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  • Why People Photograph
    Why People Photograph
    by Robert Adams
  • Wild Food: Foraging for Food in the Wild
    Wild Food: Foraging for Food in the Wild
    by Jane Eastoe
  • Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (Shambhala Library)
    Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (Shambhala Library)
    by Chogyam Trungpa
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    The Story of Art: Pocket Edition
    by E.H. Gombrich
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    Breath: A Novel
    by Tim Winton

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Thursday
Mar112010

Being with an Arabian Knight

The one thing I never seem to have is a band-aid.

But the upside is that I have an opportunity to create my own Arabian knight.

I've been reading David Deida's 'Way of the Superior Man'. It's for blokes, but I'm told I possess a lot of masculine energy (this is a step in my attempt to do away with it.. or at least to understand the other species better and know what the ultimate man could/should be like! but I digress...). Deida talks about man's obsession with do do doing, going from task to task, filling up his life with getting things done.
So what if you were suddenly to die? Are you living right at that moment? Full of life and able to gracefully go out? As opposed to woh, wait, I'm not ready! I forgot to live!

Deida suggests that even in the doing of things (which we can't avoid) we can hold ourselves in a being-ness, with our hearts open and really seeing our task in the bigger picture of life and love. Simply, we can 'do' with love.

It just takes a breath to bring you back to being in your doing.

From the number of times I slice my finger with knives, I'm clearly a mindless do-er. So my little Arabian Knight can remind me today to be be be.

[current mood] Ice Coffee & My Text Message Tone

Thursday
Oct222009

The Look of Love

...is in your eyes.

You've heard of rose coloured glasses right? The idea being that if adorned, a person would look at things in a rosy kinda way. Well, I'm taking that one step further. Heart glasses. I'm seeing everything WITH LOVE.

It actually works!!

Not only am I constantly reminded to see 'with love' as around my vision I can see the frame(work) of hearts. But in addition to that, people send the love right back, because they just know that I'm looking with love. And bam I fire it back again. Exponential love!

I have received and given more smiles in the past 48 hours than I have in weeks. It's also been a catalyst for delightful random conversations.

I think topping it off with a very cute dress and a wonder dog is the icing on the love-cake.

I shall travel this way, always. x

[current mood] Juicy Fat Pancakes & David Bowie