Morning Musings: Gratitude
Posted: 05/30/2012 Filed under: Morning Musings | Tags: spirituality, gratitude, Brother David Steindl-Rast, spiritual qualities, david steindl rast, brother david Leave a comment »Gratitude is one of the most important spiritual qualities to cultivate in our consumer obsessed culture, and, unsurprisingly, it is intertwined with the others. Brother David Steindl-Rast speaks more powerfully on the subject than most anyone else I know.
Friday Faves: Channel Surfing, Rules, and Lion-EL
Posted: 05/25/2012 Filed under: Friday Faves | Tags: channel surfing, Eckhart Tolle, Lion-EL, rules 2 Comments »[Every Week I post links to articles, videos, and other goodies I find around the net. Thanks to Tammy Strobel over at Rowdy Kittens for the idea!]
- A friend from Facebook, Nate Loomis, recently shared a project he’s been working on. He does videos on YouTube, and these particular ones star a hand puppet named Lion-EL reading to the camera. Check out his latest one, where Lion-EL reads a book called “Two Frogs in Trouble” here.
Meher Baba on Love
Posted: 05/23/2012 Filed under: Quote | Tags: Love, Meher Baba 1 Comment »Love has great powers, and love is the shortest and easiest path to Self-Realization.
Only through love can Realization be attained.
-Meher Baba
Friday Faves: Generosity, Pop Culture, Tech, and Food
Posted: 05/18/2012 Filed under: Friday Faves | Tags: cell phones, eating, food, generosity, Matt Madeiro, Michael Pollan, pop culture 1 Comment »[Every Week I post links to articles, videos, and other bits of inspiration I find around the net. Thanks to Tammy Strobel over at Rowdy Kittens for the idea!]
- 75 Day-Brightening Stories of Generosity
- the Troubling Nature of Pop Culture
- How to Eat Well (Also check out his first post on How to Live Well) I don’t agree with EVERYTHING Matt says here, but I think he’s got some good ideas.
- Michael Pollan: in Defense of Food
Morning Musings: Do One Thing
Posted: 05/16/2012 Filed under: Morning Musings | Tags: multitasking Leave a comment »Do one thing.
Then stop. Breath in. Breath out. Then go on to the next task.
As the turn of the last century approached, and technology advanced, multitasking became the word of the day. Check e-mail and take a phone call at the same time. Watch YouTube and working on your history paper. Take a walk with an iPod blaring. Sadly, multi-tasking is a pipe-dream. We’ve become more distracted and worn down in large part because we’ve tricked ourselves into thinking we can do multiple tasks at the same time.
So today, try doing just one thing. What that one thing is doesn’t matter, as long as you aren’t doing anything else. Do this, and that one task may just be the highlight of the day. Yes, this does relate back to time travel.
Friday Faves: How to Live Well, Okinawa, and the Fast Food Nation
Posted: 05/11/2012 Filed under: Friday Faves | Tags: Dr Bradley Wilcox, Dr Dean Ornish, Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, healing, health, leo babauta, Okinawa Leave a comment »[Every Week I post links to articles, videos, and other bits of inspiration I find around the net. Thanks to Tammy Strobel over at Rowdy Kittens for the idea!]
-Dr Bradley Wilcox: the Okinawa Program (In the middle of the book at the moment. Highly recommended)
-Dr Dean Ornish: Healing and Other Natural Wonders
-Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation
Change
Posted: 05/10/2012 Filed under: Quote | Tags: Steve Jobs Leave a comment »Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
-Steve Jobs
Morning Musings: Time Travel
Posted: 05/08/2012 Filed under: Morning Musings | Tags: Back to the Future, Doctor Who, Eckhart Tolle, Michael Brown, now, presence, time travel 1 Comment »[Morning Musings are occasional short posts of no more than 250 words meant to inspire. Look for one or two a week.]
Time travel has been a lifelong interest of mine. When I was little I built at least a couple cardboard time machines and played with them for ages. As I got older, I was introduced to Back to the Future and Doctor Who, and love both franchises immensely. If I could I’d jump in the Delorean in a heart-beat, and the idea of tagging along with the Doctor through time and space still sounds attractive.
We really don’t need a Delorean because every single one of us time travels all the time. All of us have, at some point, traveled somewhere only to realize upon arriving that we have no idea how we got from point A to point B. This lack of presence is in a very real sense time travel.
One of the best things we can possibly do for ourselves is learn to stop doing this. The good news? Starting isn’t even remotely as hard as we might think. If we’re walking somewhere, we can choose to turn our iPod off, take the earbuds out, and look around. When we’re talking to someone in the same room, we can turn our cell phone off and not respond to it until the conversation is over. Start meditating, learn to be comfortable just being there with the breath. Stop time traveling and live here and now.
Friday Faves: Learning, Universal Skills, and Why Fiction is Good for You
Posted: 05/04/2012 Filed under: Friday Faves | Tags: fiction, learning, skills Leave a comment »[Every Week I post links to articles, videos, and other bits of inspiration I find around the net. Thanks to Tammy Strobel over at Rowdy Kittens for the idea!]
-What I’ve Learned About Learning
-12 Universal Skills You Need to Succeed at Anything
Third Article on Yahoo! Voices
Posted: 04/30/2012 Filed under: Announcements Leave a comment »I’ve got another article up on Yahoo! Voices, this one is for my fellow meditators, but still interesting reading for others. If you haven’t tried meditation yet, I highly recommend it.
5 Tips for Beginning Meditators
