Arpana
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Arpana commented on the post, Tea and Opium and how it shaped the modern world, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
Made me roar.
Neil Young wrote a song about kids and drugs, and kids not getting a chance to be cool because of drugs. Really got to me. I made a painting at art school about it.
Venture capitalism?
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Arpana commented on the post, Tea and Opium and how it shaped the modern world, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Seneca
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Arpana commented on the post, Tea and Opium and how it shaped the modern world, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
This is you, init, Swami Shanty?
ROTFLMAO.
When you are a cool leftist chap you cannot smile or wear colours and you have to read books all day and watch Andrei Tarkovsky movies all night and the only social […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Tea and Opium and how it shaped the modern world, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
@ satyadeva.
19 September, 2016 at 1:20 pmThe fathers of baby boomers fought in the 2nd world war. To make a mistake was the most heinous of crimes. Punishment was draconian. They passed that on.
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Arpana commented on the post, Tea and Opium and how it shaped the modern world, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
@ frank. 19 September, 2016 at 1:00 pm
His take on co-operation is really uplifting. Good to be led to look at something from a new perspective, and juxtaposed with his references to the most negative aspects of […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Tea and Opium and how it shaped the modern world, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
Yes. No arguing with that. Also, I suspect imagination causes problems in many, because some, many don’t realise they are imagining things.
My over-active imagination caused me enormous problems, until I got a […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Tea and Opium and how it shaped the modern world, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
Apropos of his remarks about the useless class…
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Arpana commented on the post, Tea and Opium and how it shaped the modern world, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
We also turn what we imagine into solid structures.
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Arpana commented on the post, Tea and Opium and how it shaped the modern world, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
Imagining imagination.
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Arpana commented on the post, Tea and Opium and how it shaped the modern world, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
Some years ago, maybe 15, I was walking one evening and became aware that when the pictures in my imagination changed, whatever I was monologuing about internally changed.
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Arpana commented on the post, Tea and Opium and how it shaped the modern world, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
That’s an interesting concept.
Strikes a chord.
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Arpana commented on the post, Rabiya al-Adabiya, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
The Tao of Frank.
The Tao that can’t be franked is not the Tao.
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Arpana commented on the post, Happy Mahaparinirvana Day to all SN readers, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
“The founder of the Theosophical Movement, Madame Blavatsky, had a strange habit her whole life – and she lived long, and travelled all over the world and created a world movement… In fact no other woman has […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Rabiya al-Adabiya, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
Your experience-based yarns are a treat, Swamishanti.
Keep ‘em coming.
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Arpana commented on the post, Happy Mahaparinirvana Day to all SN readers, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
Bill saw you coming, Bong.
“Today a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Happy Mahaparinirvana Day to all SN readers, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
“Live more authentically. Drop the masks; they are a weight on your heart. Drop all falsities. Be exposed. Of course it is going to be troublesome but that trouble is worth it because only after that trouble will […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Happy Mahaparinirvana Day to all SN readers, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
Thank you, Madhu.
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Arpana commented on the post, Happy Mahaparinirvana Day to all SN readers, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
‘I knew a man who had never committed an error in his life and I once asked him his secret. He said, “I was afraid to make a mistake, so I never did anything. That is how I avoided making any mistakes in my […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Happy Mahaparinirvana Day to all SN readers, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
My brother was overheard to snap rather sharply at the neighbour’s kid, “I didn’t get older because I’m stupid. I didn’t have any choice.”
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