As I wrote in my last post, I am turning over a new leaf and starting a new blog! I have not yet decided how I will handle the remains of WAKEUP...but I am okay with leaving it be on its own in cyberspace for awhile. Seems as though this site recently has been getting world attention due to the word "horus," which I used in a random post long ago. If any faraway visitors are reading this note and care to comment why they are looking up "horus" so often recently, I am very curious to know what I'm missing! I also owe you an apology, because I know that this website likely lacked the information you were looking for.
So, without further ado, here is the drafty draft of my newer and hopefully improved website, Mandala Reflections.
A few thoughts on the site so far:
1) The name is not as catchy as this one (in my opinion), but the framework the Mandala provides for discussion and blogging about the topics I'm passionate about was too perfect to pass up. I could eventually change the name, but for now I think it's a great placeholder. To learn more about why I had to include the mandala, check out the About tab. It's brief, but hopefully as I have more time to develop this blog, I can expand this section a bit more to help clarify.
2) Unfortunately, I did not have time to design it like I wanted to and have not been able to put it together perfectly. In other words, it's a work in progress--aren't we all. Hopefully this piece will develop more in the next few months.
3) I love that the birth of this blog was on October 31, Halloween. My first post will explain further why this "new beginning" and the "death" of WAKEUP are fitting to this ancient season's holiday.
Thank you always for stopping by, and I hope to see you at Mandala Reflections. I have not figured out how the following system works on Wordpress yet, but if you know, I hope you follow me :)
Much love!
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Honor Life
"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life."
-BERTOLT BRECHT
Last night I was reminded again of how precious life really is and how lucky I am to be alive. It is easy to complain and feel like your life is in shambles, it is much harder for people to really honor their life and their journey and be grateful for the privileges they have been given.
It is also easy for people to wallow in their despair and not move forward with their lives. Rather than taking risks and challenging oneself, people often get stuck in a rut. This stuckness is not really living.
With the poor economy and me wrapping up a Master's degree while searching for a new direction, it is easy to feel stuck and hopeless. I admit I fall victim at times to thinking that I maybe made the wrong decision.
However last night I was brutally reminded how important it is to follow your dreams, even if people try to convince you otherwise.
Jay received a phone call that shook our world. His cousin was on his honeymoon with his new wife and they got in a horrible boating accident. His wife's life was taken.
My thoughts are with their family. From the sounds of it, she was an amazing person who lived her life to the fullest. While it is extremely regrettable and awful that her life was lost at such a young age I feel glad to know that she was a person who honored life and followed her dreams.
I can only hope to emulate her spirit in my daily living.
I'd like to share a quote that she lived by that I feel sums up a lot about the meaning of life.
"Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave."
May we all learn how to support the world by fully honoring our lives and the lives of others.
-BERTOLT BRECHT
Last night I was reminded again of how precious life really is and how lucky I am to be alive. It is easy to complain and feel like your life is in shambles, it is much harder for people to really honor their life and their journey and be grateful for the privileges they have been given.
It is also easy for people to wallow in their despair and not move forward with their lives. Rather than taking risks and challenging oneself, people often get stuck in a rut. This stuckness is not really living.
With the poor economy and me wrapping up a Master's degree while searching for a new direction, it is easy to feel stuck and hopeless. I admit I fall victim at times to thinking that I maybe made the wrong decision.
However last night I was brutally reminded how important it is to follow your dreams, even if people try to convince you otherwise.
Jay received a phone call that shook our world. His cousin was on his honeymoon with his new wife and they got in a horrible boating accident. His wife's life was taken.
My thoughts are with their family. From the sounds of it, she was an amazing person who lived her life to the fullest. While it is extremely regrettable and awful that her life was lost at such a young age I feel glad to know that she was a person who honored life and followed her dreams.
I can only hope to emulate her spirit in my daily living.
I'd like to share a quote that she lived by that I feel sums up a lot about the meaning of life.
"Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave."
May we all learn how to support the world by fully honoring our lives and the lives of others.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
The 2007 Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming (The Institute of Noetic Sciences)
I'm beginning my reading for one of my classes, and it is like a flashback to Hawaii.
Trying not to stress out about it, but can't not write something about this interesting statistic.
"The majority (79%) of freshmen in 1970 had an important personal objective of 'developing a meaningful philosophy of life.' By 2005, the majority of freshmen (75%) said their primary objective was 'being very well of financially.'"
This scares me a lot. People believe that "it's perfectly reasonable that the economy should be the paramount institution around which everything else revolves and economic logic and economic values should guide our decision." However, as the article I am reading notes, "It turns out that if you look at the assumptions underlying our economic system--especially the ones regarding the prerogatives of ownership--and then you look at the goals we humans have about how we want to live our lives, there is no compatibility. The assumptions can never lead to the goals" (The Institute of the Noetic Sciences, The 2007 Shift Report: Evidence of A World Transforming).
So, in other words, we are living a modern myth and we need to WAKE UP! Over time, our materialistic and scientifically based worldview has done some good things for society. For instance, lower infant mortality rates, extinguished fatal diseases, brought about an information explosion in technology, etc. etc., however, "the net result has been disastrous." I don't feel like going into it right now because I should be relaxing right now and preparing for an interview, but I will end with this little blurb:
Conditioned by a Tribal Mindset
"I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E.O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruelest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth."
-The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock (Basic Books, 2006).
Trying not to stress out about it, but can't not write something about this interesting statistic.
"The majority (79%) of freshmen in 1970 had an important personal objective of 'developing a meaningful philosophy of life.' By 2005, the majority of freshmen (75%) said their primary objective was 'being very well of financially.'"
This scares me a lot. People believe that "it's perfectly reasonable that the economy should be the paramount institution around which everything else revolves and economic logic and economic values should guide our decision." However, as the article I am reading notes, "It turns out that if you look at the assumptions underlying our economic system--especially the ones regarding the prerogatives of ownership--and then you look at the goals we humans have about how we want to live our lives, there is no compatibility. The assumptions can never lead to the goals" (The Institute of the Noetic Sciences, The 2007 Shift Report: Evidence of A World Transforming).
So, in other words, we are living a modern myth and we need to WAKE UP! Over time, our materialistic and scientifically based worldview has done some good things for society. For instance, lower infant mortality rates, extinguished fatal diseases, brought about an information explosion in technology, etc. etc., however, "the net result has been disastrous." I don't feel like going into it right now because I should be relaxing right now and preparing for an interview, but I will end with this little blurb:
Conditioned by a Tribal Mindset
"I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E.O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruelest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth."
-The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock (Basic Books, 2006).
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