Quotes by Jay Woodman

Who put the S in comic to make cosmic? / The Self, which is the self of all beings - / choosing to disguise from themselves / that everything is just a game. // With a laugh we could turn / from all the seriousness we learned / and connect with every atom to create / breathtaking beauty with graceful ease.

Love yourself enough to open your eyes, and open your eyes enough to love yourself.

Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me. from the song In the Blackness in the poetry collection Terra Affirmative.

Find what is meaningful to you and stand by it. Even if you begin to wonder if there is any meaning to anything, continue to be yourself.

Look everywhere. There are miracles and curiosities to fascinate and intrigue for many lifetimes:the intricacies of nature and everything in the world and universe around us from the miniscule to the infinite; physical, chemical and biological functionality; consciousness, intelligence and the ability to learn; evolution, and the imperative for life; beauty and other abstract interpretations; language and other forms of communication; how we make our way here and develop social patterns of culture and meaningfulness;how we organise ourselves and others; moral imperatives; the practicalities of survival and all the embellishments we pile on top; thought, beliefs, logic, intuition, ideas; inventing, creating, information, knowledge; emotions, sensations, experience, behaviour.We are each unique individuals arising from a combination of genetic, inherited, and learned information, all of which can be extremely fallible.Things taught to us when we are young are quite deeply ingrained. Obviously some of it (like don’t stick your finger in a wall socket) is very useful,but some of it is only opinion – an amalgamation of views from people you just happen to have had contact with.A bit later on we have access to lots of other information via books, media, internet etc, but it is important to remember that most of this is still just opinion, and often biased.Even subjects such as history are presented according to the presenter’s or author’s viewpoint, and science is continually changing. Newspapers and TV tend to cover news in the way that is most useful to them (and their funders/advisors), Research is also subject to the decisions of funders and can be distorted by business interests. Pretty much anyone can say what they want on the internet, so our powers of discernment need to be used to a great degree there too.Not one of us can have a completely objective view as we cannot possibly have access to, and filter, all knowledge available, so we must accept that our views are bound to be subjective. Our understanding and responses are all very personal, and our views extremely varied. We tend to make each new thing fit in with the picture we have already started in our heads, but we often have to go back and adjust the picture if we want to be honest about our view of reality as we continually expand it. We are taking in vast amounts of information from others all the time, so need to ensure we are processing that to develop our own true reflection of who we are.

Dont let anyone take your power by influencing what you do.... sure ask for advice when you are still deciding, but once you are sure what you want to go for, dont let anyone deflect you. It is YOUR choice to make and to follow through.

I see people teaching how to make an impact, but i dont want to make dents, i want to walk lightly on the earth, grateful for universal grace.

Grace enters the soul where love lies serene.

You can let go of all that stuff you thought was real when you know its just a game. What a relief, what a state of grace that brings.

We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving.

Consciousness is everywhere, let it fill you up.

I am beautiful, one with cosmos, life force, eternal abundance, joy, vitality, infinite consciousness.

Life wants you to be complete unto yourself, generally enjoy and expand consciousness, open, explore, love.

I am nurtured within the womb of universal consciousness. It supports my developing awareness as I witness, engage, learn, create, exchange.

Life is like a game - we should be curious to play it - you explore and learn and grow - that is what it is for - that and having fun. It all expands consciousness- your own, the collective, and the cosmic.

If all is Consciousness, experience its infinity, create your own journey through it, be amazed.

We are consciousness playing a game with itself to see how it feels.

Love is stronger than both fear and hope - if you can love the natural beauty around you, the amazing gifts and skills we have, the fact that you are alive to experience life, each moment that you have, and love yourself and those around you just as they are, then there is no need to be owned by fear, or even hope, you just live the best you can, being the truth of that love that you are being, representing the stream of consciousness experiencing itself, always knowing that you will someday return to it again, and flow as part of it infinitely on.

I believe in the power of love, and planting positive thought seeds into the collective consciousness.

Theere is an imperative to be in a process, the energy & consciousness of life means for us to be constantly observing, learning & becoming.