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Watching without recording; Choice, jumping from one thing to the other has nothing to do with true spiritual freedom.

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“Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art Not many have style Not many can keep style I have seen dogs with more style than men, although not many dogs have style. Cats have it with abundance. When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun, that was style. Or sometimes people give you style Joan of Arc had style John the Baptist Jesus Socrates Caesar García Lorca. I have met men in jail with style. I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail. Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done. Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water, or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.”

― Charles Bukowski

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We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Thigh Nhat Hanh (via lazyyogi)

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“Existence, the physical universe, is basically playful. There is no necessity for it whatsoever. It isn’t going anywhere. It doesn’t have a destination that it ought to arrive it. But it is best understood by analogy with music, because music, as an art form, is essentially playful. We say you play the piano, you don’t’ work the piano. Why? Music differs from, say, travel. When you travel you’re trying to get somewhere. And, of course, we, being a very compulsive and purposive culture, are busy getting everywhere faster and faster until we eliminate the distance between places…what happens as a result of that is the two ends of your journey became the same place.

You eliminate the distance, you eliminate the journey. The fun of the journey is travel, not to obliterate travel.

So then, in music, one doesn’t make the end of a composition the point of the composition. If so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest and there would be composers who only wrote finales. People would go to a concert just to hear one crackling chord because that’s the end!

Same way with dancing. You don’t aim at a particular spot in the room because that’s where you will arrive. The whole point of dancing is the dance.

But we don’t see that as something brought by our education into our everyday conduct. We have a system of schooling which gives a completely different impression. It’s all graded and what we do is put the child into the corridor of this grade system with a kind of, “Come on, kitty, kitty,” and you go to kindergarten and that’s a great thing because when you finish that you get into first grade…then you’ve got high school, and it’s revving up, the thing is coming, then you’re going to go to college…you go out to join the world, then you get into some racket where you’re selling insurance, and they’ve got that quota to make, and by god you’re going to make that, and all the time the thing is coming, it’s coming! It’s coming! That great thing. The success you’re working for.

Then you wake up one day about 40 years old and you say, “My god, I’ve arrived. I’m there.”

And you don’t feel very different from what you’ve always felt. and there’s a slight letdown because you feel there’s a hoax. And there was a hoax! A dreadful hoax. They made you miss everything by expectation. Look at the people who live to retire, to put those savings away. And then when they are 65, they don’t have any energy left, they are more or less impotent and they go and rot in an old people’s, senior citizens community . Because …we’ve simply cheated ourselves the whole way down the line.

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end. And the thing was to get to that end. Success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead.

But we missed the point the whole way along.

It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing, or to dance, while the music was being played.”

- Alan Watts

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Mystic sufi merges into garden of stones

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No thing in existence has a particular cause; the entire universe contributes to the existence of even the smallest thing; nothing could be as it is without the universe being what it is.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (via thecalminside)

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Science and the Big Questions - The John Tempelton Foundation

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The Idea of the Holy - Mystical Experiences

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What will change your life?

1. Daily routine alternating brain/body training 2. Using the 4 M’s of motivation 3. Killing bad habits of procrastination

3 Best habits to adopt 2016

1. Nap 18 min a day 2. Read a book a week at minimum 3. Lift weights 3 times a week

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#gogolbordello #nyc #engagement #newyear #2016 (hier: TERMINAL 5)

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#moma #nyc (hier: MoMA The Museum of Modern Art)

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#gedicht #wolke #stranger #street (hier: Lucerne, Switzerland)

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#christmastree #christbaum #weihnachtsbaum 2015 (hier: Stadt Luzern)