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June 1, 2016
How the Bottle Drank Me
Most humans born without the addictive gene simply don’t understand addiction…I used to think that alcoholics were only those bedraggled and miserable men who found themselves dead drunk in a gutter…until I began to research the subject. Addiction is a many-headed monster and can attack anyone. I wrote a post about this you can check out:
https://miraprabhu.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/demon-of-eclipses-illusions-part-19/
Thank you, Jason C. Cushman, for your honesty – we are only as sick as we are secret!
There was a time in my life when I was an alcoholic. Generally when I share this information people look at me and my youth and instantly shake their head. How can someone so young have ever had a disease that is always given a face of age, grief, and shame? What they see are the walls I have always surrounded myself with. What they don’t see is the soul inside that screams at those walls.
I entered the state of grief when I was rejected the second time by my birth mother. I count the reunion that did not happen as our “second time” because the first feeling of rejection had to be when she left my ass on a street at the age of two years old. Is there any worse way a person can reject someone? I suppose there is, but for a two year old I…
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44 Things New Yorkers Don’t Know…
I lived in Manhattan for years and fell in love with its amazing diversity. Its the city where lights blaze 24 hours long…and there’s something in the Big Apple for everyone…I see it as a great city to enjoy for a time and can teach us a lot. It’s also where I “grew up” – because it forced me to mature. Read Chris Graham’s wonderful post below for amazing facts about the Big Apple…
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
How Many do YOU know?
1. About 1 in every 36 people living in the United States resides in New York City.
2. Despite its name, about half of the 842-mile NYC subway system is actually above ground.
3. The game of Scrabble, the teddy bear, toilet paper, and the deep-fried Twinkie were all invented in NYC.
4. It’s perfectly legal to walk around topless in the city. In 2013, a woman won a $40,000 settlement from NYC due to the police repeatedly arresting her for going topless.
5. If the NYPD was its own army of NYC, it would be the 20th-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea .
6. Wall Street earned its name in the 17th century, when the Dutch built a wall to protect themselves from attacks by pirates and Native Americans.
7. New York City is the home…
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May 31, 2016
What does a Cobra Represent in Kundalini Yoga and in dreams?
Cobras…I’ve had a stream of these gorgeous creatures visiting my garden recently…the heat of summer drives them to find cool spaces, and what better than a sanctuary shaded by towering trees? I love serpents and my base practice continues to be raising kundalini fire to help still my mind – so I can dive into the Self – and yet I have to protect myself and my dogs, one of whom wants to kill every serpent she meets. In mysticism, the serpent represents both torment and wisdom — now read Dr. Fox’s interesting post on the subject…
Dreams: Guide to the Soul is a dream interpretation book and ebook
Dream Image 426: The spiritual snake coiled in the spine
The snake usually represents change in the dream because is one of the few animals to completely shed its skin. It has come to my awareness that different kinds and colors of snakes signify different kinds of change. It hits me that the cobra singularly represents a very special kind of change, especially a white cobra.
The color white is usually associated with spiritual meaning since it is the most spiritual color theory is. In the world, the East considers the Cobra to be very spiritual. In Kundalini Yoga, the energy in the spine is taken as being like a cobra coil at the base of the spine ready to its energy up the spine into God realization.
I recently interpreted a dream in which the dreamer had the image of a three-headed white cobra. Three is the number of…
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May 30, 2016
Sri Ramana Maharshi’s Mother: Mahasmadhi
Ramana’s final gift to his mother – the supreme peace of liberation from which there is no return to ignorance…read this wonderful post, especially if you are blown away by the perfect wisdom of the Sage of Arunachala…thanks Harsh Luthar.
Sri Ramana’s mother lived with him in physically difficult conditions and in poverty in the caves of Arunachala. Life was hard for her due to her age as well. One day, Bhagavan Ramana’s sister came and said to their mother, “Mother, you are not well. Come, I have a comfortable house.” She refused and turning to Bhagavan told him, “I want to die only in your arms. After my death you may even throw away my body into some thorn bushes, it does not matter.”
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The most lucrative type of writing :)
Great post! Short, sweet and very funny…thank you Kawanee Hamilton!
May 29, 2016
People of intelligence examine their own mind! ~ Sri Ramana
Profound post….Bhagavan Ramana on how to use our innate intelligence, first and foremost, to examine our own minds…do this and the inner journey really takes off! Thanks for a great share, Harsh Luthar.
This quote can be found in the “Letters from Ramanasramam” ~13th August, 1946. In this simple comment made in the conversation, Bhagavan teaches us that intelligent and reflective aspirants focus their energy in scanning their own mind and consciousness. It is only by carefully examining the mind, one realizes the ultimate nature of perception.
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May 23, 2016
Monday Funnies…
May 20, 2016
On Death and Dying: Words of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi was and is a Satguru (one who can lead you all the way to enlightenment) – for although he left his physical body decades ago, his Spirit continues to burn as bright as a million suns…check out this wonderful post, especially if you are one of the few on our planet who seeks moksha, that freedom from desire and fear that leads to permanent peace and joy…greetings from the sacred hill Arunachala!
Bhagavan Ramana as a youth
The devotees know that Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi had an intense experience of death in his seventeenth year. After the experience ended, he was established in the realisation of his true Self and the illusion of death died forever.
Here is in part Bhagavan’s description of what happened:
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Why Are There So Few Great Writers In Their 20s Today?
Read Tara Sparling’s wonderful post on an intriguing subject: why modern writers who “make it” are so much older than in past generations….”James Joyce had written the genesis of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by the time he was 22, and finished Dubliners before he hit 30. Franz Kafka was dead at 40, leaving behind a considerable body of work. Ernest Hemingway published The Sun Also Rises at the age of 27.” Now read on! Thanks Tara, and Chris Graham, for leading me here.
In the last century, great writers achieved their greatness far earlier than they do now. Granted, they died earlier too, of fashionable afflictions such as bacterial infections, addiction, suicide, and the spleen; but it wasn’t uncommon for writers to be well on the road to superstardom and inclusion in the grand literary canon by the end of their twenties. So why are our great writers now so old, when they do great things?
James Joyce had written the genesis of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by the time he was 22, and finished Dubliners before he hit 30. Franz Kafka was dead at 40, leaving behind a considerable body of work. Ernest Hemingway published The Sun Also Rises at the age of 27.
In other fields, successful artists are much younger. Popular musicians generally achieve career highs in their 20s, or earlier, as accomplished at their craft as…
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May 18, 2016
16 QUOTES FOR A WRITER’S OBSESSION.
“Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.” Julianna Baggott
Thank you Ronovan for a terrific post on what is personally a magnificent and healthy obsession….writing has kept me going through some of the darkest times and I don’t think I could ever stop.
Quotes can do a great many things. One is to make you think. You can think about yesterday, today, or tomorrow. The quote determines what path you take with those thoughts of yours. Which reminds me of this quote:
“I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn’t been done yet. That’s kind of my constant obsession.” John Cale
I like to focus on quotes that impress me about the life of being a writer, even if the original intent wasn’t there, and regardless of who said the words. Okay, maybe I do have a bias at times.
Take this quote as an example:
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” Claude Monet
Obviously Monet was not talking about writing, but substitute the word “words” for “color” and you have my life. I create a new book idea at least once per week. The torment for me is captured…
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