God, motherhood, spirituality, mysticism, being a compassionate soul, individuation, tea of all kinds, poetry, the music of the world, shining a light, practicing peace, seeking wisdom, being accepting and adaptable, silent films, natural medicine, photography, books books books and more books.
I'd like to meet:
People who love to read...people who have opinions...people who aren't superficial...people who live in or around Fayetteville and NW Arkansas. If you know who Henry Miller is then I love you already! I have such an amazing bunch of friends! I have been truly blessed by the presence of so many free-spirited, fun loving people in my life! Thanks to every single one of you for being YOU!
I WANT TO LIVE...
WHERE SOUL MEETS BODY
The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
~Atisha
"Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind become still.
The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
They grow and flourish and then return to the source."
~Lao Tzu
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
May it be sweet milk,
this marriage, like wine and halvah.
May this marriage offer fruit and shade
like the date palm.
May this marriage be full of laughter,
our every day a day in paradise.
May this marriage be a sign of compassion,
a seal of happiness here and hereafter.
May this marriage have a fair face and a good name,
an omen as welcome
as the moon in a clear blue sky.
I am out of words to describe
how spirit mingles in this marriage.~Rumi
I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:How are you?I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:What is God?If you think that the Truth can be known
From words,If you think that the Sun and the OceanCan pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,O someone should start laughing!
Someone should start wildly Laughing –Now!~Hafiz
Music:
Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, Sigur Ros, Brian Eno, Kronos Quartet, Antony and the Johnsons, Animal Collective, Rufus Wainwright, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Iron and Wine, Ravi Shankar, Sage Francis, Jolie Holland, The Be Good Tanyas, Peter Gabriel, Tangerine Dream, Mogwai, John McLaughlin, Tool, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Jaco Pastorious, The Postal Service, Cat Power, Victor Wooten, Mazzy Star, The Flaming Lips, Kaki King, Death Cab For Cutie, Pink Floyd, Spiritualized, all jazz is good jazz, blues, instrumental, classical, bluegrass, folk, progressive, acoustic, down tempo, trance, ambient, experimental, indie, anything with SOUL!
"Into every life a little rain must fall"
Movies:
Into the Wild, Waking Life, Henry and June, Holy Smoke, The Dreamers, High Art, Surviving Picasso, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The World According to Garp, Ten to Chi To, The Secretary, The Abyss, Dead Poets Society, What Dreams May Come, The Wall, Donnie Darko, Basquiat, Brother Sun Sister Moon, Vincent and Theo, Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, Legends of the Fall
Television:
The Daily Show, Antiques Roadshow, Bizarre Foods
Books:
The Urantia Book, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Hermann Hesse, The Tao of Pooh, The Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh, D.H. Lawrence, Tao Te Ching, The beautiful poetry of Rumi, Hafiz and Rabindranath Tagore, books on Zen, Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, Mysticism, all poetry. I have a very large collection of Henry Miller's works which I treasure with all of my heart.
Heroes:
Meister Eckhart, Henry Miller, Ferdinand Cheval, John Muir, Chris McCandless
If I speak in the tongues of men and angels,
but have not love,
I have become sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing.And if I dole out all my goods, and
if I deliver my body that I may boast
but have not love, nothing I am profited.Love is long suffering,
love is kind,
it is not jealous,
love does not boast,
it is not inflated.It is not discourteous,
it is not selfish,
it is not irritable,
it does not enumerate the evil.
It does not rejoice over the wrong, but rejoices in the truthIt covers all things,
it has faith for all things,
it hopes in all things,
it endures in all things.Love never falls in ruins;
but whether prophecies, they will be abolished; or
tongues, they will cease; or
knowledge, it will be superseded.For we know in part and we prophecy in part.But when the perfect comes, the imperfect will be superseded.When I was an infant,
I spoke as an infant,
I reckoned as an infant;when I became [an adult],
I abolished the things of the infant.For now we see through a mirror in an enigma, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know as also I was fully known.But now remains
faith hope and love,these three;but the greatest of these is love.1 Corinthians 13: 1-13
