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Bret

The Sleeper Awakes!

About Me

I'm on myspace to find good music, meet new friends and connect with old friends; also to keep an audio/visual diary of my life's passions and interests.

DOORS, THE lyrics What's important to me: Faith, Family, Fellowship, Trust, Honesty, Integrity, Loyalty, Peace and Harmony- the music of life...

I strive to live by the four sublime attitudes of the Buddhist "Brahmavihara Sutra" :
1. Metta/Maitri: loving-kindness towards all; the hope that a person will be well.
2. Karuna: compassion; the hope that a person's sufferings will diminish.
3. Mudita: altruistic joy in the accomplishments of a person, oneself or other.
4. Upekkha/Upeksha: equanimity, or learning to accept both loss and gain, praise and blame, success and failure with detachment, equally, for oneself and for others.
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My Interests

I enjoy most outdoor activities like: kayaking, white-water rafting, hiking, snorkeling, scuba-diving. I enjoy music, concerts, restoring old cars, landscaping, exploring museums, ghost towns, americana, archetecture, archeology and traveling. I help people design renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro) power systems, and energy efficient homes and businesses to encourage a sustainable life on earth. Today's Renewable Energy News

RenewableEnergyAccess.com
How Does Solar Electricity Work?
(thanks, SunTech Power !)


I'd like to meet:

old friends, new friends, spiritual leaders, passionate artisians, good musicians, a trustworthy politician: happy, successfull, honest people in business and in life.

"Once to every man and nation comes a moment to decide; in the strife of truth and falsehood, for the good or evil side. Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight; and the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Though the cause of evil prosper, yet 'tis truth alone is strong; though her portions be the scaffold and upon the throne be wrong. Yet that scaffold sways the future; and behind the dim unknown, standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. And if we will only make the right choice, we will be able to transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of peace. If we will make the right choice, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream" -
James Russell Lowell

"In our end is our beginning; in our time, infinity; In our doubt there is believing, in our life, eternity, In our death, a resurrection; at the last, a victory, Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see."-
Methodist hymm

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Music:

Jimi Hendricks, Led Zeppelin, Yes, ELP, Pink Floyd, Carlos Santanna, The Allman Brothers, Robin Trower, Jethro Tull, Lynard Skynyrd, Larry Correal, Al Green, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Joe Walsh, The Fixx, King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Dixie Dreggs, Return to Forever, Stanley Clark, The Police, Missing Persons, Chic Corea, Allen Holdsworth, The Talking Heads, The Eagles, Jack Johnson, Bella Fleck, Otmar Liebert, Paula Cole, Luther Vandross, Stone Temple Pilots, Audio Slave, Stained, Tool, Rage Against the Machine!
Peter Gabriel, "In Your Eyes" (live 1986 w/ Paula Cole, Tony Levin, Munu Katche on drums)

Television:



Books:

"Mark Twain, a Life" by Ron Powers "Angels and Demons", "The Davinci Code": Dan Brown

Heroes:

Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, Teddy Rosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates

My Blog

You are my sunshine!

My day begins and ends with your "sol"-ful, radiant love  touching my heart like the sun passing over a mountain on a warm, summer day. You are my sunshine! - Bret, aka: "sol"-searcher.....
Posted by Bret on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:59:00 PST

"A human being is part of a whole..."

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the universe; a part limited by time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something seperated from the rest... a kind of opti...
Posted by Bret on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:10:00 PST

"The fallen leaves before us"

The fallen leaves before us, not forgotten, enrich our soul; sustaining growth and changes, helping us to reach our goal. Bret, aka: "Sol" Searcher...
Posted by Bret on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:22:00 PST

Renewable Energy Solutions

Liberal or conservative, with energy costs on the rise, a war in the Middle East and global warming in the news the American public has finally reached a paradigm shift to embrace alternativ...
Posted by Bret on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:33:00 PST