Via Amanda Froelich and the Waking Times How many times have you heard ‘meditation is good for you!’, yet you resist the actual act of sitting in silence because the mind is too great a foe to face? You’re not alone if the word ‘meditation’ strikes more fear than chords of peace, but by changing the […]
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Via Bob Campbell and Mustard Seeds In February of 1995 I visited Honduras which is located in the Caribbean Sea. Leaving the group I walked through the streets of poverty and disease wondering what life would be like if I were to live there. After purchasing something in a store I stood holding my change […]
Via John MacArthur at the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC) and TreeHugger.
Via Reddit
~Lewis B. Smedes
We’ve touched on the yoga benefits for coders and programmers and it seems this trend is continuing throughout Silicon Valley. Check out this Wired article on mindfulness and meditation at Google and other tech companies: Chade-Meng Tan is perched on a chair, his lanky body folded into a half-lotus position. “Close your eyes,” he says. His voice is a hypnotic baritone, […]
~Denis Waitley
Via Reddit
Via Reddit
A series of photos of Pope Francis embracing a man with neurofibromatosis (a condition long associated with the ‘Elephant Man’ Joseph Carey Merrick) has captured the imagine of a global audience. We are all one.
Via our buddy Adam at TropicalNomad. Great job with the video!
Ole Scheeren: A Beijing Essay on Nowness.com “This city is strong, robust, self-assured,” says Ole Scheeren of Beijing, where he has lived and worked since the early 2000’s, when he came to oversee the construction of the iconic Chinese Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters as Director and Partner of Rem Koolhaas’ Dutch firm, OMA. “Even though […]
Via Lifehack: Do you feel like you can no longer cope with the stress of meeting your deadlines? Does the lack of concentration stop you from focusing on your goals? Are you stuck or stressed out? Then put your headphones on. Try using some of the most Zen-friendly websites on offer that really work wonders […]
~Unknown
Marina Abramovic and Ulay shared a great love story in the 70s. Together they performed art out of the van they lived in, forming a collective called “the other”. When their relationship had come to an end, they went to the Great Wall of China to walk it together. Both started walking from the opposite end until they […]
Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi Lord make me an instrument of your peace Where there is hatred, Let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is error, truth; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, Joy. O Divine […]
a story for tomorrow. from gnarly bay on Vimeo.
Via Daily Downward Dog So what exactly is a mantra? According to two of my favorite word mavens Merriam and Webster, the definition goes like this: man·tra noun \ˈmän-trə also ˈman- or ˈmən-\ : a sound, word, or phrase that is repeated by someone who is praying or meditating : a word or phrase that is repeated often or that expresses […]
J Shap passed along an awesome article on the power of Eastern Philosophy. I believe that some of the Eastern practices have in a way “changed my life.” I can certainly fathom how students at Harvard would be benefiting from a course on the Eastern teachers. Via The Atlantic His students tell me it is […]
Via Chakra Healing
~William Shakespeare
Via Reddit
~Robert M. Pirsig
Imagine California from Ryan Killackey on Vimeo.
Imagine a vast hall in Anglo-Saxon England, not long after the passing of King Arthur. It is the dead of winter and a fierce snowstorm rages outside, but a great fire fills the space within the hall with warmth and light. Now and then, a sparrow darts in for refuge from the weather. It appears […]
How to Store Fresh Herbs During Winter No one likes paying $3-4 USD for herbs in the winter. And most of us prefer not to buy and consume herbs that have traveled thousands of miles in the back of a truck or bottom of a boat before reaching us. And if you’re like us you […]
~Dalai Lama
Richard Rohr: We don’t come to God (or truth or love) by insisting on some ideal worldly order or so-called perfection, but in fact we come “to knowledge of salvation by the experience of forgiveness” (Luke 1:77)—forgiveness of reality itself, of others, of ourselves—for being so ordinary, imperfect, and often disappointing. Many also have to […]
“Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.” ~ Tilopa
wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
Kind of how I feel after a great weekend. Hope everyone had a fantastic one! Hakuna Matata