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Thoughts mktdaf

Thoughts: Payin’ it forward, with pizza

Screen shot 2015-03-14 at 12.05.17 PMIt’s great when folks set it up to make it easier for us to do our job of sharing & healing each other…Mason (a friend of us all) has a deal at his pizza place where you can buy a piece of pizza for a homeless friend (if you have the dough) or you can get a piece of pizza (if you don’t), and it’s an easy & direct & effective way to get the food to people who are hungry.

I like effective stuff. This looks like something that is. Hope my brothers at pizza places near me start doing this….

Love you, with pepperoni & Canadian bacon,
Brother Ian

Poetry of Music mktdaf

Poetry of music: Wooden you sing along?

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Although I don’t usually post adverts here in The World According to Brother Ian, sometimes I do, because that’s where the music is (gotta listen, everywhere!)

This one is trying to sell wood-cased cell phones, but the way it gets there is pretty awesome…give a listen:

https://youtu.be/c84C6YZirzE

Writings mktdaf

Writings: Listening, with Krishnamurti

11738117_10204606444950405_5162675631258852879_n“I hope that you will listen, but not with the memory of what you already know; and this is very difficult to do. You listen to something, and your mind immediately reacts with its knowledge, its conclusions, its opinions, its past memories. It listens, inquiring for a future understanding.

“Just observe yourself, how you are listening, and you will see that this is what is taking place. Either you are listening with a conclusion, with knowledge, with certain memories, experiences, or you want an answer, and you are impatient. You want to know what it is all about, what life is all about, the extraordinary complexity of life. You are not actually listening at all.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti

“You can only listen when the mind is quiet, when the mind doesn’t react immediately, when there is an interval between your reaction and what is being said. Then, in that interval there is a quietness, there is a silence in which alone there is a comprehension which is not intellectual understanding.

“If there is a gap between what is said and your own reaction to what is said, in that interval, whether you prolong it indefinitely, for a long period or for a few seconds – in that interval, if you observe, there comes clarity. It is the interval that is the new brain. The immediate reaction is the old brain, and the old brain functions in its own traditional, accepted, reactionary, animalistic sense.

“When there is an abeyance of that, when the reaction is suspended, when there is an interval, then you will find that the new brain acts, and it is only the new brain that can understand, not the old brain.”

–Krishnamurti

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"When you arise in the morning,  think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
-- Marcus Aurelius

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