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12/8 Art: Tribute to Nelson Mandela by Android Jones

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Beautiful Music: Lisa Gerrard, Now we are free

Lisa Gerrard is from Australia. Her divinely, beautiful voice has been around for over 30 years. This is one of my favorite songs – it is featured in two of my favorite movies, Gladiator and Man on Fire. 

Buddhist Quotes

  Via Gypsy By The Sea

What we think, we are….

Painting on Ipad Air

Our thoughts become our destiny

Mooji on Programming: The Great Delusion = I Am ‘Me’

Make friends with your fears.

12/7 Destination: United Earth

12/7 Art: Koi by Ocean Clark & Laura Bochet

How Motivation Can Go Way Beyond Money

Via (Big Think) A lot of people believe that what motivates people is just money.  A colleague of mine, Paul Lawrence, and I, by studying some of the most recent research on what goes on in the human brain, have found that human beings are very deeply motivated by four primary drives. There is the […]

15 powerful insights from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five

Kurt Vonnegut is awesome. He was a true counter culture novelist.  Via (inktank) There aren’t many writers who witnessed a 20th century apocalypse at first hand. But of those who have Kurt Vonnegut’s response, Slaughterhouse-Five, is arguably the most memorable. It was published in 1969, twenty-four years after Vonnegut, a 23 year-old American prisoner of war, […]

A Great Holiday Gift: Foster A Baby Elephant!

Beautiful Pai in Thailand [HD]

The Best Way to Create a Movement

The Best Way to Create a Movement The biggest lesson here…. did you catch it? Leadership is over glorified. Yes it started with the shirtless guy, and he’ll get all the credit, but you saw what really happened: It was the first follower that transformed a “lone nut” into a leader. There is no movement […]

Left Brain vs. Right Brain Graphics

Our Future Is A Thought Of The Now!

“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

~ Lao Tzu

12/6 Destination: Copacabana on the shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia

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12/6 Art: Meditate

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Good Will Hunting – Park Scene

Kauai Travel Itinerary: The Best Place in Hawaii?

A New York Times article, complete with a 36-hour itinerary, argues that Kauai — a lesser known island paradise in Hawaii — feels like the “world’s most stunning backwater.” “These days,” it argues, “Kauai sits firmly on the tourist radar, an indisputable rival of its famous neighbors, Oahu and Maui. But upon first glance at its unspoiled […]

3 Masters Describe Meditation

(Elephant Journal) “It is abiding as one’s Self without swerving in any way from one’s real nature and without feeling that one is meditating.” ~ Ramana Maharishi “Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to […]

The best photos and books of 2013

I always enjoy “best of” lists at the end of the year. Here are the lists I have collected so far. Photos: Best photos of the year 2013 from Reuters. The Top 10 Photos of 2013 from Time. 2013 Pictures of the Year from Agence France Presse. The 80 Most Powerful Photos of 2013 from The Roosevelts. Books Staff […]

Muhammad Ali on the passing of Nelson Mandela

“I am deeply saddened by the passing of Mr. Mandela. His was a life filled with purpose and hope; hope for himself, his country and the world. He inspired others to reach for what appeared to be impossible and moved them to break through the barriers that held them hostage mentally, physically, socially and economically. […]

Nelson Mandela on Love

RIP Nelson Mandela 

“Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.”

~ Chuang Tzu

12/5 Destination: Florence, Italy

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12/5 Art: Artist cultivates magical worlds with miniature bonsai trees

The spiritual and cultural significance of growing miniature bonsai trees derives from a thousand-year-old horticultural tradition in Japan, representing a careful, contemplative and Zen-influenced relationship between humans and nature. Taking up this time-honoured practice of cultivating trees, Japanese artist-architect Takanori Aiba gives his bonsai an unusual twist by adding on miniature, realistic structures like bridges, stairs and intricately detailed […]

How much to tip around the world

Mint.com put together a great infographic on tipping around the world. Zoom in and check it — Travel.

Eliot Cowan talks Plant Spirit Medicine

Mind Blowing Art

Young Korean artist Jee Young Lee recently presented her beautiful, surrealistic and Photoshop-free photography exhibition named “Stage of Mind”. The magic happens in the artist’s small 3,6 x 4,1 x 2,4-meter studio in Seoul. The artist builds these highly dramatic, psychedelic and visually intense scenes herself, ensuring that every teeny tiny detail is hauntingly perfect […]

Why Travel?

We have touched on this topic a lot on Lucid Practice. In my opinion, this opinion-based judgement never gets old. Tynan, gives his response on “What’s the point of traveling.“ I began really traveling due to panic, which may not have been the best reason to go. I had always thought of myself as the […]

25 Rare Photos of Bob Marley (Slideshow)

Check out an awesome slideshow of Bob Marley here — MUSIC. 

Is this Love?

Robert “Nesta” Marley: Corrine Bailey Rae: Allen Stone: Some dope beats to start the practice today.  It is all love…..! 

Believe and watch your dreams come true.

12/4 Destination: Mykonos, Greece

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12/4 Art: Cinque Terre Watercolor Speedpainting

Via Ava Carmen 

Using plants as air filters

According to a top NASA scientist, some house plants can filter many dangerous chemicals out of indoor air. One of the best air filtering scrubbers is a robust rubber tree plant. Are you in favour of fostering indoor plants that do a good job of cleaning household air? Some plants are exceptional in that capacity. […]

David Ehrlich’s top 25 movies of 2013

In a masterfully edited video, David Ehrlich presents his 25 favorite films of 2013. H/T Kottke