Happy Birthday, Herman Melville
born 1 August 1819, died 28 September 1891
‘We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibres, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.’
–Melville

When you first seek dharma, you imagine you are far away from its environs. At the moment when dharma is authentically transmitted, you are immediately your original self.

“Do your practice, all is coming…”

This is Truth!

“I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want”.
–Muhammad Ali

Appreciated this letter received this morning from Barbara Serena:

this morning i woke up with an urge to watch PHANTOM LOVE again. and, again, i am BLOWN AWAY by the way nina was able to represent the world of continuous horror and loss that trauma creates, and how she did it from a female perspective, without losing any sensuality. i do not know how people who have not experienced severe violence see this work. i mean, life is absurd and everyone is traumatized to some degree, but, well, there are degrees…all i can say, i have rarely, if ever, felt so represented. i have been told a million times i should write a book, finish my scripts, blah blah blah, and i never feel like what i have to say could be of interest to anyone (hence i write music), and watching nina’s work again i am envious (in a good way:-)) of her ability to speak, of her awareness that her voice IS to be heard. this is SERIOUS work. beautiful, painful. GREAT work.

thank you barbara!!!! x

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

― Thomas Merton

our spiritual life is not a theory….we have to live it…………………. so true! so not easy!

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29

my article on the jerusalem film fest for FILMMAKER magazine….

http://filmmakermagazine.com/73891-love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself-not-powerful-new-work-at-the-jerusalem-international-film-festival/

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

Friedrich Nietzsche