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My Daily Sri Swami Satchidananda Snack
Every day he writes something that is absolutely bang on with what I need most that day. His existence is a blessing.
Even if you achieve the whole world by your selfishness, you are not going to be happy. You cannot be. Selfishness can never make you happy. Sometimes you may get what you want, but your own selfishness will spoil it. In a way, that is what we learn from all these disappointments in life. Every time you approach a thing or a person or an action with a selfish motive, it literally hits you on the head. Unfortunately many people don’t learn from a single hit or even a hundred hits. On the other hand, sensible people will learn the lesson just by seeing others getting hit.
Don’t ever think that you will escape. You are going to learn the lesson. Until you learn the lesson this will happen again and again and again. Mother Nature is there with a big stick to whack you, “Come on, learn this, learn this.” Finally you will say, “Ohh, I am learning, I am learning.”
You should remember it is Mother Nature’s hand behind all these disappointments. So it is better to learn soon – the sooner, the better – so that you can enjoy the rest of your life with all joy and peace.
Om Shanthi, Shanthi, Shanthi
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Just for now
Just for Now, without asking how, let yourself sink into stillness. Just for now, lay down the weight you so patiently bear upon your shoulders. Feel the earth receive you, and the infinite expanse of the sky grow even wider as your awareness reaches up to meet it. Just for now, allow a wave of breath to enliven your experience. Breathe out whatever blocks you from the truth. Just for now, be boundless, free, with awakened energy tingling in your hands and feet. Drink in the possibility of being who and what you really are – so fully alive that the world looks different, newly born and vibrant, just for now.
~ Danna Faulds
Nothing is everything
“Your hearts got a heavy load, there’s still a long way to go, keep your eye’s on the road.” ~ Adrift
Frolina Petunia Is Coming Home!!!
In just 3 days I’m embarking on a long journey to my old desert home to bring back THE MOST PRIZED TRAVELLING KITTY IN ALL OF MARATHON TEXAS AND BEYOND!!! (more…)
Meow
When I’m around Joseph, which is all the time I suppose, I find myself laughing at the most terrible things. Shockingly inappropriate things. And I feel awful afterwards.
Looking at a photo together…
Me: “… I think she looks pretty good in this photo.”
Joseph: “Hmm. Yeah. Obviously the cuteness fairy didn’t sprinkle her with cuteness dust.”
Me: “Babe…Wow. Men are so much bitchier than women! That’s horrible.”
Joseph: “Come on! Okay, maybe. But come on! She looks like she ran through the ugly forest blindfolded and hit every ugly tree.”
Mountain Views
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
~ Wayne Dyer
This is an incredibly powerful truth. In fact, I’ve been finding everything changes when the way I feel about things changes. And when that happens, my energy shifts into a higher gear, and an opportunity for a peaceful life opens up. Permanent peace and happiness. Good things are attracted into my life. More of what I’m thinking of is drawn towards me. There is a lightness to my step, and I am now finally finding, a freedom from fear. Despite what many would feel are unwanted complications to deal with and intense, persistent encounters that would be worrisome to some, this past week has turned into the happiest and most content I can remember for a long time. Without going into specific details I will try to illustrate exactly how powerful a new perspective can be.
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That Summertime Smell
Yay for skirts, coconut oiled skin and flip flop tans! Travel is gently nibbling at my heels again, but only for a quickie. I want to be in a boat. And if I can’t be in a boat, a treehouse. I know however, that surely I will soon be sleeping in a boat. Aside from those important issues, I feel a huge sense of relief. An unburdening. Life is beautiful in its fleeting love affair with us. I’m honoured it chose to love on me so passionately. I’m blessed it squeezed us up against each other so unexpectedly… the Christmas present I’m still unwrapping…
… and so, the peace, happiness and contentedness that alluded me for so many years is gently flitting on my shoulder like a butterfly. I only have to stop what I’m doing, stop wanting, and feel the present moment to enjoy everything that I already have in love. And so I spend my days flitting between contentedness and my usual restless dreaming.
A New Dream
The colours were almost unbearably bright. The sun flared through my eyelashes. Delicious excitement pulsed through me as I bit into a plump mango, the juice running down darkly tanned twiggy arms. And as I started to slip away from the dreamworld, I saw myself standing on the edge of a cheerfully painted simple wooden boat, wearing a beat up string bikini and little skirt, atop skinny little fruit-fed legs that knew exactly where they were going. A hand-strung hammock lazed seductively under a sunshade, and I knew there was food and a few belongings stowed away beneath me. My black cat watching out at the bow.
Unfortunately the excitement of hitting on something that buzzed me up so much woke me suddenly. But as I backtracked over the dream in those fast-melting moments of dream catching I remembered how I spent my days visiting islands, speaking a strange language, picking fruit and buying gasoline, colourful people I met as I floated from shore to shore. Then I remembered how it all began – Joseph decided to go on an incredible adventure, he got a boat and I wanted to go with him so badly. But then I realised it would be more fun for each of us to have a small boat of our own to adventure around in.
I want this. So badly. And I keep dreaming of Belize.
Belove’d
Belover, best friend, favourite Connect-4 opponent, I am so proud of you, your selfless compassion, your endless strength. In case you were wondering, and I know you are, we all miss you like crazy! It aches like a bellyempty. I’m beyond excited you’re coming home tomorrow! I’ll tell Annie and Yorba the happy news tonight before we fall asleep. They have been pining for you non stop. I have too. :@x
You’re coming home to heart-squeezing hugs, endless puppy cuddles and a budding garden full of new promise. I’m here to support you in everything. It’s all I have ever wanted to do since I met you.
Attachment & Restless Wanting
The minute you want something for your sake, you are restless until you get it. Once you get it, you are still not really happy because you don’t want to lose it. If you do not get it, you feel anger, hatred and enmity.
But if your want is not for your sake, you don’t worry about the results. Eliminate selfishness from your life. The minute you decide to lead a selfless life, eternal happiness is yours.
~ Swami Satchidananda
Sorrow is nothing but what you borrow. The cause of our suffering is our wrong approach, our greed, attachment, clinging to things. The more attached you are results in more suffering. Nobody on earth can make us suffer. Suffering is caused by our own attitude and our own ignorance.
We think that by acquiring things we can be happy and ultimately, these same things are what make us unhappy. Detachment keeps your mind calm and serene. The moment you show attachment, you put tension in the mind.
~ Swami Satchidananda
PNC Wank or rather, Bank of the Best
I’ve stuck with Pennsylvania’s PNC Bank for years because they have a rocking online banking system, iphone app and very intelligent phone support. But sadly our romance has come to an end upon discovery that their love for their customers is a sham, based on a lame computerized system that automatically rules with damnation and fury on all its customers and allows for no human brain to brain interaction of any kind. (more…)
iRip for iPhone and iPod
What a life-saving app this is! My laptop was stolen about a month back and I lost my whole iTunes library. Who seriously can be bothered to keep burning those backups to DVD?
So for the past month Ive been unable to sync my phone with iTunes because my new iTunes library was empty and I’d made no backup of the original. I loved the audiobooks, ringtones and tracks on my phone so much I considered never syncing again. But today I found iRip which has imported all my files from my iPhone back into iTunes. And I mean ALL! I would hug it if I could I am so happy!!!
iRip is now FREE! So download away.
Other inferior apps are charging around $20 to do a crappier job at it. The Little App Factory – you guys rock!
*** UPDATE ***
Oh, so it does ask me to register half way through, to get all my tracks. Sneaky sneaky! However, I am still glad to pay the $20. The app worked perfectly!
The World’s Most Dangerous Trail
These Guys must be crazy to walk on this trail. The Caminito del Rey is closed since four people died in two accidents in 1999 and 2000. However the regional government of Andalusia made a restoration plan which will cost about 7 million €.
I would LOOOOOOOVE to do this trail! Before the restoration of course
Thanks Tony Salinas!
Gone To Pot
Growing, smoking and consuming cannabis is totally legal in Colorado, as long as you have a valid medical reason and a Medical Marijuana License endorsed by a doctor. Dispensaries are everywhere, on just about every block in the city. In the tiny town of Nederland near where I live there are more and more dispensaries cropping up every month. My favourite is by far Grateful Meds. They really care about their patients, they have a great range including rares, edibles, sodas and really hook their regulars up very generously. I chose them to celebrate after having just got my edibles license and will never forget that special day. I love Grateful Meds and will always stick with them.
Mark Rose, owner of the Grateful Meds dispensary in Nederland, weighs out an eighth of an ounce of medical marijuana for a client.
I just watched a great clip about the MMJ scene in Denver on the John Stewart Show (archived) which spawned this post – check it out:
Piecing Together New Thoughts of Mind
Did you know, FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago? (more…)
The Zen of Cheap Travel
Not being able to afford it shouldn’t stop you from travel. 5 Ways To Travel More With Less
Thanks Tintu!
ANAKLIA Sea Hotel
Gorgeous. I LOVE the underwater aquariumness of it all. And how its like an island. I wonder though, what do they do with all the sewage? I really hope its not going to be like adding more waste dumping cruise ships to the ocean. And I suppose transporting supplies, people and waste back and forth uses up unnecessary fuel. However, I think these could be put to great use as fully autonomous, sustainable community pods in the ocean. Reminds me a little of those amazing high-capacity community buildings in Sim City… I can’t remember what those were called. I would LOVE to live on one. But I imagine being surrounded by plants, friends and children, not in 5 star, poop in the ocean luxury all the time.
Great find Kenna!
Help Save Japan’s Dolphins!
More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan, often times labeled as whale meat. Send a letter to President Obama, Vice President Biden and Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki urging them to address this issue »
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