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renata ;)

As above, so below. As within, so without.

About Me


"L'effet c'est moi" - I am the effect !!!
"He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how."
~Fredrich Nietzsche
"Here I sit forming mankind, in my own image, a race resembling me."
~Goethe
If there's something in me which can be taken away, is taken away, then there is nothing that can be taken away. To dance in this moment is a new kind of happiness. It is closer to bliss than excitement and depends on nothing at all like air. Letting go-is awakening. It is not losing-it is breathing in sheer energy of self. There is no loss-it is only a change.Capturing that moment, embracing it, letting it weave its golden threads through me and mapping a constellation of my soul so bright and powerful that it will be strong enough to be a solid foundation for the sky, shall it be flipped upside down-is my new self conquest!
Dancing on the feet of chance removes all the layers of dust that have gathered on the mirror of my consciousness. It removes all the clouds, and the sun emanates with ever brighter light shining forth and there is great clarity, transparency. And on this battlefield of emotions, I declare piece within me. I aspire to see through the barriers and screens, with no thoughts interfering; I venture into seeing. And as I dive into the depths of my essence, bliss becomes very clear, so clear that the distance starts fading and disappearing, it gives me freedom and empowers me with the most intangible liberation of a ripened spirit. That very clarity brings me closer and closer to ME. When I am absolutely clear-bliss is not outside, it is no longer a destination, it is my innermost core. The pilgrim itself is the goal, the seeker is - the sought.
~R
MY PHOTOGRAPHY
"May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect."
~Chuck Palahniuk
"It is not the works, but the belief which is here decisive and determines the order of rank-to employ once more religious formula with a new and deeper meaning,- it is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost."
~Friedrich Nietzsche "Beyond Good and Evil" / The noble soul has reverence for itself

My Interests

reading, philosophy, yoga, organic food, hiking, camping, photography, dancing, people, outdoors, music, cooking, crystal therapy, meditating, natural health, Chakra healing, new places, nature, traveling, the unplanned, the unknown, spontaneous getaways, writing, logic, music, good conversation, anything that stirs passion, creativity, art, family, sushi, book stores, sustainability, henna art (Mehndi), non profits, close friends, concerts, open spaces, thunder storms, tea, history, Indian culture, Tibet, tango, bonfire, Northwest, lakes, coasts, debating, loving...
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
~Dr. Suess

I'd like to meet:

"Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned..." ; )
Chuck P.~
I will never give you my forever... infinity is not among my possessions and forever isn't mine to give away. My only constant is my change, where my better is unknown, and my worse is unthinkable. r

Music:


Muse, Goldfrapp, Radiohead, Imogen Heap, Jeff Buckley, Train, Fiasco, Prince, John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Poe, KT Tunstall, Sia, Jem, Conjure One, David Gilmour, Johnny Cash, Audioslave, Darren Hayes, David Gray, Gipsy Kings, Beatles, Regina Spektor, Chris Cornell, Rasmus, Pink, Dixie Chicks, Massive Attack, Tya, AC/DC, Billie Holiday, Nancy Sinatra, Lara Fabian, Sleepthief, Eagles, Erasure, Pink Floyd, E-type... Abba, did I say Abba!!! lol :)

Movies:

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
~Chuck Palahniuk

"Fight Club"
"Munich"
"Gandhi"
"V for Vindetta"
"The Illusionist"
"Tears of the Sun"
"North Country"
"Malena"
"The Notebook"
"The Pianist"
"Thomas Crown Affair"
"Kill Bill"
"House of Flying Daggers"
"Memoirs of a Geisha"
"Pride and Prejudice"
"The Count of Monte Cristo"
"Nero"
"Supersize me"
"Prestige"
"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need."
~"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk

Television:

NEVER
We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.
~Chuck Palahniuk

Books:

Ralph Waldo Emerson
F. Nietzsche
P. D. Ouspensky
Seneca
Dalai Lama
R. M. Rilke
Hegel
Kahlil Gibran
Eileen Caddy
PAX
J. W. Von Goethe
Marcus Aurelius
A. Einstein
Rumi
Helen Keller
Ann Rand
Joseph Campbell
"No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide."
~Chuck Palahniuk

Heroes:

CHILDREN !!!
"We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.
~David Fincher