Category: Thoughts
Thoughts & art: Full body art, in its truest sense
Heather Hansen is a New Orleans-based artist who really puts herself into her work. In her project, “Emptied Gestures,” she creates something like you’ve never seen before. Click here for the rest of the story, from our friends at Distractify.
Writings: “I AM” – reflections with Ingrid
My friend Ingrid Gabriel saw “I AM” recently, and it touched her (as it did me)…I asked her what she came away with: Lately, I’ve been mulling over the documentary “I AM” and a little vignette that is included. The film reflects on the questions of what’s wrong with the world and how much of what we…
Cowboy thoughts, for the mornin’….
A LITTLE COMMON SENSE FROM AN OLD COWBOY … Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. Words that soak into your ears are whispered… not yelled.…
Thoughts: Love & rest, one & two, activity & quiet
In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time. Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its…
Thoughts: Let joy follow…
From my friend Marissa (thanks!): We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha
Writings: A warrior, in action
The following is an excerpt by late Aikido master Terry Dobson in the anthology “The Peaceful Warrior,” edited by Rick Fields (Tarcher/Putnam, 1994) as retold by Ram Dass in An Experiment in Awareness – Mile High Church, Colorado, June 24, 1994. Here’s the original posting (with thanks, Baba Ram Dass!) The train clanked and rattled…
Readings: Edgar Cayce – when sunsets, conversation, babes, roses & song all come together…
This little meditation is from the readings of Edgar Cayce, and sums up the place that beauty plays in making love & creativity come alive, dear heart… Then, to be able to remember the sunset, to be able to remember a beautiful conversation, a beautiful deed done where hope and faith were created, to remember…