Notes to Self (Unconventional Wisdom)

"Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind."

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (via light-essence)
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" “If things can be seen that differently, how many ways can they be seen differently? Try to get people to stop waiting for the president to enlighten them. Stop waiting for history and the stream of historical events to make itself clear to you.

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding. It doesn’t do you any good to know that somewhere in some computer there are equations that perfectly model or perfectly don’t model something that is going on. We have all tended to give ourselves away to official ideologies and to say, ‘Well I may not understand, but someone understands.’

The fact of the matter is that only your own understanding is any good to you. Because it’s you that you’re going to live with and it’s you that you’re going to die with. As the song says, the last dance, you dance alone.” "

Terence McKenna, an American ethnobotanist, philosopher, psychonaut, writer, (1946-2000), True hallucinations: and, the archaic revival, MJF Books, 1998, p. 88. (via amiquote)
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trentgilliss:

Another musical legend has passed away. The sitar player Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92. A spiritual and musical guru to many Western seekers, most famously George Harrison of the Beatles, he was also a teacher and a father. I think I’d like to best remember him as just that. Here he is instructing, improvising, jamming with his daughter Anoushka Shankar.

Loved Krista’s interview with her way back in 2003!

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Low-tech solar oven turns saltwater into drinkable water

iheartchaos:

Clean, drinkable water is beginning to emerge as one of the biggest problems facing the emerging world, with populations in many areas quickly surpassing the ability of old infrastructure to keep up. And so every day, millions and millions around the world struggle to find clean water for cooking and drinking. But now there’s a low tech solution for those living near the coast— a solar oven that uses the heat of the sun to turn salt water into potable fresh water.

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laughingsquid:

Is Nic Cage the Intersection of YOLO and Taoism?

The Tao of YOLO.
#Nick Cage

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laughingsquid:

Albert Einstein in Fuzzy Slippers, c. 1950s

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imickeyd:

The Earth as you’ve never seen it..

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imickeyd:

The Earth as you’ve never seen it..

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dreaminginthedeepsouth:

Eclipse - from Josh Schrei and Crucible Yoga

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bambiparadise:

A picture of the eclipse 2012 from the nasa.

beautiful!!

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