Antero Alli Quotes

United States, Astrologer
November 11, 1952

Antero Alli was born in Finland. Alli currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he conducts workshops and stages theatrical productions, some of which have been released as films. Alli is also a professional astrologer and has authored books on experimental theatre, astrology and Timothy Leary's 8-circuit model of consciousness.

What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and poetic rationalism, Brezsny weaves a yarn crazy enough to be true and real enough to subvert the literalist virus of cynicism now immobilizing the collective mind scape.

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- Mind
- Magic
- Yarn
How do you catch a beautiful bird without killing it? By becoming the sky.

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- Sky
- Bird
- Catch

It's far too late for anything but magick, as the future is clearly up for grabs.

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- Future
- Late
- Grabs
Define yourself or be defined.

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- Yourself
- Define
Who knows? Life may just be a Positive Conspiracy bent on putting us in the right place at the right time every living, breathing moment of the day. It just takes a certain kind of perspective to see this. Realizing this can put our "analyzer" on hold, our interpretive mind on "ga-ga" and our hearts on breathless.

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This shift from automatic living to awakening parallels Carl Jung's Individuation, Dada Bhagwan's Self-realization, Dr. Abraham Mazlow's Self-Actualization, G.I. Gurdjieff's Self-Work and other related approaches to differentiating the innate being from the unconscious complexes we have mistaken for identity.

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Myths are like dreams in that without them, we’re as good as dead. However…dreams can be dangerous. Anybody living with one they are unable to manifest, articulate and/or share has, perhaps, already begun losing their handle. In the face of unknowns, I appreciate handles. They let me float in the abyss, knowing there is a grip to return to somewhere. Occasionally, I feel the only real handle there is, is my physical body. It’s a relief to release that grip on occasion—to collapse, drop my big act and “die.”

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- Dreams
- Myths
- Handles
Truth without compassion is Cruelty.

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- Truth
- Compassion
- Cruelty

Only when we are over, does our real life begin.

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- Life
- Over
- Begin
Yesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill.

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