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Donna

forget and allow

About Me

The Message

This is the message of the heart, the way of the heart. Go inside. Find the inner self. Learn to live with it. Learn to listen to the voice that you call conscience, which is coming out of it. Obey it fearlessly. Learn to give, in the true confidence that giving brings more and more for you to give, whereas keeping only sours the gift. Then we find this extraordinary miracle of anyone of us perhaps becoming a saint, who receives and receives unlimitedly, to go on giving, not retaining anything for himself, knowing that in that is his existence.

Taken from Heart to Heart Vol. 4, chapter "Way of the Heart" p. 40 - by Rev. Chariji

My Interests

"back in those days, everything was simpler and more confused..."

I'd like to meet:

Can you picture what will be so limitless and free desperately in need of some stranger's hand
in a desperate land.

Music:

Tell me when, tell me how
I wanna know all the details
Who and why, and the reasons
Is there a choice, I need to hurt myself.
I hear a voice that stops me falling
Another day could be dawning
I have to try, I need to let go
And I know
NOTHING STAYS THE SAME.

Movies:

V for Vendetta
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
There are no coincidences, Delia... only the illusion of coincidence.
There's no certainty - only opportunity.
~
Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas
How long could we maintain? I wondered. How long until one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family; will he make that grim connection when my attorney starts screaming about bats and huge manta rays coming down on the car? If so, well, we'll just have to cut his head off and bury him somewhere, 'cause it goes without saying that we can't turn him loose. He'd report us at once to some kind of outback Nazi law enforcement agency and they'll run us down like dogs. Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?
~
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Look up idiot in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?
A picture of me?
No! The definition of idiot. Which you fucking are!

Television:

no

Books:

Autobiography of a Yogi
~ by Paramahansa Yogananda
Samadhi
Vanished the veils of light and shade,
Lifted every vapor of sorrow,
Sailed away all dawns of fleeting joy,
Gone the dim sensory mirage.
Love, hate, health, disease, life, death:
Perished these false shadows on the screen of duality.
The storm of maya
stilled
By magic wand of intuition deep.
Present, past, future, no more for me,
But ever-present, all-flowing I, I, everywhere.
Planets, stars, stardust, earth,
Volcanic bursts of doomsday cataclysms,
Creation's molding furnace,
Glaciers of silent X-rays, burning electron floods,
Thoughts of all men, past, present, to come,
Every blade of grass, myself, mankind,
Each particle of universal dust,
Anger, greed, good, bad, salvation, lust,
I swallowed, transmuted all
Into a vast ocean of blood of my own one Being.
Smoldering joy, oft-puffed by meditation
Blinding my tearful eyes,
Burst into immortal flames of bliss,
Consumed by tears, my frame, my all.
Thou art I, I am Thou,
Knowing, Knower, Known as One!
Tranquilled, unbroken thrill, eternally living, ever-new peace,
Enjoyable beyond imagination of expectancy, samadhi bliss!
Not an unconscious state
Or mental chloroform without willful return,
Samadhi but extends my conscious realm
Beyond limits of the mortal frame
To farthest boundary of eternity
Where I, the Cosmic Sea,
Watch the little ego floating in Me.
Mobile murmurs of atoms are heard,
The dark earth, mountains, vales, lo! molten liquid!
Flowing seas change into vapors of nebulae!
Aum blows upon vapors, opening wonderously their veils,
Oceans stand revealed, shining electrons,
Till, at the last sound of the cosmic drum,
Vanish the grosser lights into eternal rays
Of all-pervading bliss.
From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.
Ocean of mind, I drink all creation's waves.
Four veils of solid, liquid, vapor, light,
Lift aright.
I, in everything, enter the Great Myself.
Gone forever: fitful, flickering shadows of mortal memory;
Spotless is my mental sky - below, ahead and high above;
Eternity and I, one united ray.
A tiny bubble of laughter, I
Am become the Sea of Mirth itself.

My Blog

mama i'm coming home

i'm going home i'm leaving you this time perhaps for good i say thank you my love i hate you with the sweetest smile and not quite tears and hands that shake in joyful anticipation of our endless sepa...
Posted by Donna on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:54:00 PST

Gokarna

"Set behind a broad white-sand beach, with the forest-covered foothills of the Western Ghats forming a backdrop, GOKARNA, seven hours by bus north of Mangalore, is among India's most scenically situat...
Posted by Donna on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:08:00 PST

We will fight for Bovine Freedom: for Koop.

The cows that have crossed my path during my coast across this continent, in chronological order: Almost a cow. There's a footprint in that.  My footprint....
Posted by Donna on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:31:00 PST

Udupi

We visited Udupi mid December... I've been a bit slow with the blog!! Udupi is on the west coast of Karnataka state, 58km north of Mangalore.  It's one of south India's holiest Vaishnavite centre...
Posted by Donna on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:19:00 PST

Sravanabelagola

Sravanabelagola, Karantaka, India: Gomateshvara, or Bahubali, who was the son of the legendary King Rishabdev of Ayodhya (better known as Adinath, the first tirthankara), had a row with his elder ...
Posted by Donna on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:13:00 PST

Indian Images Issue 2

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Posted by Donna on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 05:05:00 PST

Indian Images Issue I

Day 7 in India.  Here are some photos from the past few days... ~ exquisite bonsai garden ~~ beneath a coconut tree - where I wanna be ~~ no introduction required ~~ Ganesh Temple Road, my Mysore...
Posted by Donna on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:05:00 PST

Power Apart

Power apartI hear you, my HeartBut why only today?Was I wrong to let you stray?Are you screaming silentlyFrom somewhere far away?If I come rescue you,Will you promise to stay?...
Posted by Donna on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:08:00 PST

we're all under it

Bombay Hills, Auckland, NZAvondale, Auckland, NZBombay Hills, Auckland, NZCoorg, IndiaLondonNoosa, Sunshine Coast, AustraliaChiang Mai, ThailandWaitemata Harbour, Auckland, NZTiritiri Matangi Island,...
Posted by Donna on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:40:00 PST

Faith

I sit on the pier, smoulderingmy feet dangling in crystaline watersaqua bluewatching gentle undulating patterns ofwater whisperson the sea bedtiny iridescent fish swim lazily beneatheach moment a new ...
Posted by Donna on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:56:00 PST