"What is true for every School [Black, White & Yellow Magick] is equally true for every individual.  Success in life, on the basis of the Law of Thelema, implies severe self-discipline.  Each being must progress, as biology teaches, by strict adaptation to the conditions of the organism.  If, as the Black School continually asserts, the cause of ( Read more... )

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I'm observing Lent this year for the first time.  DRJ and I are giving up Facebook together 6/7 days a week until Easter.  I guess Christians like to take a break on Sundays... even from Lent. Plus it makes the math work out so you get 40 days.

Today is the first day without Facebook.  So far it's quiet.

I must admit that I've found myself composing ( Read more... )

When I am with you, we stay up all night,

When you're not here, I can't get to sleep.

Praise God for these two insomnias!

And the difference between them.
-Rumi

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A friend on FB last night posted that he wished for immortality simply so he would have time to learn about all the interesting things his heart desired.  This resonated with me resoundingly ( Read more... )

because sometimes it's already been said, so much more eloquently than i ever could...

A Certain Weariness
by Pablo Neruda

I don't want to be tired alone,
I want you to grow tired along with me.

How can we not be weary
of the kind of fine ash
which falls on cities in autumn,
something which doesn't quite burn,
which collects in jackets
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Remember
Renew
Recognize
Revere
Reflect
Reveal
Revel
Return
Receive
Revitalize
Revive
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I passed the weekend at the first session of the 2011 Anusara Immersion at my local studio.  It's my second time around with an Immersion and also the 2nd one taught at Freedom Yoga.  I'm very happy to be a part of the second one and it's fascinating to see it from a ( Read more... )

No better day than the Friday before Valentine's Day for a bit of naughty niceties.

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The last few days of the diet/cleanse went quite well.  Day 4 was banana smoothie day, which was delightful and then a couple days of beef & vegetables, with a day of brown rice and veggies at the end.  I felt marvelous throughout the second half and began to see weight loss and a total clearing of the inflammation and fog that wheat brings.

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For Rajanaka Sundaramoorthy, our human nature is no less divine because we fail to be morally perfect but, more importantly, he argued that moral absolutes, like all absolutes, are intrusions upon a prior claim the universe is making upon us: that we are free and that the universe itself is in its nature free from all constraints, commands, and ( Read more... )