This is living. No doubt.

I just read two articles from this beautifully inspired blog and I'm hooked. TheGrowingLife is a wonderful read for anyone craving non-normalcy in the form of occupation and life. If you are even slightly bored with your current job, pleased be warned. This blog may cause you skip turning in your two weeks, and go straight to streaking through the hallways yelling "I'm free!"

30 Days • Vegetarian

After coming across Steve Pavlina's blog and reading about the 30 Day Trials for anything you want, I have decided to try out being a vegetarian for 30 days. The vegetarian lifestyle has long intrigued me for its health and environmental benefits, yet pulling it off personally was always only a one or two day event. So here goes. It's day one. This morning I had coffee, eggs and toast. For lunch its was two PB&J's with a few Doritos. Yes! I'm doing it! Only 29 days left!

Living In The Flow

Since I have begun reading about Buddhism and meditation and other forms of enlightening practices (the past decade or so), many of my days fill with coincidences, or as Todd puts it, synchronicities. I have told my wife that this phenomenon always gave me the feeling that God and/or the universe was telling me I was "on the right path." This article seems to solidify that sentiment. Please enjoy.

Photograph by Philip Matthews

Pick your group of invisible councilors

This is a visualization/meditation technique you can use from time to time to help you make decisions, and to provide fresh new perspectives on challenges you may be facing. It is a technique that is also especially effective when you’re feeling stuck. It also feels incredibly cool to sit with these people while they give you advise. And amazingly, it works.

The revolutionary pleasure of thinking for yourself

This essay was originally published in the United States in 1975 by The Spectacle under the title "Self-Theory: the pleasure of thinking for yourself." It cleverly states "The ideological supermarket--like any supermarket--is fit only for looting. It is of more practical use to us to move along the shelves, rip open the packets, take out what looks authentic and useful, and dump the rest." In other words, recreate yourself, your actions and your beliefs as you discover and hold onto only the things which are full of truth and bring you the greatest peace. Don't find one thing you like contained inside of an entire philosophy, only to accept the rest of the philosophy without question.

That is deep but is right up my alley. Enjoy.

You Decide.

Raise Enlightened Children

I stumbled upon this blog today. Our son is almost 4 months now and this article spoke to me deeply. Here is an excerpt.

The image in the child, of a son, comes as a response to the image of the father projecting on him. In other words, when you play dad, instead of just being a Witnessing Consciousness, he then is forced to play and build the son image. These images then grow in influence over the relationship and instead of the relationship being established in openness, love and moment to moment awareness, it becomes an interaction between the two images. The more the images are in play, the less connected one is to one’s Natural Self and the less communion and love there is.