Quotes of the weeeeek

"I'm in love with people who are in love with the world"
 -Bill Mackin

Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes it is just one second
-Lewis Carol

"We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars."
-Henry Miller

"Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others."
-Dr. David Hawkins

"The truth about forever is that it is happening right now."

-Sarah Dessen

 

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The end of Capitalism

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As we all have heard, the end of the Mayan calender is coming up soon.  This December 21, 2012, which is also the austral summer solstice marks the last day of the Mayan calender and many fear that it may be the last day of earth. For the Mayans though, it was not the end of the world, but rather the end of an era and represented the beginning of a spiritual transition towards a new cosmic conscience. 

For Bolivia, the first step will be the banning of Coca Cola beginning on December 21, 2012.  This announcement comes from Foreign Minister David Choquehuanaca, who stated that his Government is supporting the beginning of a new era free of capitalism and embracing "the culture of life" and "community spirit".

For Choquehuanca, that day will signal “the end of the Macha, the end of hatred, the end of capitalism” and the beginning of “la Pacha, the start of love, of community spirit”. 

The foreign minister announced that to welcome Pacha, the Bolivian government is preparing a ceremony in the Island of the Sun with the attendance of 50,000 indigenous peoples from different countries. Choquehuanca made the announcement during a ceremony along with President Evo Morales and Vice-President Alvaro García in which a contract was signed to construct an airport in Copacabana, the main Catholic sanctuary of Bolivia, 120 km west of La Paz.

the earth laughs in flowers

the hissing of summer lawns

 (translation below)

“Yo no soy pobre, pobres son los que creen que yo soy pobre.Tengo pocas cosas, es cierto, las mínimas, pero sólo para poder ser rico”.
“Quiero tener tiempo para dedicarlo a las cosas que me motivan. Y si tuviera muchas cosas tendría que ocuparme de atenderlas y no podría hacer lo que realmente me gusta. Esa es la verdadera libertad, la austeridad, el consumir poco.La casa pequeña, para poder dedicar el tiempo a lo que verdaderamente disfruto. Si no, tendría que tener una empleada y ya tendría una interventora dentro de la casa. Y si tengo muchas cosas me tengo que dedicar a cuidarlas para que no me las lleven. No, con tres piecitas me alcanza. Les pasamos la escoba entre la vieja y yo; y ya, se acabó. Entonces sí tenemos tiempo para lo que realmente nos entusiasma. No somos pobres”  

José Mujica 

"I am not poor, the poor ones are those who believe I'm poor. I have very few things, it's true, the minimal, but only so I can be rich.

I want to have time to dedicate to the things that motivate me. And if I had a lot of thngs I would have to occupy my time attending to them, and I couldn't do what I really like. This is true freedom, austerity, to consume very little. The small house, to be able to dedicate time to what I truly enjoy. If not, I would have to have an employee and I would already have an intervener in the house. And if I had a lot of things I would have to dedicate to taking care of them so they don't them from me. No, with 3 little pieces it's enough. I sweep them with the broom, between my wife and me, and that's it, finished. Then we have time for what we're really enthusiastic about. We are not poor."

José Mujica

 

 

Quotes of the week

 “When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said ‘one o’clock’ as though I could see it, and ‘Monday’ as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year’s Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls. You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that — then any time at all will be the right time for you.”
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

"For your first 39 years you're struggling up the steep slopes, heading for the top as fast as possible, not even looking around you, desperate to see what's on the other side. Finally you are at the summit and get a clear view of both ahead and behind.
You look back and you see a lush, fecund valley full of cavorting young people who wanted to be your friends, but ahead of you is a sheer cliff dropping into a stony, icy crevasse, littered with the bodies of the dead and dying. You want to turn around and do the climb again at a leisurely pace, but you are manhandled into a toboggan and sent whizzing down the slope. You might get thrown off at any point and die or get to the bottom and die. All that is certain is that you are going to die, soon, along with all the idiots who rushed to get over the hill only to find that the hill was what it was all about."
-Richard Herring

 "I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle."
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

 "Perception is never passive. We are not only receivers of the world, we also actively produce it."
-Siri Hustvedt

sunrise has burned my eyes again

sunrise has burned my eyes again

a few photos from the sunrise while camping this weekend...