Monday, June 20, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
heart center
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"Through division there is also creation, just as cells divide to create and form new life. It is interesting that after the first 512 cell divisions in a fetus, the shape that is created ultimately becomes the heart. So it is our heart, which is vital to our blood pumping and breathing life that takes shape first and foremost. It is then our heart, an organ that is created from divisions but is itself unanimous, that begins pumping before the brain is even formed, our brain, which is divided into two sides. So while we as humans are always going to have divisions we first come into being through something that is central and steady. In this way our heart is a type of sushumna." ~ C. Miltimore
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Brite Lite Neon
my dear friend Matt, as well as teacher and inspiration, is one of the partners (and founder) of Brite Lite Neon in Brooklyn. I recently got to explore the amazing studio and the process is incredible....
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Saturday, June 4, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
NOTHING
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TO GO YOU'VE GOT TO GO THE WHOLE TRIP
ALL THE WAY TO THE BACK
BEFORE YOU GET TO THE PLACE
WHERE YOU SEE THAT BEHIND ALL THIS
THERE IS ALL THIS IN IT'S
OM
IN ITS UNMANIFEST FORM
ALWAYS
ETERNALLY
YOU PERCEIVE THAT
NOTHING
IS REALLY HAPPENING AT ALL
NOTHING
EVER HAPPENS
NOTHING
IS GOING TO HAPPEN
THERE'S
NOTHING
YOU'VE GOT TO DO
THERE'S NO DOER
TO DO IT ANYWAY
ALL THE WAY TO THE BACK
BEFORE YOU GET TO THE PLACE
WHERE YOU SEE THAT BEHIND ALL THIS
THERE IS ALL THIS IN IT'S
OM
IN ITS UNMANIFEST FORM
ALWAYS
ETERNALLY
YOU PERCEIVE THAT
NOTHING
IS REALLY HAPPENING AT ALL
NOTHING
EVER HAPPENS
NOTHING
IS GOING TO HAPPEN
THERE'S
NOTHING
YOU'VE GOT TO DO
THERE'S NO DOER
TO DO IT ANYWAY
~Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Monday, May 30, 2011
liking is for cowards...go for what hurts
A related phenomenon is the transformation, courtesy of Facebook, of the verb “to like” from a state of mind to an action that you perform with your computer mouse, from a feeling to an assertion of consumer choice. And liking, in general, is commercial culture’s substitute for loving. The striking thing about all consumer products — and none more so than electronic devices and applications — is that they’re designed to be immensely likable. This is, in fact, the definition of a consumer product, in contrast to the product that is simply itself and whose makers aren’t fixated on your liking it. (I’m thinking here of jet engines, laboratory equipment, serious art and literature.)
But if you consider this in human terms, and you imagine a person defined by a desperation to be liked, what do you see? You see a person without integrity, without a center. In more pathological cases, you see a narcissist — a person who can’t tolerate the tarnishing of his or her self-image that not being liked represents, and who therefore either withdraws from human contact or goes to extreme, integrity-sacrificing lengths to be likable.
If you dedicate your existence to being likable, however, and if you adopt whatever cool persona is necessary to make it happen, it suggests that you’ve despaired of being loved for who you really are. And if you succeed in manipulating other people into liking you, it will be hard not to feel, at some level, contempt for those people, because they’ve fallen for your shtick. You may find yourself becoming depressed, or alcoholic, or, if you’re Donald Trump, running for president (and then quitting).
Consumer technology products would never do anything this unattractive, because they aren’t people. They are, however, great allies and enablers of narcissism. Alongside their built-in eagerness to be liked is a built-in eagerness to reflect well on us. Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.
~Jonathan Franzen for NYtimes, Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
new friends
over the last four weeks while training to become a certified Jivamukti yoga teacher, I made such incredible new friends, who will last a life-time (or more!)
Sunday, May 22, 2011
every atom in your body came from a star that exploded...
Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star then your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics; you are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all things that matter for evolution at the start of life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars are kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars exploded so that you could be here today.- Lawrence Krauss
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