March 2012
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les voyageurs perdus: Balsamic Moon Personality... →
lesvoyageursperdus:
On the Lunar Calendar: 10 ½ days after the Full Moon, up to the New Moon
Degree: 315-360 degrees ahead of the Sun
Inner Directive: completion, preparation for new
If this is your Moon phase, you see in the dark. You’re at home when enveloped in mysteries, especially the ultimate mystery…
cougarchild:
Bexar Bexar || Oil Thumbprints ||...
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My perfect life
clothedinsky:
would be traveling around benefiting the lives of everybody I meet
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants....”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via nirvikalpa)
“I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
– William Ernest Henley (via nirvikalpa)
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined....”
– H.D Thoreau (via lucifelle)
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yūgen →
jesuisperdu:
Yūgen is an important concept in traditional Japanese aesthetics. The exact translation of the word depends on the context. In the Chinese philosophical texts the term was taken from, yūgen meant “dim”, “deep” or “mysterious”. In the criticism of Japanese waka poetry, it was used to describe the subtle profundity of things that are only vaguely suggested by the poems, and was also...
Mud Face God Dolls →
terramantra:
“crossin lines and takin names and writing tiny stories on tree bark;leaving em in strangers mail boxes as i drift blindly through dreary;night stricken;dirt roads just east of a town ive never heard of. i fall asleep in the garden and flowers that once won awards now carry my 20lb cranium to a deep sea of silk and lightly buttered biscuits. i wake in drool staring in the eyes of a...
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums
We Grow Our Food for Transportation, Not for... →
I have spent the last couple of posts discussing how our current food system is failing us. I highly recommend this TED talk by Paul Lightfoot, CEO of BrightFarms (a company that has been featured on this blog several times).
In this video, he explains why the food that we consume in cities like New York has a limited quality and mediocre taste. As an efficiency expert, he clearly outlines the...
“How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.”
– Spanish Proverb (via fernsandmoss)
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
—Thoreau
cougarchild:
“The artist is by necessity a collector; he accumulates things with the same ardor and curiosity [with which] a boy stuffs his pockets. He borrows from the sea and from the scrap heap; he takes snapshots, makes mental notes, and records impressions on tablecloths and newspapers—why one particular thing and not another, he may not know at the time, but he is omnivorous. He has a...
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others....”
– Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power (via human-voices)
you've got to remember to breathe today.
breathe with awareness.
do it at your desk at work, or at school, or in the shower, in the car,
or do it now.
breathe deeply in through your nose for a count of 4, belly expanding outwards,
hold the breath in for a count of 8,
exhale out through pursed lips until your empty,
then hold that emptiness for either 4 or 8, depending on your comfort.
try and repeat this for at least ten minutes...