Happiness and joyful splendor
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"Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in any truth that is taught in life." -Freidrich Schiller.
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Carl Jung :: The Shadow :: THE UNSEEN AND THE UNKNOWN :: Fairy Tales :: Mythos :: Vipassana meditation :: The Perennial Philosophy and Transpersonal Psychology :: Raw Vision :: THE BLACK PAINTINGS BY GOYA :: Alex Grey :: I love exploring my own creativity and pushing limits in my work- steel sculpture and abstract paintings emphasizing color and texture :: The healing potential of FLOW :: The writings of Mihaly Csikszentmihaly :: ART AS MEDICINE :: ART AS TRANSCENDENCE :: I believe the only true way to be awake is to have a passion that brings joy above and beyond the ordinary :: I want to inspire people to find their passion and live it :: Peonies :: THE STORY OF MEDEA :: Coast to Coast am :: Dark chocolate with chili peppers :: Seeing the world and taking risks
CURRENT MOON moon info
I'd like to meet:
astronomers, astrophysicists and aerospace engineers :: creatures that fly :: other magical thinkers :: wanderlustful :: inspiration :: book readers :: nerds, brainiacs and genius :: those with extraordinary vocabularies :: WISH FULFILLMENT AND THE MANIFESTATION OF DREAMS :: countless cupcakes :: magical carpets and spaceships
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"I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver
Music:
the sounds of being in water and under water
Movies:
Suspira :: Blade Runner :: The Science of Sleep and Pan's Labrynth :: The Lives of Others :: Mifune :: Taxi Driver :: The Idiots and Dogville :: The Royal Tennenbaums :: Breakfast at Tiffanys :: Open Hearts :: Hideous Kinky (which inspired me to take an equally impulsive journey to Morroco) :: Amelie :: Hotel (Figgis) :: Gandhi :: Medea by Von Trier :: Wong Kar Wai :: A clockwork orange (and the stanley kubrik stare) :: Me, You and Everyone We Know :: Satyajit Ray: Devi and everything else he has ever made :: Harold and Maude and my favorite film maker- Deepa Mehti: FIRE, EARTH and WATER are completely and utterly amazing
Books:
are my addiction :: The Three Princes of Serendip (Horace Walpole) :: Initiation (Elizabeth Haich) :: Salman Rushdie :: Aldous Huxely :: Murakami :: The poetry of Mary Karr :: Mary Oliver :: J.D. Salinger :: Ken WIlber and Ralph Waldo Emerson :: Henry David Thoreau ("To be awake, is to be alive") :: Damian (Herman Hesse) :: The Moon and Six Pence :: OF HUMAN BONDAGE and The Razor's Edge- actually everything by Somerset Maughem :: Rumi :: The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway) :: Anais Nin :: Banana Yoshimoto :: Sadhana :: V.S. Naipaul :: Jamal Mahjoub :: The Way of the Shaman :: Herzog :: A Passage to India (E.M. Forester) :: Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying (Dalai Lama) :: I love memoirs :: Gustave Flaubert :: Baudelaire :: e.e. cummings ("Somewhere I Have Never Traveled..." I will marry the individual that reads this poem to me) :: Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon and Beloved :: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke) :: Habiz :: Kabir :: Hildegard of Bingen......everything ever published on art therapy and the creative process :: Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucinations :: The Witch Must Die: How Fairy Tales Shape Our Lives (Sheldon Cashdan) :: The Archetypal Cat (Patricia Dale-Green)
Heroes:
or better yet, those that leave me spellbound :: Arundhati Roy :: Medea :: Sinead O' Connor :: Audrey Hepburn :: Lars Von Trier :: Joan of Arc :: Gandhi :: Mother Teresa :: Deepa Mehti :: My strong, wise and spirited Nana :: My namesake, Antonia Minor, daughter of Octavia Minor and Mark Antony; Priestess of Ceres
