i am interested in traveling, i want to see the world; i want to visit other cultures and learn who we collectively are. i want to see the arora borealis in Iceland while i sit naked in a hot spring and i want to visit the Taj Mahal; i want to sit on the beach in Fuji; i want to climb a mountain in New Zealand; i want to see the good, the bad, the repressed, the rich, the poor, the evil side of human behavior and the benevolence that can come from it. I believe there is good in all people: we inherit the evil and ugliness we portray by the society which raises us. As a species we have so much to offer each other. We allow our hearts to be controlled by others. We have habits that we have mistaken for our nature. We are spiritual beings in actuality. i am but one of many beating hearts in this world looking for home.
Favorite Quotes:
*The Earth was not given to us by our parents, but loaned to us by our children*
*When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice*
*Great Spirits have always found violent opposition from Mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence* -Albert Einstein
*When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace*
*Just surrender to the cycle of things, Give yourself to the waves of the Great Change, And when it is time to go, then simply go, Without any unnecessary fuss* -Tao Te Ching, on LIFE.
*Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable* - John F. Kennedy
*Some men see things as they are and say, why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?*-Robert Kennedy
*Love is the Action of Service* - Babaja
*My body is nothing but a clay bowl with a quart of blood, and it's only on loan in the first place. But I have been given the spark of divinity, the ability to say yes to what is true, and no to what is false, and no one can take that away from me* - Andre Mittag
*Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.* ~ Aleister Crowley
*No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.*
~ Alan Watts
*Hope for the earth lies not with leaders but in your own heart and soul. If you decide to save the earth, it will be saved. Each person can be as powerful as the most powerful person who ever lived--and that is you, if you love this planet.* ~Helen Caldicott
*The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live*~Julius K Nyerere
*The phrase "conquest of nature" is certainly one of the most objectionable and misleading expressions of Western languages. It reflects the illusion that all natural forces can be entirely controlled, and it expresses the criminal conceit that nature is to be considered primarily as a source of raw materials and energy for human purposes.*
~A God Within by René Dubos
*In the words of Howard Zinn, "You cannot be neutral on a moving train". Each of us is part of a moving train barrelling towards a concrete wall at a rapidly increasing speed. We must not merely slow down, but reverse course.
Ultimately it is the next generations that will have to bear the fruit of our action or inaction. When our grandchildren ask us what we were doing as the last old growth tree was cut, will we say that we did nothing? Will we say we did nothing when our President took away our civil rights? And what will we say we did when global warming was still preventable?
Simply put, we have entered the age of consequences, and there is no space on the sidelines.
"Evil doesn't have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil* -Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia.
~exerpt from www.commoncirle.net
*All ethics ... rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts ... The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants and animals, or collectively, the land.*
~ Aldo Leopold, conservationist, author, Wilderness Society founder
*If you could fast-forward 10,000 years and do an archaeological dig…you’d find a little line of plastic...What happened to those people? Well, they ate their own plastic and disrupted their genetic structure and weren’t able to reproduce. They didn’t last very long because they killed themselves.* ~ Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, Ph.D.
*If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.* ~Bette Reese
*Thanks to people like (Captain Charles)Moore and (William)McDonough, and media hits such as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, awareness of just how hard we’ve bitch-slapped the planet is skyrocketing. After all, unless we’re planning to colonize Mars soon, this is where we live, and none of us would choose to live in a toxic wasteland or to spend our days getting pumped full of drugs to deal with our haywire endocrine systems and runaway cancer.* ~ Susan Casey for BestLife Magazine Online
*To know and not to act is not to know.* Ancient Chinese Proverb
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Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
Deep peace of the gentle night to you.
Moon and stars pour their healing light on you.
Deep peace of the Light of the World to you.
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My Hawaiian Name is:
Alani Kalia
