Complementary/Alternative therapies, traveling, horse-riding, skiing, water skiing, ice skating, independent/art house cinema, watching live music, Eating out....mmmm food food food.. (Japanese food, Southern Indian food (Idli's and rava dosas are the best!), Swiss cheese fondue and raclette, Ethiopian food, Milo, Penang Hokkien mee, pandan cake and peanut pancakes, strong Danish Liquorice/salmiak, anything with coconut. Going to the Roman baths in Baden Baden in Germany, Flea Markets, watching polo on ice in St Moritz, the Lake Palace in Rhajistan, sleeping, white sandy beaches, the Sanai desert, love animals (particularly the furry, friendly kinds).
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl G. Jung
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Ben Harper, Mujaji, Tim and Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Badly Drawn Boy, The Coral, Four Tet, Bonobo, Cinematic Orchestra, Thievery Corporation, Gotan Project, Telefon Tel Aviv, Sufjan Stevens, Lemonjelly, Talvin Singh, Nasrat Fateh Ali Khan, Amadou and Mariam, Agelique Kidjo, Nitin Sawhney, Mulatu Astatke, Lhasa de Sela, Dead Can Dance, Groove Armada, DJ Shadow, The Pixies, Antony and the Johnsons, Soundtrack to 2046, Nina Simone, Cal Tjader, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, John Martyn, Johnny Cash, Ryan Adams, Ray Lamontagne, Six by Seven, St Etienne, Jose Gonzalez, Massive Attack, Doves, Sigur Ros, Kings of Convenience, Husky Rescue, Boards of Canada, Cocteau Twins, 10 000 Maniacs, lots of independant down tempo/ambient stuff...
Belleville Rendez-vous,Richard Linklater films- Before Sunset and Waking Life, La Peuple Migrateur,The Edukators, Goodbye Lenin, 2046, All Almodovar films, The Magdalene Sisters, Broken Flowers, A Life Aquatic, O Brother where art thou?, The Unbelievable Truth- Hal Hartley, Walk the Line, Inventing the Abbots, Documentaries, Baraka, Koyaanisquatsi and Powasqqatsi, Indian indie films (Everybody says I'm Fine).
Lost, Northern Exposure (keep watching timeless old episodes), Six Feet Under, Medium, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, Grand Designs, Later with Jools Holland.
The Prophet- Khalil Gibran, Tibetan book of Living and Dying, Books on Energy medicine such as Hands of Light and Light Emerging by Barbara Ann Brennan, Women who run with Wolves, The Secret life of Bees- Sue Monk Kidd, Paolo Coelho books, The Invitation, The Stormy Search for the Self by Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof, Richard Bach Books: Illusions:The Adventures of A Reluctant Messiah, One and The Bridge Across Forever and other transpersonal stuff.
All our guardian angelsNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world:indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.~Margaret Mead