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
Die Antwoord are weird, freaky, disgusting even, but somehow, incredibly awesome. They bring an entirely new style of music and culture, with a blast!
The Embassadors – Iboga Dreamtime – Official Music video To view, type in the secret code: filipgajic Entheogen initiation with the plant teacher of the highest order.
Momus cover by Amanda Palmer I like you, and I’d like you to like me to like you But I don’t need you Don’t need you to want me to […]
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’ […]
I wouldn’t kill to win a war I don’t get what they do it for It’s all so terribly vague I see the pictures from a thousand years of battle […]
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) • A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. • Every harlot was a virgin once. • […]
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 […]
Erich Fromm‘s books “The Art of Loving” and “The Fear of Freedom” shaped my views a great deal when I was just a teenager. Here are some of my favorite […]
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. Demian Love isn’t there to make […]
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 […]
Pick apart The pieces of your heart And let me peer inside Let me in Where only your thoughts have been Let me occupy your mind As you do mine […]
Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” resided in that pantheon of great songs that have been sung, interpreted, chopped, parodied (intentionally and unintentionally), and beaten to death, until Jeff Buckley came along […]
Here is a short clip taken from J. Krishnamurti’s Life Story & Teachings. As always, his words are profound and carry a thought provoking message for all of us.
The Prodigal Son, also known as the Lost Son, is one of the best known parables of Jesus. It appears only in the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament […]
“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 […]
Here is Jacques Brel’s maestral performance of his chanson AU SUIVANT. And here is Nick Cave’s interpretation, at Barry Adamson’s concert in November 2007, where he appears as a special […]
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!
It’s not often one can hear a remake that sounds better than the original, but I find that Tina Turner’s version of the famous Beatles song “Help” does just that. […]
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, […]
If anybody asks you, “What is Sufism? What religion is it?“, you may answer, “Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the most important thing is […]
“Be good. Do good. Be kind. Be compassionate. Bear insult. Bear injury. This is the highest Sadhana.” Swami Sivananda was one of the most prolific Yoga teachers who has ever […]
Carmen Amaya (1913 – 1963) is considered by many to be one of the greatest flamenco dancers who ever lived. During the peak of her career in the 40’s and […]
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 […]
“…A BLAZING MIND LONGING TO SOAR ABOVE THE CLOUDS.” Hildegard (1098-1179) was the tenth child of of a noble German family. At the age of 8, she was sent to […]
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 […]
Jiddhu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986) Questions and Answers – Ojai, California, 8th May, 1980 Question: There is a prevalent assumption these days that everything is relative, a matter of personal […]
(c. 412- c. 323 B.C) was a very playful philosopher who liked to use great wit when challenging the values and beliefs of his fellow citizens in ancient Athens. He […]
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. […]
Seven blunders of the world, according to Mahatma Gandhi, are: 1. Wealth without work 2. Pleasure without conscience 3. Knowledge without character 4. Commerce without morality 5. Science without humanity […]
“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 […]
“On September 18, 2007, Carnegie Mellon professor and alumnus Randy Pausch delivered a one-of-a-kind last lecture that made the world stop and pay attention. It became an Internet sensation viewed […]
And now, for something completely different…. Here’s an amazing Dave Brubeck performance. It’s from an old set he did in Australia. This is one of my favorite numbers, Blue Rondo […]
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 […]
Release. Let go. Trust. Set sail. Set sail. One thing becomes another in the Mother in the Mother. Ripen the black moonstone soul gem polished in the Underworld to 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 – […]
FIRE In alchemy, the chemical element of sulfur was often associated with Fire and its alchemical symbol and its symbol was an upward-pointing triangle. In alchemic tradition, metals are incubated […]
)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 […]
You must remember this A kiss is just a kiss A sigh is just a sigh The fundamental things apply As time goes by And when two lovers woo They […]
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 […]
Felice Leonardo “Leo” Buscaglia Ph.D. (31 March 1924 – 12 June 1998), also known as “Dr Love,” was an author, motivational speaker, and a professor of Special Education. Buscaglia worked […]
When most people think of twins, they think of likeness, sameness and sharing. The word itself connotates images of similarities between siblings. Yet, for the Twins of Gemini, this symbolic […]
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 […]
Arthur C. Clark died today at the age of 90, in Sri Lanka which has been his home since 1950’s. A great visionary and a science fiction author who planted […]
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 […]
PAST – WUNJO – JOY, LIGHT This rune is a branch full of fruits, an alchemical moment that had to have happened. With joy comes a new energy; energy that […]
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; […]
THE RUNES Runes are the sacred symbols of the Teutonic tribes, and in the past, a whole system of philosophy and magic was based on them. Runes were used in […]
Catalysts to say what has never been said, to see what has never been seen. To draw, paint, sing, sculpt, dance and act what has never before been done. To […]
OVAN Svestan svoga postojanja i podređen samo sebi, bez iskustva i bez straha okrenuo se meni: “Došao sam da te probudim da tvoje telo pokrenem ritmom, da tvoje oči obojim […]
