February 2012
“A tree is a tree—although its meaning to the man who views it (“the truth”)...”
– Homer and Buhler, Surveying Kierkegaard, 1969 (via heartmindspirit)
“Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and...”
– John Lennon, Rolling Stone Magazine (His last interview)
“Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via sol-psych)
“I think & think & think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one...”
– Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (via bloodisthenewblackk)
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Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest →
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All...
McGarr's World: Suggestions for the coming moon... →
mcgarrsworld:
Suggestions for the coming moon cycle –
Keep a dream diary and pay particular attention to themes of restriction and exploration.
Aggressively explore within the limitations set by your environment and financial situation.
Use self discipline and sensible behaviour to gather the power and resources to exploit any exciting opportunities that may present themselves.
Break free...
The Invitation →
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 doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love,
for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the...
“The next time you feel you have to defend something about yourself, ask...”
– Orin (via moreofamore)
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David Darling - Up Side Down
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via peaceful-wanderer)
“The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.”
– Fred Alan Wolf (via moreofamore)
To Dance Is A Radical Act →
metaconscious:
Dance for the span of the universe that you are. All we are, as humans, is a span of flesh and consciousness. We each are a tiny swath of the universe where whatever energy it is that composes the universe is alive in us, as us, coming to life through us. The movement of life expresses itself in every movement we make. Every movement we make shapes that energy, gives it form, and...
“Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on...”
– James Harvey Robinson (via elige)
“The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the...”
– David R. Brower (via thegreenliferi)
“In the beginning, which is really no beginning … the will wants to know itself,...”
– D.T. Suzuki (via lovespulse)
Worse than missing your flight and only being able to reschedule to your shitty little hometown airport by sitting in airports for 8 hours on layover…. is rushing to make the flight you missed and FORGETTING the bountiful luscious Jimbo’s loot you scored yesterday for your day of travels: raw cacoa-coconut cookies, mango juice, tofu/vege wraps with peanut sauce, and...
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be…when I look at a...”
– Carl Rogers (via seabois)
“When this earth and world did not exist
When there was no moon, sun or sky...”
– Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (via fernsandmoss)
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Plato: For the greater good.
Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.
Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.
Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!
Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.
Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.
Douglas Adams: Forty-two.
Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.
Oliver North: National Security was at stake.
B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.
Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.
Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
Aristotle: To actualize its potential.
Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.
Salvador Dali: The Fish.
Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.
Epicurus: For fun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.
Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.
Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.
David Hume: Out of custom and habit.
Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it [censored] wanted to. That's the [censored] reason.
Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?
Ronald Reagan: I forget.
John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.
The Sphinx: You tell me.
Mr. T.: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!
Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.
Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
Molly Yard: It was a hen!
Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.
Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages.
Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.
The Godfather: I didn't want its mother to see it like that.
Keats: Philosophy will clip a chicken's wings.
Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.
Othello: Jealousy.
Dr. Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have, you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the Need to resist such a public Display of your own lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance.
Mrs. Thatcher: This chicken's not for turning.
Supreme Soviet: There has never been a chicken in this photograph.
Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One's social engagements whilst in town ought never expose one to such barbarous inconvenience - although, perhaps, if one must cross a road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the chicken in question.
Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.
Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome, filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume to question the actions of one in all respects his superior.
Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.
Whitehead: Clearly, having fallen victim to the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.
Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen. (Much laughter.)
Hamlet: That is not the question.
Donne: It crosseth for thee.
Pope: It was mimicking my Lord Hervey.
Constable: To get a better view.
“How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.”
– François Fénelon. (via basava)
“Anytime that you notice a misalignment, admit it to yourself. The more that you...”
– Adronis (via nirvikalpa)
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“Every day something new is born. You are a creative, dynamic, exploding wonder,...”
– Bartholomew (via wolfmama)
Going to a small wedding today on the beach. The bride and groom are so in love and the whole ceremony is inspired to activate the bonds of love within the whole of us. The bride is going to be adorned in crystals, the groom is wearing a crystal crown, and huge giant crystals and alters will be everywhere. For certain, the most romantic and loved out Valentines day I’ve been apart of.
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“Someone once asked me what “the return of the Cosmic Mother” meant. I suspect it...”
– Judi Sion, The Magdalen Manuscript