June 2010
1 post
The Absolute
No mind, no form, I only exist; Now ceased all will and thought; The final end of Nature’s dance, I am it whom I have sought.
A realm of Bliss bare, ultimate; Beyond both knower and known; A rest immense I enjoy at last; I face the One alone.
I have crossed the secret ways of life, I have become the Goal. The Truth immutable is revealed; I am the way, the God-Soul.
My...
March 2010
5 posts
Robert Connett
~lucid~
Laurie Lipton
~lucid~
I won't cry
~Peter Gric
~lucid~
7 New Wonders
to ponder……to always ponder before sleep.
Giza Pyramid Complex (The last remaining ancient wonder of the world)
Chichen Itza
Christ the Redeemer
Colosseum
Great Wall of China
Machu Picchu
Petra
Taj Mahal
~lucid~
February 2010
3 posts
As you walked on the beach the waves were enormous and they were breaking with magnificent curve and force. You walked against the wind, and suddenly you felt there was nothing between you and the sky, and this openness was heaven. To be so completely open, vulnerable - to the hills, to the sea, and to man - is the very essence of meditation. To have no resistance, to have no barriers inwardly...
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...
January 2010
2 posts
December 2009
3 posts
OLEG KOROLEV
“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.” ~Pablo Picasso
Encounter
November 2009
4 posts
The museum suffers from being a closed space in which works waste away....
– In Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem
Asger Jorn
Situationist International
The End of the Economy and the Realization of Art
W.H. Auden: 70 Years Ago
W.H. Auden
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.
Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now ...
Chiharu Shiota →
Chiharu-Shiota
June 2009
2 posts
Fallen Princesses
By Dina GoldStein
April 2009
3 posts
Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy...
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Marijuana Advocates Point to Signs of Change
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Too Old for Foster Care, and Facing the Recession
Even in boom times, young people who become too old for the foster-care system often struggle to make it on their own, lacking families, job skills or adequate educations. Now, the recession has made the challenges of life after foster care even more formidable, especially for those seeking federal housing vouchers, which are contingent on having an income. [Michael Smith will turn 21 in...
March 2009
6 posts
Robin Williams in South Florida hospital
We know the reason Robin Williams postponed all four performances of his one-man show in Florida: Sources say he’s currently at a Miami hospital with heart issues and could be laid up for a while.
Williams, 57, has been on his ”Weapons of Self Destruction” tour since September.
Source: Miami Herald
February 2009
5 posts
January 2009
23 posts
We humans live by stories. We are held captive to the ways of Empire by a...
– The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community | NAVIGATING THE GREAT TURNING