong and I will bite. Show me I am wrong, and I will show you how I fight. Make me feel how I am wrong, and I may wonder who is right. - The Malwatch

The faster you run through life, the more you can accomplish, but the greater the risk of stumbling and falling, so pace yourself, and run full out only when the potential gains outweigh the risks. - The Malwatch

The goal is not to fly higher than everyone else. The goal is to fly as high as you need to enter the clouds of your dreams, whether those be the cirrus clouds in the stratosphere, or the fog in the valley. - The Malwatch

There's a reason for my ridiculousness. - The Malwatch