Tale of Two Wolves is an old Cherokee Indian fable of inner conflict. One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He […]
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Go all the way – Charles Bukowski Poem Find your meaning of life, create your meaning of life, then go all the way Tom O’Bedlam Spoken Verse Poet: Charles Bukowski […]
If I die And you live I will be alive As soon as I die. (Poem by my son Skye, age 8) Accessories – Photo manipulation by Caras Ionut
This short film illustrates the power of words to radically effect change. Discover the power of transforming your own words in Andrea Gardner’s book ‘Change Your Words, Change Your World’ […]
By our best enemies we do not want to be spared, nor by those either whom we love from the very heart. So let me tell you the truth! My […]
Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master. Eshun was very pretty even though her head was shaved and her dress […]
One day a young Buddhist on his journey home, came to the banks of a wide river. Staring hopelessly at the great obstacle in front of him, he pondered for […]
Invention of Love is one of the most beautiful animated films I’ve ever seen. A love story from the world of gears and bolts. Inspired by Lotte Reiniger works and […]
“Here we come up against the great question that lies behind all these considerations. . . . . Instead of producing something common to all that we call language, I […]
What is the Quantum Apocalypse? Lifting of the veil, to uncover the true nature of one’s self, to penetrate the surface of reality, the disclosure of hidden information, escaping the […]
I just discovered an amazing music video editor, Kutiman, whose website you can check out here: thru you. Incredible what can be done with some inventiveness. Watch!
Zen Master Seung Sahn From the 1985 Sumner Kyol Che Opening, Ceremony Linc just said, “Zen is very simple. Dishwashing time, just wash dishes; sitting time, just sit; driving time, […]
We live in the matrix. A chaotic reality which we try to understand and master so as to be able to control it, as well as ourselves. It is a […]
1. Be Impeccable With Your Word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power […]
maggy and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, […]
THINGS MY SON SHOULD KNOW AFTER I’VE DIED I was young once. I dug holes near a canal and almost drowned. I filled notebooks with words as carefully as a […]
I stumbled upon an interesting photographer yesterday, Alexander Bergstrom. As I clicked through his fine art gallery, I could feel the hollowness of the images intruding on my mind’s eye, […]
You need not do anything. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, just wait. You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still […]
XX – Pablo Neruda Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche. Escribir, por ejemplo: “La noche está estrellada, y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos”. El viento de […]
My soul is dark – Oh! quickly string The harp I yet can brook to hear; And let thy gentle fingers fling Its melting murmurs o’er mine ear. If in […]
By Harry Frankfurt Princeton University One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. […]
“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. […]
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It […]
By DANIEL GOLEMAN Published: March 12, 1985 in The New York Times EVERYONE wants to make a good impression, but for some people it is almost a way of life. […]
Colour Terms This list contains 168 definitions of obscure colour terms using combinations of ‘normal’ colours of the rainbow and descriptive adjectives; e.g. cardinal = deep scarlet red; russet = […]
That we do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. ~ in Collected Essays Under favorable conditions, practically […]
If you lay bound upon the wheel of change, And there was no way of breaking free from the chain, The Heart of the boundless Being would then be a […]
I who am the beauty of the green Earth, The white moon and the Mystery on the waters, Call upon your soul to rise and come unto me, For from […]
This is the actual 1973 Giving Tree Movie read by its author, Shel Silverstein. I’m really happy I can share this with you.
“Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, […]
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill INTIMACY: in to me see. That is what intimacy is about – […]
)when what hugs stopping earth than silent is more silent than more than much more is or total sun oceaning than any this tear jumping from each most least eye […]
It has become fashionable, and it is nothing more than a fashion, to believe that the universe is dumb, stupid. That intelligence, values, love and fine feelings reside only within the […]
It’s incredible how a smile can transform the souls of those it touches. Here are two poems that tell exactly how I feel this very moment: THE RED HORSE In the […]
This love So violent So fragile So tender So hopeless This love As beautiful as the day And as wretched as the weather When the weather is wretched This love […]
When I say I know you, I mean I knew you yesterday. I do not know you actually now. All I know is my image of you. That image is […]
The word of the day is NIHILISM, as defined by dictionary.com: “total and absolute destructiveness, especially toward the world at large and including oneself.” A common, but misleading, description of […]
Love transcends structured systems of logical thought, and all teachings regarding love should be abandoned, even this teaching. A fundamental tactic employed by elite control institutions throughout human history has […]
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow: You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; […]
