What a beautiful world this is filled with beautiful people!

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

I talk to you just to plant a seed, a song, a star. If you can become happy, you become religious. A happy person is a religious person -- let that be the definition. A religious person is not one who goes to the church or the temple. A religious person is happy. Wherever he is, he is in the temple. A happy person carries his temple around him.

OSHO

The Venus Project

This website is amazing. Self sustaining money-free future society with machines doing the work!!
A beautiful vision that can start now.
http://www.thevenusproject.com

My country is the world.
My religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine

Quoted in Zeitgeist: Addendum:

An extraterrestrial visitor examining the differences among human societies would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities.
Our lives, our past and our future are tied to the sun, the moon, and the stars...we humans have seen the atoms which constitute all of nature and the forces that sculpted this work...and we who represent the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos, have begun to wonder about our origins...star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms, contemplating the evolution of nature, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on planet Earth...Our loyalties are to the species and to the planet. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos ancient and vast from which we spring.
We are one species.
We are star stuff harvesting star light.
Carl Sagan

Zeitgeist: Addendum

If you are struggling with money right now, here is how to change your relationship to it and still live in abundance.

Essential documentary about money...

http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/zeitgeist_addendum.php

White Bee

"White Bee" By Pablo Neruda White bee, you buzz in my soul, drunk with honey, and your flight winds in slow spirals of smoke. I am the one without hope, the word without echoes, he who lost everything and he who had everything. Last hawser, in you creaks my last longing. In my barren land you are the final rose. Ah you who are silent! Let your deep eyes close. There the night flutters. Ah your body, a frightened statue, naked. You have deep eyes in which the night flails. Cool arms of flowers and a lap of rose. Your breasts seem like white snails. A butterfly of shadow has come to sleep on your belly. Ah you who are silent! Here is the solitude from which you are absent. It is raining. The sea wind is hunting stray gulls. The water walks barefoot in the wet streets. From that tree the leaves complain as though they were sick. White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent. Ah you who are silent!

Alchemical Magic Waves of Love - GoldRing Enlightenment 90

The two days in every week, in which we should not worry about, two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension.

One is Yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.

Yesterday has passed, forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday.

We cannot undo a single act we've performed. Nor can we erase a single word we've said, Yesterday is gone!

The other day we shouldn't worry about is Tomorrow, with its impossible adversaries, its burdens, its hopeful promise and poor performance. Tomorrow is beyond our control.

Tomorrow's sun will rise either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise. And until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow, for it is yet unborn.

This leaves only one day, Today.

Any person can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when we add the burdens of Yesterday and Tomorrow that we break down.

It is not the experience of today that drives people mad, it is the remorse of bitterness for something which happened Yesterday, and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring.

Let us, therefore, live one day at a time!

- Jennifer Kritsch -

Ouch...

I am a yoga teacher with a strong back.
I hurt myself opening a difficult window this morning...
I went to class anyway...knowing that sometimes movement is almost always better than being sedentary.
Ouch...my low back really hurts.
Heat and cold...heat and cold.

Shadow and light

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.
Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.
-Rumi-

Ana Forrest Part 2

Ana Forrest, I bow to you.

What an amazing woman and yogini.
I aspire to take a workshop with her.

The Origin

The origin of all action is love.

Enlighten Up

A movie by a yoga skeptic...

Robert Anton Wilson

Mind Over Matter

This is a fantastic video:

Turn on your heart light

The heart is the physical center of the circulatory system, managing over 75 trillion cells. It is also the electromagnetic center of the body, emanating thousands of times more electricity and magnetism than does the brain.
The heart's electromagnetic field (EMF) is five thousand times stronger than that of the brain. It's electrical field is sixty times greater than that of the brain. Not only is its electromagnetic capacity greater than that of the brain, but it is organically capable of performing certain brain-like functions. In fact, between 60 and 65 percent of its cells are neural, identical to those present in the brain. Energy, information that vibrates, flows, constantly, between the heart and the brain, assisting with emotional processing, sensory experience, memory and derivation of meaning from events, and reasoning. In addition, the heart is one of the body's major endocrine glands, producing at least five major hormones, which impact the physiological functions of the brain and body.
Most people believe that the brain initiates the first response to incoming events and then orders our reactions. Analysis reveals, however, that incoming information first impacts the heart, and through the heart, the brain and then the rest of the body. Our hearts are so strong that they can actually formulate the most well known symbol of love: light. Research has shown that under certain conditions, a meditator can actually generate visible light from the heart. The meditation technique must be heart-centered, not transcendent. When this occurred during studies at the University of Kassel in Germany in 1997, the heart emanated a sustained light of one hundred thousand photons per second, whereas the background had a count of only twenty photons per second. the meditations drew upon energetic understandings from several cultures, including the Hindu practice of kundalini.
It has been said that the heart is the center of the body, but it also might be the core of a subtle universe-or perhaps a "subtle sun" generated by every individual.


Excerpted from "The Subtle Body" by Cyndi Dale

Flavor Tripping parties

There is a tiny fruit called the miracle fruit.
It blocks the tongue's ability to detect sour.
So lemons taste sweet, goat cheese like cheesecake and vinegar like apple juice...
Hence, flavor tripping parties were born.
Check out the article in the Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html?_r=2