May 2011
3 posts
how beautiful it is to live in the appreciation of the fundamental mysteries of existence.
looking back on my life when i’m 80, what am i going to think?
“When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something,” Chodron writes. “We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. There is definitely something tender and throbbing about groundlessness.”
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April 2011
2 posts
“Eternity isn’t some later time. Eternity isn’t a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.” - Joseph Campbell
a regurgitation of my daily repititions
by this time tomorrow, i could expire. what do i need to say?
i want to communicate the way i experience the sacred. i look out into a parking lot watching people go about their business while i wait for her to get off of work. my body feels light, relaxed, and completely without tension. my emotional self (the corrolary to my bodily self) similarly feels relaxed an light, with no concern for...
March 2011
2 posts
a dose of hope
“No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future that is not hidden in this present moment. Take peace! The gloom of this world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within reach, is joy. There is a radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see, and to see we have only to look. I beseech you to look. Life is so generous a...
What Shall I do?? Or, What Purpose Shall I Devote...
“Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent.” Kierkegaard...
January 2011
2 posts
“Do you have the time to listen to me whine, about nothing and everything about it”? So begins Billie Joe Armstrong’s song, “Basket Case” of the ever popular and mainstream band, Green Day. That should appropriately set the tone for this entire blog. Whilst changing the oil of a 2009 Mercedez with the license plate, “UCSB Almuni”, this song came on. I wasn’t irritated so much by the fact that the...
October 2010
1 post
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fuck.
September 2010
8 posts
I don’t like that it’s commonplace for people to ask a question when they see someone else doing something they don’t like. For example, I am picking my nose while talking with Joe. He stops talking, disgusted and asks me, “what are you doing?”. He should just say, “that’s disgusting, stop it”.
Ironically, I seriously wonder why it’s so...
August 2010
33 posts
Gallup Poll on Morals in America
laplumeabelle:
veganadventures:
(% of people who accept these as moral)
Mostly Acceptable
Death Penalty 62%
Divorce 62%
Wearing Fur 61%
Gambling 58%
Premarital Sex 57%
Testing on Animals 57%
Baby Out of Wedlock 51%
Homosexuality 49%
Doctor Assisted Suicide 39%
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For all you existential phenomenologists out... →
Although I disagree with the claim that seeing a tool “automatically triggers a simulation of using it,” (I think that upon seeing a tool, it can be that a simulation is triggered, but it isn’t necessary) it’s still a worthwhile read in light of analytic philosophy of mind.
I can accept the inevitability of my own death. My partner’s however, inevitably scares me to death.
Good Connection Really Does Lead to Mind Meld... →
psychotherapy:
When two people experience a deep connection, they’re informally described as being on the same wavelength. There may be neurological truth to that.
Brain scans of a speaker and listener showed their neural activity synchronizing during storytelling. The stronger their reported connection, the closer the coupling.
The experiment was the first to use fMRI, which measures blood...
Robert Reich: The Rich and the Rest of Us →
Forty of America’s richest families or individuals – almost all billionaires – have pledged to donate at least half their fortunes to charity. The total is a whopping $125 billion. Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates reached out to some 80 members of the Forbes billionaires list, seeking…
