Thursday, 30 August 2012
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
what i thought, he's voiced very well, so thanks
When I bought my iPhone I expressed to the person in the store that I was afraid. He looked at me quizzically and a little scared himself obviously wondering what the heck I was talking about. I told him that I felt like this phone was going to change my life. I didn't go on to say that I wasn't sure if it were for the better or not...yet. But this video excerpt literally just sent to me, summarizes in a profound way what I was sort of thinking that day when I bought a phone to make my being "connected" easier. [thanks for sending this Jenelle!]
Both this video and the article I noted in my post yesterday are related to a tide of ideas and ways to live life being shown to us that are in opposition to each other. Sometimes I feel these views are expressed as though we need to choose a side of the fence, a side of the tracks, jump on the bandwagon or jump off...can we have a bit of both ways of living? Or at least take breaks from our routines, our ties to technology and toys... to gain a perspective. Something to ponder I suppose. And that's important.
What I have to Offer from Eliot Rausch on Vimeo.
Both this video and the article I noted in my post yesterday are related to a tide of ideas and ways to live life being shown to us that are in opposition to each other. Sometimes I feel these views are expressed as though we need to choose a side of the fence, a side of the tracks, jump on the bandwagon or jump off...can we have a bit of both ways of living? Or at least take breaks from our routines, our ties to technology and toys... to gain a perspective. Something to ponder I suppose. And that's important.
What I have to Offer from Eliot Rausch on Vimeo.
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
willfully having less
I appreciate the idea behind this movement.
And I think that willfully giving up something, especially if you live in an urban environment with your helpful technology that makes you feel "connected", it would be a sacrifice. A sacrifice that might also effect others. I am thinking mostly about not having a cell phone for example.
And I'm thinking of starting a blog of photos from craigslist of dogs on couches.
What do you think? Useful?
And I think that willfully giving up something, especially if you live in an urban environment with your helpful technology that makes you feel "connected", it would be a sacrifice. A sacrifice that might also effect others. I am thinking mostly about not having a cell phone for example.
And I'm thinking of starting a blog of photos from craigslist of dogs on couches.
What do you think? Useful?
Saturday, 25 August 2012
Friday, 24 August 2012
consuming sadness
In high school I remember reading about how the food we consume contains energy and spirit (maybe a yoga text?). If we consumed something (e.g. an animal) that came to be on our plates through a violent ending to their life, we would be consuming that violent energy. This belief, I recall, gripped me instantly and I since come to believe in it even more.
Yesterday I watched the Compassion over Killing video footage of a slaughterhouse in California. Knowing that millions of these exist all over the world and that the treatment of animals in them is probably not as bad as this (I'd like to believe), this footage is disturbing enough for me to feel as though being human is a sad state at times. I also wonder about the people who work in these animal killing places. Have they lost their knowledge of what it is like to be human? Are they just robot killing machines, much like the machines they load these animals into / onto so they can arrive as foods on millions of people's plates? I could never imagine needing a job so badly that I'd work in a place like this. And I can not imagine the person I would become if I did work there. I would think that becoming heartless over time would be part and parcel of working in an environment like that.
If you are able to, read at least the article below. The video is there too, but be forewarned. You won't feel good about being human after you watch it.
article from NY Times
Yesterday I watched the Compassion over Killing video footage of a slaughterhouse in California. Knowing that millions of these exist all over the world and that the treatment of animals in them is probably not as bad as this (I'd like to believe), this footage is disturbing enough for me to feel as though being human is a sad state at times. I also wonder about the people who work in these animal killing places. Have they lost their knowledge of what it is like to be human? Are they just robot killing machines, much like the machines they load these animals into / onto so they can arrive as foods on millions of people's plates? I could never imagine needing a job so badly that I'd work in a place like this. And I can not imagine the person I would become if I did work there. I would think that becoming heartless over time would be part and parcel of working in an environment like that.
If you are able to, read at least the article below. The video is there too, but be forewarned. You won't feel good about being human after you watch it.
article from NY Times
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
quietude
you should watch this documentary. yeah, you.
The Woman with the 5 Elephants - Trailer, English from Mira Film on Vimeo.
The Woman with the 5 Elephants - Trailer, English from Mira Film on Vimeo.
Sunday, 19 August 2012
the journey of being human
I'm reading the above book, authored by Osho.
It hasn't quite answered my questions from my previous blog post (http://sunnudagurinvan.blogspot.ca/2012/07/blog-post.html), but it's close.
I'd like to share this quote with you:
"To be blissful is to be absolutely ordinary. The self, the ego, does not allow that. That's why people talk too much about their miseries. They become special just by talking about their miseries....
Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man. A happy man really cannot have the ego, because a person becomes happy when there is no ego.
The more egoless, the more happy.
You dissolve into happiness.
You cannot exist together with happiness; you exist only when there is misery.
In happiness there is dissolution. ...when the shoe fits perfectly you are not.
When the shoe fits perfectly you forget the shoe, you forget the feet."
I'd like to share this quote with you:
"To be blissful is to be absolutely ordinary. The self, the ego, does not allow that. That's why people talk too much about their miseries. They become special just by talking about their miseries....
Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man. A happy man really cannot have the ego, because a person becomes happy when there is no ego.
The more egoless, the more happy.
You dissolve into happiness.
You cannot exist together with happiness; you exist only when there is misery.
In happiness there is dissolution. ...when the shoe fits perfectly you are not.
When the shoe fits perfectly you forget the shoe, you forget the feet."
Monday, 13 August 2012
Sunday, 12 August 2012
summerbrains
And finally we have a young-ling trying to penetrate the secrets of the
human mind. You won't do it like that young-ling... You must use
friendship.
jane oneal
Friday, 10 August 2012
Thursday, 9 August 2012
Sunday, 5 August 2012
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
learnth (learn+growth)
The only journey is the journey within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
Hecato, Greek philosopher
Rainer Maria Rilke
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
Hecato, Greek philosopher
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