What If Money was no Object?
This great video made by TragedyandHope showcases the late Allan Watts imparting his wisdom through powerful words in one of his speeches.
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October 4, 2013
Wendell Berry’s Manifesto
When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know. So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands… Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. So long as women do not go cheap for power, please women more than men, Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child?… As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn’t go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
October 2, 2013
Heed the Call of our Soul
-Segment taken from “The Holy Alternative: Art as Medicine, Ritual, and Environmental Activism“,
by Katie Clancy and Emily Moore.
Deep in the backwoods of our bodies lives a wild creature that we call Soul. She is a mystery, a mystical myth that slips between the shadows and sings out through our dreams. She is faster than the speed of light, the very spark that ignited the Big Bang. Prophetic visions, irrational images, and guttural emotions–She speaks to us from within the dark pools of our subconscious.
But the engine of daily life drones into us, and we often stop listening. We forget, it seems, how to turn towards and listen into the forest. Instead, we get drunk on distractions. We funnel noise into our inner ears with fancy headphones. We stay stuck to the bright screens instead of gazing up to meet another’s eyes.
It’s as if we are being hypnotized by a mysterious force: It keeps us taut, controlled, confused; it suffocates us with a belief that we are isolated. We toss and turn in the night, wake with a sense of anxiety, an impending doom that taunts and tells us that we are lost, that we have no home. Our bellies bloat, our bones grow brittle from poor nutrition. Why are we so tired? Why do we feel so disconnected from our bodies? Why do our brains eat themselves, and from where is that insatiable hunger churning?
This is a critical moment to heed the call of our Soul. We are confronting what Carl Jung describes as the true religious experience: when the unstoppable bullet hits the impenetrable wall. It’s time to break the spell and return back to the wilderness.
From the deeper chambers of our bodies, an uprising surges. Soul’s voice grows louder. Her song fills us with an equally intense amount of terror and ecstasy. But eventually we realize that we have no choice. Our inner warrior heart will not settle with mediocrity. We must march inwards, towards Her rhythm, blind riders moving into the unchartered psyche, to find Her again.
September 30, 2013
Don’t let Opportunities Pass
Poem by American poet and author Sylvia Plath illustrated by Zen Pencil.
I’m at a moment in my life where I too stand before the giant fig tree of opportunities. I don’t exactly know which direction to go in. I have before me dozens of different paths that I could take but lately I feel sort of stalled. I’m stalled not by a lack of motivation, drive, or intelligence, what holds me back is deciding which branch to follow, what holds me back is my decision. I know that no matter what I choose I will do a good job, I consider myself a very able human being and once committed I will put my all into it; but with all these opportunities before me i’m overwhelmed at times, I mean how do you chose the right path? How do you know that the one you chose is the one that is best fitting for you? There’s is no way of really knowing since you can only live one path at a time. You have to chose and don’t let the fear of choosing the wrong path stop you from deciding on one. If you realize that the path you are on is not as fulfilling as you thought it would be then have the courage to choose a new path and start the journey once again. Commit with all the energy in your being to it, and have faith that whatever path you chose is the path for you. If you sit and do nothing, the opportunities that are all around you will slowly wither and disappear. Windows of opportunity open but they also sure do close. Don’t let the moment pass.Inaction is your worst enemy. Decide, commit and succeed.
Video | September 29, 2013
Golem
A beautiful piece of animation that finds a near perfect intersection of words, music and visuals. Watch in HD with a full screen and with some headphones on and let its magical effect blow you away.
September 26, 2013
This is my Symphony
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.”
~William Ellery Channing
Aside | September 26, 2013
It is possible to uproot all indigence (poverty) from the planet. It’s possible to create stability and it will be possible for future generations, if they are able to reason as a species not only us an individual, to take life to the galaxy and continue with that conquering dream that us human beings carry in our genes.
But for all these dreams to be possible, we need to govern ourselves or we will succumb (perish), because we are not able to measure up with the civilization that we have developed with happenings. This is our dilemma. Let’s not entertain ourselves only mending consequences, let’s think about the underlying causes, in this civilization of waste, in this civilization of use and throw away, what we are throwing away is time of human life wasted, squandering over unnecessary issues.
Think that human life is a miracle, that we are alive because of a miracle and nothing is worth more than life. And our biological duty is above all to respect life and to encourage it, to create it, to procreate it and understand that the species is our “us”. Thank You
-Uruguayan President Jose Mujica
-Speaking in-front of the General Assembly at the United Nations
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Es posible arrancar de cuajo toda la indigencia del planeta. Es posible crear estabilidad y será posible a generaciones venideras si logran empezar a razonar como especie, no solo como individuo, llevar la vida a la galaxia y seguir con ese sueño conquistador que llevamos en nuestra genética los seres humanos.
Pero para que todos esos sueños sean posibles, necesitamos gobernarnos a nosotros mismos o sucumbiremos, o sucumbiremos, porque no somos capaces de estar a la altura de la civilización que en los hechos fuimos desarrollando. Este es nuestro dilema. No nos entretengamos solo remendando consecuencias, pensemos en las causas de fondo, en la civilización del despilfarro, en la civilización del use y tire, que lo que está tirando es tiempo de vida humana malgastado, derrochando cuestiones inútiles.
Piensen que la vida humana es un milagro, que estamos vivos por milagro y nada vale más que la vida. Y que nuestro deber biológico es por encima de todas las cosas respetar a la vida e impulsarla, crearla, procrearla y entender que la especie es nuestro nosotros. Gracias.
-Presidente Uruguayo Jose Mujica
-Discurso frente a la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas
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