Alex Grey Quotes

It Was 1975. I Had Spent The Year At The Boston Museum School Doing Some Very Bizarre Performance Works. The Last One Included Going To The North Magnetic Pole And Spending All Of My Money.

I've Always Been Fond Of The Idea Expressed In Buddhist Art, That There Are Certain Objects That, Just By Seeing Them, Can Plant A Seed For Liberation In The Individual. That Class Of Objects Is Called "liberation Through Seeing." Certain Buddha Images Are Like That, But If It Were Possible, I Would Like To Find Contemporary Non-traditional Sacred Images. Maybe It Sounds Pretentious, But Most Spiritual Paths Point To The Possibility That We All Can Access The Deep, Absolute Dimensions Of Reality.

It's Kind Of Hard Get Outside Of Your Own Frame Of Reference. To One Degree Or Another, We All Go Through Our Breakdowns And We Can Recognize Our Lives As A Path To Awakening Or Not. We Can Take Our Breakdowns As A Way To Sensitize Us Or As An Excuse To Blind And Dull Ourselves.

The Many Faces Of Collective Vision United By The Mandalic Eye-field Suggest Both Expansion Of Consciousness And Sharing Of Consciousness With Other Beings. The Painting Was Based On A Profoundly Ego Dissolving Entheogenic Mystical Trance Where I Heard The Words, 'infinite Oneness... The Oneness Should Never Forget The Infinitude And The Infinitude Should Never Forget The Oneness...'

Journeying Through Secret Doors, Curving Corridors, And Connecting Rooms Into The Mountain Was Like Being Digested By The Different Organs Of A Deity.

The Journey Of The Soul Is A Vast, Interconnected Web, A Meshwork Of Beings That Are All Working Out Their Individual Karmas In A Collective Gumbo, Retaining The Special Flavor In Each Bite Of Life. But, The Mystery Of Where We're Going, In Terms Of Whether We're Going To Have A Planet That's Worth Living On After We Finish Abusing It, Whether We'll Wake Up In Time And Stop Ruining The Water, Land And Skies Is A Big Question Mark.

Folks Who Are Alive Today Need To Wake Up And Do What They Can To Stop Abusing The Planet, And Find Ways To Preserve The Web Of Life. That's Where The Soul Is Headed. It Is Time For Us To Become Wounded Healers.

An Angel Once Told Me, "the Inevitable Consequence Of Love Is The Building Of Temples."

Humanity Has To Start Noticing That We Are One. We Are Connected With The Net Of Beings Who Are The Life Of This Planet - And Before We Take Them All Down, We Ought To See What We Can Do To Preserve This Unique And Extraordinary Family. That's What I Think The Wounded Healer Would Do. We're All Wounded In One Way Or Another. The Question Is, Can We Heal?

It Is The Prayer Of My Innermost Being To Realize My Supreme Identity In The Liberated Play Of Consciousness, The Vast Expanse. Now Is The Moment, Here Is The Place Of Liberation.

Enlightenment Is Not So Much A Hard-won Achievement, Much Less A "creation," But Instead Is Deep Relaxation And Recovery Of Our Natural Condition. You Come To See The Evolution Of The Soul, The Soul's Journey, As A Realization Of What Has Always Been There In The First Place.

The Web Of Life, Love, Suffering And Death Unites All Beings.