But You Treat Me Like A Stranger and That Feels So Rough
Now You’re Just Somebody That I Used to Know
The Giver and Receiver Both Have Lessons To Learn
Both Have Lessons To Learn
If you want to give some advice, your first duty is to look and see if that person will accept it, if he or she will be benefited by your saying something. If the person gets upset, it shows that you don’t know how to say it gently in the proper way. In that case, you learn something from it: “Ahh, I made her angry. I should have known how to present the problem. It is her problem, but I have to learn how to present it in the right way. Maybe I put it bluntly and that is why she got upset.” There are things for you to learn also. If your intention is to help someone but you fail to make him realize that you are helping him, it’s your mistake. You can’t blame him for that.
The giver of the help should remember certain things about how to give constructive suggestions. Stop and think, “Is this the right moment to discuss this? Am I presenting it in the proper way?” If you positively know that the person is not in a mood to receive it from you, wait until another time or start very gently. Then give that person time to think about it. Maybe at the spur of the moment the ego will come and say, “How dare you tell me that!” But when you go away, he or she will try to apply your advice. Remember there is a giver and a receiver; both have lessons to learn.
Om Shanthi, Shanthi, Shanthi
- Swami Satchidananda
Joy Kills Sorrow (I Still Miss Someone)
I Still Miss Someone – Johnny Cash Cover by Joy Kills Sorrow*
Fever!
I rang in the New Year with a feverish bang.
That is a FEVER lasting nearly 24 hours. I’m thinking 2012 is going to be a scorcher! More fire!!!
Even After All This Time
There’s still an elephant in the room of my heart.
Here’s to 2012′s pending release…
Gripping Tales of Suspense
Too late for a literal application in my life but funny nonetheless.
Just Close Your Eyes And Think For A Minute
Just close your eyes and think for a minute, “Does the whole world love me? How many people don’t love me? How many animals don’t love me? How many plants don’t love me?” Then you will know yourself how healthy and happy you are.
God is love. That is the essential teaching from all the scriptures. If we want to experience God, we should express that love in our life, just as God loves everything and everybody. God loves a rat, a cat, a dog, a donkey, a pig, a sinner, a saint, an idiot, a scholar. The most beautiful and the most ugly. A good dancer. The one who doesn’t even know how to walk. (more…)
Big Shot On The West Coast
Papa large here.
Living the life of a toothless* senior with Woody Allen anxiety issues. ARI. (more…)
El Matador Playa
El Matador Beach, California
Thank you Tito for taking this lovely photo! What a beautiful way to end of lovely day on the coast! xo
No More Experiments
Inspired by this WIRED piece on what happens to chimps who are subjected to medical experiments after they “retire.” READ IT.
STOP EXPERIMENTING ON ANIMALS. START EXPERIMENTING ON THE GOP.
When You Do The Voodoo That You Do
You Do Something To Me – Sinead O’Connor Version of Cole Porter’s Classic
Hello Nasty
Hello Nasty!
Photo by the late Dash Snow
See you soon BK & MONEY MAKING! NOV 8-12.
Friends, expect an invite [to havoc].
Intern Duties
My intern, in her tiger costume, dutifully walked my dog, in his devil costume, on Halloween. I was too busy at work being a dead revolutionary to walk him but not busy enough to take the picture and discover this was my intern’s first dog walking experience, ever. Glad I could contribute to a first.
How About This?
Why don’t you take your social regulations and shove them up your ass?
Class Warfare
What the Fuck? – Crass
“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.
“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
- Elizabeth Warren on claims the Democrats are participating in “class warfare”
OBEY
Protesting LA’s moratorium on legal mural scapes. WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES + WELCOME TO YOUR NEW JOB!! 
Reflecting
Reflecting.
Thank you to the Almighty, thank you to those surrounding me, thank you to myself for being who I am. Photo credit: Steven Weiss, nomad & NY pal who stopped in Budapest to reflect with me.
Union YES! [Which Side Are You On?]
I stand with labor. I am so proud to be the daughter of a Union man. I am proud of all workers across the globe and especially those who have made sacrifices for the many.
“It’ll take more than a union law to take the fight out of a [wo]man”
Which Side Are You On? – Billy Bragg
4 Leggeds Save The World
Just wait for it…
köszönöm a húgam, Nicoletta, for sharing this with me. Shout out to our animal sisters and brothers for walking with us daily (even though so many of us are assholes).
The Vaginal Speculum
Lady Don’t Tek No – Latryx
After months of putting it off, I finally went to the gynecologist today. I must say that I’ve certainly had plenty of strange experiences in my life – but not particularly when it comes to the gyno. Sure, I’ve been a starving creative in New York and spent some time at the Margaret Sanger Center at Planned Parenthood on Bleecker Street. There you found women like me, too poor to attain health insurance but not poor enough to be considered poor. Does this strike you to be familiar Americans?
Nevertheless, I hold dual citizenship in the US & in Hungary. Clever me, believed I could obtain free medical care while in Hungary, one of the reasons I scheduled an appointment to see the doctor here. In Eastern Europe. Yes. I am crazy. (more…)
I Felt It All The Way Across The World
I felt your pain all the way across the world. I cried so hard last night swinging in the garden while listening to that song over and over again. Although I had dedicated it to you before, its true meaning didn’t hit me until now. I wish I could hold you and do awe baby. Physically, I cannot, but I will do so on a metaphysical level. Sending you healing for your loss.
Where Wrath Springs Forth
“Wrath springs only from thwarted desires. I do not expect anything from others, so their actions cannot be in opposition to wishes of mine. I would not use you for my own ends; I am happy only in your own true happiness” – Sri Yukteswar from Yogananda’s AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI
Under the Milky Way
Under the Milky Way (The Church cover) – The Brooke (A Tiny Ocean)
Sailin’ On
So I’m sailing, yeah I’m sailing on
I’m moving, yeah I’m moving on
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on
Mystical Mantra Energy
Apparently here in Europe there’s a Jesus holiday going on today. Something about the Holy Spirit. Obviously, I am not well versed but respectful. Posting this, my favorite version of Hare Krishna, in respect to the holiness of the day. But isn’t everyday holy?
“A mantra is mystical energy encased in a sound structure and each mantra contains within its vibrations a certain power. But of all mantras, the maha-mantra (the Hare Krishna mantra) has been prescribed as the easiest and surest way for attaining God Realization in this present age.“
George Harrison (1943-2001),
in his autobiography :’I, me and Mine’
More on the Hare Krishna Mantra can be found here:
http://www.meditationiseasy.com/mCorner/techniques/Hare_Krishna_Mantra.htm
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