"People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease in their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well." - Abraham Maslow
"Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it." - Sylvia Boorstein
aerosmith, afghan whigs, APC, bad religion, the beatles, beck, blind melon, blur, the bogmen, brand new, bright eyes, buck cherry, bush, butthole surfers, cake, coheed and cambria, coldplay, collective soul, copeland, counting crows, the cranberries, jim croce, cruiserweight, dave mathews band, deathcab for cutie, deftones, the doors, dropkick murphys, bob dylan, the evananthem, franz ferdinand, flogging molly, the flys, foo fighters, garbage, glassjaw, jimi hendrix, incubus, billy joel, elton john, jack johnson, janis joplin, the killers, lucky boys confusion, the mamas and the papas, bob marley, mogwai, alanis morissette, mudhoney, oasis, the offspring, our lady peace, pearl jam, tom petty, phantom planet, pink floyd, the pixies, the postal service, the presidents of the united states of america, queen, radiohead, rammstein, rancid, rage against the machine, red hot chili peppers, reel big fish, REM, bob schneider, secret agent 8, simon and garfunkel, frank sinatra, the slackers, smashing pumpkins, soundgarden, joss stone, sublime, third eye blind, tool, voodoo glow skulls, the who, pete yorn, led zeppelin, novice, porcupine tree, modest mouse, etc.
"What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long." - Denis Leary
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx
as i lay dying, the awakened mind, faith, the fuck-up, hypnotherapy scripts, kill two birds and get stoned, light in august, the making of a psychiatrist, mind games, my point and i do have one, nobody nowhere, of separateness and merging perks of being a wallflower, pleasure zone, poets against the war, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy east and west, roadkill, screaming life, self hypnotism, surrealist games, sybil, the tao of pooh, the teh of piglet, thoughts without a thinker, the vintage book of contemporary american poetry, walden, wicked, etc
"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." - John Barth