Grace just comes: you don’t earn it, you don’t deserve it, and you can’t pay it back. It’s lila, the play that comes, as Krsna puts it in the Bhagavadgita, ‘by rare chance.’ You can say ‘thank you’ and you can offer your gifts. The best gift, of course, is yourself.
--Dr. Gopala Aiyar Sundaramoorthy
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hinduism,
yoga,
play,
quotes,
luck,
grace,
gratitude
liveonearth
Oct 19, 2012 10:30
Last night while at a
Sierra Club meeting involving the effort to hasten decommission of the Columbia Generating Station (nuke at Hanford), I started having all manner of thoughts about my book on homeopathy. I brainstormed my intro and some chapter ideas on the same page where I'd taken a few notes about newly understood seismic activity in the
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nukes,
brain,
unconscious,
walking,
consciousness,
play,
my practice,
creativity,
my book,
decisions
liveonearth
Feb 07, 2012 17:20
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Don't forget to breathe while watching this. I would have passed out if I didn't remind myself to take a deep breath every now and then. THIS is why the ocean frightens me. Big water on the river is still itty bitty teeny weenie compared to this.
Wikipedia: It was only in 1998, at the Gotcha Tahiti Pro, that Teahupo'o became widely
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death,
risk,
oceans,
water,
play,
testosterone,
france,
photography
liveonearth
Jul 15, 2011 07:24
Made by dolphins, whales, people, volcanoes, nukes. Very interesting visuals, mostly camera footage, some explanatory graphics.
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nukes,
weather,
oceans,
water,
physics,
air,
wildlife,
play,
intelligence,
mountains
liveonearth
Jun 17, 2008 21:56
I couldn't study anymore. I read the middle half of The Mastery of Love this evening while the sun was still shining into the Crow's Nest, then went for a walk just before it set. Ruiz's writings set my mind at ease. My fear abated, and my love was shining out. I followed the directions that felt right, running at first because the pace of the
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laughter,
love,
books,
friends,
intuition,
music,
walking,
portland,
play,
sushi,
kayak,
dance,
fear,
flow
