November 2011
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Meditation=Happiness
Be silent and calm [in meditation] every night for at least half an hour, preferably much longer, before you retire, and again in the morning before starting the day’s activity. This will produce an undaunted, unbreakable inner habit of happiness that will make you able to meet all the trying situations of the everyday battle of life. With that unchangeable happiness within, go about seeking...
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Selfless Gratitude
Via Mindful Spiritual Healing “Practicing mindfulness of gratitude consistently leads to a direct experience of being connected to life and the realization that there is a larger context in which your personal story is unfolding. Being relieved of the endless wants and worries of your life’s drama, even temporarily, is liberating. Cultivating thankfulness for...
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“The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of...”
– Alan Watts
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Give Green
unconsumption:
Help turn Cyber Monday green
Next Monday, November 28 — the Monday after American Thanksgiving — is widely known as “Cyber Monday,” the year’s biggest online spending day. Last year’s Cyber Monday saw consumers spend some $1.03 billion from the comfort of their own desks — the biggest online shopping day ever (source: Fastcompany.com).
As a reader of Unconsumption, it probably...
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crashinglybeautiful:
Ansel Adams, Redwoods, Bull Creek Flat, Northern CA, 1960
“To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.” — Ansel...
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ancora-imparo:
Even After All this time The sun never says to the earth,
“You owe Me.”
Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.
— Hafiz
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“Sit and be still
until in the time
of no rain you hear
beneath the dry wind’s...”
– Wendell Berry (via awakeinthedream)
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Cosmic Grass
Reposting this one because I now know what it’s called: Hairgrass — Muhlenbergia capillaris. Happy to finally find out!
pamirsphotos:
in the landscape found this cosmic grass an apparition with roots silence revealed formless formed intimation
we’re not alone
© Pamir Kiciman 2010 (text and photos)
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Lessons in prejudice from a raccoon!
This one is worth reposting for the sheer lesson and great quote…
pamirsphotos:
Raccoons are one species that have adapted well to the imposition of urban environments. They raid garbage cans and slip into homes to eat from the cat’s dish (gasp!). They’re clever, tenacious, unafraid and can carry diseases, especially rabies.
As a nature photographer, I didn’t think I’d ever photograph...
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Patrick Dougherty’s Mind-Blowing Nest Houses Made... →
Tumbling through my previous posts. This one is definitely worth reposting!
pamirsphotos:
Included here are only a few. See all of them by viewing the slide show from the link.
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Cosmic Grass
I photographed this ‘grass’ about a year ago at the same location. It’s still there and surprising as ever. See here for many more views of it, plus a mini poem I wrote about it.
© Pamir Kiciman 2011
