Thinks to wonder, wonderful things

2011-02-09T21:35:00.001-08:00

Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone
suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
You’re covered with thick cloud.
Slide out the side. Die,
and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign
that you have died.
Your old life was a frantic running
from silence.

The speechless full moon
comes out now.

— Rumi

2011-02-09T21:32:00.000-08:00

By allowing all of life's colors to penetrate us, we become more integrated. -osho

2011-02-05T03:20:00.000-08:00

“Reality is always paradoxical: on one hand you feel vulnerable, on another hand you feel strong - that means a moment of truth has arrived. On one hand you feel you don’t know anything, on another hand you feel you know all - a moment of truth has arrived.
— Osho

2011-02-03T16:34:00.000-08:00

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

2011-02-03T14:32:00.000-08:00

In truth, everyone is a shadow of the Beloved – Our seeking is His seeking, Our words are His words. At times we flow toward the Beloved like a dancing stream. At times we are still water held in His pitcher. At times we boil in a pot turning to vapor – that is the job of the Beloved. He breathes into my ear until my soul takes on His fragrance. He is the soul of my soul.
— Rumi

2011-01-28T01:31:00.000-08:00

grace of a swan elegance of a grizzly bear

2011-01-27T15:45:00.000-08:00

2011-01-24T22:34:00.000-08:00

2011-01-23T01:19:00.000-08:00

2011-01-21T13:58:00.000-08:00

When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down.

Esther Hicks

2011-01-18T16:39:00.001-08:00

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. - ray bradbury

photography: virginie otth

2011-01-16T19:05:00.000-08:00

2011-01-14T22:26:00.000-08:00

2011-01-14T22:24:00.000-08:00

2011-01-14T17:44:00.000-08:00

psychobabble

2011-01-09T02:34:00.000-08:00

guerilla permaculture

and a couple of good films

2010-12-21T02:07:00.001-08:00

"and from beyond the intellect, beautiful love comes dragging her skirts, a cup of wine in her hand" - Rumi

2010-12-12T15:00:00.000-08:00

…I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks—who had a genius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre,” to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, “There goes a Sainte-Terrer,” a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which, indeed, is the most probable derivation. For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels.…

-Thoreau

2010-12-10T16:17:00.000-08:00

Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the
wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and
chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was
very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace

Paramahansa Yogananda

2010-12-09T20:55:00.000-08:00

gypsy love (mato skurjeni)

black swans and albino deers

2010-12-07T14:51:00.000-08:00

I came across a wild flower, marveled at its beauty and at the perfection of all its parts, and exclaimed: 'But all this in you and in thousands like you blossoms and fades; it is not noticed by anyone and in fact is often not even seen by an eye.' But the flower replied: 'you fool! do you imagined i blossom in order to be seen? I blossom for my own sake because it pleases me, and not for the sake of others; my joy and delight consists in my being and in my blossoming.'

-unknown

Karl Fritsch!!

2010-12-02T20:33:00.000-08:00

I just saw this exhibit at the wellington art museum

my life is changed..

2010-11-28T14:45:00.000-08:00

(doeki)

2010-11-26T18:52:00.000-08:00

2010-11-21T16:15:00.000-08:00

van life = life of possibilities

2010-10-29T02:38:00.000-07:00

"Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you."

— Swami Sri Yukteswar

2010-10-27T14:38:00.001-07:00

(Edmund Dulac)

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. - Robert Fulghum

2010-10-27T14:37:00.000-07:00

2010-10-27T14:31:00.000-07:00

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Thomas Merton.

dissolve

2010-10-27T03:18:00.001-07:00

"When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual."

— Osho

2010-10-27T03:00:00.000-07:00

2010-09-25T17:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.myspace.com/nzbannerman

Situations were playing out in a less than ideal way. Vulnerable backpackers with little to no direction except for my spurts of intuitive guidance, throwing us in the most counterintuitive path to righteousness. long story short, our plans disintegrated, allowing for an opportunity to be recognized by a cool brazilian fella who just so happened to notice us as the lost-looking backpackers from earlier in the day. he directed us to go see this band play an incredible set in auckland.

2010-09-24T20:21:00.001-07:00

"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another."

— Anaïs Nin

2010-09-23T18:45:00.000-07:00

a mysteriously fantastic unpredictable universe

2010-09-21T17:20:00.000-07:00

hello lovely

2010-09-17T18:00:00.000-07:00

you have worked for many lifetimes to be able to experience the richness of experiences that you are having today. Try not to take for granted, that which you have worked many lifetimes for....

red coral and the worlds largest storm

2010-09-17T17:44:00.000-07:00

it used to be that comfort was indispensable and one did not have to think about the source of warm water or other things that constitute the comfort coated sensory experience. the shift in perspective that comes as a result of becoming aware of the things you take for granted is perhaps one of the most significant experiences that one could have. One experiences comforts with a new sense of appreciation that causes a deeper level of satisfaction and intimacy with the rapturous experience of being alive.

2010-09-14T14:12:00.000-07:00

2010-09-11T01:26:00.001-07:00

2010-09-11T00:19:00.000-07:00

"I wish I could show you
when you are lonely
or in darkness,
the astonishing light
of your own being"

— Hafiz

the coyote that fasts

2010-09-06T13:23:00.000-07:00

Nezahualcoyotl, the philosopher king

2010-09-04T11:32:00.001-07:00

http://www.myspace.com/sallieford

2010-09-04T10:50:00.000-07:00

The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK, online lecture, Dec. 5, 20

2010-09-03T21:59:00.001-07:00

i am leaving for new zealand tomorrow in order to follow my dreams

2010-09-01T13:35:00.000-07:00

anticipation is a hostile state of existence

information translated through texture

2010-08-31T22:12:00.000-07:00

2010-08-31T21:31:00.000-07:00

really brings out the mythical enchantress

2010-08-31T21:30:00.000-07:00

2010-08-31T13:07:00.000-07:00

"Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it."

— Osho

2010-08-31T12:58:00.001-07:00

http://www.myspace.com/southerndrone

2010-08-30T21:39:00.000-07:00

2010-08-29T17:52:00.000-07:00

2010-08-28T01:34:00.000-07:00

i see you

2010-08-27T19:37:00.000-07:00

2010-08-27T19:33:00.000-07:00

2010-08-27T12:44:00.000-07:00

2010-08-27T02:15:00.000-07:00

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. - Chaim Potok

2010-08-27T01:11:00.000-07:00

i keep being in situations that force me to dispel the delusion surrounding how this country came to exist.

its making me unpopular,

unpopular is the new popular.

2010-08-27T01:04:00.000-07:00

2010-08-27T00:45:00.000-07:00

2010-08-26T13:59:00.000-07:00

2010-08-26T13:34:00.000-07:00

2010-08-26T10:48:00.001-07:00

"experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.

Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will

At least the ancient Greeks were being honest."

-Chuck Palahniuk

2010-08-26T09:50:00.000-07:00

(wendy bevan)
(warwick goble odalisque)

2010-08-25T21:27:00.000-07:00

2010-08-24T16:02:00.000-07:00

2010-08-24T12:19:00.001-07:00

The parable of the farmer and the wheat

Misery only means that things are not fitting with your desires--and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature. Lao Tzu calls this nature Tao. Buddha calls this nature Dhamma. Mahavir has defined religion as "the nature of things." Nothing can be done. Fire is hot and water is cool.

The wise man is one who relaxes with the nature of things, who follows the nature of things. And when you follow the nature of things, no shadow is cast. There is no misery. Even sadness is luminous then, even sadness has a beauty then. Not that sadness will not come--it will come, but it will not be your enemy. You will befriend it, because you will see its necessity. You will be able to see its grace, and you will be able to see why it is there and why it is needed.

I have heard an ancient parable--it must be very ancient, because God used to live on the earth in those days. One day a man came to him, an old farmer, and he said, "Look, you may be God, and you may have created the world, but one thing I must say to you: you are not a farmer. You don't know even the ABC of farming. You have something to learn."

God said, "What's your advice?"

The farmer said, "You give me one year's time, and just let things be according to me, and see what happens. There will be no poverty left!"

God was willing, and one year was given to the farmer. Naturally, he asked for the best, he thought only of the best--no thunder, no strong winds, no dangers for the crop. Everything was comfortable, cozy, and he was very happy. The wheat was growing so high! When he wanted sun, there was sun; when he wanted rain, there was rain, and as much as he wanted. This year everything was right, mathematically right. But when the crops were harvested, there was no wheat inside.

The farmer was surprised. He asked God, "What happened? What went wrong?"

God said, "Because there was no challenge, because there was no conflict, no friction, because you avoided all that was bad, the wheat remained impotent. A little struggle is a must. Storms are needed, thunder, lightning is needed. They shake up the soul inside the wheat."

This parable is of immense value. If you are just happy and happy and happy, happiness will lose all meaning. It will be as if somebody is writing with white chalk on a white wall. Nobody will ever be able to read it. You have to write on a black board, then it comes clear.

The night is as much needed as the day. And the days of sadness are as essential as the days of happiness. This I call understanding. Once you understand it, you relax--in that relaxation is surrender. You say, "Thy will be done." You say, "Do whatsoever you feel is right. If today clouds are needed, give me clouds. Don't listen to me, my understanding is tiny. What do I know of life and its secrets? Don't listen to me! You just go on doing your will." And, slowly slowly, the more you see the rhythm of life, the rhythm of duality, the rhythm of polarity, you stop asking, you stop choosing.

-OSHO

2010-08-24T11:15:00.001-07:00

Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society. Personality is social convenience.

Society cannot tolerate individuality, because individuality will not follow like a sheep. Individuality has the quality of the lion; the lion moves alone. The sheep are always in the crowd, hoping that being in the crowd will feel cozy. Being in the crowd one feels more protected, secure. If somebody attacks, there is every possibility in a crowd to save yourself. But alone? - only the lions move alone.

And every one of you is born a lion, but the society goes on conditioning you, programming your mind as a sheep. It gives you a personality, a cozy personality, nice, very convenient, very obedient. Society wants slaves, not people who are absolutely dedicated to freedom. Society wants slaves because all the vested interests want obedience.

-OSHO (one seed makes the whole earth green)

2010-08-23T10:52:00.000-07:00

What’s coming is a million new reasons not to live your life. You can deny your possibility to succeed and blame it on something else. You can fight against everything… everything you pretend keeps you down. You can live Kierkegaard’s inauthentic life. Or you can make what Kierkegaard called your Leap of Faith, where you stop living as a reaction to circumstances and start living as a force for what you say should be. What’s coming is a million new reasons to go ahead.

Chuck Palahniuk

2010-08-22T21:11:00.000-07:00

unconventional incomparable undefined and glorious

2010-08-22T14:20:00.000-07:00

2010-08-22T13:26:00.000-07:00

"if more of us valued food and cheer, and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. "-J. R. R. Tolkien

my last day in portland

2010-08-22T13:24:00.000-07:00

to do list

2010-08-20T11:04:00.000-07:00

1. separate things for garage sale tmrw
2. drink lots of water
3. call school
4. call bank
5. smile
6. stretch
7. i can't think of anymore things

2010-08-20T11:00:00.000-07:00

(Djordje Ozbolt)

2010-08-18T23:38:00.001-07:00

"May the long time sun
Shine upon you,
All love surround you,
And the pure light within you
Guide your way on."

— kundalini yoga - farewell blessing

2010-08-18T23:28:00.001-07:00

Those who don’t feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those who don’t drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper,
those who don’t want to change,

let them sleep.

This Love is beyond the study of theology,
that old trickery and hypocrisy.
I you want to improve your mind that way,

sleep on.

I’ve given up on my brain.
I’ve torn the cloth to shreds
and thrown it away.

If you’re not completely naked,
wrap your beautiful robe of words
around you,

and sleep.
"

— Rumi

2010-08-18T23:25:00.001-07:00

"The soul bathes in a state of unlimited wisdom, immortality, unconditional love, fearlessness, connectedness, and bliss. Yet few of us are aware of its condition. We are aware of our physical body and our mind, but remain oblivious to our soul. We often limit our vision to the world outside."

— Master Rajinder Singh

2010-08-18T23:24:00.001-07:00

"Love regenerates the cells in your body and lets you rise out of the density of the earth plane. If you see ugliness, love that too. If you see others behaving in mean, unfriendly ways, love them. Rather than criticizing others or focusing on their faults, realize that you have the opportunity to raise your vibration by loving them. As you open to love, you will experience a more beautiful world all around you."

— Orin

2010-08-18T23:06:00.001-07:00

When your at peace with yourself and you love your self, it’s virtually impossible for you to do things to yourself that are destructive.

When you get enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it’s almost impossible for you to be controlled or manipulated by anyone else.

The more you extend kindness to yourself the more it will become your natural response to others.

A secret of abundance is to stop focusing on what you do not have and shift your consciousness to an appreciation for all that you do have.
"

— Wayne Dyer

2010-08-18T23:05:00.001-07:00

"The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears. One starts living with a very light weight or almost no weight. So weightless one becomes, one can fly in the open sky. Zens greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children."

— Osho

2010-08-18T22:56:00.001-07:00

"Love, and all doors will open up to you. So stop asking yourself why you are unhappy, why you suffer so many setbacks, and so on. The reason is simply that you have no love. If you had love, nothing would resist you, because when you have love you do not stay there doing nothing. Someone will say: - “I’m ill.”
- “Well, exactly, it’s because you have no love.”
- “But what is the connection?”
- “If you had love for health, good health would have established itself in you long ago. If you are ill, it’s because you do not really love health. So there you have it.”
Once you have love for all that is good, for all that is beautiful, and you live with this love day and night, no force in the universe will be able to resist you. Because there is nothing above love. Love has created the world and all forces obey love."

— Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

2010-08-18T22:51:00.001-07:00

"Life is meant to be lived in eternal bliss, infinite freedom, unconditional love and unbounded awareness. Any other life is utterly missing the point of being born a human."

— MSI

2010-08-18T22:44:00.001-07:00

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

—

Kahlil Gibran

2010-08-18T22:43:00.001-07:00

"So many religions are there because so many people are unhappy. A happy person needs no religion; a happy person needs no temple, no church — because for a happy person the whole universe is a temple, the whole existence is a church. The happy person has nothing like religious activity because his whole life is religious."

— Osho

2010-08-18T11:31:00.001-07:00

The seed is never in danger, remember. What danger can there be for the seed? It is absolutely protected. But the plant is always in danger, the plant is very soft. The seed is like a stone, hard, hidden behind a hard crust. But the plant has to pass through a thousand and one hazards. And not all plants are going to attain to that height where they can bloom into flowers, a thousand and one flowers....

Very few human beings attain to the second stage, and very few of those who attain the second stage attain the third, the stage of the flower. Why can't they attain the third stage, the stage of the flower? Because of greed, because of miserliness, they are not ready to share... because of a state of unlovingness.

Courage is needed to become a plant, and love is needed to become a flower. A flower means the tree is opening up its heart, releasing its perfume, giving its soul, pouring its being into existence.

Don't remain a seed. Gather courage--courage to drop the ego, courage to drop the securities, courage to drop the safeties, courage to be vulnerable.

-0sho

2010-08-17T16:38:00.000-07:00

(meredith dittmar)

2010-08-17T16:31:00.001-07:00

(rachell sumpter)

2010-08-17T16:16:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E74FF3CEEF784641

2010-08-17T14:48:00.001-07:00

“If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It’s a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you, the Mystery. The one that can never be solved.

To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese.

Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing.

But say you’ve inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it’s soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What have you accomplished? Well, long term, you may have prepared yourself for a successful metamorphosis, an almost inconceivable transformation to be precipitated by your death or by some great worldwide eschatological whoopjamboreehoo. You may have. No one can say for sure.

More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn’t get any better than that.”

— Tom Robbins

2010-08-17T14:45:00.001-07:00

"If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the ‘comfort’ of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment."

— Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

2010-08-15T12:17:00.001-07:00

2010-08-15T12:08:00.000-07:00

2010-08-15T12:07:00.001-07:00

click on this picture to make it bigger so that you can hear what it has to say

2010-08-15T11:46:00.000-07:00

2010-08-15T11:45:00.001-07:00

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
C.S. Lewis

2010-08-13T11:45:00.001-07:00

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X

2010-08-12T16:06:00.000-07:00

2010-08-12T15:58:00.001-07:00

The mountains are calling and I must go.
-John Muir

2010-08-12T14:57:00.000-07:00

Thinks to wonder, wonderful things

grace of a swan elegance of a grizzly bear

photography: virginie otth

psychobabble

black swans and albino deers

Karl Fritsch!!

"Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you."

dissolve

"When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual."

a mysteriously fantastic unpredictable universe

red coral and the worlds largest storm

"I wish I could show youwhen you are lonelyor in darkness,the astonishing lightof your own being"

the coyote that fasts

information translated through texture

"Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it."

unconventional incomparable undefined and glorious

my last day in portland

to do list

"May the long time sunShine upon you,All love surround you,And the pure light within youGuide your way on."

"The soul bathes in a state of unlimited wisdom, immortality, unconditional love, fearlessness, connectedness, and bliss. Yet few of us are aware of its condition. We are aware of our physical body and our mind, but remain oblivious to our soul. We often limit our vision to the world outside."

"Life is meant to be lived in eternal bliss, infinite freedom, unconditional love and unbounded awareness. Any other life is utterly missing the point of being born a human."

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

click on this picture to make it bigger so that you can hear what it has to say

"I wish I could show you
when you are lonely
or in darkness,
the astonishing light
of your own being"

"May the long time sun
Shine upon you,
All love surround you,
And the pure light within you
Guide your way on."