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POPSHave you found your soul place? Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning author, was born and raised in Jackson, MS. His wife’s job as a city planner took them to many cities but when they moved to New Orleans, Ford said he had “an instantaneous recognition.”Even now, living in Maine, he considers New Orleans home. Often we are inspired to build monuments on these sacred grounds: pyramids, cities, stone circles, churches, mosques. Whatever caused our ancestors to pilgrimage to these spots, it is still drawing us as well. Perhaps the earthy taste of freshly squeezed olive oil, never before experienced, causes you to feel as one with the rocky landscape of a Greek island. No matter the reason, we are inexplicably attracted to locations and feel a connection that we cannot readily explain. In their special issue on Sacred Places, U.S. News and World Report states that that these spots are “as varied as the human sense of the sacred and as various as the world’s spiritual traditions.”
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POPS Albert Einstein Quotes on Life more: "What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know an answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life." - Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934. "So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore." but he also said: "I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience."
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POPSInside Art - Doctors and researchers regularly rely on CT scanners to create images of body parts like brains, chests and knees. But an artist-turned-medical-student in Manhattan is using one such machine to peer into the meat and guts of cultural icons like the Big Mac, the Barbie and the iPhone, creating whimsical and occasionally creepy images.
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POPSFirst 100 Days - ala Wiki (Editable) Humorous, fairly moderate satirical, and mostly fictional re-telling of the Obama Administration as it unfolds. Fun reading as it is, and you are the author. I think it's beauty is the lack of bitter, vengeful edits of high partisanship and, while the fictional happenings may seem wild, the narcissistic audacity of our dear leader and crew in reality make these tall-tales seem not so far from being reality on any given day.
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POPSDi Fruscia Photography If you can take a few moments to refresh your view of our world, check this site out. Amazing landscape photography presented in a slide show with wonderfully relaxing soundtrack.
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POPSMei Langfang last pic is from the biopic, just released, of director Chen Kaige ("Farewell My Concubine"). "Mei Lanfang is well-known for his contribution to Peking Opera," Chen Kaige said, "But I'm more interested in his inner charm, the grit he displayed during wartime and his life-long pursuit of beauty."
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POPSSee the inner nobility and beauty of all human beings I am currently reading psychologist, author and Buddhist meditation teacher Jack Kornfield’s The Wise Heart - A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology. I find below, one of the anecdote he shared, very moving. Complete at the source.
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POPSDancing through the "o" in God! Outer world is also tree root and river rock, anthill and cloud. At some point the distinction between inner world and outer world itself dissolves. Years ago I worked with a dance teacher who took us outside to dance under the sky, and we discovered that dancing outside is a special ecstasy, to dance in and with nature. One night she invited us to dance through the o in God. Another night she said we usually assume the soul is a tiny element somewhere inside the body, a bright light in the mind or in the heart. What if the soul is big, bigger than the body, and the body rests inside the soul? As we dance through space, extending feet, hands, elbows, ribs, we are brushing up against our soul, moving in an energetic circle that is our soul. The body inside the soul! Everything turns inside out. The soul becomes as immense as the sky. Dancing with each other, we are moving together in this soulful air.
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POPSSpirituality the adventure in seeking I have studied many religions, and do not belong to any. I have indeed found tremendous spirituality though. I am open I take what I hear, and if it feels right, if it resonates within my soul then I am inclined to adopt my own version of that train of thinking, I am one of Goddess faith, Mother nature, but I also have faith in say, Christ, whom I feel was a wonderful, loving example of a man I would love to be able to emenate in many ways, but that is perfection, from what I understand, and that ,( since I am human) is impossible. So I say go with your inner voice, your intuitive voice, that calls you, that guides you, if one follows this, I don't think you can fail, as a matter of fact you can't fail. Look at all the beauty around you, the mystery, the miracle of life, the feelings of joy, sadness, the whole human experience, there is something out there( defentley) bigger than us loving, mysterious, and all omnipresent.
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POPSTake Piano Lessons Online I have gone through both traditional classical piano education as well as online piano courses. For adults and maybe also for kids I think this is a type of learning, you should be aware of. This article contains a view of why..
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POPSspiritual elevation!? and here she is on clipmarks i think she makes a sound apeal to repentance. Curious how the word master let alone supreme master made me think that it were a man, surprised i wa as it apeared to be a woman.
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POPSHow to be OPTIMISTIC :) In the interest in trying to balance my perspective of this world, I am continuing to try an find celebration. Here is my positive clip for the week.
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