a quiet place to visit

How we understand and therefore view other people depends on who we think we are. 

If you think you are a body, you treat other people as if they are merely bodies. If you think you are a mind, an identity, a role, you treat other people as if they are just minds, identities, and roles. 

From the highest perspective, we are all just dead bodies animated by the divine. Similar to the way electricity animates all electronic devices. A computer is a computer and a digital watch is a digital watch but they are both just expressions of electricity. 

As you progress on your spiritual path, you come to know your own inner divinity. You attach less identity and meaning to temporary expressions such as body, mind, job, roles, possessions, and so on. As a result, you also cease to view other people in those restrictive ways. 

This is when compassion and love naturally arise. You begin to love other people the way you love yourself, and you love yourself the way you love other people. The distinction between the two blurs and ceases to have meaning. Then the emphasis isn’t on who is loving and to whom we are loving. The emphasis is just the Love and the Divinity. 

Everything else is just the play of appearance and change. 

Have you ever been listening to Rainymood and thought, “Yeah, this is good … but it would be nice if I could customize the sound more, or if there was a little more choice.

Let me introduce you to MyNoise.

MyNoise is a customizable sounscape looper with so many options, even within each soundscape.  So say, for instance, you really love rain sounds when you write or study or relax.  Anything.  I know I’m a big fan of rain sounds.  They have a page for that.

But say you like really high, pattery rain, and LOTS of low thunder.  Here’s where MyNoise really stands out: you can customize that.  See those sliders with all the cute colors?  That is your equalizer. You can adjust the levels based on what you want to hear more and less of.  Here’s how it looks when you want high, pattery rain and low, rumbly thunder:

But say rain isn’t really your jam.  Say you want something a little more ambient, a little more background noise-y.  Something with people.  Well, they have customizable coffee house chatter that even has the levels listed for things like “kitchen,” “babble,” and “table”:

Or say you miss the ocean.

Or say you miss your cat.

Or say you miss your spaceship.

Or say you miss the dungeon where you and your team of scalawag adventurers used to explore and face off against, say, dragons.  In the dungeon.

This site is seriously so helpful, and those are just a fraction of every kind of sounscape the site has to offer.  The best part is that if you want to layer it with music (for instance, I’ll layer a playlist + rain + coffee shop if the scene I’m writing takes place in a coffee shop), you can adjust the master volume, meaning all of your layers stay at their respective volumes, just louder or quieter.

You can also find a whole bunch of ambiance channels on his youtube channel - it’s a great place to start exploring some of the channels. My current favourite is the Nordic Lakeside (Birds and Water • Soothing Waves)

Andrey Surnov

His portfolio: 

hey here’s my contribution to “Squared Up!” A pixel art charity zine benefiting @AbleGamers ! 

It’s already 100% funded but you can still snag a copy for yourself if ya like ~

Thickets, Ivan Shishkin

Medium: oil,canvas