Gaia: holy memes and kosmic blog starters - Ideas for anytime blogging

Re: Old Quotes that still work for you.

http://iloveyou.gaia.com — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:40:14 GMT

Be happy.

Re: 100 things that make you happy

http://dancingdragon.gaia.com — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:39:52 GMT

I would like to invite you all to join a new pod. The Smaction Love Corp. aka. Love in Action.

This was a new board (at the request of the creator) on the zaadz Love Corp pod just before it disappeared.

Let’s spread love…

Re: Page 35

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:50:17 GMT

I happen to have Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift From The Sea right here. Page 35 is the last page of the chapter titled "Channelled Whelk."

     "... I can only carry back my little channelled whelk. It will sit on my desk in Connecticut, the remind me of the ideal of a simplified life, encourage me in the game I played on the beach. To ask how little, not how much, can I get along with. To say -- is it necessary? -- when I am tempted to add one for accumulation to my life, when I am pulled toward one more centrifugal activity.
     "Simplification of outward life is not enough. It is merely the outside. But I am starting with the outside. I am looking at the outside of a shell, the outside of my life -- the shell. The complete answer is not to be found on the outside, in an outward mode of living. This is only a technique, a road to grace. The final answer, I know, is always inside. But the outside can give a clue, can help one to find the inside answer. One is free, like the hermit crab, to change one's shell.
     "Channelled whelk, I put you down again, but you have set my mind on a journey, up an inwardly winding spiral staircase of thought."

Re: Page 35

http://suzanna-o.gaia.com — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:23:13 GMT

From the New Illuminated Rumi:
"Come raise a joyful noise, for we have discovered the Friend, Beloved, and Guide..."

Re: Old Quotes that still work for you.

http://aeryck.gaia.com — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:08:16 GMT

A few years back I heard this one somewhere, and it has stuck with me and served me well:

Satisfaction = Performance/Expectation

(Satisfaction equals Performance divided by Expectation).

The higher your expectations are, the better performance is needed in order for you to be satsisfied. The classic use of this is movies. If you go into a movie knowing it sucks, then you can come out quite satisfied. If you go in thinking it will be great, and it's not, you feel so unsatisfied. It's pretty useful in all kinds of situations.

For what it's worth...

Aeryck

Old Quotes that still work for you.

http://dancingdragon.gaia.com — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:28:44 GMT

Share a quot that you have carried with you for a long time that still 'works' for you.

Mine is from my childhood. I was 8 of 9 and had a friend in her 80's that I used to play cards with. I don't remember what game ~ could have been poker of 'go fish'.

What I remember are the conversations. I asked her once how she knew so much. she laughed and said, "Honey all you have to do is stay alive and pay attention."

Re: Page 35

http://lwh.gaia.com — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:15:03 GMT

From Seven Herbs: Plants As Teachers: "Every healing plant, mineral, or animal is the embodiment of a conflict in the environment which has been reconciled."

This is a chapter on the Easter Lily and how it embodies the Adam and Eve myth. Adam means "earth", a lump of clay. Eve means "life". This is a myth of how separation began. Out of the innocence comes hard work, pain, and fighting. This is the the conundrum of life. Creation separates us from Unity.

Embodied in healing is the resolution of the separation. We have a path back to unity through the resolution of the oppositions. The healing object has an energetic template that our soul uses to grow into health, another word for wholeness.

Next time you see an Easter Lily, remind yourself to see the seeming contradiction of purity and brazen sexuality. Then, dance with unemcumbered passion.

Re: Page 35

http://sadhana.gaia.com — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:02:06 GMT

Page 35 of The Portable DO IT! by Peter McWilliams:

"The naked "but" is what we use when ignoring our own good advice. When ignoring the unbearably good advice of others, we use the hyphenated version: "yes-but." When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. Yes-but means, "Here come the arguments for my limitations." Or, if you favor acronyms...

YES-BUT = Your Evaluation is Superb - Behold the Underlying Truth."

Seemed like a good quote to get me started on my blog, which I've been yes-butting for weeks now. But I don't know how, I don't have time, but but but....

So thanks for the blog-starting ideas, I'll be using them!

"Anytime" Five

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:28:03 GMT

Look back over the Friday Fives and pick one you haven't done. Do it! There's an "anytime" project for ya! ;-)

100 things that make you happy

Thu, 25 May 2006 08:07:45 GMT

List 100 things that make you happy.

I did this last year and shall probably repost my list soon to my blog. But it's an excellent exercise, because on those days where everything seems to be downright miserable... you can turn to your list and be reminded of those small graces and beauties in your life.

This also coincides with gratitude exercises as well!

Re: best ways to die -- and, um, the not-so-best.

Mon, 22 May 2006 17:49:08 GMT

Past hilarious, beyond outrageously creative, tops in death Inspiration:) Whooo Ha!!! PJ

Re: best ways to die -- and, um, the not-so-best.

http://maryrives.gaia.com — Sun, 21 May 2006 01:33:43 GMT

lol, you are so imaginitive and hilarious!

Re: Page 35

http://thepixellator.gaia.com — Mon, 15 May 2006 03:42:48 GMT

My bible was within arm's reach. Page thirty five is Genesis 17:17, where Abraham laughs at the idea that his ninety year old wife will bear him a child. God tells Abraham that his son shall be called Isaac.

This is an interesting reminder that God is in our lives, working miracles and such, but here we sit, laughing at the will of God! Impossible, we think. Well, in this story, Sarah really does get pregnant and give birth to Isaac, at 90 years old!

Re: Page 35

http://cewhite.gaia.com — Sun, 14 May 2006 21:44:03 GMT

That was an interesting exercise and a wonderful suggestion. Page 35 of the book that I'm currently reading, "In the Buddha's words, An anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon" from Wisdom Publications included passages on "A world in turmoil. The origins of conflict, and, Why do beings live in hate?" That was my launching off point for this entry, called "What? No pie?" -- where inner and outer conflicts really were remedied by taking the step to be spiritually generous rather than spiritually stingy. Permalink I hope it provides food for thought. Imagine all the people....living for today... ooo ooo ooooo! --Catherine--*

Re: Page 35

http://sharonjoy.gaia.com — Fri, 12 May 2006 16:04:36 GMT

ok... first thing i picked up.... "Be Here Now" Page 35: The Buddhists say: (I'm talking about the non-dualistic Buddhists) Cut out all this middle stuff! They say: Don't get hung up on all these different desire trips. Just go beyond it all. BUDDHA'S 4 NOBLE TRUTHS Are very straightforward and very simple. The First One concerns the fact that life always has in it the element of unfulfillment: Call it Suffering Birth ~ Old Age ~ Sickness ~ Not getting what you want ~ Getting what you don't want ~ Even getting what you want in this physical world is going to be SUFFERING because: You're going to lose it! It's always in Time! Anything that is in time is going to pass away. Lay not up your treasures Where moth and rust doth corrupt That's the trap of time ~ As long as you want anything in time ~ It's going to pass because Time ~ Passes

best ways to die -- and, um, the not-so-best.

Fri, 12 May 2006 10:49:28 GMT

Lighten up, it's only death.... :-)

what are your top 5 best ways to die?
what are your top 5 worst ways to die?

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my rather silly and sometimes irreverent responses:

THE MOST AWESOMEST WAYS TO LEAVE THIS PLANE OF EXISTENCE:

5. writing the world's most profound blog, then hitting send, spilling my coffee over the computer and getting electrocuted. the story is so great that people everywhere flock to read The Blog That Meant More Than Life Itself.

4. having a massive heart attack while doing a one-time organ-playing gig at a mormon church. preferrably, i would collapse on the keys as the sacrament is being passed out, and my body would just hold that magnificent, awful chord until someone would have the audacity to get up from their sacred silence and call 911

3. hunted and killed by a CEO for exposing a serious corporate crime in a magazine feature article
2. shot in the head by jon stewart's wife, in a fit of jealousy

1. from old age, with plenty of warning for my family, and after 85 years of extraordinary accomplishment, with so much money that my heirs could live off of interest alone

THE MOST EMBARRASSING AND HORRIBLE WAYS TO KICK THE BUCKET:
5. a blind hillbilly, red-hot for revenge from a family feud, mistakes me for someone else and chops away at me with a hatchet, screaming hillbilly profanities. i saw the movie deliverance, that's all i needed to see.

4. contracting a fatal disease for not changing underwear in 10 months (not that i don't change my underwear, but how would your family explain THAT?)

3. in a house fire, when everyone is safe outside and i run back in there for something as retarded as my purse. i don't die instantly, but i'm hospitalized for months with 3rd degree burns and immense pain; family refusing to pull the plug until i gruesomely give up the ghost

2. showering in a second story apartment, when the tub falls through the floor and hits a roomful of kids on the way down, my naked body landing in a very visually unpleasant position and the surviving children having to witness it

1. i never, ever want to die from angst-ridden, self-centered suicide. EVER.

(euthanasia, however, is a different story.)

Re: Page 35

http://brondu.gaia.com — Fri, 12 May 2006 05:20:55 GMT

That I had wanted to travel anywhere, let alone Rome, had sent a shock through the family dinner table. - p35 - Eleanor Rigby a novel by Douglas Coupland

Re: Page 35

http://aeryck.gaia.com — Wed, 10 May 2006 20:26:47 GMT

How about Page 35 from One Taste, by Ken Wilber:

Let it start right here, right now, with us -with you and me- and with our commitment to breathe into infinity until infinity alone is the only statement that the world will recognize. Let a radical realization shine from our faces, and roar from our hearts, and thunder from our brains - this simple fact, this obvious fact: that you, in the very immediateness of your present awareness, are in fact the entire world, in all its frost and fever, in all its glories and its grace, in all its triumphs and its tears. You do not see the sun, you are the sun; you do not hear the rain, you are the rain; you do not feel the earth, you are the earth. And in that simple, clear, unmistakable regard, translation has ceased in all domains, and you have transformed into the very Heart of the Kosmos itself - and there, right there, very simply, very quietly, it is all undone.

Re: Page 35

http://integral-options.gaia.com — Wed, 10 May 2006 18:15:10 GMT

Nice idea. By the way, this is called bibliomancy. It's generally thought of as a way to know the future -- but I think it's more like Tarot in that it can reveal whatever is lurking in the psyche that needs attention.

My current favorite book right now is Pema Chodron's Comfortable with Uncertainty. Here is what I found on page 35:

It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing. It's definitely not meant to repress anything, and it's not intended to encourage grasping, either. Allen Ginsberg used the expression "surprise mind." You sit down and--wham!--a rather nasty surprise arises. So be it. This part is not to be rejected but compassionately acknowledged as "thinkking" and let go. Then--wow!--a very delicious surprise appears. Okay. This part is not to be clung to but compassionately acknowledged as "thinking" and let go. The surprises are endless.

This is a favorite book of mine that I use for exactly this purpose when I feel like I need a little input from a "teacher."

Re: Page 35

http://haledavid1.gaia.com — Wed, 10 May 2006 15:04:43 GMT

When I opened and counted 35 pages into A Guide For The Advanced Soul - A Book of Insight I received this from Krishnamurti

“Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation.

The movement of behaviour is a sure guide to yourself, it's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal it's content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the lonliness, the joy and sorrow.

Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.”

How perfectly timely and appropriate for my new relationships here at zaadz. I like these little assignments though assignment feels a little heavy for the fun. Gives me a chance to test my skills - cause look above if all goes well I think I've made a link. A linka dink dink - I'll do a backflip.

DITTO on Suzannes response to ~C4Chaos above. Luv All!