Aimee Mullins

This needs no introduction-- enjoy :)

excerpt from 'Self Reliance' by Ralf Waldo Emerson

These are the voices, which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and the culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity.

Self Reliance is it’s aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Closing comments from KD interview

It's 3 minutes to 11 at night, it still feels like 30 degrees. I am acutely aware that it's been a while between posts ;)

I have just finished transcribing the interview that I did with Krishna Das (KD), in December, for the book and it's an absolute treat to go back through some of the incredible wisdom.

I thought I would share the closing comments from the interview, as I think given the last year, it's all to easy to beat yourself up with how it might not have reached our expectations for how we think it should have looked.

Hope you enjoy!

" Just remember this, there might be times when you feel that it’s not going to be ok. That’s part of the process too. Going under, coming up, going under coming up. Ultimately what we want to develop is the strength to meet every moment as it comes. Even if we have terrible feelings of despair and anxiety and fear, we try to develop this ability to know that this will pass. I’ll get through this. And through practice I think, gradually as those waves come over us they don’t bury us under water for so long. But sometimes it’s inevitable to go under you know. One shouldn’t think that one has failed, if one has gone under – it’s part of the process of life.

Ramana Maharishi also said that everything that happens to us is written when we are born, everything that is going to happen. ‘The only freedom we have is in the moment. How we meet each moment, how we meet each experience.” All the practices we do, bring us more into the moment, give us more of a sense of confidence in ourselves, and in just being.

And from that deeper place, we can meet all the difficult things that come to us in life and all of the wonderful things that come to us in life, without being totally washed away by them or absorbed in them or lost in them. We can enjoy the beautiful things and we can allow the unhappy things to exist and pass away again.”

Perfect Love

"The media is so keen to portray the concept of perfect love these days - today I would like to pay respect to the millions of examples of imperfect love that are evident everywhere. These are the myriad of small fires that when seen together represent a beautiful, powerful shining light."

Happiness by KD

It's easy to sometimes lose sight - thanks KD!

"Nothing is going to make you happy. Happiness is who we are already. Everything we need is inside our own being; inside our own hearts." KD

William Kamkwamba's Windmill

A constant search for things inspirational, revealed this incredible story of a Malawian boy's courage to dream and act in the face of poverty, famine and doubt.

Enjoy!

Thoughts From Within

Woody Harrelson's poem "Thoughts From Within"

Beautiful & thought provoking - enjoy!