if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.
if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.
go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.
if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.
do it, do it, do it.
do it.
all the way
all the way.
you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter, its
the only good fight
there is
Charles Bukowski
"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves."
Mary Oliver
I'd like to meet:
The One that loves what he can see, Corita Kent, Robin Arutt, Robert Shetterly, Axel Braun, Amy in Canada, Walt Whitman, Josh Ritter, Mother Jones, Emma Goldman, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Leonard Cohen, Sam Harris, EDDIE, Jeff Torrens, Sarah Silverman, Juan Mann, Teilhard de Chardin, Mary Oliver, Angela Welty
, Martin Luther King, Jr., Grace Ashby, M. Durt, Andy Goldsworthy, Alex Grey, Domingo S. Ortiz, Mr. Emerson, ju & Thoreau in Moab
, Paul Coelho, Alan Watts, John Trudell, Woody Harrelson, Rob Brezsny, Geronimo, Edward Abbey, Daniel
, Ty Pennington, Cytheria, John Bell, Fred Rogers, Susan Sarandon, Viktor Frankl, Mick Mars, RAMTHA, Tony Robbins, Bruce Dickenson, Carson Chinn
, Jack Johnson, Sue Johanson, Tom Robbins, people with dirt under their nails, Dr. Seuss...and anyone up on here that believes in innards...and themselves.
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me nave or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
Anais Nin
“So, the path of the co-creator is to be awakened spiritually within, which then turns into your own deeper life purpose, which then makes you want to reach out and touch others in a way that expresses self and really evolves our communities and our world. Certainly, we can't do that unless we activate ourselves first. That's why, for me, emergence is the shift from ego to essence. That is so important.â€
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching. . . . I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.â€
Charles Dickens from 'Great Expectations'
“You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.â€
~Jean Shinoda Bolen
"...they told you life is hard
It's misery from the start
It's dull and slow and painful
I tell you life is sweet
In spite of the misery
There's so much more
Be grateful
Who do you believe?
Who will you listen to
Who will it be?
It's high time that you decide
In your own mind..."
~Natalie Merchant
from 'Life Is Sweet'
Music:
ECHO WEST, everything that comes from Daniel, Ginger Hustlers (check them out on myspace!),
Portishead, Billy Idol, Leonard Cohen, Jerry Joseph, Joe Purdy, Hole, Eartha Kitt, Punany Poets, Art G, Sofa Surfers, Ednaswap, Jake White, Ben Lee, Tim Buckley, George Winston, Steel Pulse, Poe, Folk Implosion, General Public, Rachid Taha, DJ Krush, Black Sabbath, Foo Fighters, BLACK UHURU, Steely Dan, SHATNER, Juliette Lewis & the Licks, Jim Morrison, Enigma, Hobbs, NM, Boozoo Bajou, Widespread Panic, Marley, Good Charlotte, BLU MAR TEN, Janis, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, the sound of my daughter living
, WOLFMOTHER, Blondie, Devendra Banhart, Fiona, N. Young, Drive-By Truckers
Erosion, Drivin' n Cryin', Madonna, Cornershop, Peter Gabriel, Queen, The Reindeer Section, John Prine, Thievery Corp, Superaloof, Jackmormons, Black Eyed Peas with FUNK, Live, Coldplay, drums of any kind with purpose or chaotic, whatevah as long as it's inspiraling the one who owns the hands, Shabba Ranks, HOBEX, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Metallica, the music I hear when I read an Edward Abbey book, Richmond Fontaine, Ben Harper, LOUD, FAST, BRILLIANT GUITAR MUSIC...whistling without noticing, the living sounds my soft skinned envelope makes and he folds me inside him under the moon, Heather Nova, Hedwig, The Tom Collins, Kevn Kinney, Pixies, Tori, Iron Maiden, Bill Withers, Groove Armada, Rage Against the Machine, Daughters of the Nile (where'd'ya go??), Butch Walker, Whiskeytown, Rufus Wainwright, crickets vs campfire crackle, Too Short, Enya, anyone who speaks thier truth, Eels, Beastie Boys, Sons Of Nothing, Johnny Cash, Type O Negative, Spoken Word, Chris Sick, Mazzy Star, Face to Face, Simon & Garfunkel, Mark Brut, the wind, Dan Whitley, Go Go's, Miles, Lita Ford, Mother Love Bone, Natalie Merchant, Hexbelt, Rancid, No Doubt, Pantera, Arthur... my favorite willow tree whispering priceless wisdom via fairy-suede tenticles that make me feel safe as nothing ever has before in all my years...ever, Ryan Adams, Sublime, The Prodigy, English Beat, Ella Fitzgerald, DJ Quik, Peater Wilkening laughing from his gut, Dangerous Toys, FASTER PUSSYCAT, Belly, Son Volt, Motely Crue, Wax Trio, Stunt Poets, El Fabulouso, Led Zep, North Mississippi Allstars, Pat Benatar, love~swirled sex, Southern Bitch, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Vic Chesnutt, Chris Whitley, the sound that comes from my inner~ness when I raise my head to see the moon (shaaaaaaaaaazam), The Cult, David Gray, early Zombie, NWA~Easy E and Avril...deep, dark tribal sounds that make you stand up and on the carpet...etc, etc...
“Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality.â€
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Movies:
I double dare everyone to watch ZEITGEIST. It's not a film I enjoy, but it is something that I am thankful I was able to see. You see, YOU MATTER. This is all I am here to help you understand. If you have issues with this FACT, get a hold of me. Again, that is why I am here.Here are a few films I enjoyed - Black Snake Moan, American Beauty, The Watcher in the Woods, The English Patient, North Country, Watership Down, The Crucible, Grand Canyon, Clay Pigeons, Tombstone, Little Miss Sunshine, The White Countess, Hamburger Hill, Mulan, Simple Plan, Gia,
Fiddler on the Roof, Dangerous Liaisons, High Art, Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?, Amelie, The Hours, Kalifornia, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Crash (both of them), Waking Life, American Movie, The Dreamers, Secretary, Hideous Kinky, City of God, Unbreakable, WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW?...anything with Crispin Glover...anything with Cytheria.
"I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile."
~Tom Clark
Television:
"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye."
:)
Bill Hicks
“In the good old days, before television that is, people constructed the pleasure of life for themselves. The amused each other and were, in turn, amused. They didn’t just sit and stare.â€
Laurence Olivier 'Sleuth'
"I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy."
Anais Nin
"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."
Abraham Maslow
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"Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls."
RUMI
Books:
...giving them the time they deserve, first of all.
"The more you read the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you'll go!"
Dr. Seuss
***NOTE: I would be more than happy to take any books off your hands that you are getting rid of...anything heading for the recycle bin - let me know. THANKS!
"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."
Henry David Thoreau
Heroes:
~L U C Y~
Every single person who has ever stood their ground when all they were was alone...and found the treasures there...and refuse to deny the stunning light they saw while there in the dark.
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"One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
IT WAS ALREADY LATE ENOUGH,
and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save."
Mary Oliver 'The Journey'
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"MAKE KNOWN THE UNKNOWN""It's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you know that just ain't so."
Satchel Paige
"When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward."
Teilhard De Chardin
"Unless someone like you cares a whole aweful lot, nothing is going to get better...it's not."
Dr. Seuss
"For most of a century, idealistic people have been encouraged to use anger, protest, lobbying, and legal action in order to make the world a better place. While most certainly some of these behaviors and activities were necessary, we have reached the point at which the social benefit of such behaviors is decreasing. We have reached the point at which creation, rather than attack, ought to be the first obligation of reformers. The social entrepreneurship movement is the first tip of this iceberg."
Michael Strong
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anais Nin
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"
Goethe
