Chill out, the simple way.

Thanks again NPR.. got this in my email today and thought it a good complement to the last post:

Just Breathe: Body Has A Built-In Stress Reliever

Chill out, the fun way.

Random article from NPR that I stumbled upon.. Good info to know in the coming cold winter months :) :

Human Connections Start With A Friendly Touch

Tao/ Ying and Yang

What is Tao (Dao)?

Tao is translated literally as 'way,' and is the concept upon which the ancient Chinese philosophy Taoism is based.

I am obliged to begin this short entry by saying that (unfortunately for the reader and knowledge-seeker), by its very nature, tao is undefinable by words. The first line of the Tao Te Ching states "The Tao that can be explained with words is not the Tao."

However this undefinable nature ultimately describes it. One can say it is the primordial essence of life and the Universe- a similar concept to God in Christianity. Ambiguous and omnipresent, it is our actions and experiences; it is the flow of the universe (hence 'way' as a translation); it is the underlying force necessary for balance and harmony in the universe, world, and within each person.


Why Tao/ Ying and Yang for these collages?

I will not be too wordy here- the collages speak for themselves -but I do want their intentions to be properly understood.

They represent the nature and philosophy of each person and couple- their tao if I may -and their sharing of it with the world, whether it be through words of advice, general life knowledge or simply the love they have for one another.

Each is a couple, for life is meant to be shared and it is only through the sharing of life and the supreme loving of one another that we can really accomplish anything. Each couple is a ying, a yang, and one whole. In the end, each couple represents a perfect culmination of their tao.




If you are interested in learning more about Taoism and Chinese philosophy, here's a start:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao
www.thetao.info
Personal Tao blog

even more.. Tao:Yin & Yang

p.s. the quality and color of some of these photos is not the greatest! sorry


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Tao:Yin & Yang

This is series of postcard-sized collages on recycled cardboard. Found paper, glue, acrylic paint. September 2010.

Some ideas, lyrics, quotes that inspired these:
They are one person/
They are two alone/
They are three together/
They are for each other
"Helplessly Hoping," CSN

Dualities: light/dark, sun/moon, male/female, active/passive

Love and it's ultimate power.

"Tao means path. It signifies not just any path, but the specific path to living in accordance with the unity of the universe."
-Ralph Alan Dale, from introduction to Tao Te Ching


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rien que du bonheur dedicated avec gros bisouilles to Camille

Tall Ships/ chemistry

there is nothing but chemistry here

with that in mind we have nothing to fear
this applies to all I hold dear
with that in mind all is beautifully clear

there is nothing but chemistry here





myspace.com/tallshipsfromfalmouth

David Byrne/ (Nothing But) Flowers

here's to the quirkiest man alive.. love you David Byrne!

sure to make you smile:

Ratatat

cool, creepy and disturbing videos... amazing band:

www.ratatatmusic.com
www.myspace.com/ratatatmusic

Le Tourbillon de le Vie

Elle avait des bagues à chaque doigt,
Des tas de bracelets autour des poignets,
Et puis elle chantait avec une voix
Qui, sitôt, m'enjôla.

Elle avait des yeux, des yeux d'opale,
Qui me fascinaient, qui me fascinaient.
Y avait l'ovale de son visage pâle
De femme fatale qui m'fut fatale {2x}.

On s'est connus, on s'est reconnus,
On s'est perdus de vue, on s'est r'perdus d'vue
On s'est retrouvés, on s'est réchauffés,
Puis on s'est séparés.

Chacun pour soi est reparti.
Dans l'tourbillon de la vie
Je l'ai revue un soir, hàie, hàie, hàie
Ça fait déjà un fameux bail {2x}.

Au son des banjos je l'ai reconnue.
Ce curieux sourire qui m'avait tant plu.
Sa voix si fatale, son beau visage pâle
M'émurent plus que jamais.

Je me suis soûlé en l'écoutant.
L'alcool fait oublier le temps.
Je me suis réveillé en sentant
Des baisers sur mon front brûlant {2x}.

On s'est connus, on s'est reconnus.
On s'est perdus de vue, on s'est r'perdus de vue
On s'est retrouvés, on s'est séparés.
Puis on s'est réchauffés.

Chacun pour soi est reparti.
Dans l'tourbillon de la vie.
Je l'ai revue un soir ah là là
Elle est retombée dans mes bras.

Quand on s'est connus,
Quand on s'est reconnus,
Pourquoi se perdre de vue,
Se reperdre de vue ?
Quand on s'est retrouvés,
Quand on s'est réchauffés,
Pourquoi se séparer ?

Alors tous deux on est repartis
Dans le tourbillon de la vie
On a continué à tourner
Tous les deux enlacés
Tous les deux enlacés.

Nicole Croisille/ parlez moi de lui

Puisque là-bas vous êtes ses amis
Asseyez-vous et parlez-moi de lui
Il voulait voyager du sud au nord
Et pour qu'il soit heureux j'étais d'accord

Parlez-moi de lui, il n'a pas écrit
A-t-il enfin trouvé la joie la liberté?
Parlez-moi de lui
(Il nous parle de toi)
Comment va sa vie?
(Il ne pense qu'à toi)
Dans ce pays lointain
(Il nous parle de toi)
Est-il heureux enfin?
(Il ne pense qu'à toi)

Est-il vrai qu'il habite sur le port?
A-t-il toujours sur lui ma chaîne d'or?
Sur les photos il semble avoir changé
Et il me parait triste et fatigué

Parlez-moi de lui, a-t-il des ennuis?
Comment est sa maison?
Chante-t-il des chansons?
Parlez-moi de lui
(Il nous parle de toi)
A-t-il des amis?
(Il ne pense qu'à toi)
Vous dites que le soir
(Il nous parle de toi)
Il perd souvent l'espoir
(Il ne pense qu'à toi)

S'il n'ose pas m'écrire ce qu'il en est
C'est qu'il gâche sa vie et qu'il le sait
Vous a-t-il demandé de me parler?
A-t-il besoin de moi à ses côtés?
Parlez-moi de lui
(Il nous parle de toi)
Je n'aime que lui
(Il ne pense qu'à toi)
Il m'avait dit patience
(Il nous parle de toi)
Depuis c'est le silence
(Il ne pense qu'à toi)
Parlez-moi de lui
(Il nous parle de toi)
Comment va sa vie
(Il ne pense qu'à toi)
Dans ce pays lointain
(Il nous parle de toi)
Est-il heureux enfin?
(Il ne pense qu'à toi)
Parlez-moi de lui
(Il nous parle de toi)
Je n'aime que lui
(Il ne pense qu'à toi)
Il m'avait dit patience
(Il nous parle de toi)
Depuis c'est le silence
(Il ne pense qu'à toi)
Parlez-moi de lui
Dites-moi tout
(Il ne pense qu'à toi)

cherche les mots!!

http://dictionnaire.tv5.org/

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air/ All I Need

air/ Mer Du Japon

air

more HERE! :

www.en.aireology.com/galerie_video

and also check out..

Yoko Ono's videos

happy belated birthday to John Lennon:

John Lennon HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN! Message from Yoko Ono 9th October 2010 from Yoko Ono on Vimeo.

IMAGINE PEACE/ Yoko Ono

VISIT THIS WEBSITE! explore, read, learn, and do:

IMAGINE PEACE Manifesto & FAQ

"Something especially wonderful was told to me just recently. Two scientists who were researching the effect of waves in the ocean for two years, came to the conclusion that the smallest stimulus to the water be it a drop of a pebble, or a child splashing the water at the shore, affects the whole ocean, each time. Well, I thought we do affect each other on land, but I hadn’t realized that that was true in the ocean as well! What a blessing! Nature is making things so easy for us!

So now I call ourselves the small pebble people. Send small pebbles to the world. Don’t make big splashes with large stones. That will attract people and the wrong people as well. Our quiet revolution will not make announcements, but one day will be accepted by all people as the norm of life. The human race has done that with many things. Like we wanted to fly, and invented aeroplanes. We wanted to see the other side of the moon, and we have. This time, we want to heal our planet, and bring peace to this world. We will...

It’s time for you to start your own campaign today. You will see that it spreads and covers the world very fast, and meanwhile it will make you one of the small pebble people. Small pebble people are people who know that small pebbles, when they’re dropped in the ocean, will immediately affect the ocean of the whole wide world. Again, don’t throw big stones. It scares people and creates repercussions.

So we’ll just keep dropping small pebbles. Together. That’s how we will change the world. We change, and the world changes. Have trust in what you can do. Have trust in how fast we can change our world for the better. Why? Because we have to."

Sound familiar? Mother Teresa said, "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." She also said that the solution to world peace was simply to go home and love your family.

It all starts within!

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Legends of our Universe

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is our deliciously mad genius. He gave us the Theory of Relativity, E = MC2 and enough food for thought to last forever--since, as this legend helped us understand, time does not even exist.

Learn: major accomplishments, Theory of Relativity, explanations

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Abraham Lincoln

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

-the Gettysburg Address, delivered on November 19, 1863

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He successfully led the country through the American Civil War and abolished slavery with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa (1910-1997) founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950, and for over 45 years happily ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Upon acceptance, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" Her answer was simple:

"Go home and love your family."

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Buddha

“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.”

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Jesus Christ

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." -John 13:34-35

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LISTEN TO YOUR EYES/ Sharbat Gula

Who is Sharbat Gula?
Famously known as the "Afghan Girl", Sharbat Gula's portrait was taken by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry in 1984. Gula was then 11 years old, living in a refugee camp in Pakistan. Today Gula lives in a small village in Afghanistan with her husband and three children. Read her story here.

Why does she inspire us?
Have you ever seen eyes like that? They are 'haunted and haunting.' They disturb us, they move us, they fill us with wonder. If eyes are windows to the soul, then hers is one full of fierce, heartbreaking beauty.



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