February 2012
5 posts
“If we’re all faltering how do I help with that? If it’s all or nothing then let...”
– Frizzly Bear | Fine For now (via corngrowsripe)
(see below)
January 2012
29 posts
“The defeatist attitude makes me want to scream. The battles we are fighting are...”
– Waziyatawin, quoted by Derrick Jensen in Dreams
(via cultureofresistance)
“A generation ago as a father I learned early to see small children as...”
– Treat Children As the Scientists They Are and Skip the Terrible Two’s
(via gjmueller
)
The Surprising New Cause of Weight Gain →
parkstepp:
Sometimes it’s not just the food—but what farmers spray on your food—that can make you fat. Increasingly, scientists are linking certain chemicals, including pesticides, to weight loss woes. The latest evidence, appearing in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, finds that persistent organic pollutants, including some synthetic pesticides, accumulate in fat cells where they...
“Don’t try to let go - try to recognize.”
– — Sayadaw U Tejaniya, Retreat in Czech Republic April/May 2011 (via dhammaeverywhere)
YEAH!!!!
Wilderness, the Heart
Wilderness is a natural environment on Earth, it may also be defined as: “The most intact, undisturbed wild natural areas left on our planet—those last truly wild places that humans do not control and have not developed with roads, pipelines or other industrial infrastructure.”
In other words, the heart.
mythologyofblue:
The Chinese Art of Eating, or, how to choose... →
acupuncturegirl:
The Energetics of Food
Click for the Food Properties Chart
Chinese nutrition differs from Western nutrition in that it deals with the energetic properties of food and not the biochemical nature of food. Foods selected according to their energetic qualities is key to balanced health. Acupuncture works much in the same way to create balance. Using the benefits of correct...
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“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their...”
– Carl Jung (via nirvikalpa)
vinandityo:
The absence of pain is more principal than the presence of pleasure: give a man everything, and he would still be craving for more; take one thing away from him and he would act as though the whole world were weighing down his shoulders.
“He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his...”
– Pablo Neruda (via theparisreview)
“No one can see beyond a choice they don’t understand.”
– The Oracle
(so, the more you understand about yourself, the more you can see)
“I am enough. What I do is enough. What I have is enough. Who I am and what I do...”
– Sacral chakra affirmation
(via serpentpriest)
Needed this one, thanks parkstepp
Harvard Declares Dairy NOT Part of Healthy Diet ... →
parkstepp:
The Harvard School of Public Health sent a strong message to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and nutrition experts everywhere with the recent release of its “Healthy Eating Plate” food guide. The university was responding to the USDA’s new MyPlate guide for healthy eating, which replaced the outdated and misguided food pyramid.
Harvard’s nutrition experts did not...
December 2011
16 posts
touba:
“The concept of the unconscious posits nothing; it designates only my unknowing.”
— C.G. Jung, from a letter to Pastor Max Frischkeit dated 8 February 1946.
The Dalai Lama's Secular Ethics →
offthercrd:
“But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I believe the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics that is beyond religion.” The Dalai Lama drops some knowledge.