Re: Pathological Guru/Disciple Relationships?

Posted on Oct 26th, 2009 by 1Vector3 in The Integral Pod

Just to toss in a little humor here, I said somewhere else that I would be quite willing to BE a guru if it meant I could have people washing my feet, and someone doing... More »

Re: writing mala

Posted on Oct 26th, 2009 by drechanteuse in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

I did read this, jenni, and I have to say, I could relate. Life just sometimes feels this way, and I don't think we need to pretend and say that things are always wonderful. I... More »

Re: writing mala

Posted on Oct 26th, 2009 by jenni in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

the 26th. why does yesterday seem so much better than today. I was wiser, more in tune and younger. Today I am old and haggard. My head is heavy and I can't breathe through my... More »

Re: What opened up your heart today?

Posted on Oct 26th, 2009 by Meenakshi in The Power of Light

The ability to bring peace into a family by cooking, feeding, serving.

Re: Verse 67 - Stephen Mitchell & Byron Katie

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by debyemm in Living Metaphysics

From Stephen Mitchell - tao te ching - A New English Version Some say that my teaching is nonsense. Others call it lofty but impractical. But to those who have looked inside themselves, this nonsense... More »

Re: Welcome tae the Tavern in the Twilight

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Taikunping in Talespinner's Tavern

waiting patiently around the fire, staring into the flames...the food is cooking and there's a wonderful smell coming from the kitchen....new kegs of ale are being delivered at this very minute, we just need our... More »

Unsettled

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Amazume in Great News Show

Here I am, sitting at this campfire on the beach. Thanks so much for being here with me, while we listen to the song of winds and water and the crackling of the fire. So... More »

Re: Just joined - blindly

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Jenny in Now I Can See the Moon

Hi Jenny,  Yes, I live the life I also have always dreamed of living as a child/teenager. And I'm glad I'm realizing that now. For the past year some developments/ongoings in my personal life have... More »

Re: Are Pets and Veg Compatible?

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Meenakshi in Integral Veg*n

My friend's dogs were fed vegetarian food and lived to be a ripe old age. Fresh food was cooked for them daily - wheat bread [called roti in India] and milk and perhaps more variety... More »

Re: May 20

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by helenrscp in Living Metaphysics

Science of Mind Daily Guide for 5/20/09 By Rev. Jesse Jennings UNBROKEN  UNITY All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. Swami Vivekananda No... More »

Today's joyful awareness

Posted on Aug 13th, 2009 by Meenakshi

This morning, I am in joyful awareness of oneness I am in joyful awareness of the layers and dimensions of oneness as I live a human life on earth, surrounded by sentient and insentient beings... More »

Monday Farewell

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Jenny

Another farewell... seemed to have been celebrating a lot of those lately. I'm tired, feel a little worn-out after work. Having been up in the north in Vavuniya in the camps last week, a lot... More »

Who around you do you consider wise? Naniji

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Meenakshi

Naniji is no longer alive, but she is immortal to me. She was my great-grandmother, who brought up my mother when my grandmother [her daughter and my mother's mother] died aged 18, leaving behind my... More »

Are you happy?

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Pausha

I worked in the garden yesterday. For about three hours I dug in the dirt, planted flowers, arranged rocks, spread wood chips. I had my gloves on at first but I soon took them off.... More »

An Authentic Souls Expedtion Day 2

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by GODESS OF GAIA

Yesterday I started the day off with having my breakfast with two couples. One couple was from Saskatoon , the other from , Halifax , NS . Our hostess introduced me as me , yet... More »

Radical Hospitality

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Jayne

"It is possible to serve meals in a nursing home, to cook in a homeless shelter, or read stories to children at an inner-city library and never let others into your heart. It is possible... More »

What choice would you like to make?

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by tinkonthebrink

I'll have the strawberries, and some sliced bananas.  I want the funny brown pottery cup this morning. These red sandals made from recycled plastic are officially the cutest shoes in the world. Where did I... More »

Answers For David

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Nickeson

Introduction This blog post grew out of a discussion that began here on the Integral Archipelago pod. As the reader can see, David, who cultivated that chain of islands, asked me a series of questions.... More »

Where would you like to go deeper in your life?

Posted on May 15th, 2009 by tinkonthebrink

Yes, well I have a problem with wanting to delve deeply into approximately a bazillion things and of course that kind of thinking will have you waking up at 4am not able to sleep, like... More »

Boundless Creative Inspiration!

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Gaia Team

The Image is ' Gold Bird Pink Sunset' , a painting by our very own  Jean Hart . Hello all!  Jodi here. :)  For those of you who've not met me yet: I am on the... More »

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.

To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which though it's never self-conscious, amounts o a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.

Alcott spends part of her off-time as a short order cook at the Butterfly Bakery in Los Angeles where she says, The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.

. . . even those for whom cooking is an oppressive chore or a source of self-doubting anxiety, acknowledge that a meal shared by friends and family is one of the bonding rituals without which the family, society even, can fall apart.

Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It's been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving's better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam's Club.

In the childhood memories of every good cook, there's a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot and a mom.

If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before the art of fine cooking is viewed as the invention of a handful of snobs. . . . A whole aspect of living well, of civilization itself, is threatened with extinction.

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

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