A Song with No End by Charles Bukowski

when Whitman wrote, "I sing the body electric"

I know what he
meant
I know what he
wanted:

to be completely alive every moment
in spite of the inevitable.

we can't cheat death but we can make it
work so hard
that when it does take
us

it will have known a victory just as
perfect as
ours

Spring!

Precious eggs and flowers courtesy of a friend's backyard chickens & garden. The delights of spring! So grateful for the gift of healing friendships.

Bodhisattva in the World

“We don’t wait until we overcome our self-centeredness before engaging with the world; addressing the suffering of the wider world is how we overcome our self-centeredness. Contrary to a common way of understanding the bodhisattva path, bodhisattvas don’t defer their own perfect enlightenment in order to help others; helping others is how they perfect their enlightenment. We awaken from our own self-suffering into a world full of suffering, with the realization I am not separate from that world.”

— David Loy

Meaning of Life

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring to it life. It is a waste to be asking questions when you are the answer.”

— Joseph Campbell

I Am

A docu about one man's search for meaning after trauma

Mythic Symbology of Release

Happy Birthday Joseph Campbell!

May we all experience such mythic paradoxes with ecstatic humanness.

Masculine and Feminine with Marion Woodman

"Positive masculine energy is goal oriented and has the strength of purpose to move forward that goal. It disciplines itself to make the most of its gifts—physical, intellectual, spiritual—attempting to bring them into harmony. It comes to recognize its own individuality, and paradoxically the stronger it becomes the less rigid it becomes and the more flexible. It does not depend on old patterns of behavior, old habits, old traditions… It learns to hold perfect tension between a firm standpoint and the surrender to the creative feminine forces within. Its penetrating power inseminates and releases the creativity of the feminine."

"The feminine is a vast ocean of eternal Being. It was, is and shall be… It contains the potential seeds for life; it knows the laws of nature and exacts those laws with ruthless justice; it lives in the eternal Now. It has its own rythyms, slower than the masculine, meandering, moving in a spiral motion, seemingly turning back on itself, but inevitably attracted to the light… its attitude is always one of play because it loves life. It loves, and if the love is penetrated by the positive masculine, its energies are released to flow into life with a constant flow of new hope, new faith, new dimensions of love… always grounded in natural instincts… always on the side of life."

Excerpts from 'Addicted to Perfection' by Marion Woodman

Jodorowsky's Dune

An inspiring docu on a failed project that demonstrates how process is more important than outcome.