“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Man Asks Strangers Questions About Life, Love on the NYC Subway
on sâmbătă, martie 26, 2011
"One member of We Are Change, a social justice organization, had been feeling lonely and sad lately, and no place made him feel more isolated than on the New York subway system.
To combat the no-eye-contact, keep-to-yourself mentality, he started spontaneously interviewing the people on his car. If they didn't want to talk to him themselves, he asked them to pick out the next person he interviewed.
It's moving to see different people in different points of their lives all together more or less worrying about the same things. The result of all of his interviewing is a really cool 12 minute short film.
Read More: http://www.urlesque.com/2011/03/23/strangers-questions-NYC-subway/#ixzz1HheSFsCW"
~via URLesque
To combat the no-eye-contact, keep-to-yourself mentality, he started spontaneously interviewing the people on his car. If they didn't want to talk to him themselves, he asked them to pick out the next person he interviewed.
It's moving to see different people in different points of their lives all together more or less worrying about the same things. The result of all of his interviewing is a really cool 12 minute short film.
Read More: http://www.urlesque.com/2011/03/23/strangers-questions-NYC-subway/#ixzz1HheSFsCW"
~via URLesque
~via 
Super Moon and Mow Cop
Mow Cop with the moon at its closest pass in 18 years at 356,577 kilometers (221,567 miles) away from earth. It was shot 1.6 miles away from Mow Cop on the A34 between Congleton and Stoke on Trent.
We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom… but we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need. So long as we practice these in our daily lives, then no matter if we are learned or unlearned, whether we believe in Buddha or God, or follow some other religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt we will be happy.
Tenzin Gyatso
Almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
STEVE JOBS
Found: Lost Pictures of New York Blizzard PART 3
on miercuri, martie 09, 2011
"After months of fruitless searching and having almost given up a few weeks ago, Todd Bieber has finally returned the roll of mystery film he found in Prospect Park during a blizzard.
As Todd suspected, the photographer was European -- her name is Camille and she's a student from Paris. Camille used to live in New York, and when her old roommate saw the video online and noticed that a lot of the photos were taken outside of their old apartment, she forwarded the video to Camille in France.
Camille reached out to Todd via email, and once they'd verified that she was, in fact, the photographer, Todd and his girlfriend flew all the way across the Atlantic from New York and embarked on a ten-day European road trip to give Camille her photos. Along the way, they stayed in the homes of people who had e-mailed him offering to help throughout his search.
When Todd and Camille finally meet, they joke that he's a real-life Amelie, and I've gotta say the comparison is pretty spot-on. It doesn't get more twee than this, and I'm happy that the story finally came full circle."
Part 1 Part 2
~ via www.urlesque.com
As Todd suspected, the photographer was European -- her name is Camille and she's a student from Paris. Camille used to live in New York, and when her old roommate saw the video online and noticed that a lot of the photos were taken outside of their old apartment, she forwarded the video to Camille in France.
Camille reached out to Todd via email, and once they'd verified that she was, in fact, the photographer, Todd and his girlfriend flew all the way across the Atlantic from New York and embarked on a ten-day European road trip to give Camille her photos. Along the way, they stayed in the homes of people who had e-mailed him offering to help throughout his search.
When Todd and Camille finally meet, they joke that he's a real-life Amelie, and I've gotta say the comparison is pretty spot-on. It doesn't get more twee than this, and I'm happy that the story finally came full circle."
Part 1 Part 2
~ via www.urlesque.com
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”
~ Sylvia Plath
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
~ John Lennon
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