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April 16, 2003
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Continuing yesterday's stuff ... where was that article about the futility of criticism ... was it Lama Yeshe or Zopa?? ...
Today's mantra: "Throw everything out. The mind thinks, always, in terms of words. Gibberish helps to break up this pattern of continual verbalisation. Without suppressing your thoughts, you can throw them out - in Gibberish."
Some of yesterday's meanderings reminded me of
this old cartoon ...
While off-line ... had a bit of a hunt for Zopa links ... such as
this one ...
... or perhaps here ... or maybe
this ... {may need to check them online whenever that happens next ... :)
Hmmm ... a dud link or two ... try this search ...
Then I made another search without zopa being among the words selected ...
click
... which leads us to today's quote: "Each of us is unique, but none of us is unique in being unique."
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April 17, 2003
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Finally ... here's that Zopa article I was huntin for ...
Opened my very own blog ... click here
Found that Einstein quote along with several others ...
click
Look what they're now selling ...
click :)
More interesting emails ... reminds me of today's mantra: "No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself."
Also brings me to this page ...
Another quote I heard recently ... click :)
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April 18, 2003
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From yesterday's meanderinks ...
click
Also this site in my emails ...
click
Plus this cartoon ...
Started singing this song for the first time in quite a while :)
It's Good Friday but some stores open - a massive booksale here in Dandenong so I pop along ... and purchased 5 books but many more caught my eye ... like the Office pranks section in a Dilbert book called 'The Joy of Work' :)
... plus one by a Ciaran Regan (I think tha's the spelling) - about psychiatric meds and the way they are used/abused ... plus one author with a surname of Yogendra, I think ...
Here's a little seacrh ... the book was called 'Intoxicating Minds' ...
And the search for Yogendra couldn't locate what I had in mind but did turn up
this interesting page ...
Here's the young poet whose book I purchased
Stanislaw Lem is also one of the books I grabbed - called 'His master's voice' ... interesting blurb on the back but they're hardly likely to write 'This book is very forgettable. Don't bother buying it.' are they ...
I also decided 2 add some links to the bottom of
this page :)
Interesting quote - click
... also something about a therapist ... but the written word can only convey so much of a performance :)
Ah ... Stanislaw wrote Solaris which has been remade recently ... hmmm
The illustrations on his books are also memorable ...
click
For what it's worth, here's the cover of the one I got - scroll down to the one for 1990 by Mandarin
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April 19, 2003
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Another of the authors I saw yesterday was Albert Ellis -
click - look like he has been busy ... I flicked through the one about how to live with a neurotic, for some reason ... :)
Interesting links page - click
Animal Diaries
- Cyberfair
Quote of the day: click
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April 20, 2003
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Just started reading the Stanislaw Lem book & am enjoying it.
As always - or nearly always, I've tapped out a few excerpts and shot them off into cyberspace. The plot has some similarities to that movie 'Contact' with Jodie Foster, which I also enjoyed.
Anyway, click here to read the brief excerpts so far. I may add to them if I get around 2 it.
Speaking of movies & scifi, have you seen the preview of the next matrix movie? I saw a two minute 'trailer' the other day and it looks quite something. Apparently the visual effects are the reason it has taken so long for the sequel to be released. They wanted to come up with effects never seen before. Can't wait to see it on the BIG screen. Apparently, it comes out in mid-May, which is fast approachin ...
Speaking of the matrix movies, here's another fun site - click here
www.artpassions.net
Hmmm ... that matrix v site ... 'How are peace-marchers actually feeding the darkside' ... hmmm ... wouldn't mind gettin my hands on the actual book ...
Happy Eater to all my readers
Oops, I meant Easter ... :)
Hallmark has some cute ones as well ... though no doubt they'll vanish from the list once easter has passed ...
Glorious spell of autumn weather forecast 4 this week ... must get up into those hills once the buses resume ...
Not too sure if this will work ... click {it may well work for a couple of weeks or so??}
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April 21, 2003
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More added to the Stanislaw excerpts ... as I sat on trains to & from the aquarium ... he definitely gets added to my highly recommended lists ... very clever with words & ideas & metaphor ... well worth the effort seeking his books out ... in case you don't feel like searchin my past entries 4 the excerpts -
click here :)
Saw some excellent pavement art as I walked along the Yarra ... apparently it is called screeving ... and a website address I couldn't quite make out ...
Today's mantra: "It happened quicker than your local morning."
Do you reckon that readin a book about deciphering a 'message from the stars' has influenced me in any way shape or form ... :)
Here's that chalk art site
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April 22, 2003
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Today's mantra:
"Nobody's argument is totally persuasive & flawless, so let's just call it a draw."
Not a lot of online time ... hey, have I mentioned receiving this in a recent email ...
Checkin some old-ish links ... click
Seems that site has a ton of stuff ... click ... or backspace all the way to
www.beyond-the-illusion.com
Leads me to some Bahai stuff ... click
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April 23, 2003
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Looking for that old page of links at the Spiritual sanctuary site ... it's
here
But my google search tossed up a few ... click
Speaking of links ... click - some sound intriguing ... like identitytheory ... and www.fromthestars.com ... :)
Today's mantra: "One day I tried being normal but I didn't like it very much."
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April 24, 2003
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Looking over still more old links & stuff ... comes today's thought:
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory that states that this has already happened.
PLUS a google search of it ought 2 toss up a few interestin sites ...
Today's mantra: "I'm a lot safer than standing in houses."
Today's quote actually came from this page - I need 2 check if that's still a valid link ... :)
Also from yesterday ... seems the Age site has a puzzle page ... click
Here is that search I mentioned ... ah, it was Douglas Adams ...
Some more brilliant quotes :)
Hmmm ... another interestin site ... click
Here's some interesting photos ...
Scanned another Leunig this morning ...
click :)
Checking more old links etc ... click
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April 25, 2003
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Hmmm ... hadn't noticed b4 ... that brainy quote site has a quiz page where you try and gues who said what ... click
They also have a humour site ... click
Today's mantra: "I used to do all the 12 things I wanted."
www.waywardbus.com.au
Excellent episode of 'Outer Limits' recently ... apparently based on a short story by James Patrick Kelly called 'Think like a dinosaur'.
In my inbox ... click - Tom Kenyon & a harmonic choir, webcast on Easter Sunday just past ...
Plus something about Kirtan chanting
Here's that book I mentioned earlier
Plus another of his many stories ...
Here's yet another search sparked by recent meanderings ... :)
Couldn't resist another trip along to the booksale ...
Thomas Berry
Plus this search
Words of wisdom - I saw the bit about the baby seals under your sink in a book looking back at 20 yrs of 'Saturday Night Live' :)
Plus a book of verse about felines ...
The Mystic Vision and Human Transformation
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April 26, 2003
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Flicking through one of those books I purchased yesterday ...
Rupert Sheldrake
Bonnie Greenwell
Rumi
De Mello
Today's mantra: "Human. Human. Human. Always human."
Should really do a few excerpts ... ... like: "However, this yoga stuff was something very different. I began to feel life force flowing through my body during my relaxation practice and after holding yoga postures. The sense of well-being and wholeness engendered by this delicious experience of fluidity and lightness amounted to a whole new level of consciousness for me ..."
... and being an aussie publication it has two or three Leunigs :)
Today's quote: click :)
Leads me to this little page
... and this page at the same site kinda reminds me of a great Leunig toon as well ... lemme see if I can locate it ... click
www.yogabasics.com
Another liddle search tosses up some unexpected results ... click
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April 27, 2003
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Here's another excellent links page
From this morning's emails ...
The most annoying site on the web
Something about metanormal
Today's mantra: "People will know something. People will know anything."
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April 28 & 29, 2003
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Not a whole lotta online time ... some interesting emails ...
Such as this one ...
Still experiencing quite a bit of the yo-yo syndrome ... where was that ...
click
... this is an enormous shift ... got that right ...
Today's mantra:
"It was during the 4th month of my expectancy that I became aware of the emergency."
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April 30, 2003
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- zen made easy - what else ...
click
Thought a bit of king otto in recent times :)
Some interesting lyrics - click ... also some large downloads of music available ...
Recent postings led me to make this search
Then there's this page
Oh, then of course there's the April 29 posts on
this page :) - may end up in the archives at some stage ...
This advice is also something that has popped into my thoughts in recent times ...
Today's mantra: "He wanted to know how to thank a doctor. So he started talking to the local doctor. Local doctor."
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