From The Four Agreements Companion Book by Don Miguel Ruiz
1) Be impeccable with your word
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoiding using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
2) Don't take anything personally.
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
3) Don't make assumptions.
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
4) Always do your best.
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgement, self-abuse, and regret.
The world will not be destroyed by evil people but by people who watched and didn’t do anything ~
Albert Einstein
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FRIENDS! photography, civics, computer hardware/software, music, film, painting, kanji, drive-ins, holistic/healing arts, sushi, sake officianado, ice cream, anything dark chocolate, gaudyass vintage jewelry and clothing, candle freak, retro/kitch furniture, trivia/pop culture nut, shakin' my groove thang, cocktail culture, thunderstorms, fireplaces, naps, kitties, comicbooks, Vespas, old funk/punk, drag shows, aromatherapy, flowers, laughter, romance, scenic routes, APPLES TO APPLES, owner of a house/petsitting biz and a geek chick...omg!And continue to rage against the machine where i can: www.A28.org, www.hrc.org, www.democracyinaction.org, www.ppaction.org, www.freepress.net, www.moveon.org, www.fair.org, www.CBLDF.org, www.IMPEACHBUSH.org
I'd like to meet:
These guys!
This is a song I've been unable to get out of my head...
Funky and Funny - Thanks to Jemaine & Bret! :D
...and this...well, this one is just too g'damn funny not to post here!Anyone who would like to share some honest convo. Anyone who is not afraid of the ebb and tide of emotions. Anyone who is willing to share themselves openly and are not afraid of who they really are. Life is too damned short...you'll miss an awful lot waiting for life to bump into you while gazing at your shoes. And anyone who doesn't take themselves sooooo g'damn seriously!
*end communication*Deliver me from those who do not tell the truth unless it stings; and from those of good conduct with bad intentions; and from those who acquire self esteem by finding fault in others. - Kahil GibranEach of us has a unique "song" or gift to offer the world. Your song is meant to be sung by you and heard by others. No one else can sing this song but you, and your song is medicine for the healing of the planet. Believe it.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ~ Anais Nin
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Music:
MTV is to music...what KFC is to chicken. ~ Lewis Black
PRINCE, FOO FIGHTERS, BECK Jeff Buckley, NIN, JSBX, Bjork, White Stripes, Ministry, Southern Culture on the Skids, Level 42, Fishbone, Curve, Kozelek, Amos Lee, Swervedriver, Love and Rockets, Depeche Mode, Beck, DCD, Rage Against the Machine (we need them back!), DMB, Ephraim Lewis, Amos Lee, My Bloody Valentine, The Cure, Smiths, Morrisey, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, The Beatles, Godflesh, White Zombie, Jesu, Twilight Singers, Foo Fighers, Tenacious D, The Killers, The Hives, Descendants, BigMFStick, PE, BBoys, Kittie, The Cramps, Stevie Wonder's Musicquarium I, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, Ice T's Freedom of Speech (w/Jello Biafra), Gorillaz, Tool, Perfect Circle, DeeLite, QTip and just about anything funky you can shake yer ass to (and chicks who RAWK!) currently: NIN Year Zero, White Stripes Icky Thump LOUDLY in the Millennium Falcon...Chewy says WOOT.
Movies:
SICKO, V FOR VENDETTA, CHILDREN OF MEN, Secretary, Gene Wilder's Wonka, Harold and Maude, Bowling for Columbine, Chaplin among other silents, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, & Kevin Smith's first lecture DVD (sorry Kevin, the list ends there...still wanna buy ya a beer and give ya a big, fat smooch!) Identity, Hero, The Color Purple, Cold Mountain, Kill Bill Vol I and II, Godfather I and II, Goodfellas, Godzilla vs. anything!, Ed Wood, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Rebel Without a Cause, Giant, Holy Grail, The Rutles, Young Frankenstein, Evil Dead I and II, The Hunger, Eraserhead, FULL...METAL...JACKET, Interview with a Vampire, (you're still reading? I love me some movies...) Lost in Translation, Somethings Gotta Give, As Good as it Gets, Hitchhikers Guide, Tombstone, Unforgiven, first Matrix, Sin City, girly pleasures: Bridges of Madison County and Out of Africa (love Meryl!), Age of Innocence, Dangerous Liasons, Whos Afraid of Virgina Woolfe, Last Samurai, Batman Begins, Unbreakable, Memoirs of a Geisha, Crash, Henry and June, Mirrormask, Xmen and how did I forget PECKER (love John Waters)!! SO many more I've failed to mention! Oh yes...I am a woman who ADORES Kate Beckinsale and any movie with Johnny Depp and James DeFranco
Television:
FLIGHT OF THE MUTHA FLIPPIN CONCHORDS!!!! Current_tv, Weeds, Bill Maher, Colbert Report, Hardball, Larry King. Mostly movies rather than shows...commercials are evil.
I do love to watch Colts play football!
And this brilliant man...best Daily Show EVER
Books:
Authors Kalil Gibran, e. e. cummings, Neil Gaiman, Henry Miller, Robert M. Persig (thanks Dave...for the Chomsky too!), Anais Nin, Don Miguel Ruiz, Douglas Adams, Tolkien, Rowling, Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting : The Astonishing Power of Feelings: by Lynn Grabhorn (buy it NOW) Liam Sweeny(Anna's Myspace Book). Loved The Da Vinci Code and obsessed with this topic... The Fine Art of Propaganda / A study of Father Coughlin's Speeches, copyright 1939 (incredibly eyeopening and relevant!) Laurie Notaro. (I need to buy this woman a pitcher of margaritas! Thanks Kristin!)
Currently: HP and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling.
Shameless plug for my dear friend from childhood (who IS NOW A MYSPACER...YAYS!) She works in the library industry and loves books, she got me started reading things that my sponge-like brain may never have picked up when in HS, so check out her blog now OR DESPAIR! READ DAMMIT IT PISSES OFF THE RIGHT!
The Bookbabe!
Give her an add, show her some love!
Heroes:
~ My grandmothers Marjorie and Lucille ~
~ My Aunt Mickey and Aunt Stephanie ~
(together over 30 years)
&
~ Annie Leibovitz ~
Never let it be said that, "It's only your imagination." In the saga of life, your imagination is everything. It is your creative faculty. It has, quite simply, the power and the potential to change the world.
"Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage." ~ Anais Nin
"...to startle the lifeless ones from their profound slumber, let us congratulate ourselves; for the tragedy of our world is precisely that nothing any longer is capable of rousing it from its lethargy. No more violent dreams, no refreshment, no awakening. In the anesthesia produced by self-knowledge, life is passing, art is passing, slipping away from us: we are drifting with time and our fight is with shadows.
We need a blood transfusion" - Henry Miller
The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, suffering, struggle, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen." Elizabeth Kubler Ross
"You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes." Buckminster Fuller, mathematician and philosopher who never graduated from college but received 46 doctorates
He who pities a woman, depreciates her.
He who attributes to her the evils of society oppresses her.
He who thinks her goodness is of his goodness and her evil of his evil is shameless in his pretensions.
But he who accepts her the way she is does her justice. - Kahil Gibran
"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed" - Frank Lloyd Wright"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
