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We Really Are The Company We Keep!

For over 250 years the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress.  Our approach is multi-disciplinary, politically independent and combines cutting edge research and policy development with practical action.  

They encourage public discourse and critical debate by providing platforms for leading experts to share new ideas on contemporary issues, and generate 
new models for tackling the social challenges of today. With a particular emphasis on creating opportunities for the human race by developing and promoting new ways of thinking about human fulfillment and social progress. 

Creating these videos is but one way in which they are spreading the findings of their work--check it out, enjoy!

 

Posted January 26, 2011
 

An artist is primarily one who has faith in himself...

"But there is a class of hardy men, old-fashioned enough to have remained rugged individuals, openly contemptuous of the trend, passionately devoted to their work, impossible to bribe or seduce, working long hours, often without reward or fame, who are motivated by a common impulse - the joy of doing as they please. At some point along the way they separated from the others. The men I speak of can be detected at a glance: their countenance registers something far more vital, far more effective, than the lust for power. They do not seek to dominate, but to realize themselves. They operate from a centre which is at rest. They evolve, they grow, they give nourishment just by being what they are, . . To live beyond the pale, to work for the pleasure of working, to grow old gracefully while retaining one's faculties, one's enthusiasm, one's self-respect, one has to establish other values than those endorsed by the mob. It takes an artist to make a breach in the wall. An artist is primarily one who has faith in himself. He does not respond to the normal stimuli: he is neither a drudge nor a parasite. He lives to express himself and in so doing enriches the world."

- Henry Miller

Filed under  //   Awesomeness   Perspective   burningman   dave kennedy  
Posted January 26, 2011
 

We Are Small

I would like to take a moment and say thanks to Mr. John Friend for sharing this extraordinary video with me from the American Museum & Natural History this morning. Upon viewing it I was struck by a number of things...the massive feelings of reverence and respect which were welling up inside me for the efforts and creativity of all those throughout history who have somehow contributed to it's making yet will have never have seen it--how utterly grateful I was for the perspective granted and that somehow I could be the recipient of that perspective in the course of my seemingly rather 
ordinary-Saturday morning-in the comforts of my own home here in Encinitas, CA is almost as staggering a notion as the perspective itself. What an incredible time it is to be alive. 

 “If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do…How would I be?  What would I do?” R. Buckminster Fuller 

And so yes we are small. And...it appears to me, that all life is a tapestry woven together fine and pure--cohesive--interconnected--that there is an intelligence at work here, far greater than the tea cup of my own. (enter the realization)  "I" can soften, melt and trust in the play. How amazing is it that Somehow in the vastness of the all--our individual Attitude, Alignment and Actions can and do make a difference! Again thanks John, for the elegant 3A's of Anusara yoga® and the remembrance. 

Filed under  //   Anusara   Buckminster Fuller   John Friend   Perspective  
Posted December 4, 2010