BREAST CANCER AWARENESS
"For My Other Mother"
Reading, Writing, blogging, MySpace, Music, Poetry, Psychiatry, Psychology, Philosophy, Literature, Eastern Cultures, Cooking, My Daughter, My Friends, My cat Sushi, Rob Thomas, Johnny Depp, James Dean, travel, road trips, flea markets, estate sales, shoe shopping, Books, Any Book store, coffee, sleep, thunderstorms, the lake, the mountains, camping, gardening, collecting, photography, learning new things, meeting new people, Dos Equis Beer, Japanese Plum Wine, Vodka & Seven, Mexican Food, Italian Food, Indian Food, Chinese, lobster, crab & shrimp, late night breakfast, fresh pineapple, candles, a hot bath, quiet alone time.
I'd like to meet:
Rob Thomas just to hear him sing, M.Night Shyamalan just to get into his mind, Sigmund Freud just for his analysis, Dalai Lama just for his spiritual counsel, Frank Lloyd Wright just to build me a house, Cleopatra just for a tour of "her" Egypt, and Johnny Depp just to look at him!
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.â€
~Siddhartha
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.â€
~Siddhartha
"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."~Sigmund Freud
And to sit and think of all the desires and hearbreaks
I tend to believe it has been delussional. There are only desires. There are only dreams. There are only memories. There are only past and present. There are only time pieces and pieces of time. Locked. Saved. Not Permitted.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
~Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
If I were a tree among trees, a cat among animals, this life would have a meaning, or rather this problem would not arise, for I should belong to this world. I should be this world to which I am now opposed by my whole consciousness and my whole insistence upon familiarity. This ridiculous reason is what sets me in opposition to all creation. I cannot cross it out with a stroke of a pen.
~Zen Quote by Albert Camus.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
~Mahatma Gandhi
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
~Carl Jung
I am fulfilled. The elements of nature,the body and the ses, what are they to me? Or the mind? What is emptiness or depair? ~Ashtavakra Gita 20:1
Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart--a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water--I partake of that love offering. Whatever you do, make it an offering to me--the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering. In this way you will be freed from the bondage of karma, and from its results both pleasant and painful. Then, firm in renunciation and yoga, with your heart free, you will come to me.
~Bhagavad Gita 9:26-28
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion.
For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.- Tirukkural 25: 241-242
“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead."
All sorrow comes from fear.From nothing else. When you know this, You become free of it, And desire melts away. You become happy and still.- Ashtavakra Gita 11:5
“One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.â€
Grief is a humble angel who leaves you with strong clear thoughts and a sense of your own depth. Depression is a demon who leaves you appalled!
"Humanity is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move." ~ Arabian Proverb
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Music:
Rob Thomas,Matchbox Twenty,
Evanescence,Seal,Eric Clapton,
Nina Simone,Kelly Clarkson,
Kidd Rock,Eminem,Kanye West,
Daughtrey,Three Doors Down,
Greenday,Metallica,
Three Days Grace,Foo Fighters
Linkin Park,Goo Goo Dolls,
Guns&Roses,Elton John~Boston,
Kansas,Enigma,Loreena McKinnit,
Blues,Indie,Ambient,Ethnic
Movies:
M.Night Shyamalan movies:
Signs~The Sixth Sense~
Unbreakable~The Village~
Lady in the Water~The Happening~
~Others: Blood Diamond~
~The Beach~
The Departed~Babel~
Shawshank Redemtion~
The English Patient~
~Out of Africa~
A Beautiful Mind~
Girl Interrupted~
The Green Mile~
What's Eating Gilbert Grape~
Finding Neverland~Pulp Fiction~
Goodfellas~Blow~The Libertine~
Crash~To Kill A Mockingbird~
Bridges of Madison County~
"The Libertine"
(The best of Johnny Depp, I think)
Television:
The Tudors, HOUSE, E.R.,Scrubs,Greys Anatomy,Planet Earth,American Idol,Everybody Loves Ray, Roseanne,News Junkie, National Geographic,Discovery, History,Sundance & IFC channels.
Books:
Siddhartha,Poisonwood Bible,A Fine Balance, Shantaram,Of Spirits & Madness, Life of Pi, Dark Star Safari, Biographies,Psychology,
Philosophy,Medical Journals
on Psychaitry or Mental Health
and of course Poetry.
Heroes:
My Dad is my Hero!
PiscesFebruary 19—March 20 Neptune, God of the Sea and master of illusion and mystery, rules Pisces. Those born under this sign have an affinity for the performing arts, music, writing…anything that allows them to dream and create a more beautiful world. This same tendency toward illusion can also be expressed in self-delusion, as Pisces would rather ignore anything that isn’t in keeping with their lovely vision of the world. Pisceans possess a high level of emotional intelligence, easily perceiving the feelings of those around them, which makes them wonderful teachers and guides of the soul.
