Reading, nature, going for walks, movies, music, metaphysics, art, psychology, alternative medicine.
I'd like to finish writing a book one day...
I think there is no greater joy than being able to wonder at the universe.
If this is a wishlist, then...Maya Angelou, CS Lewis, Akiane Kramarik, Nikola Tesla, Viktor Frankl, Voltaire, Teresa of Avila, Joel Osteen, Dr. David Hawkins, Sting, Chrissy Hynde, Siouxsie Sioux, Fritjof Capra, Edgar Allen Poe, M.C. Escher, Henry David Thoreau, Christopher Reeve, Eleanor Roosevelt.
And the Dalai Lama because he has this wonderful sense of joy and innocence about him that I wonder if that's what real enlightenment is, the ability to feel joy and love without reservation or fear.
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Gabriele~Diana Bode
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Louise L. Hay
The point of power is always in the present moment.
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Dr. David Hawkins
You are subject only to what you hold in mind.
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Lullabyes
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Echoes on NPR
Suzanne Vega, Indigo Girls, Tori Amos, Tracy Chapman, Bjork, The Kinks, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Billie Holliday, Fiona Apple, anything by Gershwin, some musicals like Phantom of the Opera and Rent.
Vivaldi is beautiful and some of the things Mozart has written is like a journey for the spirit.
Cyndi Lauper
Kate Bush
Aimee Mann has one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard, her voice flows like a stream in a melody.
The Eagles, Cat Stevens, America, Jim Croce, Simon & Garfunkle, George Harrison is my favorite Beatle
Films & Music By Tim Burton & Danny Elfman
Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Neil Young, Culture Club, The Creatures, David Bowie, David Bowie, and David Bowie
Stevie Nicks
Concrete Blonde, The Police, Old U2, Inxs, 10,000 Maniacs
The Smiths,Velvet Underground,Arrested Developement, I LOVE THE DIGABLE PLANETS, De La Soul
Tony Bennet, KD Lang, Nat King Cole, Frank Sonatra, and the Gypsy Kings.
I think Mahalia Jackson
has the voice of an angel.
Life is Beautiful, Contact, Invisable Circus, Dancer in the Dark, Somewhere in Time
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Princess Bride
Benny & Joon
The Fountain
Imitation of Life always makes me cry
City Lights
What Dreams May Come, Awakenings, Heathers, Clerks, and Clerks II.
a.i.
Miyazaki's Films
House of Mirth
Beetlejuice, The Dark Crystal, The Last Unicorn, Imitation of Life, Requium for a Dream, Memento, & A Beautiful Mind.
Crouching Tiger~Hidden Dragon, The Fantastic Planet, Magnolia, and Pretty in Pink.
Fantasia
Microcosmos
Jesus of Nazareth
What the Bleep, PI, Farewell my Concubine, Raise the Red Lantern, BladeRunner, Castaway, Romeo and Juliet.
Anything on Animal Planet, Six Feet Under, 60 Minutes, Days of our Lives.
Project Runway, Inuyasha, the wierd Celebrity shows on VH1 are funny.
Nova, A&E, The Science and Discovery channels.
I like the Music Choice channels, Conan O'Brien is Awesome (Insomniacs of the world unite! :) and Real Time is right on.
Mere Christianity, Walden, Man's Search for Meaning, Anthem, Dark Night of the Soul, Planet of the Blind, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Elegant Universe.
Lots of poetry, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, but I love Keats and the Sufi poets because their words are like music that you can get drunk on.
Candide, Watership Down, Girl Interrupted, Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot, Silent Spring,Tao of Physics, and the works of St. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila because of the love and devotion in their writings to God.
Molecules of Emotion
The Giving Tree, Stella Luna, Johnathan Livingston Seagull, We the Living, Creating with the Angels, Joy Luck Club, and the Tao te ching.
David Copperfield is wonderful and has the words:
"And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away. But one face, shining on me like a Heavenly light by which I see all other objects, is above them and beyond them all. And that remains. I turn my head, and see it, in its beautiful serenity, beside me.
My lamp burns low, and I have written far into the night; but the dear presence, without which I were nothing, bears me company. O Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me."
Japanese Fairy Tale
THE FIRST RABBITS
THE children in the sky were all crying. "Boo-hoo," said one. "Boo-hoo," said another. "Boo-hoo," said the rest.
"Children, children, what is the matter?" asked the fairy mother of the sky.
"We've nothing to play," replied one. "There's nothing to do," said another. "We can't play for there's nothing to do," said the rest.
"Why don't you twinkle the stars?" asked the fairy mother of the sky.
"The star lights are all put out," sobbed one. "The sun is shining and the star lights are out," sobbed another. "We can't twinkle the stars when the sun is shining and the star lights are out," sobbed the rest.
"Why don't you beat the thunder drums?" asked the fairy mother of the sky.
"The thunder drums are all broken," sighed one. "We've beaten all the thunder out of them," sighed another. "We can't beat the thunder drums for the thunder is all beaten out of them," sighed the rest.
"Why don't you shake the snow out of the snow sieves?" asked the fairy mother of the sky.
"It won't shake through the sieve," said one. "We've made the snow into balls," said another. '' We can't shake the snow through the sieve when its all made into balls," said the rest.
"Why don't you roll the snowballs?" asked the fairy mother of the sky.
"Oh, we will!" cried one. ''Yes,we will," cried another. "Of course we will," said the rest.
Away they ran to the snowball field.
"Let's throw them," said one. "Let's toss them," said another. ''Let's catch them," said the rest.
Up and down, this way and that way, back and forth, how the white balls danced and flew!
"Oh, look! They're falling through the sky floor," cried one. "They're all falling through the twinkle holes of the stars," said another. "They're falling through the holes down on to the earth," said the rest.
Away the snowballs jumped and bobbed. The star children all began to cry again.
Just then the fairy mother of the sky came with a torch to light the star lamps. "Crying again?" she said. "What's the matter now?"
"Our snowballs all fell through the sky floor," said one. "They all fell through the twinkle holes of the stars," said another. "They've fallen though the holes down on to the earth," said the rest.
"You naughty, naughty snowballs," said the fairy mother of the sky. So she threw her torch after them, but it only scorched their tails and turned them black.
Down on the earth they are hopping still, these soft white balls with their little black tails, and you children call them the rabbits.
CS Lewis
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained
Maya Angeleou
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore, When he beats his bars and he would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core
Nikola Tesla
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Christopher and Dana Reeve
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.