Vaiklettes

"The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:14:53 +1100

““The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer — they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.””

- Ken Kesey (via prometheanreach)

"Open as, the boundless sky, Letting go, like a leaf from a tree, Flowing as, the deep river, From..."

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:19:18 +1100

“Open as, the boundless sky,
Letting go, like a leaf from a tree,
Flowing as, the deep river,
From the still point of the world…”

- Children’s song at Steiner school…pretty much sums up Taoism to boot! :)

What did you vote for today?

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:00:14 +1100

What did you vote for today?

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:50:29 +1100

“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”

- Benjamin Disraeli (via app1ejuice)

Photo

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:50:16 +1100

"Through chance, my mind stumbled into a certain awareness of the Cosmos. That all of my experience..."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:48:30 +1100

“Through chance, my mind stumbled into a certain awareness of the Cosmos. That all of my experience is composed of the activity of a physical cellular system, my brain, that is interconnected and communicating with my body. My body is itself interconnected and communicating with the environment. The condition of every atom of my being is induced by the electromagnetic, gravitational, and nuclear fields that occupy the volume of my body. Each of these energies are continuous waves, and my body is the focal point of their intersection in the 4-dimensional geometry of spacetime. My existence is dependent upon and created by the presence of all the other bodies of the Universe. My true self is not my mind, my brain, or my body, but rather the entire unified multidimensional ocean of Universe. I am the whole Universe, focused into a flowing point of awareness. My intention is to cause an expansion of this universal consciousness. To awaken the universe in each of us!”

- Infinity Imagined (via infinity-imagined)

The Child

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:29:15 +1100

To meet a child’s gaze

Is more than a meeting of springtime

It’s like going on a journey

Back tens of thousands of years

Not only to find your own childhood again

But to search for childhood in the dawn of time

- Andre Bjerke

Photo

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:24:30 +1100

The Lakota (American Indian) word for child is: 'wakan yeja', which means sacred being.

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:46:41 +1100

"Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes..."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:11:39 +1100

“Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.”

- B.K.S. Iyengar

Via my very own yogi - Lauren Falconer

"Create for yourself a new, indomitable perception of faithfulness. What is usually called..."

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:14:20 +1100

“

Create for yourself a new, indomitable perception of faithfulness. What is usually called faithfulness passes so quickly. Let this be your faithfulness:

You will experience moments…. fleeting moments…. with the other person. The human being will appear to you then as if filled, irradiated with the archetype of his spirit.

And then there may be…. indeed will be…. other moments, long periods of time, when human beings are darkened. But you will learn to say to yourself at such times: “The Spirit makes me strong. I remember the archetype. I saw it once. No illusion, no deception shall rob me of it.”

Always struggle for the image that you saw. This struggle is faithfulness. Striving thus for faithfulness, we shall be close to one another, as if endowed with the protective powers of angels.

”

- Rudolf Steiner

"I see a twinkle in your eye so this shall be my Christmas star and I will travel to your heart the..."

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:57:39 +1100

“

I see a twinkle in your eye
so this shall be my Christmas star
and I will travel to your heart
the manger where the real things are

and I will find a mother there
who holds you gently to her breast
a father to protect your peace
and by these things you shall be blessed

and you will always be reborn
and I will always see the star
and make the journey to your heart
the manger where the real things are

”

- Leunig (Thanks for showing me this Ebba! ) xx

Happy Inner Christmas

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:54:39 +1100

Happy Inner Christmas

Digital Eskimo and the Australian Human Rights Commission have...

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:23:20 +1100

Digital Eskimo and the Australian Human Rights Commission have just launched the Something In Common project. The initiative incorporates an unusual double website approach; the first – Tell Me Something I Don’t Know – is a uber-sharable mouse-stopper of a microsite delivering surprising info bites like “1 in 4 retirees are living in poverty”. People can then dig deeper to learn more about the issues through inspiring videos of real Australians, take action on the issues that they feel most strongly about and tell their own story on the Something In Common website.

“Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” summed up an attitude that prevails in society where people are looking for new ways to creatively engage with human rights outside of traditional media. It was this and other research-driven insights that led Digital Eskimo to develop the online strategy that underpins an exciting shift in the way the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is promoting the understanding of human rights issues through social media.

Check out the sites here and spread the word:

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know

Something In Common

CONGRATULATIONS to my other boss, the inspirational Shakthi...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:37:29 +1100

CONGRATULATIONS to my other boss, the inspirational Shakthi Sivanathan from CuriousWorks who has won the Kirk Robson Award, given annually by the Australia Council for the Arts for the achievements of young Australian artists working with communities to produce art about social issues.

- By golly but I work with some super people :)

"To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. The old..."

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:40:31 +1100

“To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. The old distinction between artists and scientists must vanish.”

- Timothy Leary (via prometheanreach)

"Our separation of each other is an optical illusion of consciousness."

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:39:42 +1100

““Our separation of each other is an optical illusion of consciousness.””

- Albert Einstein (via infinity-imagined)

How To Explain Gay Rights To An Idiot

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:31:54 +1100

How To Explain Gay Rights To An Idiot:

Explaining Gay Rights to people who make the huge leap that if we legalize gay marriage it will open the doors to all sorts of ridiculous things…

"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is..."

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:57:21 +1100

“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.”

- R.D. Laing
(via infinity-imagined)

"I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of..."

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:56:57 +1100

“I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.”

- Dr. Albert Hoffman (via infinity-imagined)