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- Zach

Flimed myself doing yoga for the first time. Not perfect, just practice.  :-)

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- Doc Luben, 14 Lines from Love Letters or Suicide Notes 

Impermanence is not just of philosophical interest. It's very personal. Until we accept and deeply understand in our very being that things change from moment to moment, and never stop even for one instant, only then can we let go. And when we really let go inside, the relief is enormous. Ironically this gives release to a whole new dimension of love. People think that if someone is unattached, they are cold. But this isn't true. Anyone who has met very great spiritual masters who are really unattached is immediately struck by their warmth to all beings, not just to the ones they happen to like or are related to. Non-attachment releases something very profound inside us, because it releases that level of fear. We all have so much fear: fear of losing, fear of change, an inability to just accept. It's like a dance. And we have to give each being space to dance their dance. Everything is dancing; even the molecules inside the cells are dancing. But we make our lives so heavy. We have these incredibly heavy burdens we carry with us like rocks in a big rucksack. We think that carrying this big heavy rucksack is our security; we think it grounds us. We don't realize the freedom, the lightness of just dropping it off, letting it go. That doesn't mean giving up relationships; it doesn't mean giving up one's profession, or one's family, or one's home. It has nothing to do with that; it's not an external change. It's an internal change. It's a change from holding on tightly to holding very lightly.  - Tenzin Palmo (via)

I believe this necessitates a deconstruction of certain social norms and believes that prevent us from loving others. This could mean blurring the monogamy line, dropping heteronormativity, or simply deepening the presence you have in current relationships.  

My life, this is all you are. This narrow space between the enormous past and the inchoate future. This minute, which has already passed, this word, which is already null, this body, which dies incessantly with each word. I may have found solace in language or memory, an alley in Paris or in Prague, in Kafka or in Proust. Mirror of the senses, they will disappear with me, as with all time, space, and death, these enchanted vectors of the soul. I move in the world with all of my body, through the labyrinth made of one straight line. The inconceivable infinities no longer bother me. This moment is all I believe in, October and the dry leaves blowing where I'm heading, a storm rushing to presage me. At the crucial junctures someone will already know my name. The earth will again unfold its heart of sulfur, and I will be born into the recurring terror, inescapable being, to which I eternally return. May these small tokens prove that I tried my best, though human cruelty made no sense to me, though love was inexplicable, more phantom than reality. If forgiveness be true, I want to be annihilated completely, I want reciprocal forgetting, I want the angels not to recognize me.  - Eric Gamalinda (via)

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. - John Muir

And that's what sex-positive parenting really is. Not telling my kids lies about sex to keep them from behaviors I don't think are healthy. It's telling them the truth, the whole truth, and letting it sink in so they can make their own good choices.

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Humans were made to be with humans not electronic devices. We need to turn our eyes towards our human fellows instead of small lit up screens. The touch of someone we love or even someone unknown is so much more comforting than just typing away....

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