“At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.” - Rumi Continue reading

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I may have set a world record for longest menu, which probably doesn't surprise anyone that knows me. There are 12 pages of food, several pages of superfoods and health information, the FAQ and several pages of random book notes before getting to my list of favorite books. Each time... Continue reading

What's $2.5 Trillion between friends? I promise I'll pay you back this time! Continue reading

Some of my friends are obsessed with their TripAdvisor rankings, believing it will make or break their business. I suppose it is more important in the hotel rankings as opposed to restaurants. Anyone looking at the Top Ten restaurants in San Juan del Sur can see that there is something... Continue reading

Let me clarify what a license or permit is. It is simply asking permission from the government and paying the government a fee for what we have every God-given right to do in the first place – for free, without asking anyone for permission. Burn that statement into your mind. Memorize it, use it as a chant. If that’s not bad enough, we must renew many licenses’ periodically and pay again and again. What if we all decided we would no longer get or renew our driver’s license and pay them for the right to drive our own car? What if we all stopped getting a license of any kind? They could fine us. But what if we didn’t pay the fine? We might go to jail. Where do a few get off telling the many we can’t get married, defend ourselves, or drive a car or go fishing or hunting or any of our other God-given rights without their permission? I don’t need the government to give me permission to purchase a gun to defend myself. Why aren’t you outraged? Just because you grew up under these insane rules and you accepted them as normal you don’t have to obey them anymore. They aren’t normal; they’re insane; you are obeying insane laws. You don’t have to stand up and put your hand out so the nun can whack it with a piece of wood or give your lunch money to the school yard bully anymore. Like the frog, you’re slowly being boiled. Continue reading

"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn." - Aldous Huxley Continue reading

"Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library and its books were the stones, leaves, grass, brooks and the birds and animals that shared, alike with us, the storms and blessings of the earth. We learn to do what only the student of nature ever learns, and... Continue reading

In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command and it is time for a mutiny. Continue reading

“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.” Continue reading

"You have to look deeper, way below the anger, the hurt, the hate, the jealousy, the self-pity, way down deeper where the dreams lie, son. Find your dream. It's the pursuit of the dream that heals you." -- Billy Mills, Oglala Lakota Continue reading

from thepowerpath.com by José Stevens - How to Neutralize Drama When was the last time you read a headline, watched the news, or heard the latest going on in the political arena and felt yanked into anger, discouragement, outrage, or despair? How often, when you have been to a social... Continue reading

From Lena at The Power Path School of Shaminism APRIL 2013 The theme for April is MOMENTUM. When something has momentum it takes more of an effort to change its course, and less of an effort to move it in the direction it is already going. This is a tricky... Continue reading

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces change in the machine. Continue reading

"It is proposed that the widespread and pervasive distinctions between people (race, nation, family, profession, etc., etc.) which are now preventing mankind from working together for the common good, and indeed, even for survival, have one of the key factors of their origin in a kind of thought that treats... Continue reading

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” ―... Continue reading

The role spirituality plays is best seen in a person's walk and heard in words they speak. Bot facts exemplify living in prayer. Continue reading

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The key to eating healthy? Avoid any food that has a commercial. Continue reading

The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. Continue reading

Even after all the time the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me. " Look what happens with a love like that, it lights up the whole sky. -- Hafiz Continue reading

"The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death." - Osho Continue reading

Both light and shadow are the dance of love. Continue reading

"When I say to you, ‘You are lovely’, you do not believe me, because of the blemishes you know so intimately; but those blemishes are the scars of your sufferings and they shine out of your soul, radiating beauty, the way the daisies do in the long summer grasses. So... Continue reading

via The Guardian Ecuador plans to auction off more than three million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, angering indigenous groups and underlining the global environmental toll of China's insatiable thirst for energy. On Monday morning a group of Ecuadorean politicians pitched bidding contracts to representatives of... Continue reading