July 2010
Lost in Learning
What are you Living For?
It’s an all important question.
Also all too easy to ignore.
We live in an era of unprecedented distractions - masquerading as urgency.
“The New Busy” is touted everywhere you look – we are immersed in a multi-tasking, media-devouring, continuously connected society.
It’s an engrossing sensation which can feel incredibly productive.
Yet all that...
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The Greatest Love She is sixty. She lives
the greatest love of her life.
She walks arm-in-arm with her dear one,
her hair streams in the wind.
Her dear one says:
“You have hair like pearls.”
Her children say:
“Old fool.”
– Anna Swir
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That Would Not Be Good →
frenchtwist:
When I am alone
I am afraid to turn
too quickly.
What is behind my back
may not, after all, be ready
to take a shape suitable
for human eyes.
And that would not be good.
Anna Swir (translated by Czeslaw Milosz & Robert Nathan)
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Watchfilm by Suki Chan
Evilya Celebi - Book of travel In the 17th Century an Ottoman traveler – Evliya Celebi – was inspired by a dream to embark on a journey across the Ottoman Empire. He traveled far and wide across Europe and North Africa and wrote extensively about his adventures in Seyahatname.
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Give me hunger,
O you gods that sit and give
The world its orders.
Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!
But leave me a little love,
A voice to speak to me in the day end,
A hand to touch me in the dark room
Breaking the long loneliness.
In the dusk of day-shapes
Blurring the sunset,...
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Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.
— Neil Gaiman
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WatchThe Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
Director: Paul Cox
Genre: Documentary
Produced In: 2001
In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky with his wife Romola and three year old daughter Kyra, retreated to a villa in St. Moritz to await the end of the war. His relationship with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes had been severed and with the war raging through Europe, it was impossible for Nijinsky to find...
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Why is the word yes so brief?
It should be
the longest,
the hardest,
so that you could not decide in an instant to say it,
so that upon reflection you could stop
in the middle of saying it.
- Vera Pavlova
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In God, Faith, and Health: Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection, Dr. Levin explores the latest compelling evidence of the connection between health and an array of spiritual beliefs and practices, including prayer, attending religious services, meditation, faith in God, and others. With examples from spiritual traditions as diverse as Christianity, Judaism, and yoga, he looks with an open...
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To go into the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark.
Go without sight, and find that the dark too blooms and
sings and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
- Wendell Berry
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Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen
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