The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.
Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.
The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.
I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.
I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.
I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.
There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.
Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same”-
Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.
