February 2012
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Reading List
here are three books i have read recently that stick out in my mind as being the most interesting and pleasant to read…
Just Kids by Patti Smith http://www.amazon.com/Just-Kids-Patti-Smith/dp/006621131X
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern http://www.amazon.com/Night-Circus-Erin-Morgenstern/dp/0385534639
The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic by Jonathan Talat...
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“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the...”
– Paulo Coelho
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“By your stumbling, the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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“A thousand times I have ascertained and found it to be true: the affairs of this...”
– Hafiz
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paganbuddha asked: i just wanted to tell you congratulations on how well you've dedicated yourself to your existential crisis. It is very inspiring, and in the end more of us will follow this trend and regardless of the future we can see these examples to remind us to get back to the now. I'm pulling for ya!
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“In a mind clear as still water,
even the waves, breaking,
are reflecting its...”
– Dogen Zenji
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Baby Steps... and Progress
The Past
- I worked in a cubicle, doing a job I hated in an industry that could be considered by some as being completely evil (private equity finance). - I lived on processed foods, meat, and taupe/brown/yellow things. - I was nearly a compulsive online shopper. - I was a bit more than a borderline hoarder. - I was on *extremely* high doses of antidepressants, ADD medication, and occasional...
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“Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all...”
– Buddha
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Osho: My Body’s Discipline →
“If you listen and you become attentive to your body, you will start having a discipline that cannot be called a discipline. Now physiologists say that everybody’s body, while sleeping, loses its normal temperature for two hours; the temperature falls by two degrees. It may happen to you between three and five, or two and four, or four and six, but everybody’s body falls two degrees in...
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“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
– Carl Jung
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“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable...”
– Mahatma Ghandi
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Dreams
last night i dreamt of a fantastic future…
i was being given the tour of what could only be described as a palace on top of a sky scraper… the person giving me the tour was a starlet-type who was wearing a short blue draped dress, electric blue and in the classical mode… with gold hardware, and she had bits of white paint and gold leaf on her face as makeup. blonde curls...
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January 2012
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“The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct...”
– Alphonse Mucha
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Toss Productivity Out →
Post written by Leo Babauta.
For at least a couple of years, Zen Habits was one of the top productivity blogs, dispensing productivity crack for a nominal fee (your reading time).
I’d like to think I helped people move closer to their dreams, but today I have different advice:
Toss productivity advice out the window.
Most of it is well-meaning, but the advice is wrong for a simple reason:...
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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life… It turns denial into acceptance, chaos...”
– Melody Beattie
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Don't Just Declutter, De-Own. | Becoming... →
by JOSHUA BECKER
“Owning less is far more beneficial than organizing more.” – Twitter / Facebook
‘Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions. No doubt, over the coming weeks, many will set their mind to get in shape, lose some weight, or get out of debt.
Others will make a commitment to organize their home or declutter their stuff. After all, we are a culture that is drowning in our...
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“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the...”
– Carl Sagan
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“The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Creating Silence from Chaos →
Post written by Leo Babauta.
We are often afraid of silence, because its emptiness feels idle, boring, unproductive, and scary. And so we fill our lives with chaos, noise, clutter.
But silence can be lovely, and therapeutic, and powerful.
It can be the remedy for our stress and the habits that crush us.
If we want quiet in our lives, how do we create it?
I’ve been exploring this myself. As a...
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“If you have time to breathe, you have time to meditate.”
– Ajahn Chah
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How I Became an Extreme Minimalist Without Even... →
Here’s a story of Tristan who, in Dec 2010, made a simple new year’s resolution of getting rid of one thing a day. Reading his full story of how it actually turned out is a treat. -Danny
It’s not about how many things you own. Nobody cares how many things you have; I couldn’t care less whether you own 50 things or 5,000 things. It’s all about YOU and how it makes YOU feel.
If you just can’t...
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Dreams
i’ve been having a theme repeat in my dreams lately, that i think is very interesting… in dreams, i will come across an entity that i am afraid of… sometimes its chasing after me, sometimes it just appears… sometimes its a looming giant thing or a small gargoyle-like creature… no matter how it appears, though, lately i keep dealing with the “horror” in my...