I'm Noah. I grew up in New York City, spent a few years in Chicago, and now I live in San Francisco.
I've always felt weird in the normal groups and normal in the weird groups, so at some point I gave up and decided to keep one foot in both worlds.
I luckily got introduced to meditation in high school, which helped me a lot in my head and made me think that things might not be as they seem in this world. Since then I've gone deep into various meditation traditions, yoga, and plant medicine, basically trying to figure out what makes us most human, what makes us flourish, and how deep this rabbit hole of spirit actually goes (uhhhh, deep). My mission is to bring an integrated, practical spiritual path to more people.
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
E.B. White
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves.
Bill Hicks
The outside world is the inside world turned inside out.
To sit quietly, without trying to make something happen, is the most important thing we can do for the transformation of our consciousness.
Alan Watts
Happiness is to be in a moment and not wanting the moment to be any other way.
The pain of being out of alignment is greater than the pain of change.
Modern Wisdom, on David Deida
So one of the first steps on the path of yoga is to accept that there is a lot you don't know about yourself. In fact, there is little that you know or understand about yourself. Next, accept that you are a genius when it comes to creating stories about yourself. Stories that are debilitating you and draining your indomitable willpower.
Yogi Aaron
I burn my life for a sunrise I'll never see.
In order for us to evolve, there has to come a point when you care about something more than your own survival.
Ram Dass
If you don't like change, you came to the wrong world.
Pema Chödrön
All day, you see people punching themselves in the mind, believing entirely that this will bring them joy, in the absence of any evidence. You try to say, “over here, the water's fine,” but basically nobody listens.
Sasha Chapin
Joy is the happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.
David Steindl-Rast
The true test of a moral principle is not if it survives when applied to the people we love, the true test is whether it survives when applied to the people we hate.
Elizabeth Stone
Under certain circumstances, one is actually better informed concerning the real world if one has taken a drug than if one has not.
Roland Fischer to Terence McKenna
pick one. follow the circle.