December 2011
17 posts
The all important work is to relay (RT)...
emergent-culture:
It doesn’t matter if we can’t always RT or mention in reciprocity within the Twittersphere. What matters is that we are all linking up and working toward informing and nurturing a new culture.
A culture with the palpable potential to create a better world for all concerned. The all important work is to relay information beneficial to the whole. This message was intended for...
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
– Thomas Merton (via libraryland)
El arte permite que nos perdamos y nos encontremos al mismo tiempo.
“We are all a complete mixture; yet at the same time, we are all related. Each...
– Bryan Sykes, a former Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford and a current Fellow of Wolfson College, The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry, 2001 (via amiquote)
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Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be...
– Rumi (via libraryland)
‘olvida la seguridad. Vive donde tengas miedo vivir. Destruye tu reputación. Sé notorio.’ — Rumi #rumi#life#lit
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
– Maya Angelou (via tylerknott)
‘No hay peor agonía que cargar una historia no contada dentro de ti’ Maya Angelou
When one can see eternity in things that pass away and infinity in finite...
– The Bhagavad Gita
(via elige)
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
– Aldous Huxley (via nathanielstuart)
The Four Functions of Myth According to Joseph... →
emergent-culture:
According to Joseph Campbell the four functions of Myth are:
1. Mystical function: it brings us to the realisation of the wonder and the awe of the universe. Realisation, obviously, means establishing within the sphere of the experiential, with the implication that, through myth,…
Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles...
– Buckminster Fuller (via nathanielstuart)
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via julie911)
Anusara Invocation
My present mantra for invocation (presence)
Anusara (a-nu-sar-a), means “flowing with Grace,” “going with the flow,” “following your heart.”
OM Namah Shivaya Gurave — “I bow to the goodness within myself, known as Lord Shiva, who is the true teacher…”
Om Namah Shivaya Gurave
(I offer myself to the one true teacher within and without)
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Don’t expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives...
– Paulo Coelho
(via mindfulinconveniences)
…from the perspective of human evolution, our great capacity is not just that we...
– Alison Gopnik (via fast-t-feasts)